What does it mean to build peace in our hearts and minds? How does it relate to the world around us? These are indeed thought provoking questions, can they really be answered? Can we really build peace in our hearts and minds? And if we can, how does it relate to the world around us? I have been struggling to come to grips with what his happening in the world around us. Not that I am surprised but that it can scare you to know that a man can just put a bullet in your brain just because he doesn't like you. It is a shame to know that human being, homo sapiens, who is said to be above other species in thinking and reasoning is doing such cruelty to one another. I would to love to wake up one day and see on the news and in the papers, "World peace at last!", but I guess that is fairy tale, mere fiction, something that will never come to reality.
With acts of terrorism and hundreds of people been killed, we are left to wonder when is the next genocide, forgive me for thinking negative but the status quo gives me no choice. But how can we build peace in our hearts and minds? I think one of the biggest barriers to this is ourselves. If we cannot see others how we see ourselves that it can never happen. Building peace in our hearts and minds being one with nature, fully connected by engaging the mind, body and soul, and to seek holistic development. It means that we all envision a world independent of war, violence, crime, hatred and work towards it. It means we will first, love ourselves and second, spread that love throughout, so that others can feel it, be touched by it so much that they cannot contain it and as such, burst open and spread it to others.
Once we can build peace with our minds and hearts, then we will be inclined to spread it throughout the world. Like a disease that spreads, we will replace what is wrong, with what is right and that is peace and love, forgiveness and honestly, all the qualities that will make each individual exception and irresistible. The question is asked again, what does it mean to build peace in our hearts and minds? Do you have an answer, what say you?
