Creating Peace
One of the biggest stumbling blocks to creating peace between people, is judging others, comparing oneself with others and trying to prove the correctness of one’s own position.
Why do we human beings have such a need to do this? We do it because we have low self esteem, because we feel that if we are right, others must be wrong and we feel empowered by putting others down because it makes us feel higher. We do it out of the fear of being judged by others.
Of course the power we receive from doing this is always temporary.
Real power comes by putting others ahead, by appreciating everyone’s qualities and by working at improving one’s own qualities.
Just because my path is right for me it doesn’t follow that the same path is right for someone else. Each soul is on a tailor made journey suited particularly to that soul and its karmic past and its particular special way of relating to God and the world. Each soul might as well consider itself alone on its path with God and consider all other circumstances and people as tests that come in front of the soul to give it a dilemma in which it has to constantly make moral choices which will create its future drama.
We are constantly ordaining our own lives by the choices that we make. Every thought, every attitude, every decision is a choice which will create my own future. If we realized how important our thoughts and attitudes are, would we not treat our mind with a lot more respect?
Every single human being is unique and has their own unique way of seeing things and has their own level of tolerance for emotional pain. We can’t point the finger and judge others for their actions. We also can’t drag others along with us in our choices. We have to respect each one’s right to choose.
People also group together in cultures, in countries and in religions because these particular groups have a similar way of seeing things in those areas. The groupings at first are very unified when the ideals are first expressed, but as time goes on there is splitting that occurs as people form split off groups according to their discrepancies in opinion.
If not enough space is allowed for difference of opinion rebellions will occur and the split offs will be violent between the two groups, if not physically then verbally.
The secret to peace and unity in a group is that each soul be connected with God and have a code of conduct which they follow which expresses virtue.
When each soul considers life to be like a game where each interaction is like a test that they have to pass using virtue as the key, when each soul stays detached from emotional reactions, as an observer watching their own life as if watching a movie and steps in to play their part only after carefully checking to see if this is their cue and stepping out when their part is finished, when each soul lets go of fear and uses love and trust to fill in the spaces between souls, then this is what will create a better, more peaceful world.