A lot is going on at work and I woke up literally ‘buzzing’ from the spinning thoughts in my head. Ideas, scraps of thoughts, worries, concerns, schedules, expectations.
My head feels heavy and cramped. I am disconnected to my center, and I can’t access peace.
Taking a cue from The New Earth, I took deep breaths and brought myself back to this pinpoint of time, this moment.
This moment looks like this.
At the sink.....Water under the tap.....Water cupped in my hand.....Awash over my face.
This moment..... This one breath..... This pinpoint of attention is my life.
Waiting in my inbox, a gift.... A poem name War and Peace.
How apt. Life feeding life a needed dose of loving inspiration.
Here it is.
If you stumble across this, you too must have been calling forth for Peace.
War and Peace
Man invents war. Man discovers peace.
He invents war from without.
He discovers peace from within.
War man throws. Peace man sows.
The smile of war is the flood of human blood.
The smile of peace is the love, below, above. Peace is the whole truth that wishes to enrapture humanity.
War is the whole falsehood that wants to capture humanity.
Peace begins in the soul and ends in the heart.
War begins in the mind and ends in the body. War forgets peace. Peace forgives war.
War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine.
Our vital passions want war.
Our psychic emotions desire peace.
War is clear futility in dire spear-stupidity.
Peace is flowing infinity in glowing eternity. Man seeks war when he thinks that the world is not his.
Man invites war when he feels that he can conquer the world.
Man proclaims war when he dreams
That the world has already surrendered to him. Man seeks peace because his earthly existence desperately needs it.
Man welcomes peace because he feels
that in peace alone is his life of achievement and fulfilment.
Man spreads peace because he wants to transcend death. The animal in man wars against peace in the outer world,
in the world of conflicting ideas.
The divine in man wars against ignorance in the inner world,
in the world of mounting ideals. The animal in man wants war for the sake of war,
war to devour the snoring world.
The divine in man wants peace for the sake of peace,
peace to feed the hungry world.
By:Sri Chinmoy From: Songs of The Soul
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