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Posted: 4/19/2009 9:36:57 AM | ahhhh....to each of you....a sincere thank you
for gracing this thread with your presence
and presents of your words and views
inspiring me to think and clarify
where in me and my life I am peaceful
and where it is lacking so obviously.....
phat tray.....i think this is your second posting of that poem here and it is powerful indeed....
you remind me to appreciate more fully our freedom of expression and the purpose and beauty of diversity.....
bicpen....words feel inadequate, but my heart goes to you and your son in admiration for his courage and strength to choose a path few could do.....and I am deeply grateful for your sharing your process and internal maternal view....
lucidbreath....oh yes, less is more.....the power of two lines.....and depth when speaking from one's soul.....again, so grateful to have you share here...
kayakker....your poem illuminates and illustrates so well how I feel also.....thank you for the reminders of how we can live a journey of peace.....to live peacefully...to be peace fully.
argh....page turned....so all above comments are for the wonderful posts on the previous page! :)
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Posted: 4/19/2009 4:34:32 PM | well i looked through and didn't see this posted....................it always made me feel peace this song............................so i'm posting it...........grrrrrrrrrr
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Cat Stevens...................................Peace Train
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Now I've been happy lately, thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be, something good has begun
Oh I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one
And I believe it could be, some day it's going to come
Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train
Oh peace train take this country, come take me home again
Now I've been smiling lately, thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be, something good has begun
Oh peace train sounding louder
Glide on the peace train
Come on now peace train
Yes, peace train holy roller
Everyone jump upon the peace train
Come on now peace train
Get your bags together, go bring your good friends too
Cause it's getting nearer, it soon will be with you
Now come and join the living, it's not so far from you
And it's getting nearer, soon it will all be true
Oh peace train sounding louder
Glide on the peace train
Come on now peace train
Now I've been crying lately, thinking about the world as it is
Why must we go on hating, why can't we live in bliss
Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train
Oh peace train take this country, come take me home again
Oh peace train sounding louder
Glide on the peace train
Come on now peace train
Yes, peace train holy roller
Everyone jump upon the peace train
Come on peace train
Yes, it's the peace train | |
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Posted: 4/20/2009 9:44:46 AM | Ah, yes, peace train.
I'm gonna listen to that one today.
Here's a thought:
Soldiers of all nations could be trained in infant care
and do public service time in Nursing homes.
So they can learn what it means to bring peace.
Mistaken idea:
War brings peace.
It only brings intimidation and resentment | |
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Posted: 4/20/2009 7:30:26 PM | Thank you Grizz.....I have been waiting for someone to post Peace Train....
thought of Cat Stevens when I started this thread....
but now the words feel even more meaningful....
Bicpen.....I agree....I work in a caring nursing home and it is true.....
one must be peaceful, especially when caring for alzheimers residents...
peace is the energy necessary and always welcome for everybody there....
I also agree with your thoughts - the illusion that war could bring peace.....
in my life I see it as energy is contagious.....whatever I put out tends to come back
and moreso.....the mirror I refer to so often....and I have never found a time
if I've been combative that it has created peaceful energy, but always created more
combat, more destruction....and much harder to then try and find resolution in a peaceful way.
Wish to post this here.....written by the Moody Blues.....
"Lost In A Lost World"
I woke UP today, I was crying
Lost in a lost world
So many people are dying
Lost in a lost world
Some of them are living an illusion
Bounded by the darkness of their minds
In their eyes it's nation, against nation, against nation
With racial pride
[Unclear...] Thinking only of themselves
They shun the light
(shun the light)
They think they're right
(think they're right)
Living in their empty shells
Oh, can you see their WORLD IS CRASHING (so many people, so many people)
Crashing down around their feet
Angry people in the street
Telling them they've had their fill
Of politics, people who kill
Grow... the seed of evolution
(so many people, so many people)
Revolution NEVER WON
It's just another form of gun
To do again what they have done
WITH ALL our brothers YOUNGEST SONS (so many people, so many people)
Everywhere you go you see them searching
Everywhere you turn you feel the pain
Everyone is looking for the answers
Well look again, come on my friend
Love will find us in the end
Come on my friend
(on my friend)
We've got to bend
(got to bend)
On our knees and say a prayer
Oh, can you see the world is pining
(so many people, so many people)
Pining for someone who really cares enough to share his love
With all of us so we can be
An ever loving family
Have we forgotten WE'RE ALL CHILDREN
(so many people, so many people)
Children from a family tree
That's longer than a centipede
Started long ago when you and I
WERE only love....
