Hello,
I was led yesterday to a candle group called "peace".   while lighting candles there I felt that it might be nice to start a thread to write about peace. 
 
Paying tribute to where there is peace in our lives, our families, neighborhoods, community, countries etc.  In the  recognition of what is.... more is manifested.
In the expression of longing and intention  for what is yet to come ..... we may assist in bringing that forth, in thought and deed.
 
Blessings, liliwings

No need to spend endless hours, days, weeks searching for the rainbow.  Open your heart and your eyes to see and know you are the rainbow you seek.  Rejoyce in the beauty of the co-creation of you.

Thank you, Liliwings, this is a great idea!
Violence is in the news all the time, but not the seeds of peace!
 
What comes to mind in this regard is my own parish. While there are diffenences in the Catholic Church one reads about in the paper, there are parishes like ours. We have a great variety of people, some more conservative, others more liberal, but there are no fights going on. We can work together on what we agree, support our Homeless Shelter, support measures to respect ALL of life, join in beautiful liturgies while having personal preferences in the way we pray. The children in our school are taught to care for others in age-appropriate ways. One year they passed out peacemaker awards to each other.
For me it is a home away from home!
 
Edda

Peace and joy!

Hi, liliwings!
 
Here, this is one way too, I will read and "listen", learn and write. Thank you, for this great idea!
 
Love, Is.

If you want to know something about someone, listen to your heart.

Thank you Edda for what you wrote.  That truely is a microcosm for peace,  unity and respect in the world. How fortunate you are to have this home away from home to go to. 
 
Isabella,  yes, here.  Here is a good example of people coming from all differemt orientations, together in respect of each other.  Being in service when able to do that. And recieviing when that is all we can do. Individually and  toegher we do make a difference.  Once I read something that when we get a good feeling for doing something for another, thats the feeling of the heart opening.  an open heart can experience peace.  
 
Peace out there starts with peace in here.  In the hearts of each individual.  Each seed of peace we individually sow in any given moment, adds to the harvest.     Liliwings

No need to spend endless hours, days, weeks searching for the rainbow.  Open your heart and your eyes to see and know you are the rainbow you seek.  Rejoyce in the beauty of the co-creation of you.

http://www.pathwaystopeace.org/

Love is the only way

http://robertmuller.org/

Love is the only way

May we all be gardeners of peace . . .
sowing the seeds with love and care,
nurturing peace with presence
and weeding out unkindness with intention.

           ♥

everything counts... ♥

My heart is full right now.  I know that it is the perceived divisions and differences that justify actions of non peace. 
 
Today in America our president nominated to the supreme court a new Justice.  She would be our first person to serve on the supreme court who is Hispanic.
 
I listened to her speak and my heart was so touched.  I could feel the love she had in her heart.  Deep love as she talked about her family.  
 
I underlined Justify above because I think that divisions and differences justify non peace.  But this is not the deep cause of it.  The deep cause of it is seperation from God and our true selves.  God never seperates from us.  But for various reasons, many are seperated from God.  From our true selves,  our true heart.  The deepest truths which are our coonection, our freedom, our truth.
 
 

No need to spend endless hours, days, weeks searching for the rainbow.  Open your heart and your eyes to see and know you are the rainbow you seek.  Rejoyce in the beauty of the co-creation of you.

Hildegard
 

 
What comes to mind in this regard is my own parish. While there are diffenences in the Catholic Church one reads about in the paper, there are parishes like ours. We have a great variety of people, some more conservative, others more liberal, but there are no fights going on. We can work together on what we agree, support our Homeless Shelter, support measures to respect ALL of life, join in beautiful liturgies while having personal preferences in the way we pray. The children in our school are taught to care for others in age-appropriate ways. One year they passed out peacemaker awards to each other.
For me it is a home away from home!
 
Edda

 
Dear Edda your church sound so inviting I know you talk about such lovely things you do there.
 
Edda it sounds like such a wonderful combintaion your church holds.
 
I am not sure if your church does this but I always loved it as a child
 
 if we were taken into a small room
 
off the church.You see they made things sound so much more
 
loving easier  to take in than the priest did in church.
 
I gained so much from that little room but sadly the big church
 
actually scared me because no matter how hard I tried I could not
 
understand what was being said.Well I could but it seemed
 
so much more harsh and cold at the time.
 
