LOVE, PEACE AND THE HUMAN CONDITION

Is peace possible in an ideology-driven world where medieval theology holds the human soul to ransom?

Sometimes appeasement becomes the seed of violence and must not be allowed room if peace is to be attained on a firmer basis.

So long as the Abrahamic religions hold onto their doctrinaire bigotry, peace on earth is a far cry. Add to it the political ideologies vying for supremacy and the gain for gold among nations and you have a perfect scenario for world peace, do you not?

The man of strength is the man of peace if he is the man of wisdom as well. How rare is wisdom to power conjoined!

Where the heart has been stilled and conscience stifled in leaders of men, how can well-being for the masses be achieved?

The sum and substance of humanity is manifestation of the heart. Where the head runs in conflict with the heart, follow the heart.

There must be virility in living, manhood in endeavour and strength in achievement before one becomes ready to renounce, steady in embracing the life of the mendicant monk with neither home nor hearth nor company to console.

The existence of God can never be proved by logic. He has to be experienced, realised in the self before doubts are dispelled and the angularities of perception resolved unto rectitude of vision.

Who is the friend of humanity? The one with magnanimity of spirit, largeness of heart, broadness of conception, the energy and enterprise to conduce to the well-being of all and, above all, the one committed to the integration of humanity into a single family allowing for differences and divergences, distinctions and differentiation.

A word of concern for one so often conduces to the welfare of all, for in the microcosm is the similar structure of the macrocosm drawn. Uniformity is in the nature of things at the very basis and this leads to sympathetic waves affecting the lives of all proceeding though from the unit life first. So also is the word of love, the caress of concern, the peaceful prayer that draws in the whole of humanity in its ambit and lends to it a colour that lights up the lives of all.