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The world's peacemakers praise Peace Is the Way

Dear Reader,

I am writing you as a friend, because friends can be completely honest with each other. Although we haven't met, I know you are a person of peace. You long ago gave up any belief that war and violence are needed in this world. Yet somehow your deep feelings on this issue haven't brought about peace. Society remains addicted to war. We reach for it the way a chain smoker reaches for the next cigarette, promising to quit tomorrow, yet never turning the corner.

I have written a new book to answer this frustration. It is called Peace Is the Way, and its purpose is to gather peaceful people into a force that can bring war to an end in our time. I was inspired by a profound truth uttered by Mahatma Gandhi: "There is no way to peace. Peace is the way."

What he meant is that peace has a power in and of itself. This power is greater than the power of war, just as life is more powerful than death, love more powerful than fear. At this moment you hold that power in your hands. I wrote this book to show you how to use it for the greatest good. The book doesn't ask you to protest in the streets or to become a selfless saint overnight.

What it asks you to do is to make a shift in your awareness. If you can focus on peace once a day, usually for as little as five minutes, you can help create a massive shift in the world. You aren't alone in your anguish about war. A majority of people in this country—and around the globe—want to end this pointless addiction to war. Peace is the next wave of human evolution, and there is no better way to live than by catching the next wave of change.

I urge you to read Peace Is the Way so that you can realize your own deepest wish to live in a world that reflects your own values. Peace isn't just an ideal. It is a way of being in the world. A joyful hope can replace the anguish that you and I share over war. We've shared it long enough. So please consider the first sentence of my book, which I believe in with all my heart.

"Today is a good day for war to come to an end."

—Deepak




"Deepak Chopra envisions a world within our reach where we are the instruments of peace instead of war.... The daily practices suggested in this book offer readers a way to become more fully human and actively engaged as peacemakers in their homes and communities." —Desmond Tutu

"I absolutely agree with Dr. Chopra's view that 'if we want to change the world, we have to begin by changing ourselves.'" —His Holiness the Dalai Lama

"Thinking about peace is already a powerful means to contribute to peace.... I recommend this book to all those who want to create peace." —Boutros Boutros-Ghali

"I am touched and delighted by Deepak's earnest and lucid message, in this timely and essentially useful book. I picked it up and couldn't put it aside. The great thing about it is how simply and clearly he presents the steps to profound personal transformation. He makes it possible-even enchanting-for us to live what we admire.... Use this book with loving care and you will break free from the drumbeat of desperation all around you!" —Robert Thurman



Practices for Peace

Seven Practices for Peace

Sunday: Being for Peace
Meditate on forgiveness

Monday: Thinking for Peace
Hold positive intentions for all

Tuesday: Feeling for Peace
Feel compassion and love

Wednesday: Speaking for Peace
Speak without complaint or criticism

Thursday: Acting for Peace
Help someone in need

Friday: Creating for Peace
Get ideas for resolving conflict

Saturday: Sharing for Peace
Invite two people to take up this practice

—adapted from Peace Is the Way

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Peace is the way, by Deepak Chopra

Publisher: Harmony
Publication Date: January, 2005

Excerpt:

War Ends Today

Today is a good day for war to come to an end.

The symbolic number of 1,000 U.S. casualties was passed today in Iraq—I am writing this on September 9, 2004—most of the deaths occurring after victory was declared over a year ago. What is the world like on the day you read this? I cannot predict, but I know, even if this particular war is over, you will be confronted with terrorism, suicide bombings, insurrections and civil war somewhere on the planet, and nuclear threats from rogue nations like North Korea and Iran. Violence will still be raging out of control, no matter what day you read these words.

At the outset of 2003 it was estimated that thirty military conflicts were being fought around the world. It's a good day for all these wars to come to an end. But will they? And if they do, what will replace them?

To end war, you have to think of ending not just one conflict, and not just thirty. What we have to end is the idea of war, which has turned into the habit of war, and then into the numbing constancy of war. The last time the U.S. wasn't on a war footing was December 6, 1941, the day before Pearl Harbor inflamed the U.S. into declaring war against Japan. Since then, America has accepted the need for a huge standing army, the growth of arms manufacturers and merchants into a massive part of the economy, thousands of troops stationed around the world, intensive research into new technologies of death, and a political climate in which it is suicide to come out against war. This whole situation, which reaches into every home, keeps us on a war footing even when there is no declared war to grab the headlines.

