War Does Not Solve Problems – Pope Leo XIV
War does not solve problems; on the contrary, it amplifies them and inflicts deep wounds on the history of peoples, which take generations to heal. No armed victory can compensate for the pain of mothers, the fear of children, or stolen futures. May diplomacy silence the weapons! May nations chart their futures with works of peace, not with violence and bloodstained conflicts! — Pope Leo XIV
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We’ve been saying the same prayer for centuries… still, here we are. The collective consciousness seems imprinted beyond repair. When will love triumph over hate… wisdom over ignorance? Can it? Can life be (in reality) about individual evolution of the soul… of higher consciousness? If we, as individuals, wake up (become enlightened) by the Grace of God… will the world change or will we simply see the world through new eyes? Will we see that all of us are One Soul, and so the perfection of God’s plan — the darkness and the light for our learning — will at last be revealed?
One person, one life, one change at a time… it’s slow work but I believe that when we actually listen it can happen. The following words of Thomas Merton speak to my heart about unity.
The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words. It is beyond speech. It is beyond concept. Not that we discover a new unity, but we discover an old unity. My dear brothers and sisters, we are already one. But we imagine we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be, is what we are.
I dare say I’ve experienced moments of unity consciousness….I’m using those words to describe seeing the One Soul –God looking at me or speaking to me through another. It comes, but when it goes, it goes!
I can see how, through awareness, this experienced could be “stabilized” in the individual. Meaning, “experienced more often”, or in Buddhist theology, one’s enlightenment ascends to nirvana. Herein, taking verbal liberties, needing to assign words to communicate the ineffable.
What I can’t come to see, and why I’m commenting, is a mass awakening of all beings… leaving the idea of a “transcendence of the world” in the dust, and making enlightenment (seem) a personal experience with God. As, through these eyes, there is “no other”.
I’m not sure any of this squares with Christianity. Perhaps it does square with esoteric interpretations of the symbolism of Biblical text… i don’t know — my academic understanding Christianity is lacking. But, having a general understanding of most major religions, I see the similarity in all of them, at their essence.
I encountered a prayer on a page about anthroposophy — that’s about as Christian as I get. I no longer have the name of the author, it was not Steiner, but a student of Steiner’s work. I’ve been feeling to share it here, sometime. But not today… as I’ve said more than enough! 😄
Thanks for the info about Steiner. I did a quick search and some reading. Interesting perspective.