Peace can only come from a love and acceptance for ourselves and
others, not an encouragement of separation, division and difference.
The Indian mystic, Osho put it so beautifully, “If more and more people
can become aware, the world will be a totally different place. If the
world becomes a little more conscious, soldiers will throwaway their
arms and hug each other, sit down together under a tree and gossip.
The politicians and religious leaders cannot force all the armies to kill,
to murder, to convince anybody that for God’s sake you have to kill.
Strange, because God has created everybody and whomsoever you are
killing, you are killing God’s creation. If it is true that God created the
world, then there should be no war – it is one family”.
There are times in life where we are called to travel to faraway places,
we may not know why this particular place calls us and just as my fellow
Israeli soldier who embarks on this journey leaving one holy land for
another, I too now understand him wanting to leave the rules behind, to
embrace life instead of death, learning to be free from the inside out and
finding the peace inside oneself, taking it back to ones homeland and
learning how to live that peace in daily life.