THIS I BELIEVE –Fostering Global Peace and Harmony

“Do not look outside of yourself to seek love. Look within to see all the walls you have built between it and your heart.”- Rumi.

Talk of fostering global peace and harmony should begin with transforming ourselves first. When we lift our pen or our voice to write or speak about global peace and harmony we actually approach the Divine, offering a prayer for deliverance from this imbroglio.

I believe that my body is a temple of the spirit and my heart the abode of love. Harmony and peace are products of a compassionate approach to one another. Solutions to matters of the heart have to be found through the heart and not the head or the mind. The answers to world problems have not been found in scientific or logic driven world conferences or discussions between nations because of a lack of sincerity. Underlying ulterior motives have sabotaged all attempts at resolutions till now. It is time to find these in spirituality.

The boundaries separating realms of science and spirituality have blurred to the extent that one overlaps the other. The power that is orchestrating the wisdom of the universe is capable of orchestrating our body cells as well, bringing a transformation in the collective consciousness. . For this we must protect our hearts from hardening and becoming calloused; we must listen to the whispers of the heart; we must listen to the whispers of the mind; we must listen to our deeper voices of truth and love and open ourselves to the Source drawing upon the wisdom of the higher realms.

When we heal our personal ecology we start the process of healing collective ecology and collective consciousness. In order to heal we have to feel and for that an opening of the heart towards One Earth Consciousness is the first step. Politics, power, wealth, ambition and twisted emotions with their warped ways do not permit this. If anything, it creates more conflicts, suffering, suppression, oppression and barbaric degradation of human values. Whereas, authentic love does not dehumanize another; it does not devalue another human being; it does not silence, shame or abuse another. In fact compassion and love leave no scope for duality. Where then is the question of conflicts and clashes? The cause of all conflicts is our self. War, terrorism, poverty, social injustice, destroying the ecosystem, extinction of other life forms and most of all risking our own extinction are all self- inflicted. Love is the counter energy to wars.

 I believe, the only answer lies in a sublimation of the individual leading to collective human thought and a shift in collective consciousness, which will take the power out of all forms of violence and give back man a life of freedom, joy, peace and harmony based on the concept of one world, one earth family- the One. In being united as One, wholeness is created which promotes healing. When a group of like- minded people work together they ignite life’s purpose with passion and peace.

 I believe in miracles. I believe life gives us opportunities to learn; let us forgive the hurt, pain and suffering and harvest the learning; it is a gift to ourselves. The only way to global peace and harmony is to be stronger than the circumstances, to create circles of joy which with their rippling effect, create larger circuits of beacons of light and hope. Perceptual and conceptual boundaries must change to show us the path out of this conundrum.

I believe in acceptance, forgiveness and gratitude. Love and only love, can heal bitterness, pain, trauma, and build bridges to better relationships, making the world a better place.