I Find Peace Like This
World military expenditure in 2012 was estimated to $1756 billion, representing 2.5 per cent of global gross domestic product (GDP) or $249 for each person in the world, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. By end-2013, 51.2 million individuals were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, generalised violence, or human rights violations, shows the 2013 War’s Human Cost report by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
This is a promise to myself and to all the peace seeking friends all around the world. I will wake up tomorrow morning and start this peaceful, joyful journey.
My start up quotation is: “if not me, who? if not now, when?”
Imagine your country goes through a severe conflict, economical crisis and collective anxiety that gets so strong you can even smell it in the air. Ask yourself what would you do? Would you run around panicking and contributing to the overall madness or would you be a tiny candle light and little island of peace in the sea of war?
We are social beings and together we create the family unit, the neighbourhood, the community, and the greater country. We make the world. Just like the individual cells in our bodies working to keep us alive and well, we, too, are cells that make humanity.
When it’s comes to any kind of relationship, we all have something to say. It doesn’t matter how experienced you are, for sure you have some ideas on love and you share them in many different ways. With so much discussions going around this topic, a mindful, realistic and integral perspective is something that is missing.
I am thinking, how social are we nowadays? We share a lot of things on Facebook, we connect through LinkedIn, we post on Twitter. But does all this make us social?
“Muitas empresas espalham salas de meditação por suas instalações”, diz o americano Soren Gordhamer, criador de uma série de conferências que faz sucesso no Vale do Silício, região da Califórnia onde nasceram algumas das mais influentes empresas de tecnologia da atualidade, como o próprio Google.
Once you arrive in the Mooktawan Sanctuary in Koh Yai Noi Island, in Thailand, you have to wear white clothes. Many people would ask: why wear white?
Uma vez que você chega no Santuário Moonktawan na ilha de Ko Yai Noi, na Tailândia, você deve usar roupas brancas. Muitas pessoas perguntariam: – Por que vestir branco?
You say they are of another faith,
Another creed, or another race,
Incompatible, un-mixable
