I Find Peace Like This
When I was little, I had a habit of eating slowly, giving the food many bites that it somehow started to irritate family members. I was the last to finish my plate. I remember being scolded for this habit a lot and wondered to myself why is it that I eat so slowly?!
Between 3rd and 11th of November Peace Revolution was in Sicily, Caltanissetta to take part in “Lets ACT” training course organized by the Italian agency under the new Erasmus Plus program.
Peace Architect Manuela Puscas and Peace Agents Cristina Matei and Matt Witt took part in the activities designed to explore the idea of social entrepreneurship and the culture of peace.
A busca pela paz é individual. Cada um deve percorrer o seu caminho e despertar para uma vida de equilíbrio e paz. Antes de querermos mudar o mundo, porque não começarmos uma mudança interior? Pense: o que aconteceria se cada um promovesse a mudança em si mesmo? E encontrasse seu próprio equilíbrio? Vivendo a paz e a felicidade diariamente? Se o amor genuíno, a capacidade de amar ao próximo, a gentileza e o respeito, virassem hábitos? Como o mundo seria?
At some point of life many of us encounter existential questions. We rush like crazy trying to find the answers right now, right here, always somewhere outside: in books, in advices, in money, work or parties. We fight to get these answers and become angry, unhappy, lost. Sometimes we even give up and go with the flow. It feels like being one of those hamsters running in a lump. But the truth is, that the answers come whenever we stop seeking for them, when we calm down and look at ourselves from aside.
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” – Eckhart Tolle
How many times have you had that feeling of never-having-enough or never-being-enough? You would expect to be naturally wired for gratitude and not something that you have to practise, right?
Have you ever imagined meditation to be something complicated and possible only with lots of efforts? Probably Google and the cinematographic depiction of meditation postures might have had something to do with that.
Peace Revolution European Fellowship 2014 edition, a 7 days Meditation Retreat for European Youth, took place in Lede, Belgium at Wat Phra Dhammakaya Benelux.
“Just let go. The less we want the more we get.”
“Once you dream the inner dream you’ll never dream again.”
In my residence, there were always some birds trying to build nests. Initially we didn’t mind having them around. But later on, they continue to appear more and more. They started to make our windows dirty and smelly. As much as we wanted to hear them sing, we needed them to return to nature. There were plenty of trees outside but we couldn’t just simply yell at them and say “Hey, go back to the trees, will you”? They wouldn’t understand.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has,” reckons Margaret Mead. The Amani Revolution Tour is the living proof of Mead’s belief. Between the 28th of March and the 30th of April, young leaders from six African countries came together, united by their commitment to transforming the ideal of building sustainable world peace into a tangible reality.
An african people once asked me what I was impressed the most coming to Africa.
For me, the things that impressed me were not wild animals, safari, nature or any things or sort.
