"Violence often prevails in conflicts because it is a much easier path than Peace. Violence does not usually start on its own: it grows from the fertile ground of intolerance, bigotry, self-centeredness - the baser areas of the personality. To practice Peace requires a rigorous evaluation of yourself and the acknowledgment of your own flaws and limitations, so that you can change the path you are on. This is the first step on the Path of Peace.
Together we all are humanity,
Humanity Healing Team"
http://humanityhealing.ning.com
Peace is simplicity. Simplicity is beauty. Choose your life as your days of simplicity.....
As to my perception, the Path of Peace always starts in re-developing and fostering our inmost innate abilities of disseminating loving light like a navigational lighthouse for all the skippers who are lost and lonely inmidst the globally rough and dark seas. Because
Love & Light is of all passionate destinations the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously our mind, our heart, our soul and the core of our inmost spiritual [es]sense... ;-))
But "you must be able to love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy." Because "if you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself."
(Karl Menninger & Barbara de Angelis)
Yet unfortunately, we rather easily and subliminally tend to do just the opposite, i.e. to greatly appreciate the comforts (yet pitfalls!) of today’s modern and feigned oh-so-"liberal" society...
A media-driven system which in the first place gently lure us away from the sensation of our SELVES, then from our own innate being and our own individual meaning.ful destination. And finally from our ability of proper unbiased self-reflection and eventually notelessly yet fiercely even from our own self-esteem and our inherent self-love. Instead replacing our SELF with an adulterated pseudo-EGO, which in the end only fights the external controversies just as an ill-humoured sublimation of our own inability to cope with our inmost pristine roots......
It is so sad to realize that our distorted "modern" social system tries to make us wrongly believe, in unreflected airiness, that we are only thoroughly happy when we are (finally) rich of means, status and self-actualization…..
Please contemplate just for a moment: wouldn’t we already be way more rich just by being happily settled within our SELVES...??
Isn’t it self-explanatory that only if we honestly love ourselves, i.e. that we accept us and our individual significant (yet flawed !) BEING completely as we are, we can truly start to impartially and devotedly love others ...... ??
To love our SELF, i.e. to love the pregiven divine elements in our core of essence, is deep-rooted in many ancient beliefs, traditions and religions, e.g. like Hinduism and Islam (just to name two prominent ones out of the multitude of equipollent others), who ascribe great significance to the pristine divinity in mankind, pregiven upon birth.
For example in the Qur’an “each thing, the breath a human takes,... is each a sign of God… Recognizing and knowing the signs of God calls for personal effort. One will recognize and know the signs of God in accordance with his own wisdom and conscience.”
(see: Ali Afifi: http://www.ipeace.me/profiles/blogs/but-god-you-gave-me-no-reason)
In Hinduism the pregiven divinity is part of the “Dharma” which refers to one's righteous duty, ones virtuous path in our innate endeavour to uphold and nurture Mother Earth (i.e. life and nature (from dhr- to hold, ma – “Mother”). According to this tradition Hindus only know about other things well because “first we know ourselves. We would never have succeeded in acquiring wisdom had we not first acquired self-knowledge”
(see: Devanayagi Parameswaran : http://goddesstradition.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-living-goddess-tradition )
Hence, do we really want to continue being caught in those insane daily vicious circles of socialized modern ego-centrisms, back-seat driver mentality, alledgedly pseudo-status and narcisstic eth(n)ical or even religious supremacy? Paired with emotional dryness, coldness and often even harshness towards others and even to our selves? Being stuck in a neo-darwinistic war for the survival-of-the-fittest?
Do we really want to continue to only "fight" our individual existence through the frequently absurd, obsolete and futile (because counterproductive) mazes of subsistence due to socialized highly acclaimed yet adverse attitudes and behaviours.....?
Or, wouldn't we all rather greatly profit by just focussing more on our own
SOUL and our inmost
pregiven "divine" core of our essence (i.e. our good conscience which tells us WHY and for which true individual destination we are literally begotten...)
But, how to gain self-reflection and self-love, how to step out of that daily grind hamster wheel of modern society which has been so subtly yet effectively messing up and breaking up with most of our ancient meaningful traditions?
Read more in part two of this blog “Inner Peace – How to?”
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