"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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Comment by benowbro on March 12, 2009 at 6:56pm
Thank you, There is oneness within all of us. When we become our intrinsic natures the truth of our existance
shins through. Nature and the environment within this we will find peace, truth and happyness. Evolutionary beingness is the right of all living things. Namaste' Benowbro
Comment by Iamalak on March 8, 2009 at 9:46pm
Thank you Dirk, for sharing your light. We have a lot to do to bring peace to humanity. I think we're gaining ground with the amount of input we have on this site. Everyone of us contributes by shining our light around those who journey through the darkness. Light will prevail, as we are peace.
Comment by Maris B. Mohr on March 6, 2009 at 7:40am
There are those of us who live this and by thus doing connect others to the train of peace, It's just a natural way of being.

As a poet, possibly minimalist and recalling the words of Louis Carrol (of "Through the Looking Glass" fame), more words lead to diminished meaning. True, we all like to blog off and use as many big words as we can, but it's not necessary. Make your (meaning all of us) point and say SHALOM - PEACE.
Comment by Franklin Quijano on March 4, 2009 at 5:15am
wow
Comment by SiNeh~ on March 4, 2009 at 4:25am
Beloved~
Fortunately I am out of those circumstances, that is WHY I am able to help others to come out as well :)
A wonderful Blog, Thank you for SHARING that with ANYONE interested!

SiNeh~
Comment by Nick Talarico on March 4, 2009 at 3:39am
You've in one short read helped me realize that I had lost ther love of self, life is very challenging. I am a positive person, I can't control others but I can control my thoughts! You can't be negative if your thoughts are positive and thats the hardest thing for all of us to do because we do all live in the same world! We all can control our own thoughts! One thought at a time, the hardest part is keeping that thought positive! Thank you!
Comment by Elad on March 4, 2009 at 3:25am
that is so true about humans and for sure you have given an insight of what we have to do to comemorate peace. we must begin with self acceptance. big up.....this is a great article
Comment by Maria on March 4, 2009 at 3:18am
well put...i really enjoyed reading this...i am learning to love myself and be better everyday...
Comment by Vladimir Benderski on March 3, 2009 at 7:44pm
In the Declaration of UN it is stated: PEACE SHOULD BE ESTABLISHED IN PEOPLE'S MINDS.
Comment by tan eng kiat on March 3, 2009 at 7:44pm
Yes,just like the tree,it has many branches,and leaves,just like the society with all different people and races,but all is one,it comes from the root.But,if we DO really want peace,as long as there are slaughter house,there is battle field.

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