Friday 21st was marked as International Day of Peace
"Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace."
14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso (1935-).
Additional Thought
"So instead of loving what you think is peace,
love other men and love God above all.
And instead of hating the people you think are warmongers,
hate the appetites and the disorder in your own soul,
which are the causes of war.
If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed
— but hate these things in yourself, not in another."
Thomas Merton (1915-1968; Trappist monk, author, student of Zen; from Passion for Peace: Reflections on War and Nonviolence.
24.9.07
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I believe that before we should combat crime and violence in the outside world we should get rid of our inner sins and guilt.There is a severe war happening in our heart every day---to listen to the holy spirit or follow our own desire.Peace follows a pure soul and a happy heart.
from shao
if everyone can put the mess in his soul in order, he/she is a clean, peaceful and healthy person mentally.A society which is made up of these persons will have no any war.Jesus said in the Bible,"Nothing outside a man can make him unclean by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him unclean.
...for from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder,adultery, greed, malice,deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and make a man unclean." The outside world is the reflection of the inside world of human beings.Before we can stop a war in the world , we must stop the evil thoughts within us.
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