Thursday, January 1, 2009

Deepak Chopra | Nine Steps to Peace



Thursday 01 January 2009
by: Deepak Chopra, AlterNet

Steps the incoming president can take to build a
peace-based economy.

The following is a memo to Barack Obama from Deepak Chopra.

You have been elected by the first anti-war constituency since 1952, when Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected after promising to end the Korean War. But ending a war isn't the same as bringing peace. America has been on a war footing since the day after Pearl Harbor, 67 years ago. We spend more on our military than the next 16 countries combined. If you have a vision of change that goes to the heart of this country's deep problems, ending our dependence on war is far more important than ending our dependency on foreign oil.


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If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.
The reality you experience is a mirror image of your expectations.
When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some
truth about yourself.
Negativity is born in the gap where love has been excluded.
If you create any open space within yourself, love will fill it.
Love is the beginning of the journey, its end, and the journey itself.
-- Deepak Chopra

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