Comments on: Make-a-Wish for Love and Peace http://www.livethepower.com/blog/2008/04/make-a-wish-for-love-and-peace/ Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:39:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Life is Only Now (Live The Power) http://www.livethepower.com/blog/2008/04/make-a-wish-for-love-and-peace/comment-page-1/#comment-58983 Life is Only Now (Live The Power) Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:26:25 +0000 http://www.livethepower.com/blog/458/make-a-wish-for-love-and-peace/#comment-58983 [...] Make-a-Wish for Love and Peace [...] [...] Make-a-Wish for Love and Peace [...]

]]> By: karen http://www.livethepower.com/blog/2008/04/make-a-wish-for-love-and-peace/comment-page-1/#comment-58903 karen Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:44:46 +0000 http://www.livethepower.com/blog/458/make-a-wish-for-love-and-peace/#comment-58903 Thanks, Chris You're the best! Thanks, Chris
You’re the best!

]]> By: Chris Cade http://www.livethepower.com/blog/2008/04/make-a-wish-for-love-and-peace/comment-page-1/#comment-58878 Chris Cade Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:29:28 +0000 http://www.livethepower.com/blog/458/make-a-wish-for-love-and-peace/#comment-58878 Always glad to be of inspiration and providing food for thought! :) I'll keep an eye out for those upcoming posts... Always glad to be of inspiration and providing food for thought! :) I’ll keep an eye out for those upcoming posts…

]]> By: karen http://www.livethepower.com/blog/2008/04/make-a-wish-for-love-and-peace/comment-page-1/#comment-58869 karen Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:45:03 +0000 http://www.livethepower.com/blog/458/make-a-wish-for-love-and-peace/#comment-58869 Chris, It's true...we do things now hoping for a better result in the future...but our lives are NOW speaking of going off in tangents...religions are really bad about that "do this ritual now and you are promised rewards in heaven" But what about life now? I've got some posts percolating in my head here... Thank you for inspiring me! Chris,
It’s true…we do things now hoping for a better result in the future…but our lives are NOW

speaking of going off in tangents…religions are really bad about that
“do this ritual now and you are promised rewards in heaven”
But what about life now?
I’ve got some posts percolating in my head here…
Thank you for inspiring me!

]]> By: Chris Cade http://www.livethepower.com/blog/2008/04/make-a-wish-for-love-and-peace/comment-page-1/#comment-58675 Chris Cade Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:50:31 +0000 http://www.livethepower.com/blog/458/make-a-wish-for-love-and-peace/#comment-58675 I love conversations too, Karen :) Especially about interesting topics that have lots of tangents and sometimes challenge our perceptions of reality. I think you're definitely on the mark about the ego. That really is the root of it all... even that wanting to find peace is just the ego saying, "I'm not at peace NOW. How can I find it? Oh, I'll go hurt/maim/destroy everything so nothing can hurt me. only THEN in that future time will I feel at peace." It's so easy to get into that trap... of thinking if we do something now, then we'll reap the rewards in the future. And while there is a logical truth to that, that very belief is what keeps us from having NOW what it is that we desire in the future. Oh, again such a tangled web we weave with our words. ;) I love conversations too, Karen :) Especially about interesting topics that have lots of tangents and sometimes challenge our perceptions of reality.

I think you’re definitely on the mark about the ego. That really is the root of it all… even that wanting to find peace is just the ego saying, “I’m not at peace NOW. How can I find it? Oh, I’ll go hurt/maim/destroy everything so nothing can hurt me. only THEN in that future time will I feel at peace.”

It’s so easy to get into that trap… of thinking if we do something now, then we’ll reap the rewards in the future. And while there is a logical truth to that, that very belief is what keeps us from having NOW what it is that we desire in the future.