(so many people, so many people)
I woke today, I was crying
Lost in a lost world
So many people are dying
Lost in a lost world
So many people, so many people
People lost in a lost world
So many people, so many people
People lost in a lost world
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Posted: 4/21/2009 4:56:58 AM | ....or suffer extinction....
Religious conviction cause the wars that kill our mate
blaming it all on the sinners' fate
forgetting the whole point of being in a divine state
is to welcome everyone through our heaven-on-earth gate
But so many religions have created false sin
and illusion based on fear and division
some imagining their followers are the only ones chosen
and to the grave we send the other men, women and children
as well as destroy the air and land and ocean
We must break down our walls of separation
and learn to disagree peacefully to avoid confrontation
for our mind and body is suffering from contamination
poisoning our heart with negative thought ammunition
Wonder if we could create a much needed vaccination
to help us overcome the virus of violent altercation
when we don't get our way or believe in a false hierarchy
for it seems essential to our survival to let go our rival
and bring unity and equality back into our reality
....or suffer extinction.....
originally written on First Line, Last Line (Part Deux)
4/17/2009 1158 AM ..... edited beginning and end this morning | |
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Posted: 4/22/2009 2:44:09 PM | On bended knee when will we choose to be
Forthright and unfaltering
Enveloped in the serenity of understanding
For is not that where we truly are
Under (the vast expanse of the unknown) standing
Seeking and searching further into a greater expanse that is beyond our reach
Listen children to a story that was written long ago
Bout a kingdom on a mountain and the valley folk belong
On the mountain was a treasure buried deep beneathe the stone and the valley people swore they'd have it for their very own
Mount
A
In
...........Turned the stone and looked beneathe it
PEACE ON EARTH is all it said
All the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't put humpty dumpty back together again
Guess he was just a bad egg | |
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Posted: 4/22/2009 5:02:32 PM |
Reign of Peace ~
Inner thoughts go to peaces
Under peace a reign within
An open hand invites this reign
Two peace and reign we share
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Posted: 4/23/2009 3:24:18 AM | thank you domut...yes, 'peace on earth'....one day maybe...if only....
peace within would be a great start....if each of us could keep focused on our heart.....
and our breath....our natural peaceful balancer, or so it seems to me, when i let myself breathe...
seahorsey....thank you for your Reign of Peace....your first line
'Inner thoughts go to pieces' reflects something I wrote last night
and thinking of bringing here.....trying to share the turbulance....
trying to release the pent up energy preventing peace internally...
so changing direction a bit here to share more personally.....
oh sweet woman....
please know your words go deeply
helping sincerely on a day...
well, a week.....
even a month, actually,
of very unpeaceful energy in me......
rising and falling,
crashing and melting,
ebbing and flowing with great gusto
washing through me with tears uncontrollably
i guess eventually to find balance
for water always seeks its own level.....
yet when i write, peace comes
and i let the ocean of emotion go.....
i let the dams open,
for it's too much to keep holding them closed....
and when i dance, joy flows
and my spirit soars .....
here, in this moment,
my piano beckons
calling to me to just sit and breathe
and play and be free
and know soon the calm after the storm will come over me.....
water.....emotion....
such a blessing and also such a force to reckon...
we are mostly water with a bit of bone, muscle and skin
and still, after all these years, I still can't control my ocean.....
yet when it flows and completely takes me....
when i am free to release...
