THE WAY TO CHANGE THE WORLD IS TO CHANGE OURSELVES

As war looms closer like some ominous gray cloud which moves across the land in front of us, this image I’ve created in my mind inspires me to dig deep within, to come up with some solution—to do something, damn it! And it makes me think, what exactly do I do—seeing the storm coming at me? Think of it, the first solution that comes to mind is to escape—to run or to hide. In the real world, this would mean escaping into the countryside, living off the land like the survivalists do, or leaving the country altogether. That saves my family and me but how does it help anyone else? What does it do towards stopping the war? Not much.

This time, for this war, I want to help. When "my war" was raging, I went there to see for myself what it was all about. I went as a witness. Now that I know what war is, I want to become a force in stopping it. After all, war is barbaric. Even with all our high-tech weapons, it is by nature, something that belongs to the medieval past. I believe that we human beings have evolved to a point where our thinking should, fairly easily, be able to transcend the barbaric.

The idea must be to stop all war; it must be a universal thing. If we think like a peacenik filled with zeal and anger who thinks it’s enough to hop a bus to Washington where we will vent some anger, together with a crowd of like-minded souls, at what the government is doing—forget it. By doing that we could be doing more to contribute to war than those who stay home have a beer and watch the demonstration on TV! Why? Because we are not creating peace. We are creating more anger. Talking about peace or, especially, SHOUTING about peace has the exact opposite effect. It is angering the other half of the world, the half that believes in war. So there you have the two sides it takes to create another war—one against another—ready to fight!

Back to the storm. There is another way to deal with the impending storm on the horizon. Lie low, sit tight and … meditate. All of us are most powerful on the subtler levels of thought. If we allow our minds to settle down and be on a subtler level we will have a much greater effect on the world and on the universe at large. We naturally begin to think more rationally a level where we are more in tune with the laws of nature. So we can put all the power of Nature to work for us, to help us in creating peace. The power to do this comes from within us.

Something I read in a blog yesterday by Vita (vitalingus) in Australia says it beautifully. "This is a defining time in history where we must all find our courage, our compassion, our desire to act from love, not fear of the other, not anger at not having control of things we perceive we need."

Within ourselves is where we find the power to love each other, rather than to harm or to steal. So when we look inside, look for the love that is there and put it to work—blanket the world with it.