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On Dec 6, 2010Catherine Todd wrote :
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"And in every one of us this morning, there’s a war going on. It’s a civil war. I don’t care who you are, I don’t care where you live, there is a civil war going on in your life."
And I thought it was just me!
"Is your heart right? If your heart isn’t right, fix it up today. "
Well, OK. And just how do we do that? In specific cases, not just generalities? In times of conflict or attempts at resolution in conflict? When one has to stand up for themselves, in spite of the anger that will probably be engendered? How to keep peace when you have to take a stand?
Gandhi and King were killed for their beliefs, and I don't really want this to happen to me. But I want to stand up for myself, even though people will probably want to destroy me afterwards. I'm not a saint even though King may have been. I'd like to be, but I'm not. I'm working on nonviolence but it doesn't mean backing down. How to stand strong and stay in control and not give in to emotion, but keep the heart pure and still act with the emotions of courage and love? How to know the difference?
Easy to pay lip service to "get rid of ego" etc., but the FEW people in this world who really act outside of self-interest we call "heroes" or "saints." That's how difficult or "out of the ordinary" this really is to do. I'd like to know some real heroes or saints in my own lifetime. People that really did make a difference and didn't have to "die trying." And didn't have a solely personal agenda of their own.
On Dec 6, 2010 Catherine Todd wrote :
Excerpt:
And I thought it was just me!
"Is your heart right? If your heart isn’t right, fix it up today. "
Well, OK. And just how do we do that? In specific cases, not just generalities? In times of conflict or attempts at resolution in conflict? When one has to stand up for themselves, in spite of the anger that will probably be engendered? How to keep peace when you have to take a stand?
Gandhi and King were killed for their beliefs, and I don't really want this to happen to me. But I want to stand up for myself, even though people will probably want to destroy me afterwards. I'm not a saint even though King may have been. I'd like to be, but I'm not. I'm working on nonviolence but it doesn't mean backing down. How to stand strong and stay in control and not give in to emotion, but keep the heart pure and still act with the emotions of courage and love? How to know the difference?
Easy to pay lip service to "get rid of ego" etc., but the FEW people in this world who really act outside of self-interest we call "heroes" or "saints." That's how difficult or "out of the ordinary" this really is to do. I'd like to know some real heroes or saints in my own lifetime. People that really did make a difference and didn't have to "die trying." And didn't have a solely personal agenda of their own.