Be Peace - Please
Updated July 10, 2009
God Bless
This Earth is one Home Planet
Humane Beings: One Race - Many Colours
Universe: One Song - Many Voices
Rainbow: One Light - Many Colours
Our Home
and humankind its citizens
which makes war hatriotic and
peace patriotic.
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"We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft."
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A Time to Break Silence: By Rev. Martin Luther King
Click to read, and listen to, this lesser known speech.
This world in arms is not spending money alone.
It is spending the sweat of its laborers,
the genius of its scientists,
the hopes of its children....
This is not a way of life at all in any true sense.
Under the cloud of war,
it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."
"Poverty is the worst form of violence."
- - - - Mohandas K. Gandhi
War is Hatriotic
- - anon
Hate is like swallowing poison
- - anon
Love of one's country is lovely
- - anon
We can not make our own candles burn
- - anon
"The earth is but one country,
- - Bahá'u'lláh
"It is not his to boast who loveth his country,
- - Bahá'u'lláh
"In a democratic society, the only treason is silence."
- - Anna Quindlin
Some of Rabbi Hillel's Wisdom
"What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man.
"If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
"If not now, when?"
"Watch your thoughts; they become your words.
Watch your words; they become your actions.
Watch your actions; they become your habits.
Watch your habits; they become your character.
Watch your character for it will become your destiny."
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"Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man."
- - - Thomas Paine
A few of my own thoughts on
Just as within the family, if some members are threatened
with violence or beaten into submission by another family member
the result is not peace but submission, and submission to external
forces is not, and never can be, Peace.
Eventually, those forced to conform to another's wishes, whether
the enforcer is another individual or another country,
will rebel and the violence erupts again.
Violence simply breeds more violence in endless
patterns of pain, suffering, grief, horror, outrage,
resentment, revenge and retaliation.
Peace can not be imposed by an outside force.
Shortly before the official start of this 'war' on Iraq,
the news showed an excerpt from a speech that President Bush
had made that day,and in it he talked about the importance
of teaching our young people not to resort to violence.
The very next news item was this same President, addressing
a different group, advocating the massive violence of war.
The incongruity of those two statements astounded me!
And stating that he was waging a war on terror,
made no sense at all since terror is an emotion
and it's usually created by the violence of war.
Fighting terrorists with more terror in the form of 'war'
will only produce more terrorists and more terrorism.
Consider the following: when we, as parents, use violence to
force our children to obey our demands we are teaching them
that it's okay to use violence to force another to comply with
our wishes, and to be as we think they should be;
whether it be our spouses, our parents, our children,
our classmates (consider the rampant bullying in our schools)
workmates or even other countries, religions,
cultures and other forms of government,
the meta-message is that if we're bigger or stronger or
convinced of our rightness it's okay to use force
to get what we want!
Is this the kind of world we really want to live in?
Is this what we really want to teach our children?
Our children learn far more from the examples we show
them by our behaviour, towards them and others, than from
anything we tell them.
As James Baldwin once wrote:
"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders,
but they have never failed to imitate them."
Maybe the violence we see out there, in the world,
between countries is nothing more than an extension
and reflection of the violence within ourselves,
our families and our society as a whole.
Maybe it's really time for us
the crew of our only Spaceship, Earth,
to really take responsibility for our Home
and to demonstrate Peace in all our relationships
and behave, finally, as Humane Beings.
The Anti-War Origins of Mother's Day
"Arise then, women of this day!
Arise all women who have hearts,
whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
"Say firmly: 'We will not have questions decided by irrelevant agencies.
Our husbands shall not come to us reeking of carnage for caresses and
applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we
have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience. We women
of one country will be too tender to those of another country to allow
our sons to be trained to injure theirs. From the bosom of a devastated
Earth a voice goes up with our own, it says "Disarm! Disarm!" The sword
of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor,
nor violence indicate possession.
"As men have forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war,
let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first as women, to bewail and
"In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask that a general >
congress of women without limit of nationality be appointed and held
at some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent
with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general
interests of peace."
War Without End?
And now, on a lighter note:
Be on the lookout for symptoms of Inner Peace.
Some signs and symptoms of Inner Peace
A tendency to think and act spontaneously
An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment.
A loss of interest in judging other people.
A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others.
A loss of interest in conflict.
A loss of the ability to worry
Frequent, overwhelming episodes of appreciation.
Contented feelings of connectedness with others and nature.
Frequent attacks of smiling.
