Mohandas Gandhi: Principles, Practice and Belief
Gandhi’s beliefs were controversial and does penetrate to the core of most people’s fear. The fear of vulnerability. To stand before guns unarmed appears as if suicide. He was regarding truth and ahimsa as his shield, like a spiritual shield. That is not easy to understand if you do not have a spiritual foundation. It… Continue reading
Buckminster Fuller: Thinking for Yourself and Benefit Humanity
. . . So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me – each one of us is born of two, and we really belong to each other. I vowed to do my own thinking, instead of trying to accommodate everyone else’s opinion, credo’s and… Continue reading
John Locke: A Civil Society of Human Understanding
This is very strange, I am at McDonalds on the free wireless and there is a television in front of me. I am watching a scene in the movie where all these people are being hanged, they are in medieval England. The official person is saying the right to habeus corpus suspended, right to a… Continue reading
Interpreting Blogs Do You Understand the Meaning?
I had an interesting reflection from a fellow peacemaker who didn’t understand my meaning in one of my blogs. I noted a lot of his own interpretation and filling in happened, he didn’t understand nothing was excluded it was just a perspective, a focus. It was very interesting to learn his viewpoint and I took… Continue reading
World Peace: Statue of Liberty or Vengeance is Mine?
This morning I felt despair when I recalled the photograph of Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton and various military people and Advisors watching the assassination of Osama Bin Laden and others live. The activity must have seemed like a violent video game, yet this is real life or indeed death.
I can’t understand why the US… Continue reading
Love is Reality
I felt to repost this poem tonight. Questions open up to possibilities.
THE LOVE OF REALITY
What is REAL?
Is it Responsibility?
Is it Empathy?
Is it Awareness?
Is it Love?
For he is seeking a solid state,
For what he can feel, touch and see is real,
Life is tangible in his conscious reality.… Continue reading