Can Violence Achieve Peace??? (Part 3/3)

How can we achieve peace with violence in our minds???????? Real peace comes from the heart. If our hearts are not peaceful, then fighting for it would be useless. In this world today, we are having murderous wars and violence in the name of peace. But have we really been able to achieve it. No we have not. And we will continue not to achieve peace with hatred for others in out hearts. To gain peace we need to love ourselves and love the world around us. But primarily, to love we need to know ourselves. We need to know who we are. Once we cross that stage, world peace is no problem to achieve and I assure you that it will not need violence because we wont be forcing peace on people but we will be achieving it through love care and deep understanding of our selves, the people and the world around us.

I would like to end this with a quote by Hafsat Abiola, who said that, “Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contribute the best that they have and all that they are”. Without a need of violence! Therefore, Violence cannot achieve peace.

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Can Violence Achieve Peace??? (Part 2/3)

From north to south and east to west, people are engaged in violence and activities they would describe as pacifying, like war. As soon as people think about making peace, they think of ending wars, and to end wars they think of more wars. So, according to many people gaining peace is like fighting another one of those wars. To tell the truth, it is these people who are the barriers in achieving that peace. They are the hindrances of world tranquility. That is because they do not realize that gaining peace requires the contentment and happiness of the heart. They think that by correcting others and stopping wars, peace would be gained. What they do not know is the fact that it all has to start from one point, and that point is the change in their thinking, and a change in their own hearts, not the hearts of others. That change has to be a change of love. This means that one has to find serenity in his heart to find calamity in the world. That serenity in the heart comes with the unconditional love we develop for our selves and the others around us. To develop love for our selves, we need to know who we are, the reason of our existence and our position in this world. These people don’t realize that if our hearts are over ruled by love and contentment, we will not need to achieve peace but it will come to us.

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Can Violence Achieve Peace??? (Part 1/3)

What is peace??? According to Baruch Spinoza, “Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice”.Violence, on the other hand, is the use of physical force against a person or other living thing causing injury or damage. In the light of the above, I ask you the question, Can violence achieve peace?

In my opinion, achieving peace through violence is an impossible task. This is because forcing one through violence, to gain peace, might be a physical gain but it will not help to achieve the tranquility of the heart, the condition which matters the most. These words by Carlos Santana explain my thoughts better,“Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner”. Peace is on everyone’s mind, but do we truly understand the depth of the meaning of this word?

To be continued...