IMAGINE A WORLD

Imagine a World where each and every one of was committed to discovering who we are truly here to be, committed to unwrapping our gifts, to living from our deepest being. Imagine a world where we support each other in that quest. Imagine a world where we see in each other our potential to become – Buddha to be, Gandhi to be, Einstein to be. Imagine a world where we greet each other with compassion and an open heart – Dalai Lama to be, Amma to be, Mother Theresa to be. Imagine a world where we thirst for justice and respect – Mandela to be, Ang San Su Kyii to be, Joan of Arc to be. Imagine a world where we stand up for the planet as part of who we are – St. Francis to be, Julia Butterfly to be, Al Gore to be. Imagine a world where we dare to be ecstatically different – Rumi to be, Mary Magdalene to be, Wonder Woman to be. Imagine a world where a black man can become president of the United States of America – Rosa Parks to be, Martin Luther King to be, Barack Obama to be.

Imagine a world beyond imagined boundaries of race, class, colour or creed. Imagine a world where each person reached just a little bit further, towards compassion, sustainability, harmony and creativity. Imagine a world that stretched even further, to the place where ecstasy lives. Imagine a world of celebration for life in all it’s joy and all it’s pain. Imagine a world where nothing stands in the way but fear itself. Imagine a world where fear is just a passing fancy, replaced by unyielding hope, undying trust, indestructible vulnerability. A world where everyone and everything that happens to you is part of an extraordinary opportunity to learn and grow and evolve. Imagine a world that reflected back all the love in your heart, beaming right back at you, blinding you with it’s brilliance. Imagine a world where the extraordinary life you are here to live is here. Your Fierce Light shining bright. Imagine if you could start living that life, right now.

You can. Yes, you can.

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Comment by Karen Chaffee on December 28, 2008 at 7:24am: Thank you for such inspirational imaginings, and for sharing them.

Peace,
Karen

Comment by Velcrow Ripper on December 28, 2008 at 2:27am: Not at all lubna - I was just thinking how important it is to be challenged. It's easy to be unexaminedly positive, but it's important, for me, to have what I call an "industrial strength hope." If my sense of hope can't stand up to the real world, which is so filled with pain and suffering, then it doesn't serve anyone.

Comment by Velcrow Ripper on December 28, 2008 at 12:09am: Hi Lubna...
trust me, I'm no stranger to the world of suffering - check out my film scaredsacred (www.scaredsacred.org). I spent five years travelling to the ground zero's of the world - the places where the very worst has happened, from Hiroshima to Cambodia to Afghanistan to New York City during 9.11 I am very far from naive. However, in each of those places, I found people who dared to search for meaning, who dared to have hope. Hope is a choice. If you choose cynicism and despair, you will find cynicism and despair.

If you choose hope and positivity, you can begin to create islands of hope and positivity, such as this place here. The world I'm describing exists, right now. I find it everywhere I go - and believe me, I have been in the worst of the worst. And I still find that world. Because that is what I look for.

The choice is yours - do you want to be a force of negativity or positivity in the world?

If you insist another world is impossible - it will not be.

However, I will continue to believe in the cry of the World Social Forum - Another World is Possible.

And what's more, Another World is Here. Every time we choose to awaken to the best in us. We have a choice, from moment to moment - to feed the forces of biophilia inside us (the forces of life) or to feed the forces of necrophilia (of death). Of course we have both inside us, and we need to look inside and see the shadows we all carry inside, each and everyone of us.

Become a whole person means integrating the shadow, not pushing it away, not denying it's existence. And when we acknowledge that, it actually helps to liberate it from it's grip.

We are humans, not saints, it's true. But we have choice. Every moment we have choice. What will choose this moment?

Comment by Irit Hakim-Keller on December 27, 2008 at 8:58pm: Imagine all your words becoming reality....
Thank you very much for your beautiful way to say those dear words.
Let's hope all of the people can live this life.
Irit

Comment by Velcrow Ripper on December 27, 2008 at 8:36pm: Einstein was a mystic and a pacifist, but was terrified that the Nazi's would develop an atomic bomb and use it on mankind.

In 1929, he publicly declared that if a war broke out he would "unconditionally refuse to do war service, direct or indirect... regardless of how the cause of the war should be judged." (Ronald Clark, "Einstein: The Life and Times", pg. 428). His position would change in 1933, as the result of Adolf Hitler's ascent to power in Germany. While still promoting peace, Einstein no longer fit his previous self-description of being an "absolute pacifist".

Like many people during that terrible war, he compromised his ideals. A great mistake, but not based on being a violent man, but rather out of his love for human kind, and a fear that there was no other way. His role in the creation of the atomic bomb was not decisive, but yes he did support its development initially, in a letter to president Roosevelt, a decision he would come to deeply regret.

In November 1954, five months before his death, Einstein summarized his feelings about his role in the creation of the atomic bomb: "I made one great mistake in my life... when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification - the danger that the Germans would make them." (Clark, pg. 752).

Following World War II, Einstein became even more outspoken. He was a leading figure in the World Government Movement and continued to work for peace and world order, campaigning for the abolition of all nuclear weapons. When asked what kind of weapons World War III would be fought with, Einstein responded, “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

On July 9, 1955, Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell issued the Russell-Einstein Manifesto warning of the peril of nuclear weapons and the dangers of continuing an arms race and called upon Congress, scientists and the general public to join in a resolution. The Russell Einstein Manifesto resolved: “In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten the continued existence of mankind, we urge the Governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, that their purpose cannot be furthered by a world war, and we urge them, consequently, to find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them.”

Comment by Ananya S Guha on December 26, 2008 at 4:15pm: Beautiful, heart rending, so very true.
Love,

Ananya S Guha.

Comment by Jo Ann Hammond-Meiers on December 26, 2008 at 4:38am: Hello Velcrow and all who read this post.

Thanks for your reach with us to imaginative realms and yet grounding it in possibilities; you reminded us of real people who are in our minds reaching with us. The imaginal realm is embodied in each one of use and with ipeace helps strengthen sharing and oneness. Jo Ann

Comment by Dr. S.Ramakrishnan on December 26, 2008 at 3:16am: Dear Divine Velcrow,

Namaste.(I bow unto the being in you and be with you!)

It is really very simple to be at Peace; but really really difficult to be simple.

Imagination is creating the image

and enlivening it with the realization of it in the present.

I too join my head, heart, hands and soul with you in the iPeace Mission of Global Peace...

Comment by Sandman on December 25, 2008 at 11:45pm: Thank you for speaking my heart.

Comment by Gordon J Millar ~ The Global We on December 25, 2008 at 1:30am: Beautiful Velcrow thank you.

Imagine a world where we all strive unremittingly for infinite gentleness, harmonious co-operation, compassion and loving~kindness.

It's here. Right here. Right now.

With passion for peace,

Gordon