A great man once told me nations can win victories, but peace is a more difficult achievement. Radical leaders with the most radioactive, chemical and black powder missiles spreading the world in poisons can be victorious but they can't win world harmony. Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi, the great man who sacrificed his life in fasting for world peace, said, "My life is my message." But one of the most powerful thoughts he expressed was,
"I object to victory because when it appears to do good the good is only temporary; and the evil it does is permanent. "
Beyond the cost of precious life, beyond the dawn of nature and all its bounty, beyond the endless accumulation of contamination is not only the death of all life but also the demise of Earth that provides us all with sustenance.
Gandhi also said, "Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding." Radical ideologies may kill and behead men, but good leadership is in getting along with others, not the force of militant, ruthless monsters. We are all in kinship with one another, even though the most sinister ones cause the grossest cruelty. It was both Genghis Khan and Adolf Hitler who used religion and their God to support their most horrendous deeds.
Dear Ones,
Gandhi believed that each one of us must be the change for us to see a better world. And non-violence us the greatest force of mankind.
The lust of land and its natural resources–such as toxic dinosaur oil that the world kills for–Gandhi's wisdom is in "health is worth more than pieces of gold and silver." A word to the wise is sufficient.
Mame
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