Isn't this ever-elusive Worldly Peace we all seek, nothing more than a deep desire for Inner Personal Peace?
Explain Why... or Why Not...
2007-05-21 10:14:50 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I believe Gandhi said it rightly:
"Be the change you want to see in the world."
It's an inside job. It's All an inside job. Then active action to carrying the internal, external.
Namaste
Peace and Love
2007-05-21 10:28:59 · answer #1 · answered by digilook 2 · 10⤊ 0⤋
I don't see it that way, because I have all the 'peace' I need. When I look at the world, and I see what is still happening, wars, famine, disease, droughts, greed, fear, want and need, I think that it's 'time', it's 'time' that we left all that behind.
I think I understand why we had to do it all, and I think I am sufficiently 'detached' to realise that the suffering is, at some level or other, 'voluntary'. I think I realise that we had to 'see' just how far we could go with the negative perceptions. And now I think that it's time to move on to the next level.
The physical realm isn't as easy as the beautiful side would have us believe, and it has taken us all manner of outcomes to see how we could inhabit this dense, slow, environment without all throttling each other, on a daily basis !
But now we are 'ready', and we 'know' that 'peace' begins in our own, individual hearts, and spreads from there out to everything, it will never be something that we can impose on each other, nor would it be 'peace' if we did.
2007-05-21 18:37:58 · answer #2 · answered by cosmicvoyager 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What we seek is already inside us subtle. Each one is a speck of the Divine glory. Worldly or Universal peace can be achieved only in unison and not in isolation. Hence the transformation is for the entire humanity at the same time. Till such time we will work out for our inner peace.
2007-05-22 07:50:41 · answer #3 · answered by nagarajan s 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We can have inner peace without worldly peace... I think the desire for worldly peace is a desire that suffering people could share in the inner peace that we enjoy.
2007-05-21 22:49:19 · answer #4 · answered by MumOf5 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes and that search is about escaping what we cannot deal with in this rhelm. We sealk to make this rhelm livable instead of seaking to strengthen ourselves to accept it as it is. I say this at the same time as I strive to be a vehicle of constructive action towards peace! In accepting one might think that means complient. I am not! For me it means save your energy for the battle and win the war. Violent terminology! Whoops!
Now having peace is still more desirable than comflict but what kind of peace do we want? Absolute peace I am not so sure that I want that. Mindless clone peace I am certain I do not want that!! The range of human experience has much to offer!
The kind of strenght I am thinking about is for me more desirable than absolute peace yet strength without wisdom, love and compassion are very undersirable! Actually dangerous! I do not want to be that person. I agree with Digi's Ghandi quote...being the change we want to see in the world. I strive to do it every day. Key word is strive! LOL!
There are so many things to discuss in this area! This is a great question! Don't loose heart in humanity. We are evolvong and if we survive I believe we will grow to be better than we are. I see it. Unfortunatly we will see far more grief be for we reach that time and place.
Worldy peace is not wholy possible. Yet, in striving for it we may attain what is possible and that is a beautiful thing! Let's do it! Together!
Peace and enlightenment.
2007-05-21 18:14:04 · answer #5 · answered by Jamie 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
yes. peace inside is peace outside.
i have an aunt.she is nosey,gossipy,insecure,malicious, jealous, bichy kind. so she is always creating troubles for people by telling them false things such as-tht person was criticising u at ur back. she is a complex woman.not happy, satisfied n peaceful within she constantly seeks soap bubble pleasure in hurting others,causes a lot of quarrel among people through her cunning ways.she cant figure out tht to be happy she needs inner peace rather than destroying the peace she sees outside just because she doesnt have it. the solution to all the external problems she helps to create can be nothing except peace within herself.
tried to explain through an example.
2007-05-22 06:47:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course! We have only ourselves to change and/or fix or learn about. We are all a work in progress! So all peace and harmony begins with self. If we are not at peace, we can not create an environment of peace.
2007-05-21 17:21:43 · answer #7 · answered by jmmevolve 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
everything begins from within...
and ends in within.
A thought about "world peace" is a wish for an inner peace.
Without a "change" (that digi talked about) inside there cannot be any change outside.
without inner peace...there can never be world peace...
And for the inner peace...a war has to be fought within...which will bring in world peace...
:)
2007-05-22 09:07:26 · answer #8 · answered by *~Hope~* 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi One Love,
Thanks for answering my questions, too.
I think they're related.
One can't have one without the other.
I agree with Digilook, that it begins internally, as a value (and beyond); but it is difficult to have peace within if there is none without - as in 'wartime'.
Thus I think we all have to, paradoxically, "fight for peace" - non violently, persuasively, ongoingly.
To help maintain it.
It's a duty, as necessary as the struggle for freedom.
It's a responsibility we're all entrusted with, and which rests on all our shoulders.
But there are times we're free of it.
We can enter into it's reality...
2007-05-21 22:45:14 · answer #9 · answered by goodfella 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course. The world is a reflection of Self seeking Self.
2007-05-22 01:36:29 · answer #10 · answered by philmeta11 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