Oh, again such a tangled web we weave with our words. ;)

]]> By: karen http://www.livethepower.com/blog/2008/04/make-a-wish-for-love-and-peace/comment-page-1/#comment-58638 karen Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:20:31 +0000 http://www.livethepower.com/blog/458/make-a-wish-for-love-and-peace/#comment-58638 Chris, I think you are right...but the problem lies with the person and their ego....as the ego is what lives in the future and the past because the future and the past only exist within our minds as the past is over and the future doesn't really exist as life yet. Life can only be lived in the Now...the future has yet to exist except only in our minds. Spending our precious lives fighting for the future wastes our lives. But I believe that the people think that peace will be achieved by their actions however, peace can only be achieved in the Now. Peace for the future is always just an illusion of how life may be but Now is the only time you can actually live. whew, that challenge of words again! (I love conversations! thank you for your comment!) Chris,
I think you are right…but the problem lies with the person and their ego….as the ego is what lives in the future and the past because the future and the past only exist within our minds as the past is over and the future doesn’t really exist as life yet.

Life can only be lived in the Now…the future has yet to exist except only in our minds. Spending our precious lives fighting for the future wastes our lives.

But I believe that the people think that peace will be achieved by their actions however, peace can only be achieved in the Now. Peace for the future is always just an illusion of how life may be but Now is the only time you can actually live.
whew, that challenge of words again!

(I love conversations! thank you for your comment!)

]]> By: Chris Cade http://www.livethepower.com/blog/2008/04/make-a-wish-for-love-and-peace/comment-page-1/#comment-58602 Chris Cade Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:32:17 +0000 http://www.livethepower.com/blog/458/make-a-wish-for-love-and-peace/#comment-58602 "Why do any of us spend any of the time in our lives in hatred? Why do any of us spend our time fighting against others? What could possibly be so important that is would cause us to lie and deceive in order to hurt another person?" This is a topic that has challenged me for a long time, but about a month ago it "clicked" and I finally understood it so deeply I can't describe. That said, I will try to share a bit of my epiphany in case it is of use to others. What I came to realize is that *everybody* wants to be at peace. It's easy to see this when we focus on joyful happy thoughts, but what about violence? How can that be somebody wanting peace? Well, when I thought about why wars are fought... ultimately, it is because the conquerer feels as though if they annihilate everything that opposes them, they will find peace. When two people fight, it is because they want to expunge the things which cause them pain. When we hurt somebody with our words, there is that part of us that hopes by pushing people far enough away, there will be nobody around to hurt us. So we push away to avoid pain... because we want peace. We fight to conquer, so that all that is left is our peace. And we do those things because it feels a lot safer to hurt others than it does to acknowledge, feel, and dig deep into our own pains and release them to actually move to a place of deep-felt peace. Anyway, I don't know if that all came out the way it feels inside to me, but then again such is the challenge of words. :) “Why do any of us spend any of the time in our lives in hatred? Why do any of us spend our time fighting against others? What could possibly be so important that is would cause us to lie and deceive in order to hurt another person?”

This is a topic that has challenged me for a long time, but about a month ago it “clicked” and I finally understood it so deeply I can’t describe. That said, I will try to share a bit of my epiphany in case it is of use to others.

What I came to realize is that *everybody* wants to be at peace. It’s easy to see this when we focus on joyful happy thoughts, but what about violence? How can that be somebody wanting peace?

Well, when I thought about why wars are fought… ultimately, it is because the conquerer feels as though if they annihilate everything that opposes them, they will find peace.

When two people fight, it is because they want to expunge the things which cause them pain.

When we hurt somebody with our words, there is that part of us that hopes by pushing people far enough away, there will be nobody around to hurt us.

So we push away to avoid pain… because we want peace. We fight to conquer, so that all that is left is our peace.

And we do those things because it feels a lot safer to hurt others than it does to acknowledge, feel, and dig deep into our own pains and release them to actually move to a place of deep-felt peace.

Anyway, I don’t know if that all came out the way it feels inside to me, but then again such is the challenge of words. :)

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