Let There Be Peace on Earth
How many of us pray for peace, become involved in organizations
that promote peace and, through our spiritual practices,
advocate peace? Many of us certainly do yet, despite our
efforts, we seem to move from one war to another, from one act
of terrorism to another. As we become more technologically
advanced, so do our methods of war. We appear to be more
intelligent as a species than a thousand years ago, so why are
we still fighting, why are we still at war?
Yes, we can blame conflicting concepts regarding religion and
property as two of the top reasons for war. But truly, as aware
and awake people on our spiritual path, it behooves us to take
responsibility for the real reason for war in our reality. War
only occurs in humans and, although animals may defend their
families or feeding grounds, they do not engage in war to defend
ideas. Only humans do this.
The reason for war among humans is that we are projecting the
personal reality from our minds out into our conjoined reality.
We create this reality with the word, as the word is the power
we have from the infinite to create in this life. If we have
conflict in our minds between the concepts, ideas and beliefs in
our heads, that is what we are going to project. Those
conflicting beliefs and agreements, which are at war in our
minds, are formed using the word because words form the basis of
any agreement or belief.
When we cannot make a choice due to our conflicting thoughts,
even about something simple in our life, this is war. When we
are having an argument in our head with someone we love, this is
war. When we are listening to our mind making assumptions about
someone or something and we feel ourselves getting upset at our
own thoughts, this is war.
This war inside our mind is ongoing. Only by cleaning our minds
of everything that is not truth can our minds become calm. When
this occurs, and we no longer get upset about anything in life,
we are no longer at war. Then we will project our inner peace
out into the dream of the planet, which will shift the balance
of the dream from war to one of calm.
What I am saying is that as long as humans create war within
their minds and are at the mercy of their conflicting concepts
and beliefs there will never be peace on earth.
No amount of committees or organizations can change the human
mind and its fear-based egocentric projections. Only each one of
us, by taking responsibility for our thoughts and beliefs, can
change this reality. That means each of us must make a choice to
stop blaming the ills of the world on others, stop focusing our
attention on everyone else's problems, and, instead, work on
changing what is inside of us.
I know what I am suggesting is challenging - but what else do we
have to do while we are alive except learn to be happy and at
peace? Let's start right now and make the commitment to change
ourselves and, in turn, the world.