Comments on: Let Peace Begin with Me and You http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2010/01/13/let-peace-begin-with-me-and-you/ Make it Happen For Yourself and for the World Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:36:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Arvind Devalia http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2010/01/13/let-peace-begin-with-me-and-you/comment-page-1/#comment-2785 Arvind Devalia Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:47:29 +0000 http://www.ArvindDevalia.com/blog/?p=3185#comment-2785 Thanks again Zengirl - always good to have you visit and share your wisdom:-) Thanks again Zengirl – always good to have you visit and share your wisdom:-)

]]> By: Arvind Devalia http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2010/01/13/let-peace-begin-with-me-and-you/comment-page-1/#comment-2784 Arvind Devalia Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:46:47 +0000 http://www.ArvindDevalia.com/blog/?p=3185#comment-2784 Belinda - you got it in one - we all have the ability to do some small thing about peace right now. But what is missing is the awareness and the willingness to do so. We all seem so engrossed in our daily challenges that finding peace within us and out in the world end up way down the list. All we can do is continue to do our own bits for peace and hope it affects others around us positively. Belinda – you got it in one – we all have the ability to do some small thing about peace right now. But what is missing is the awareness and the willingness to do so.

We all seem so engrossed in our daily challenges that finding peace within us and out in the world end up way down the list.

All we can do is continue to do our own bits for peace and hope it affects others around us positively.

]]> By: Arvind Devalia http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2010/01/13/let-peace-begin-with-me-and-you/comment-page-1/#comment-2782 Arvind Devalia Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:44:19 +0000 http://www.ArvindDevalia.com/blog/?p=3185#comment-2782 Belinda, you are most welcome. Thanks so much for your guest post and for sharing your wisdom with us - and thanks for your kind words:-) And belated happy birthday greetings! I agree with what you say about peace being personal. Before we can go out there and campaign for world peace, we have to find peace within us. Lets hope we all find more peace in our lives and in the world in 2010. Belinda, you are most welcome.

Thanks so much for your guest post and for sharing your wisdom with us – and thanks for your kind words:-)

And belated happy birthday greetings!

I agree with what you say about peace being personal. Before we can go out there and campaign for world peace, we have to find peace within us.

Lets hope we all find more peace in our lives and in the world in 2010.

]]> By: Belinda Munoz http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2010/01/13/let-peace-begin-with-me-and-you/comment-page-1/#comment-2773 Belinda Munoz Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:34:09 +0000 http://www.ArvindDevalia.com/blog/?p=3185#comment-2773 Hello Fiona, Thank you for your thoughtful words. I get what you're saying about how we predict and prepare for the future that we miss what we have now. Looking at peace as a big vision, my tendency is to view world leaders and their policies with a quizzical eye and wonder how they think they'll achieve all the good that they want to achieve with seemingly little regard for peace. And then when I get overly critical, I think about whether I could play any part in achieving the larger vision of peace. And it always pulls me back to the present and what small thing I can do now. We each have this ability. It would be tremendously powerful if we all realized this; and even more powerful if we as individuals practiced it. Hello Fiona,
Thank you for your thoughtful words. I get what you’re saying about how we predict and prepare for the future that we miss what we have now. Looking at peace as a big vision, my tendency is to view world leaders and their policies with a quizzical eye and wonder how they think they’ll achieve all the good that they want to achieve with seemingly little regard for peace.
And then when I get overly critical, I think about whether I could play any part in achieving the larger vision of peace. And it always pulls me back to the present and what small thing I can do now. We each have this ability. It would be tremendously powerful if we all realized this; and even more powerful if we as individuals practiced it.