The truth be known I would go to church now if only I could go with the children
 
 
 
 
Dearest Isabella I will too but I always need to ask questions too
 
 
 
 
Dear Jude
 
thank you for the links I have saved them to my great-full folder
 
 
 
 
 
Bless you Sparrow for lovely words
 
May we all be gardeners of peace . . .
sowing the seeds with love and care,
nurturing peace with presence
and weeding out unkindness with intention.
I hope for this I really do
 
 
 
 
 
No wonder your heart is full Liliwings this lady offers us al hope..
 
 
God never seperates from us.  But for various reasons, many are seperated
 
 from God.  From our true selves,  our true heart. 
 
I do believe your right Liliwings I really do.
 
 
Now a puzzling question sorry 
 
does manifesting not mean eating away at you in the sense like something
 
horrid 
 
is manifesting and peace  two opposites words that don't go together
 
Sorry now but I am not sure and you always say it's good to ask.
 
Love to all Sandra xxxxx

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love~and be loved in return♥♥  


 

Dear sparrow,
Thank you for posting this lovely lotus blossom! When visualizing opening up my heart I always visualize it as a lotus blossom opening its petals. We were taught this during Healer training. I believe ithe lotus has some special significance which I have now forgotten. I should know as its in Yoga practise too!!!

 
Dear Sandra,
I'm not sure what you are thinking of, but to manifest is to make visible, bring into being....not horrid at all
 
Love, Jude

Love is the only way

 
 
Dear Sandra,
I'm not sure what you are thinking of, but to manifest is to make visible, bring into being....not horrid at all
 
Love, Jude

 
You see in my mind I thought  manifest was something like worms eating you.
 
I know it can't be because it's here but it still made me confused
 
sorry now

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love~and be loved in return♥♥  


 

Sandra,
you may have long ago heard the word used by someone who was referring to manifesting something scary or horrible.  I am sorry if thats the case.  Jude explained the word. And yes, people who are dark can use manifesting in ways that are dark. But we all, yourself included, try to manifest that which is of light and love and hope and peace.  Thats what Jesus does.  Manifests healing, manifests fish and loaves of bread..  manifests wine...................  Manifests love.  Sending love, liliwings

No need to spend endless hours, days, weeks searching for the rainbow.  Open your heart and your eyes to see and know you are the rainbow you seek.  Rejoyce in the beauty of the co-creation of you.

Bless you Liliwings I knew it could not be a horrid word because it was in gratefulness
 
but you know me and  my dimness by now
 
I understand now the real meaning and in a way it's way better to ask
 
it's like the word powerful ..dear Edda explained this to me in a way
 
that I never knew could be...
 
Ok I shall leave you   now Liliwings...
 
Good thread though as it gives us all light well if you understand the words

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love~and be loved in return♥♥  


 

Wow...What a beautiful thread to start up! Thank you Liliwings!
 
The lotus flower...though there are many reasons for its symbolism...Jude.
One that came to my mind is the 1000 petal lotus of the crown chakra.
The spiraling up of all energies to open the lotus within you.
 
And of course using the lotus in all chakras and through the yantras and mantras as well with the colors associated at each chakra center. Though there are some unique differences from Master Yogi's writings and teachings about the precise colors and certain symbols within these chakra centers. Their gifts heightened and given to us all who study them.
 
And then there is also the fact that a lotus flower can and does grow up through the mud...in ponds..and blooms with all its beauty still...."overcoming adversity comes to mind." I am tryin' to remember the story told to me...
one was at a Peace Kirtan Concert.  Oh yes it was to visualize during this event a great lotus flower opening up from where we all were that evening and sending out Peace to everyone on the planet from the lotus that was empowered by all the love and peace we all had to offer up as a group.
 
To me the lotus is quite a powerful and beautiful symbol of Hinduism...Buddhism...Zen...Taoism.
 
In Christianity, The Sacred Immaculate Heart is our symbol of purity and beauty and the light that beams from it. Then of course the flame too that which burns eternally and purifies spirit.
 
 
Well I am so glad you have started this thread for Peace!
 
Thanks for link to pathways for peace, Jude!
 
Peace, Love and Joy,
Diane
 
 

Grateful to be here!
What a gift and connection builder!
Love and Gratitude,
Love who You Are

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpwdQQcimU
 

for some of the most beautiful images I have seen
of the lotus . . .
http://lotusflowerimages.com/
Just think . . .
if we all made a conscious intention
to manifest peace . . .
    ♥

everything counts... ♥