{"id":724,"date":"2011-05-29T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/blissblog\/?p=724"},"modified":"2011-05-29T19:57:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T23:57:58","slug":"peace-out-and-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/2011\/05\/peace-out-and-in.html","title":{"rendered":"Peace Out and In"},"content":{"rendered":"

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May 30 is\u00a0recognized\u00a0as Memorial Day in the U.S.; a day\u00a0that honors those who have served in the military, as well as their families whose support\u00a0has allowed them to do so. While I certainly hold them in my heart, I don’t glorify war. I prefer instead to honor peace and as well, those peaceful warriors who see unity rather than divisiveness, reconciliation rather than conflict.<\/p>\n

As I was putting out a call to the Universe for inspiration for this week’s Bliss Blog’s entries, a response came instantaneously from my highly intuitive friend Liora Hill who must have been listening even as she lives 3 hours South\u00a0of me in the Baltimore area. It is on a subject near and dear to my heart.<\/p>\n

This was her email:<\/p>\n

PEACE
\n“Harmonious Relations”.
\n“A state that is calm and tranquil”.
\n“The absence of mental stress and anxiety”.
\n“A treaty to cease hostilities”.
\n“The state prevailing during the absence of war”.
\n“Peacemaker- someone who keeps peace”.
\nDefinitions from the dictionary.
\nPeace is a virtue we all possess. Many times it has to be activated, acted on and expressed. The more we do it, it becomes a way of life. We then are Peace! Wherever we go, Peace Is!
\nEnjoy the Sistas singing
\nLet There Be Peace”
\nSweet Honey in the Rock\u2122 – Let There Be Peace
\nhttp:\/\/youtu.be\/QrXB3xD8NRI<\/a><\/p>\n

When I consider the idea of peace, I have come to learn that it, like most other things, is an inside job. No one gives it to me and no one has the ability to take it from me. When I have lost my footing and gotten toppled over in a less than peaceful moment, I know that I can regain it, by allowing serene thoughts to flow through my ever so buzzy mind. I have been known to disturb my own peace with images of shoulda-woulda -coulda, what if and if only? \u00a0I have been at war with myself when battling with the armored soldiers of criticism and judgment. I have sacrificed myself on the altar of self deprecation.\u00a0\u00a0I have thrown myself on the sword of separation. Unless I am peace with myself and my various ‘warring factions’, I am unable to have peaceful relations with anyone, so fraught with hard and jangly energy am I. It is easy to see ‘enemies’ when I am in separation mode and easier to see compatriots when I am in unity consciousness. In truth, there is\u00a0 ‘no one out there’…we are all us.<\/p>\n

Peace is not some lofty ideal somewhere out there. It is born in each moment, each thought that crosses our minds. Are we harboring war-like thoughts that pound away at us, and by extension all of our relationships or are we holding out our hands in acceptance of the ‘other’?\u00a0 Are we putting out wounding weaponry with our words or are we offering an olive branch? Collectively, our thoughts are powerful.\u00a0 Are we willing to be that ‘greater force for good in the world? The choice, as always, is ours.<\/p>\n

Likely one of\u00a0the first songs on the subject that I was introduced to \u00a0is Let There Be Peace on Earth<\/em><\/strong>. (Seymour Miller & Jill Jackson, “Let There Be Peace on Earth,” 1955)<\/p>\n

My friends Peter Moses and his lovely wife Jackie Hurley revised the lyrics which we sing at the close of services at Circle Of Miracles, an interfaith community that I attend. I like them even better than the original, because they speak of the present moment awareness and experience of peace.<\/p>\n

“Now there is peace on Earth and it has begun with me.<\/p>\n

Now there is peace on Earth, the peace that was meant to be.<\/p>\n

With God as Creator, united all are we.<\/p>\n

Let us walk with each other, in peace and harmony.<\/p>\n

Peace has begun with me, and this is the moment NOW<\/p>\n

With every breath I take, now this is my joyous vow.<\/p>\n

I take each moment and live each moment, in peace eternally.<\/p>\n

Now there is peace on Earth and it has begun with me.”<\/p>\n

James Twyman, known as The Peace Troubador who has traveled worldwide,\u00a0sings a powerful tribute to peace, beckoning all to the table where there is enough for everyone.<\/p>\n

May Peace Prevail on Earth<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/youtu.be\/xwgLldU9_zs<\/a><\/p>\n

My friend Deb Chamberlin co-wrote a song with her husband Robert Wynn that is my favorite peace anthem called The Time Has Come<\/em><\/strong>. She has performed it with a talented group of Philly local performers whose enthusiam spills forth. Can you see them singing this at the U.N. and the White House?\u00a0 I can.\u00a0<\/p>\n

www.thetimehascome.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Some peace quotes to plant the seeds in your own heart…<\/p>\n

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power.\u00a0 Then will our world know the blessings of peace.\u00a0 ~William Ewart Gladstone<\/span><\/div>\n
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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.\u00a0 ~Mother Teresa<\/span><\/div>\n
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.\u00a0 ~Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/div>\n
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.\u00a0 ~Attributed to both Golda Meir and Indira Gandhi
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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.\u00a0 ~Dwight Eisenhower
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Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon.\u00a0 A happiness weapon.\u00a0 A beauty bomb.\u00a0 And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one.\u00a0 It would explode high in the air – explode softly – and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air.\u00a0 Floating down to earth – boxes of Crayolas.\u00a0 And we wouldn’t go cheap, either – not little boxes of eight.\u00a0 Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in.\u00a0 With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest.\u00a0 And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.\u00a0 ~Robert Fulghum<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u00a0Circle of Miracles www.circleofmiracles.org<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n

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