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Nobel Prize: What’s Your Dream for Peace?
According to Alfred Nobel’s will, the Peace Prize should be awarded “to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”
With the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to Barack Obama for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” we’re feeling pretty peaceful today. So in honor of Nobel, Obama, and all things peace–here are some favorite thoughts on the topic. And we want to hear about your dreams for peace as well. Leave your thoughts for peace, or your favorite peace quote, in the comment field below. All aboard the peace train!
We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means. –Martin Luther King, Jr.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. –Jimi Hendrix
Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice. –Baruch Spinoza
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions. –Thich Nhat Hanh
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. –Agatha Christie
You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist. –Indira Gandhi
Post a comment on peace below, then Congratulate President Obama on his peace prize here and read more in Care2 Causes: President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize and Obama Nobel Prize for Multilateralism.
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add your comment »This Website is a Perfect discription for My Dream for Peace: http://www.thevenusproject.com I highly reccomend that You ALL log on to this Wonderful,Enlightened,and Amazing Website! It's an idea that can quite litterally change the whole World for the better.
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My dream for peace is tolerance,respect for each other,freedom of speech.
Respecting the other person opinion whether it's yours or not.
The love for your fellowman and the love and respect of yourself,because if you do not have that,forget all the other intentions you may have.
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When Antichrist become Christ - there will be Peace!!!
Otherwise, all is illusion.
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Peace can be attained when muslims, christians and other religions peacefully collaborate for measures to fight climate change.
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My favorite bumper sticker "Give peace a dance". May divine love shed peace on earth.
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I was not talking about our own spirits, but the Holy Spirit, my God.
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My dream is a nightmare in which someone sabotages the '68 paris peace negotiations of a President who decides not to run for Office again in order to end a war and then someone else gets a prize for extending and expanding the war for years??
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Beth Larson: "...peace on earth is a dream that just wont come true until the Lord comes."
Yes.
The Lord / Tao / God / Goddess / All-That-Is works through the heads, hearts, and hands of human beings. As we attune ourselves with Spirit our minds will grow quiet and thoughtful, our hearts warm and generous, and our hands helpful and loving. It is left to each of us to do the attuning, atoning, and peace-making.
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Sheila F,
"... what scares me the most is the hatred I see in people here in the US."
It is indeed horrible.
But it was once MUCH worse than this. Early in the 20th century dozens of African-American citizens were dragged out into town squares and publicly hanged by mobs right here in the U.S.A., sometimes even in broad daylight and NOT only in former Confederate states. White people laughed while Black families huddled in horror and fear. America has a long history of racial hatred.
What we're seeing right now is that same ugly undercurrent of hatred that's been here since colonial times. Successes of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s rendered such hatred "politically incorrect." Many Americans - both Black and White, Southern and Northern -- have since transcended their racism, albeit some more successfully than others. The most vile forms of it went underground, but now it is suddenly exploding forth in a desperate backlash against our having elected a (gasp, horror!) NEGRO as our President. What an affront to propriety! What a disaster!
No, what a BLESSING for our nation and for our world. What a beautiful thing America has done, laying aside centuries of racial hatred and mistrust to elect Barack Obama as our President.
Please don't be dismayed by the backlash. Please have compassion for the people spewing hatred, for they are gripped by fear.
Please forgive them, for they know not what they do.
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I know this is going to sound a bit silly but...I use to watch Star Trek and think about earth as it was protrayed and I thought yes it's possible. I like the idea that everyone had what they needed, non-invasive medicine practices, people worked not for self enrichment but for the good and benefit of all.
I know we willl get there someday. We just need to remember we are more alike than we are different, Forgiveness, love, compassion, and passion equals PEACE.
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