Culture
of peace reflections
Sheet 2 March 2003
For the love of God
| We believe the spiritual
force capable of both changing us and stopping the arms race is that of
agape*: the love of God operating in the human heart.
Jim Douglass, Sojourners,
1984
* also sometimes
defined as unselfish, other-regarding care and other-directed love
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| To me the only answer to
all our problems, whether they’re political, economic, personal or whatever,
is to act from the center of ourselves. Act, not react. Acting from the
wholeness that we are, which is our soul level … and when we contact that
we’re not defensive or on the defensive or offensive or anything else because
we’re secure in what we are. We know who we are. We know we’re part of
the whole.
Dorothy Maclean,
founder of Findhorn
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Whatever the source of our energy to work for peace, how might it be transformed from a simple reaction to events to a positive action for peace in our world, in our communities?
What is our particular role as a religious community, at a time like this? What difference – if any – might it make to be acting from a sense of God’s love, of agape, from the spiritual centre – whatever name you wish to give it? How does that shape what we do for peace and how we do it?
| … the truest and greatest
power is the strength of Peace … because Peace is the Will of the Great
Spirit…
Hopi Declaration
of Peace
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