Peace in my Time

Why it’s Okay to Sit Around and Do Nothing!

Do you ever get the urge to simply sit around and do nothing? Are you then able to give in to this urge and just sit around do nothing? If so, I really envy you – since I usually can’t do so easily. In my last post I wrote how anyone can be an energising [...]

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Let Peace Begin with Me and You

A guest post from Belinda Munoz from The Halfway Point As a very young child, I cherished everything about the holidays that have just ended. I relished the anticipation of Christmas day, the ritual of lighting candles, the thoughtful gifts, the feeling of community in sharing a banquet, the merrymaking revelry of the young and [...]

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How to do an Obama and Receive the Nobel Peace Prize!

I am writing this quick post from a beautiful retreat place in Oxfordshire, England. I am on a Peace Retreat for the weekend and as I was driving down from London, I listened to President Obama graciously acknowledging the Nobel Peace Prize, awarded to him just one year into his presidency. Already there have been [...]

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6 Key Lessons in Life from a 140 year Old Man

On 30th October 2009, it was the 140th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi. So he would have been 140 years old now had he not been assassinated in 1948. Gandhi may not be around anymore but his legacy and his message of non-violence lives on and he is indeed the light the world [...]

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Find Peace Today rather than One Day, Some Day!

Today, Monday 21st September, is the annual “Peace One Day”, a day of non-violence and ceasefire, a 24 hour-long initiative for life-saving activities around the world. I wrote about this in more detail a couple of years ago. It all started 10 years ago with one man’s vision and within just a decade it is [...]

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Hope for Peace, Asha for Peace :-)

Isn’t it funny how the most casual of connections can lead to something major, and possibly life changing?! About 6 months ago, at a fashion event, I met someone called Asha (which literally means hope). Well, we became friends and today I am proud and honoured to announce a new peace song just launched for [...]

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Words of Wisdom from an Evening with the Dalai Lama

OK – I didn’t really spend any evening with the Dalai Lama in person. But I had the next best thing – a showing of a movie called “Dalai Lama Renaisssance”, a documentary which is set to spread his inspirational message around the world next year, when it goes on general release. It was a [...]

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Free Burma!

Today, Thursday 4th October is international action day for bloggers to bring a unified online voice to deliver the plea of the Burmese people to the whole world. Visit this website and spread the word – we need to let the Burmese people know that we are behind them.

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Candle of Hope for Burma

I took the above image at the peace march yesterday in London. Having posted the image on Facebook and received some positive feedback, I thought it would be useful to share it with the wider world. Let this candle be a sign of the peace to come.

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