]]> By: fiona O'Hanlon http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2010/01/13/let-peace-begin-with-me-and-you/comment-page-1/#comment-2772 fiona O'Hanlon Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:23:20 +0000 http://www.ArvindDevalia.com/blog/?p=3185#comment-2772 Hi Belinda, belated happy birthday. Thank you for your heartwarming and uplifting words. As a mother of two teenage children, I understand fully that feeling of hope and innocence that returns to us once more when we have small children e.g. seeing the world through their eyes. I agree also with Arvind regarding people in India with so little, being so happy. As I say to my sometimes troubled teenagers, "be happy", its a personal decision that occupies the space your standing . My brother who lives in the US phoned me at the weekend. He had his best friend and wife to dinner on Saturday, spoke and laughed with him by phone on Wednesday and sadly, he would never hear or see him again. On Monday he phoned his wife and she conveyed that he had died suddenly on Saturday with a brain anurism. As he had no beliefs he was cremated, so there was no funeral. All we have is now. Many of us are so busy trying to predict and prepare for the future that the sun in the sky passes us by. Sometimes sitting on the bus, I or feeling a little stressed I remember as a child the coolness of the grass on my small bare feet on a hot summers day and the feel of wet sand underfoot as I took my spade and bucket to the waters edge as a child to catch crabs. peace engulfs and I am content with my busy woerld once more. Yes ! I am a serial long bloger, which is why I only subject others to them occasionally. Bye and thanks. Hi Belinda,
belated happy birthday. Thank you for your heartwarming and uplifting words. As a mother of two teenage children, I understand fully that feeling of hope and innocence that returns to us once more when we have small children e.g. seeing the world through their eyes. I agree also with Arvind regarding people in India with so little, being so happy. As I say to my sometimes troubled teenagers, “be happy”, its a personal decision that occupies the space your standing . My brother who lives in the US phoned me at the weekend. He had his best friend and wife to dinner on Saturday, spoke and laughed with him by phone on Wednesday and sadly, he would never hear or see him again. On Monday he phoned his wife and she conveyed that he had died suddenly on Saturday with a brain anurism. As he had no beliefs he was cremated, so there was no funeral. All we have is now. Many of us are so busy trying to predict and prepare for the future that the sun in the sky passes us by. Sometimes sitting on the bus, I or feeling a little stressed I remember as a child the coolness of the grass on my small bare feet on a hot summers day and the feel of wet sand underfoot as I took my spade and bucket to the waters edge as a child to catch crabs. peace engulfs and I am content with my busy woerld once more. Yes ! I am a serial long bloger, which is why I only subject others to them occasionally. Bye and thanks.

]]> By: Zengirl http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2010/01/13/let-peace-begin-with-me-and-you/comment-page-1/#comment-2771 Zengirl Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:38:22 +0000 http://www.ArvindDevalia.com/blog/?p=3185#comment-2771 Belinda, Happy Birthday and great post.I was reading it and felt like I could have written this, as I too see things differently with my kids eye, and it is so positive and so thoughtful. Arvind, You and your guest posts are always inspiring!! as always. Belinda,
Happy Birthday and great post.I was reading it and felt like I could have written this, as I too see things differently with my kids eye, and it is so positive and so thoughtful.

Arvind,
You and your guest posts are always inspiring!! as always.

]]> By: Arvind Devalia http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2010/01/13/let-peace-begin-with-me-and-you/comment-page-1/#comment-2769 Arvind Devalia Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:24:05 +0000 http://www.ArvindDevalia.com/blog/?p=3185#comment-2769 Thanks Coleen for your kind words - and welcome to my blog. Good to see you here after a long time:-) Hope all is well with Go! Smell the Coffe (http://www.GoSmelltheCoffee.com) Thanks Coleen for your kind words – and welcome to my blog. Good to see you here after a long time:-)

Hope all is well with Go! Smell the Coffe (http://www.GoSmelltheCoffee.com)

]]> By: Belinda Munoz http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2010/01/13/let-peace-begin-with-me-and-you/comment-page-1/#comment-2768 Belinda Munoz Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:01:24 +0000 http://www.ArvindDevalia.com/blog/?p=3185#comment-2768 Hi everyone, I'm late to the party but I had a good excuse -- I was celebrating my birthday! First things first. Arvind, many thanks for letting me do a guest post for you over the holidays. I'm honored as I think your blog is great, your beautiful spirit, kind soul and caring and peaceful nature come through on your posts and you tackle a lot of aspects of peace that I think are undervalued in our society today. The conundrum of peace has been very interesting to me because, as some of the comments above show, we value peace, want to make room for it in our lives and in our world, though we don't always agree on what it is, what it means and how we go about achieving it. In writing this piece, I started out all lofty and cerebral, but I settled on making it personal because at its most basic, peace is personal. We have to define it first, locate it within our being, before we can radiate it. So the above points are really a reflection of what have worked for me. And I can honestly say that I've become more of a peaceful person with a lot of false starts and belabored effort. And I still struggle with peace when it comes to some members of my family (that seems to be an impenetrable frontier for me in many respects), but I now have not only a conceptual definition of it but more of a practical application of it in my life. Whew, that's long! So, thank you for reading these very personal words. And I hope whomever is reading this finds peace. Hi everyone, I’m late to the party but I had a good excuse — I was celebrating my birthday!