An increasing tendency to let things happen
An increasing susceptibility to the love extended by others
as well as the uncontrollable urge to love them back.
If you can be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,
If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,
If you can eat the same food everyday and be grateful for it,
If you can understand when loved ones are too busy to give you time,
If you can overlook when people take things out on you when,
through no fault of yours, something goes wrong,
If you can take criticism and blame without resentment,
If you can face the world without lies and deceit,
If you can conquer tension without medical help,
If you can relax without liquor,
If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,
If you can do all these things,
Then you are probably the family dog.
You are invited to participate
in a worldwide experiment
to create a peaceful planet.
Thank you.
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"We, the people of this world, now need to act on our beliefs.
We need to let the evildoers on both sides of the Atlantic know
that we are fed up with war. We are fed up with the killing and
bombing and maiming of innocent people. We are fed up with the lies.
Yes, we are fed up with the suicide bombers, and with the failure of
the Israelis and Palestinians to find a way to stop killing each other.
We are fed up with negotiations and peace conferences that are entered
into on both sides with preset conditions that preclude the outcome of peace.
We want world peace now."
"I knew that I could never again raise my voice
against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos
without having first spoken clearly to the greatest
purveyor of violence in the world today
- - - my own government."
A Plea For Justice, Not Vengeance
"War may sometimes be a necessary evil.
But no matter how necessary,
it is always an evil, never a good.
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children."
"Every gun that is made, every warship that is launched,
every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense,
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold, and are not clothed.
"A nation that spends more on military than on
social programs and education is morally bankrupt."
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice
is both impractical and immoral.
It is impractical because it is a descending
spiral ending in destruction for all.
It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent
rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate
rather than to convert.
Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred
rather than love.
"The choice is not between non-violence and violence,
but between non-violence and non-existance."
"America will never be destoyed from the outside.
If we falter, and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
"The moral test of government is how that government treats
those who are in the dawn of life, the children;
those who are in twilight of life, the elderly;
and those in the shadows of life,
the sick, the needy and the handicapped."
"Believing war to be a crime against humanity,
the War Resisters League, founded in 1923,
advocates Gandhian nonviolence as the method
for creating a democratic society free of war,
racism, sexism, and human exploitation."
- - - - Mohandas K. Gandhi
"I object to violence because
when it appears to do good,
the good is only temporary;
the evil it does is permanent."
- - - -
Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"
What difference does it make to the dead,
the orphans and the homeless, whether the
mad destruction is wrought under the name of
totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
- - Mohandas K. Gandhi
"The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle;
pleasure without conscience; wealth without work;
knowledge without character; business without morality;
science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice."
Peace is Patriotic
and waiting for the other person to die.
except when it is perverted into
a hatred of other countries.
brighter by extinguishing someone else's.
and mankind its citizens."
but it is his who loveth the world."
"Mankind must put an end to war,
or war will put an end to mankind.
War will exist until that distant day when
the conscientious objector enjoys the same
reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."
- - Mother Teresa,
in a letter to the Albanian people
"To be able to love one another, we must pray much, for prayer
gives a clean heart and a clean heart can see God in our neighbor.
If now we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten how to see God in one another.
If each person saw God in his neighbour, do you think we would need guns and bombs?
That is the entire Law, all the rest is commentary"
And if I am only for myself, what am I?"
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Peace
In the past, wars have been fought with the hopes that,
after the war was over, Peace would be established.
It seems to me that when a country has been beaten and bombed into
submission or compliance, by another country, the result is not Peace.
Each year the president issues a Mother's Day Proclamation.
The original Mother's Day Proclamation was made in 1870.
Written by Julia Ward Howe, perhaps best known today for having
written the words to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" in 1862
when she was an antislavery activist, the original Proclamation was
an impassioned call for peace and disarmament. In the years following
the Civil War her political activism increased, as did her condemnation
of war. Here are the words to the original Mother's Day Proclamation:
commemorate the dead. Let them solemnly take counsel with each other
as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace,
each bearing after his time the sacred impress not of Caesar, but of God.
Not In Our Name
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Inner Peace Epidemic
- - by Jeff Rockwell
The hearts of a great many have already been exposed to
Inner Peace and it is possible that people everywhere
could come down with it in epidemic proportions.
This could pose a serious threat to what has, up to now,
been a fairly stable condition of conflict in the world.
rather than on fears based on past experience.
(This is a very serious symptom)
rather than make them happen.Inner Peace
- - author unknown by webmaster
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