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Nov.18.2009
During my own search for meaning, I’ve come across quests to understand peace—inner and outer-as far back as the ninth century and China’s T’ang dynasty, including a document passed down by one Wang Chen: The Dao of Peace – Lessons on the Dynamics of Conflict.
Peace through conflict? That...
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Nov.18.2009
At the beginning, only a few heard about the event. After all, this kind of people have never felt comfortable with social networking - beyond the occasional tea party or KKK BBQ that is. But Fox News helped rumors spread around like wealth across a socialist program : Sarah would be there, Dick...
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Nov.18.2009
Emmy Award-winning actress, Leigh Taylor-Young, and I will present “Gathering of the Spirit of Peace in All” at the Parliament of the World’s Religions 2009 in Melbourne, Australia. The Parliament was first held in Chicago in 1893 and brings together the world’s religious and spiritual...
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Nov.18.2009
I have found that being peaceful toward myself and living and good life have helped me to communicate better. Inner peace can be so elusive sometimes and so clear others. I am working on a new life.
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Nov.18.2009
Address on Peace
Originally presented to
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Ethics Annual Peace Conference.
(They were not happy):
Good Afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen, Men and Women of, as they say, Good Will:
Before I begin, let me reduce the entire text of this speech to five...
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Nov.18.2009
Inner-peace is the ultimate position of power. The good kind of power. The kind of power that creates miracles and moves mountains. The kind of power that bridges hands and hearts and adds, rather than subtracts, to the entirely of our world - and the quality of our world - as we are all...
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Nov.18.2009
I feel like, as a society, we think of "peace" entirely too broadly. World peace. Peace between nations, religions and tribes. A peaceful end to world conquests and struggles. Thought of in this context, peace is unattainable.
And inner peace is often its own struggle. Maybe consumerism,...
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Nov.18.2009
Where is it? Peace. Where does it exist?
Such a powerful word, sought after and revered as if it is some distant dream that we can never imagine will happen to us. A life of peace, how do we even begin to define what the word means to our life? Yet without a definition how can we ever know that we...
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Nov.18.2009
Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread." ~ Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) from Confieso Que He Vivido: Memorias, 1974
In 2006, I felt frustrated with the state of the world.
I was one poet, a small voice, who felt...
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Nov.18.2009
Thousands of years ago, when our ancestors sat around their campfires at night, they didn't ask for better marketing techniques or more sophisticated technology or world domination.
They asked for stories.
And now, after decades of assuming the human species learned to dominate this planet through...
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