First things first. Arvind, many thanks for letting me do a guest post for you over the holidays. I’m honored as I think your blog is great, your beautiful spirit, kind soul and caring and peaceful nature come through on your posts and you tackle a lot of aspects of peace that I think are undervalued in our society today.

The conundrum of peace has been very interesting to me because, as some of the comments above show, we value peace, want to make room for it in our lives and in our world, though we don’t always agree on what it is, what it means and how we go about achieving it. In writing this piece, I started out all lofty and cerebral, but I settled on making it personal because at its most basic, peace is personal. We have to define it first, locate it within our being, before we can radiate it. So the above points are really a reflection of what have worked for me. And I can honestly say that I’ve become more of a peaceful person with a lot of false starts and belabored effort. And I still struggle with peace when it comes to some members of my family (that seems to be an impenetrable frontier for me in many respects), but I now have not only a conceptual definition of it but more of a practical application of it in my life.

Whew, that’s long!

So, thank you for reading these very personal words. And I hope whomever is reading this finds peace.

]]> By: Arvind Devalia http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2010/01/13/let-peace-begin-with-me-and-you/comment-page-1/#comment-2767 Arvind Devalia Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:10:28 +0000 http://www.ArvindDevalia.com/blog/?p=3185#comment-2767 Amit, I agree with you about the need for aspirations and wanting to have long term goals. But at the same time, one can also live in the moment by enjoying and being present to what it here. It is when we get too focussed on the future (or indeed get stuck on the past) and not enjoy the current moment that we lose our peace. So in a way we are both saying the same thing. By all means do live in hte present moment, but at the same time, have future aspirations and also bear in mind learnings from the past. Amit, I agree with you about the need for aspirations and wanting to have long term goals. But at the same time, one can also live in the moment by enjoying and being present to what it here.

It is when we get too focussed on the future (or indeed get stuck on the past) and not enjoy the current moment that we lose our peace.

So in a way we are both saying the same thing. By all means do live in hte present moment, but at the same time, have future aspirations and also bear in mind learnings from the past.

]]> By: Amit Sodha - The Power Of Choice http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2010/01/13/let-peace-begin-with-me-and-you/comment-page-1/#comment-2766 Amit Sodha - The Power Of Choice Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:50:40 +0000 http://www.ArvindDevalia.com/blog/?p=3185#comment-2766 if we only live moment to moment then where would aspirations fit into that? I believe there is a fine balance between nowness and aspirations, it's polar thing like love and hate, one cannot exist without the other. Did you not say to me Arvind that you want to make 2010 a great blogging year? Isn't that having a goal or aspiration? Are you not leaving 'this moment' by thinking about the future? Hence my belief you need a good balance of the two. if we only live moment to moment then where would aspirations fit into that? I believe there is a fine balance between nowness and aspirations, it’s polar thing like love and hate, one cannot exist without the other. Did you not say to me Arvind that you want to make 2010 a great blogging year? Isn’t that having a goal or aspiration? Are you not leaving ‘this moment’ by thinking about the future? Hence my belief you need a good balance of the two.

]]> By: ClinicallyClueless http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2010/01/13/let-peace-begin-with-me-and-you/comment-page-1/#comment-2765 ClinicallyClueless Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:43:32 +0000 http://www.ArvindDevalia.com/blog/?p=3185#comment-2765 Arvind, You site is a breath of fresh, compassionate, thoughtful and loving spot in the blog world. I sure do miss you at GSTC...it isn't the same without you. Take care, Coleen Arvind,

You site is a breath of fresh, compassionate, thoughtful and loving spot in the blog world. I sure do miss you at GSTC…it isn’t the same without you.

Take care,
Coleen

]]> By: Arvind Devalia http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2010/01/13/let-peace-begin-with-me-and-you/comment-page-1/#comment-2764 Arvind Devalia Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:46:24 +0000 http://www.ArvindDevalia.com/blog/?p=3185#comment-2764 Walter, I agree with you in a way - we tend to get stressed out wiht our expectations of what will make us happy, content and indeed peaceful. Maybe the only solution is to live in the present moment, moment by moment, and then perhaps one will have no expectations. Or is having no expectations also an "expectation"?! I think I need to go and lie down:-) Walter, I agree with you in a way – we tend to get stressed out wiht our expectations of what will make us happy, content and indeed peaceful.

Maybe the only solution is to live in the present moment, moment by moment, and then perhaps one will have no expectations. Or is having no expectations also an “expectation”?!

I think I need to go and lie down:-)

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