Simple Reasoning Can Lead Us To A Simple Formula For Peace:
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
You will be delighted to know, if you are continuing to journey with Cathy and I, that you will soon be in ‘Love’, our next destination. This is truly the most pivotal point in our journey. If you recall arriving in ‘Neutrality’, a feeling of well-being and confidence seemed to rise within us. We were comfortable striking some balance between positive and negative energy thoughts, between objective and subjective thinking, and between concern for self and concern for others.
Since then we have explored our ‘Willingness’ to love, we have come to an ‘Acceptance’ of the moral excellence of love as a virtue, and in ‘Reason’ we found the motive for action, feeling and belief through our capacity for rational thought. Are we ready to find the kind of love needed to invent peace?
The mass media portrays love as an emotional state, fostered by physical attraction, control, possessiveness, eroticism, and novel demonstration. Highly evident in the entertainment industry, is the fragility of such conditional relationships, that are more likely based on addictive sentimentality than real love.
Here in ‘Love’, the sting of the real love-bug will infect us with a state of being. We will see love as unconditional and unchanging. True love comes from the heart, it is permanent, and does not wax or wane, as it’s source is not based on external factors. Nor is love fostered by the intellectual thinking of the mind. It simply has the capacity to lift us to a higher level of consciousness through it’s purity of motive.
If we are ever to succeed in inventing peace, the answer will lie in our ability to convince the world of the promise of this state of being. Love is forgiving, it is nurturing, and has a positive way of relating to the world.
A quick glance around our world today, highlights the many barriers to world peace. So many countries are infected with the virus of hate that manifests itself between brothers, sects, religions and boundaries. What then is to be the protocol of the antidote of ‘Love’ if it’s power is to overcome the evils of force and destruction?
It can easily be a simple, natural procedure, once we accept the fact that Love does not take a position; there can be no justified resentment. As such, separation of brothers disappears and its effect becomes a Global phenomena. The possibilities are endless and being ‘one with another’ becomes the seeds of peace and the harvest of harmony.
Having conquered all negativity, ‘Love’ becomes inclusive and supports and expands our positive sense of well-being progressively. It focuses on the goodness of life and rebuffs negativity by recontextualizing it, rather than by attacking it.
Well, there it is:- a simple formula for peace and true happiness. As simple as the command of centuries ago to ‘Love God and Love our neighbour as our self’. Was this not the answer to our worldly problems that we have ignored for centuries? Having figured out the formula for DNA, with the brain power God has given us, we might feel the guilt of shame at such oversight.
The goal and promise of peace and true happiness, must spur us on to make ‘Love’ a real home in our hearts We will hopefully experience the satisfaction and ‘Joy’ of the state of being derived from our commitment to true love when we meet next time.
A Life Worth Living started as a series of articles about our journey, Cathy's and mine, through a period in our life somewhat altered by the symptoms of Alzheimer disease. Having been known to take pen in hand on occasion, it seemed a way to convey my curiosity about the culture of care for those so afflicted to the households of loved ones who are on such a journey. In this column you will get travel updates as we go along as well as a view of various other matters of interest to seniors.