Like any habit, war has worn a groove in our minds, so that when we become very afraid or very angry, the response of war comes naturally. It has an easy track to follow. Even as the body count rises in the Sunni Triangle and the photographs of torture from Abu Ghraib prison stun one's conscience, the groove is still there, deep and familiar. War has almost become a secret pleasure. It brings excitement and revs up the routine pace of life. In Mira Nair's film adaptation of Vanity Fair, a woman comments smugly at a party, "War is good for men. It's like turning over the soil." We reach for war the way a chain-smoker reaches for a cigarette, muttering all the while that we have to quit. In the past four decades America's war habit has led us into Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Somalia, Lebanon, Panama, Grenada, Vietnam, and Cambodia, not to mention more covert military operations into places like Laos, Nicaragua, and Colombia.

This book is about erasing that groove and substituting a new way to respond when we are very afraid or very angry, or even when we aren't. The way of peace has to become a new habit. To do that, it must offer a substitute for every single thing that war now provides. You may feel immune to the appeal of war, but everyone has benefited from war's gifts in some measure.

War provides an outlet for national vengeance.
It satisfies the demands of fear.
It brings power to the victor.
It provides security to the homeland.
It opens an avenue for getting what you want by force.

By contrast, living in peace one breathes easily. There is space to allow for connections with other people. Arguments proceed with mutual respect for either side. Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Mother Teresa lived different aspects of peace. We learned from each that the way of peace can end suffering and oppression, not by warring against an enemy but by bearing witness to wrongs, and by allowing sympathy and common humanity to do their patient work. War smothers all of that.

War's gifts may prove bitter and empty in the end, but that hasn't eroded the groove of war in our minds. Today, after a century in which more than 100 million people died from war, we survivors still turn to war because we think it does some good. The satisfaction of waging war cannot be replaced by philosophy or religion. The Buddha and the Prince of Peace could not have spoken out more strongly against violence, yet their beliefs have been distorted into a cause for bloodshed at the hands of their followers.

Our age is steeped in mechanized warfare that is totally terrifying in human terms. Somewhere in this country teams of scientists are working on a bomb that will vaporize human beings on contact without destroying the buildings they inhabit. Somewhere in this country other scientists are figuring out how to disrupt an enemy's water, electricity, communications, and transportation using signals delivered by the Internet. Soon we may be able to cripple other nations without even having to set foot in them.

We are almost there now, thanks to high-altitude pinpoint bombing and long-range "smart bombs" that can guide themselves to their targets while our soldiers remain safely out of harm's reach. This technology makes some people, even in the military, very queasy, for it means that our army can kill at leisure without loss of life on our side. The last vestige of honor on the battlefield was respect for the enemy, but no more. The satisfaction of managing death so efficiently has to be added to the list of war's gifts.

Can the way of peace really substitute for all that? Can it succeed where centuries of wisdom and morality have failed?

It can, because the way of peace isn't based on religion or morality. It doesn't ask us to become saints overnight, or to renounce our feelings of anger or our thirst for revenge. What it asks for is something new: conscious evolution.

The time has come for us to stop being passive, and to take control of our own destiny, one person at a time. What keeps war alive? Backwardness of response, a reliance on reactions that human beings have followed since the beginning of history. Violence is not the essence of human nature. It is prevalent, yes, and it is innate. But so is the opposite of violence: love. The way of peace is love in action. Although humankind, explicitly or implicitly, seems to believe that violence is more powerful than love, this is the same as saying that death is more powerful than life.

That simply isn't so. Humanity has evolved to transcend many things that once seemed innate. We have learned to use reason triumphantly. We have overcome superstition and disease. We have exposed the darkness of the psyche to light. We have delved deep into the workings of nature. All these successes point the way to the next step, which is the realization that human beings have outgrown war.

Today isn't the day that I or anyone else can say that human beings are finally and forever beyond war. The only recent news item that gives hope is a small one, a piece of reported data which says that the last twelve months, despite the headlines from Iraq, brought the fewest deaths in war since 1945, the end of World War II. The total body count from all conflicts over the last year was 20,000 worldwide. So the trend may be starting already. You and I, in our anguish to end war, may be catching tremors from the future.

Today is the day to act on them. Just as Newton's formulation of gravity meant that human beings were finally and forever on the road of a new science, a road that has led to a completely transformed world, you and I can create a new turning point. I would argue that for the majority of people in America--and many other parts of the world--the tide of the future has turned already. People are ready to follow the way of peace, if only they can learn what it is.

The way of peace is based on the same thing that ushered in the age of science: a leap in consciousness. When they witnessed demonstrations of steam engines, electric lights, and vaccines, people adapted to them at the level of their own awareness. The idea of being human could no longer be consistent with reading by candlelight, traveling by horse, suffering through high rates of death in childbirth, short life spans, and the ravages of disease. A leap in collective consciousness took place.

