'Peace Lives' WITHIN (a short extract from a new manuscript by Craig Lock)

"We share what we know, so that we all may grow."

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PEACE LIVES WITHIN

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individual concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."

"Those who stand up for justice will always be on the right side of history."
- Dr Martin Luther King Junior

We humans have to continually adapt to changing circumstances in our lives... as the only constant in our lives is CHANGE.

Craig Lock's new manuscript, 'Peace Lives... WITHIN' is based on the ground idea that peace begins within. Like Aladdin's lamp, the universe responds to the myriads
of our individual consciousnesses. The keys, the solutions to a more peaceful world are based around some of histories greatest witnesses to peace: great
figures like Gandhi, Jesus, Buddha, Martin Luther King, Moses and Mohammed. In their quest for world peace, they all discover that each one of them has to be
the change they want to see in the world ('Unity in Truth') and that's the common message we can ALL learn from these 'masters' teachings..

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To continue, let's take a brief look at the life of Jesus...
Jesus lived in a war zone, as do modern children in the Middle East. He gave a voice to the voiceless. The silent Jesus symbolises all who cannot speak clearly
for themselves. (Are we listening to their enforced silence today?). Jesus related to all societies and people - the common fabric of humanity... from the highest to the 'most lowly'.

Jesus responded with compassion to human cries. He showed unconditional love and all people, whether religious or not, can embrace love. Peace and goodwill is
for ALL to celebrate, but God needs humans in partnership to help peace become a reality for others. The only way God can "speak" to planet earth is through people(thanks, my good friend, Lindsay "The Prophet").

As a "voice for the voiceless", Jesus had a passion for peace, mutual tolerance, interaction between different faiths and respect (utmost) for all. He taught that
violence achieves nothing, no matter whether it comes from 'terrorists' or from the response to 'terrorists'. Christ told us to love our enemies, not to shoot them, send them to concentration camps, or blow them up! And loving ones enemies was and still is a revolutionary statement some 2000 years later!

In Jesus' own life was the key of his nearness to God, that he expressed as no other could, the spirit and will of God.
WE too can listen to the silence of the voiceless, the message of Jesus and ACT according to that divine spirit that lies in every one of us.

The life and death of Jesus gives each one of us HOPE: to choose hope despite our circumstances. In so doing we are choosing hope over fear, unity over
division.
Out of a dark past let us negotiate a bright future: a new dawn of doing the greatest good for the highest number of people.
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So each ONE of us can be channels of change and instruments for (of) peace.
Be a CHANNEL of God's justice, peace and love. The world needs a deep change, a 'transformation of heart': to forgiveness and generosity of spirit through masses of 'ordinary' people.

To build a better world,
although you are small,
just build a better YOU.

"With passion and purpose in our individual lives we can touch others and in so doing illuminate the hearts and minds of humanity to make a better world
(through helping raise the 'collective consciousness'). Let us encourage our leaders towards an alternate vision for the world to embrace: one that banishes
the fanatical ideology of intolerance and hatred to the darkness from which it emerged. Each one of us in our own little ways can offer (and most importantly,
LIVE) this compelling new horizon: a bright future of justness and justice, tolerance, respect for other traditions and values. Especially a vision of hope and thoughts of peace fuelled by the eternal flame of love, which can light the darkest night... always "
- me

“May you have the courage to speak your truth, may you find peace within, and
may we all know peace on earth.”
- Debbie Milam

"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel
the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the
world is transformed."
- J. Krishnamurti

Thanks, dearest mom, your spirit will live forever
craig

"Blessed are the peace-makers...
because they will accumulate plenty of Frequent Flyer points."

"Be the change you wish to see in others.
Then in changing YOUR world you help change THE world."

"Lord, make me a channel for your love and peace, a window for Your light to shine through to everyone I meet."

"Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart."
- author unknown