then deep peace and gratitude fill me
and all my attitude turns over a brand new Spring leaf
that just dropped to my feet....
reminding me while the ocean flows so strongly beneath
it must be strong to carry us for so long...
and the land is necessary to help us stand
while the air supports us from above
and with these plus tree
and beyond through eternity
all this and so much more is what we be.....
a leaf drops to my feet
reminding me
we are held in the bosom of the Divine
cushioned by the heart of Spirit
and like a leaf falling naturally to the ground
we also fall when we are meant to....
as part of our evolution.....
and like the sun
and the moon
and the tide of the ocean.....
we also must rise....
perhaps the tears in my eyes
are just drops of the ocean spray
helping me truly this time to swim
and not be sucked in and tossed and tumbled
and scared seriously I'll never find the light or breathe again....
written last evening on 'breakfast at tiffany's'
with some small edits this morning | |
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Posted: 4/24/2009 5:58:45 AM | when the power of love
overcomes the love of power
the world will know peace
~jimi hendrix | |
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Posted: 4/24/2009 10:50:28 AM | Imagine if you can, which I'm certain that is a capability in us all
For we all once were children, unencumbered by the duties we must perform
Imagine the Earth as a stone
Living, breathing, evolving
Imagine the hand of our Creator
Simply, lovingly
Turning that stone over
..."Peace on Earth is ALL it said"
Given enough elements/beings/life in creation that project their mind to the simple belief and imagination of a child endless possibilties could occur
Could it be that simple?
Could all our striving and confoundment
All grief and dispair
All death and destruction be halted by a simple act of the hand of the Creator?
Lets ask ok? | |
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Posted: 4/24/2009 11:09:44 AM | For breath of life is all we need
and love our hearts to fill
such kind few words
mean well in deed
and peace may all hearts, fill | |
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Posted: 4/25/2009 2:31:42 AM | thanking both of you for your words....
feeling humbled by the energy of your posts....
if we could all turn over that stone within us
we could move boulders of injustice
where love is desperately wishing to be free
like water to flow through surrender and letting go
where hearts and souls can finally be
peace-filled travelling our journey | |
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Posted: 5/9/2009 4:16:09 AM | I am at peace.
I sigh, letting my energy fly
not holding on
not seeking
thoughts releasing
body pain twinges easing
heart beating effortlessly
body breathing easily
in this moment I am free
writing...feeling...being...peacefully | |
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Posted: 5/9/2009 8:34:52 AM | Feed us a morsel of compassion and understanding and we have gained at the spread of creations table
Immerse us with a thirst for this gain and our minds will expand in a selfless sense
Provide us with a satiation that goes beyond merely a means with which to feed the physical body
Let us continually drink in the firmament of creation realizing that the gift, the present, is always at hand
Comfort us with the peace that is provided within the knowledge of grace
My spirit became overwhelmed in the wellspring of tears that flowed with the knowledge of the grace that had been bestowed upon me to pen such prose
I am not the author, merely one of many receivers | |
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Posted: 5/13/2009 12:37:53 PM | ^thank you for your post and also for sharing the
feelings that touched you in the process of writing it.....
calling for peace....please...
may peace fill my soul
and really take hold
in body, heart and mind
so even in the most stressful of times
i can be and speak and hear
and talk and walk
and dance and sing
and say and feel everything
peacefully.... | |
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Posted: 5/15/2009 5:32:00 AM | came across this quote this morning...i have always loved hesse...
but peace, too, is a living thing
and like all life
it must wax and wane,
accommodate, withstand trials,
and undergo changes...