The way of peace, I believe, can change the future in the same way. If you and I demonstrate that peace is more satisfying than war, the collective consciousness will shift. Today you and I woke up and found it easy not to kill anyone. Our society, however, can't say the same. It's time for society to take a direction that conforms to what the individual wants. There can be no excuse for living our comfortable lives embedded in a culture of mechanized death and violence. You and I are not innocent bystanders to war. We depend upon it politically, economically, and socially. I will show in detail why this is true, and how we can shift our allegiance to a way of life that is not entangled in war or death. The more people who join us, the faster war will come to an end. Instead of wishing that others would stop killing, you can become a force for peace, and in so doing make the ultimate contribution.

If you shift your allegiance to peace, war ends for you today. This happens one person at a time, but it works. A million tiny earthquakes move more ground than a single cataclysmic quake. There is no better or easier way to live than by catching the wave of evolution. How hard is it to look up and say, Today is a good day for war to end. If your consciousness follows these words and remains true to them, war will never return to your life again.



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Excerpted from Peace Is the Way by Deepak Chopra Copyright © 2005 by Deepak Chopra. Excerpted by permission of Harmony, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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Thursday, August 25, 2005
To the best students go the most difficult lessons

A letter I received not long ago has intrigued me ever since...and so today I thought I would share it with you.

Dear Neale,

I have a question. You have written that "to the best students go the most difficult lessons". You also wrote in your first conversation with God that life is not a school, life is about remembering and recreating Who You Really Are. Do you believe that, despite the remembering and recreating business, there are people whose lives present them with more difficulties (or should I say, opportunities) simply because they are in an 'advanced class' and 'can handle more'? If this isn't true, is it true then that some people just aren't able to create their reality as they wish? Or could both be true?

I am very much puzzled, because it seems to me that a lot of people who don't live their lives very consciously (and so don't seem to consciously create their life's circumstances) actually have the easiest lives and seem quite satisfied with their lives. Something I envy! In my life, it feels as if God keeps throwing situations at me, saying: 'Let's see if you can handle this one!' Is this because I am an excellent student or is it because I just make a mess of creating my desired reality? What am I doing wrong here?

I'm very curious what your answer will be. Also, I would like to say that I love you very much and enjoy your writings. Evelien

Dear Evelien...you ask a very good and insightful question. "To the best students go the most difficult lessons" is a metaphor, and like all metaphors is not meant to be read literally. CwG says that life is not a school, that is true. It does say that we have only to remember Who We Really Are. And I understand that when dealing with the Illusions of Life this can very often be extremely difficult.

The word "student" and the word "lessons" in the above metaphor are best understood in the context of a relationship between a student and her Master. There is not a "school" as such, but there are "opportunities" to master moments in life that are brought to us BY us in order to be negotiated in ways that allow us to express and experience Who We Really Are.

I do think that there is a colloration between the level of mastery that a soul seeks to achieve during a particular lifetime and the events in one's life. In other words, I do not think that the events in the life of Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) or Jesus the Christ, to pick two examples, occurred by circumstance or by chance. I believe those events were called TO them BY them in order to provide them with opportunities to announce and declare, express and experience, become and fulfill Who They Really Are.

So, too, is it in our lives. I think that it is true that some people who appear to be walking around "unconsciously" often have easier, less challenging lives than those who are seeking higher awareness and a grander experience of themselves. And if the goal is to simply experience a life of ease, as opposed to a life of fulfillment, it may make sense to neither seek nor attain a higher level of consciousness. Yet after a number of "lives of ease," the evolving soul looks for greater challenges and grander experiences of what it means to be human -- and so, the process of Soul Growth begins.

To be clear, Evelien, it is not "God" who "keeps throwing situations" at you, saying "Let's see if you can handle this one," it is you --YOU -- who keep doing this. God simply empowers you to experience yourself in whatever way you choose. Therefore, bless every moment and every event, and know that you live in a friendly universe that has been uniquely designed to allow you to become and know in your experience Who You Really Are.

This is God's work we are up to, you and I, so keep on!

Love...Neale.

To the best students go the most difficult lessons

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Thursday, August 25, 2005
To the best students go the most difficult lessons

A letter I received not long ago has intrigued me ever since...and so today I thought I would share it with you.

Dear Neale,

I have a question. You have written that "to the best students go the most difficult lessons". You also wrote in your first conversation with God that life is not a school, life is about remembering and recreating Who You Really Are. Do you believe that, despite the remembering and recreating business, there are people whose lives present them with more difficulties (or should I say, opportunities) simply because they are in an 'advanced class' and 'can handle more'? If this isn't true, is it true then that some people just aren't able to create their reality as they wish? Or could both be true?

I am very much puzzled, because it seems to me that a lot of people who don't live their lives very consciously (and so don't seem to consciously create their life's circumstances) actually have the easiest lives and seem quite satisfied with their lives. Something I envy! In my life, it feels as if God keeps throwing situations at me, saying: 'Let's see if you can handle this one!' Is this because I am an excellent student or is it because I just make a mess of creating my desired reality? What am I doing wrong here?

