“Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you are alive it isn’t – Richard Bach
–
“By this means you will acquire the glory of the whole world.” – The Emerald Tablet (Aprox 3000 –5000 BC)
–
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvZYhxT5Mf8 << Vivaldi‘s Gloria
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
You can still make decisions . . .Decisions based on your driving desire and your will. Decisions resulting in deeds and deeds resulting in your destiny, – so to say.
It is well known that the sum of your decisions largely define your future and “destiny”, by choice..
Let’s take courage from this principle of life, so to say. Courage at the beginning of a New Year again. Courage perhaps for the years ahead. Courage that at some extend and perhaps at some large extend we can take control, or still take control, as we have the gift of a free choice in most of the things we undertake. We have even the choice to buy into this principle or not, make the decision to use our freedom as good as possible within the given circumstances or not.
It sounds so simple “lets take courage” but in the broader context we are made to act and not acted upon. We are not made to stand aside but we are made to take part. We are not made to stay in idle hope but we are made to carry the spirit forward in the firm belief that life is worthwhile living, in the knowledge that this world is far from perfect. All this is based on our deeds, our decisions, – our will and our desires.
Our decisions need to be based on the simple fact that it is better to love than to hate, regardless that loving does not mean allowing anyone else to abuse us.
If we do so we may have peace at heart!
Nelson Mandela could have said: ” For those living in countries like South Africa in the past – under oppression – any one may ask what he or she may contribute to the reduction of tyranny and improve eventually, where possible, the process of reconciliation with the power of forgiveness”.
Doing so means you have peace at heart like Mandela had a particular way of maintaining peace at heart.
–
No reconciliation however is able to undo the torture of women and children, and the culprits of those acts against humanity should face the justice systems of their own countries as this is a required peace time effort.
If we can’t e.g resolve those problems in peacetime, civilisation is not by any means able to resolve such problems at war-time.
–
The question is what we are going to do about it and what our own personal response will be for our own future, amidst all the choices we have in our own circumstances in 2014. Good is to improve life where possible, – bad is to destroy life where this in the spirit of both reason and compassion can be, or should be, avoided. At times this can be an agonising question without peace, – but it may provide us peace.
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth are not the means by which we need to live, and on all sides of the religious spectrum we are never told to do so. Those “who live by the sword will be killed by the sword”.
It’s a matter of peace or conflict.
–
As Martin Luther King ,Jr once said: “Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation.”
The crux lies in the method!
–
We live however in a world where simple escalating events may lead to massive drama’s all around, – a world where peace in no way is secured.
War’s have been fought over various decades, influence shifted across the borders of various nations and the balance of power will be neither the domain only of super powers nor the prerogative of economic powers when we see countries arise with the potential of military and nuclear power meeting us again, – eventually by surprise perhaps. The last destroying historical efforts of civilised nations to stay above the potential of mass destruction, – based on the reasoning that a large new war is not a rational alternative anymore. Often this reasoning has been forged in the crucible of historical hardship, being different for most of the nations on this world, – however being unique in both the shared will to survive and to prosper. The last does apply for most nations but not for all perhaps. The Russian provocation on Cuba with the US in October 1962 brought the world only hours away from a very likely and totally uncontrolled all-out nuclear war, more or less prevented -so to say – at “the last minute”.
In our peaceful efforts we need to keep this at heart.
–
Both love forgiving and gratitude in the will to live and to manifest itself in all our energies brightens the world, – like the sun brightens the sky. Nothing in this world is impossible and e.g. Nelson Mandela made sure to remind us of this! And as President Kennedy once said: “The only certainty we have is that nothing is certain”.
Today in the international arena of politics we are faced with the increasing prospect that relatively less influential nations and leaders may use their possession of nuclear warheads by narrow-minded decisions, – aiming to inflict as large as possible destruction for reasons nobody understands. It will put peace at the biggest test…
Everything is a matter of perception and perceptions do rule the world, either in the leaders of people and governments, or in the people themselves. Whether those perceptions are right or wrong, bizarre perhaps at times – if we make decisions feuded by prejudice, and as such preventing that we work together with the most crucial different perceptions of our times, – we are taking away the opportunities of people coming together and making the impossible possible.
Decision , decisions..but we have to face them at any level, – wherever we live in 2014!
–
So the courage to decide and try to maintain peace in general is important, at any place and at any time, – but the courage to love as well. The compassion of doing the things being both right and good at every point of testing. This will define your future in the smaller areas and our future in the larger domain of living together, – living together on this small planet. It will define our future within this larger domain if the majority of voices on this world speak and act upon this language in the same or similar frequency
The courage to live life in such a way as well as if every day could be the last one.
–
The courage to strive for peace.
–
This is a question of courage and character, a question of encouragement or discouragement, – the question or ask to be a sparkling light as we have the privilege of a free choice to show ourselves this way, – this way with peace.
–
As once said, peace does not mean to be at a place with no noise. Peace does not mean to live without trouble or hard work, but it means to live at a place where our energies are focussed. It means we can be calm at heart when there is violence, calm at heart when there is injustice or hardship, – but work against it with “Peace at Heart”. Peace at heart when we realise that the world lives in us and we do live in the world. The last with our own response, – with our own last choice to make decisions with peace at heart. Nobody can take this ability away from us if our desires go this direction.
This is the kind of peace I wish everybody for 2014! A peace with neither limit nor ceiling, wherever we may live and whatever our circumstances may show. This is the kind of peace within the domain of our own choices, our own decisions, – the decisions within the smaller areas of our life or the bigger ones at a larger stage. As long we are able to make decisions based on those desires, our mission on earth is not finished and still, – still we are able to acquire the glory of the world, as once was stated some 5000 years ago.
“Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall behind you.”, – again this is what I wish for all of you. That the shadows fall behind you in 2014 and that so your desires reach the frequency of peace and compassion!
–
Have a GREAT NEW YEAR in 2014!!!!
–
Thanks!
–
–
Paul Alexander Wolf
–
Related articles
- Nelson Mandela Tells Oprah The Personal Myth He Wanted To Dispel Following His Release From Prison (VIDEO) (wonderfultips.wordpress.com)
- Nelson Mandela’s unique journey from prisoner to president (itv.com)
- Obama on the death of Nelson Mandela: Transcript (voices.suntimes.com)
- Newt Gingrich ‘Very Surprised’ At Nelson Mandela Backlash (huffingtonpost.com)
- Quiet Thoughts: How I Choose to Honor a Great Man (blackbunchedmassmom.wordpress.com)
- ‘I learned that courage… (seerxsociety.wordpress.com)
- Tory grandee smears Nelson Mandela and claims apartheid was harder for WHITE South African leader (mirror.co.uk)
- Tahir ul Qadri vows to bring revolution, like of Quaid-e-Azam & Mandela (sananews.net)
- Lessons for Muslim Da’awah Workers from the Life and Times of Mandela (signpostblogger.wordpress.com)
- The life of Nelson Mandela: Images and Quotes (middlepassagementor.com)