Chapter 16
World Peace
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. – Mother Teresa
It's all Love. All of it. You, me, your next door neighbor, the birds' songs, the earth, the stars, the thoughts, the feelings, and the sensations. And everything else. We're all made of the Divine substance that is Perfect and Limitless Love. We're all connected to the same Consciousness. We don't fully realize it all the time, yet we've grown to a place of spiritual awareness where we know all this, or at least most of this, to be true. And in these truths, in the awareness of these truths, we know peace, the peace of heaven, the peace of Love.
With this knowing, that we are created by and indeed One with and in Love, the need for our old beliefs of smallness, of pettiness, fade away. Lots of our co-inhabitants haven't realized all this yet, so they continue to manifest this world we share based on fear, drama, lack, and suffering. Sometimes even we who know Love forget for a time and assist in actualizing a projection based on thoughts not fully loving. Nonetheless, we have grown to a place of understanding that has changed our entire mindset, and thus, continues to contribute to the creation of a world of love and peace.
No matter what happens or appears to happen in our worlds and in our lives, we know the way to peace, the way of faith, the path that is love. The Love which is our true essence flows through all that is, and through all that appears to be. Contentment in the knowledge of these truths is always available to us, regardless of what life places before us.
We create and attract all that we need in order to learn the lessons and to live the lives we choose. Often, these choices are not fully conscious and it's not readily apparent that we have indeed manifested the lives we have chosen. But with acceptance comes peace. When we choose to flow, to bolster our faith, to make the best of all that is placed before us, the result is a peace of mind that is a gift of Love.
From that place of peace, life is better. Life flows. The answers come. The way is made clear. The obstructions and obstacles fade away and lose meaning. Our eyes and minds are opened to our highest gifts, to our true calling. We live in the realization that we are love; love flows through our lives, touching all the people who cross our paths. Love evolves, from idea to choice to mindset to constant way. As love floods our minds, love floods our lives.
In love, there is no need for fear, for lack, or for sorrow. The world is transformed through each choice to dwell in love and peace. We shine the light that is our divinity, our true essence. As we share love, through the channels that are open to us, we create and attract more love. Looking back at the people we were before we began to evolve, to understand, to surrender to and embrace faith and love, comparing those memories to the people we are today, the contrast is apparent. There's no turning back. Our way is love.
Love is always stronger than fear, thus, there is no reason to fear not being strong enough to love. Love begins with a simple choice to love. In love is the strength given to live that simple choice. Fear has no strength in the presence of love. Fear is irrelevant where the choice is made to love. Love is its own strength.
Each day we renew the choice to live in love. We choose to live according to our highest ideals. We remind ourselves each day and throughout the day, especially in the midst of difficulties, to choose words of love, to see love in others, to love ourselves fully, and to create and serve in love. As we live according to these principles, our eyes, minds, and hearts are opened to greater and more fulfilling opportunities to share love.
We needn't live in denial of the world around us; we need only see and know that there is a larger truth, a deeper truth, the existence of heaven, of love, of nirvana, of peace, in every moment, in every heart, in every thought, action, and reaction. We accept and acknowledge that the world around us exists, on some level, at some place of perception whilst simultaneously embracing the perfection, the love, the peace, that surrounds, enfolds, and heals all the imperfections we see.
As we began our journeys, we released attachments, fears, fallacious knowledge, and needs. We realized, over time, what really was, is, and forever shall be. We came to know what truly mattered to us – things like love, forgiveness, acceptance, and compassion, along with the resultant states of peace, contentment, and bliss which accompanied living this new life.
We were indeed reborn, in a sense, as we shed the old and embraced the new. We changed. We embraced the change. And each day, or at least most days, we continue to embrace the change.
As our thoughts move more and more to thoughts of love, as our lives and choices are guided by divine inspiration, peace results. We attract others on the peaceful path. The people in our lives witness our actions and reactions. Peace is the inevitable result. When we have the courage to choose love, peace results.
What higher calling could we have but the sharing of love and peace? Each choice to clearly choose love, even in the face of an unloving world, increases the love in the world. Each moment, we have an opportunity to choose love or to not choose love. Every day, we have a choice to contribute to world peace or to the fear that is our prevalent history.
One person can indeed change the world. Two, in shared intent and purpose, can change the world more deliberately. Taking the risk to trust another enough to reveal our deepest selves, our deepest selves shine more brightly. An act or thought, unobserved, a gift ungiven, is meaningless. The sharing of love is its manifestation. “Two heads are better than one.” Two hearts, joined in the sharing of love, are better still.
As we make the choice, day upon day, moment upon moment, to think, speak, share, and actualize love, love grows. It truly is this simple. Our conscious minds often attempt to complicate it, but this perfection we share, this world that is indeed wholly and fully God is not complicated. Love is simple. Peace results. World peace awaits our choice.
Choose love. Know peace.