Peace and the ego
Peace does not come through the agreement of egos, for it is impossible for egos to agree. Peace comes when love and mutual respect are present. When love is present, your enemy becomes like a friend who is not afraid to disagree with you. You do not cast him out of your heart just because he sees things differently than you. You listen carefully to what he has to say.
When you listen to your enemy the same way that you would listen to your friend, it is not your ego doing the listening. The Spirit inside you is listening to the Spirit inside of him.
Paul Ferrini
Thank you, for reading this, and thank you to whomever made this website. I stumbled upon this website by chance, and spent hours reading all the posts and comments.
I tried to make a “post” but could not work out how to do it, so you are now reading a “comment” no less and no different to the point i want to make.
“War can only lead to victory if all desires are abendoned”
Ever since the rise of humanity,200.000 years ago, humanity has been challenged for it’s existance.
From the beginning we, as all other species, had to fight and conquer to sustain us.
We sustained ourselves, hunting, fighting, conquering. Upon the species on this planet, victory was ours.
That is how it was, that is how our instincts are set for 180 thousand years.180 thousand years we fought and hunted for no more than our existance.
Just for the fun of it: try imagining you having kids and their offspring evolving 180.000 years. Hmmm, strange.
And now it get’s complicated. After all these years someone get’s nailed to a cross (if at all true) for his beliefs.
??? i do not know, and i am not the one to judge, but what i do know is that ever since 2000 years ago, at least 1000.000.000 people have been killed because the “other side” believed them to be wrong.
For war to be ended, mankind has to abendon it’s self, abendon it’s beliefs, abendon it’s faiths, abendon it’s bonds,
for only when it stands naked and has nothing to gain it will truly know peace.
Eric Antonisse