~herman hesse | |
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Posted: 5/16/2009 9:17:29 AM | ^thank you rosie for leaving this quote here....
in my unpeaceful moments recently
it came as a wonderful reminder to me....
bringing here a first line/last line written this morning....
heart's living breathing song
as we have been all along
yet with some distortion
bringing cords of disharmony
to our singing and alarmingly
heart's living breathing song
I exhale and relax
to feel my Self grounded and strong
as long as I center and be
life flows with me peacefully
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Posted: 5/17/2009 3:40:25 AM | as the sun sets
the calm within the soul settles
to a peaceful feeling of rest
the sun rays sizzle as it enters the water
just as we take our last breath of light
before the evening enters
into a state of dark calm
breathe in
breathe out
expelling all unrest within us
as we exhale
we gain the strength for the night | |
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Posted: 5/17/2009 3:51:44 AM | ^thank you....
your poem emits peace
and is gratefully received! | |
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Posted: 5/17/2009 4:01:54 AM | yw (cecilia here)
I've been searching for peace for months now
it's all around me yet hiding
easily lost for sure
but gratefully found! | |
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Posted: 5/17/2009 5:24:58 AM | There are many paths...
all leading to the same place...
Because there is no other place.
There are two operating systems of thought,
only one has reality.
If it is not eternal,
it is an illusion, like a dream.
The past has no reality,as it IS gone.
Neither does the future, it holds no substance.
The present moment can always be divided by three,
leaving an infinitely smaller present...
"Nothing real can be threatened,
Nothing unreal exists, herein lies the Peace..." | |
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Posted: 5/17/2009 3:58:43 PM | ^ thank you, k, for your thoughts......
may i ask who you were quoting in the last two lines?
i have heard similar lines of thinking
and i have heard very different streams of belief also....
such as the idea that time is not real, implying past and future
are all contained in this present moment....
also the idea that duality is illusion....that all things contain degrees of the same thing,
rather than the concept of opposites as absolute truth.....
and there is a line of thinking that everything is in three's, not two's....
and that 'true' reality is really indivisible.....that all is one....
i also know in my mind how illusion is not real, but i have seen it create reality...or the illusion of reality.... :)
and now i realize the concept of peace is also subjective - for what is peace for one
could be chaos for another.....
again, thank you for posting, for clarification is always a blessing, i think.... | |
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Posted: 5/17/2009 5:02:45 PM | my friend bought me a cup that simply says...
peace.
it does not meant 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.
(unknown)
...it works for me!!
hey, i say...keep it simple!
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Posted: 5/17/2009 5:29:31 PM |
peace.
it does not meant 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.
(unknown)
ahh, rosie....thank you and your friend who found this wisdom...
and i so agree about it being put simply...
its simplicity makes it extremely user-friendly! :) | |
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Posted: 5/27/2009 10:50:31 PM | excerpt from 'The Art of Living' by Wilfred Peterson, Simon and Schuster, 1961
'The Art of Being"
'The art of being is the assumption that you may possess, this very minute,
those qualities of spirit and attitudes of mind that make for radiant living.
It is a philosophy of being today, instead of becoming in a tomorrow that never comes.
It is recognizing that courage, joy, serenity, faith, hope and love are immediately
available now, and proceeding to open yourself so these qualities can be expressed
through you in everyday living.
It is following the maxim of Shakespeare: "Assume a virtue though you have it not"....
knowing that the dynamic power of habit can build it into your character.
It is being great now, being forgiving now, being tolerant now, being happy now,
being successful now, instead of postponing positive and constructive living
to some vague and indefinite future.
It is knowing that when we move into the future it becomes the now, and that now is the appointed time!
It is facing the fact that your biggest task is not to get ahead of others, but to surpass yourself.
It is wasting no time dreaming about the rich life you may live next year,
or ten years from now; it is beginning to live at your best right now, today.
It is heeding the wisdom of the ancient Chinese seer who observed: "A journey of a
thousand miles begins with a single step," and it is taking that step today.
It is beginning today to be the man you want to be.
It is developing an awareness of the infinite possibilities in each magic moment.
It is enlarging the now by pouring into it intense creative energy.
It is immortalizing the present moment that your life may have eternal significance.
It is coming into the full realization that the Master voiced the secret of victorious being,
when He declared that the Kingdom of God is not afar off, but that it is within you now!' | |
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