War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine. Our vital passions want war. Our psychic emotions desire peace.
Interpretation
War leads to destruction while peace fosters life and spiritual growth.
This quote by Sri Chinmoy highlights the dichotomy between war and peace in human existence. It suggests that while our primal instincts may crave the intensity of war, it ultimately results in death and suffering, whereas peace nurtures and revitalizes life, leading to a more profound and divine experience of existence. The quote encourages reflection on our internal conflicts and the choices we make between destruction and harmony.
In practice
During a speech about the importance of conflict resolution, you can use this quote to emphasize the need for peace.
True meditation can never be done with the mind. Very often we make a mistake when we say that we are meditating in the mind and utilising the mind. Real meditation is done in the psychic being and in the soul. It goes hand in hand with flaming aspiration, the burning flame that wants to climb up to the Highest.
Meditation is not an escape. Meditation is the acceptance of life in its totality, with a view to transforming it for the highest manifestation of the divine Truth here on earth
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Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality are one, the immanent and the transcendent are one. It reveals that life can never be the mere existence of seventy or eighty years between birth and death, but is, rather, Eternity itself.
The word 'yoga' means skill - skill to live your life, to manage your mind, to deal with your emotions, to be with people, to be in love and not let that love turn into hatred.
Enthusiasm Rules his inner world. Determination Rules his outer world. Therefore Happiness has become His real name.
People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.
How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.
A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.
I court not the votes of the fickle mob.
...when food is shared in a fair way, with solidarity, when no one is deprived, every community can meet the needs of the poorest. Human ecology and environmental ecology walk together.
You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.
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