I'm very curious what your answer will be. Also, I would like to say that I love you very much and enjoy your writings. Evelien

Dear Evelien...you ask a very good and insightful question. "To the best students go the most difficult lessons" is a metaphor, and like all metaphors is not meant to be read literally. CwG says that life is not a school, that is true. It does say that we have only to remember Who We Really Are. And I understand that when dealing with the Illusions of Life this can very often be extremely difficult.

The word "student" and the word "lessons" in the above metaphor are best understood in the context of a relationship between a student and her Master. There is not a "school" as such, but there are "opportunities" to master moments in life that are brought to us BY us in order to be negotiated in ways that allow us to express and experience Who We Really Are.

I do think that there is a colloration between the level of mastery that a soul seeks to achieve during a particular lifetime and the events in one's life. In other words, I do not think that the events in the life of Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) or Jesus the Christ, to pick two examples, occurred by circumstance or by chance. I believe those events were called TO them BY them in order to provide them with opportunities to announce and declare, express and experience, become and fulfill Who They Really Are.

So, too, is it in our lives. I think that it is true that some people who appear to be walking around "unconsciously" often have easier, less challenging lives than those who are seeking higher awareness and a grander experience of themselves. And if the goal is to simply experience a life of ease, as opposed to a life of fulfillment, it may make sense to neither seek nor attain a higher level of consciousness. Yet after a number of "lives of ease," the evolving soul looks for greater challenges and grander experiences of what it means to be human -- and so, the process of Soul Growth begins.

To be clear, Evelien, it is not "God" who "keeps throwing situations" at you, saying "Let's see if you can handle this one," it is you --YOU -- who keep doing this. God simply empowers you to experience yourself in whatever way you choose. Therefore, bless every moment and every event, and know that you live in a friendly universe that has been uniquely designed to allow you to become and know in your experience Who You Really Are.

This is God's work we are up to, you and I, so keep on!

Love...Neale.

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Rabindranath Tagore

On the Nature of Love

The night is black and the forest has no end;
a million people thread it in a million ways.
We have trysts to keep in the darkness, but where
or with whom - of that we are unaware.
But we have this faith - that a lifetime's bliss
will appear any minute, with a smile upon its lips.
Scents, touches, sounds, snatches of songs
brush us, pass us, give us delightful shocks.
Then peradventure there's a flash of lightning:
whomever I see that instant I fall in love with.
I call that person and cry: `This life is blest!
for your sake such miles have I traversed!'
All those others who came close and moved off
in the darkness - I don't know if they exist or not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion,
it is easy in solitude to live after your own;
but the great man is he who,
in the midst of the world,
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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TAGORE

Ekla cholo ray...Walk Alone

(Favourite chant of Mahatma Gandhi)


If they answer not to thy call, walk alone;
If they are afraid and cower mutely facing the wall,
Open thy mind and speak out alone.

If they turn away and desert you when crossing the wilderness,
Trample the thorns under thy tread,
And along the blood-lined track travel alone.

If they do not hold up the light when the night is troubled with storm,
With the thunder-flame of pain ignite thine own heart,
And let it burn alone.

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Posted by: Aurora at August 25, 2005 10:25 AM

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Rabindranath Tagore

WHEN I GO ALONE AT NIGHT

by: Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

When I go alone at night to my love-tryst, birds do not sing, the wind does not stir, the houses on both sides of the street stand silent.
It is my own anklets that grow loud at every step and I am ashamed.

When I sit on my balcony and listen for his footsteps, leaves do not rustle on the trees, and the water is still in the river like the sword on the knees of a sentry fallen asleep.
It is my own heart that beats wildly -- I do not know how to quiet it.

When my love comes and sits by my side, when my body trembles and my eyelids droop, the night darkens, the wind blows out the lamp, and the clouds draw veils over the stars.
It is the jewel at my own breast that shines and gives light. I do not know how to hide it.


Posted by: Aurora at August 25, 2005 10:27 AM


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tut, tut,

When you find yourself reacting with anger or opposition to any person or circumstance, realize that you are only struggling with yourself.

Chopra's ten steps to happiness:

(1) Listen to your body's wisdom.

(2) Live in the present, for it is the only moment you have.

(3) Take time to be silent, to meditate.

(4) Relinquish your need for external approval.

(5) When you find yourself reacting with anger or opposition to any person or circumstance, realize that you are only struggling with yourself.

Know that the world "out there" reflects your reality "in here."

(7) Shed the burden of judgement.

(8) Don't contaminate your body with toxins, either food, drink, or toxic emotions.

(9) Replace fear-motivated behavior with love-motivated behavior.

(10) Understand that the physical world is just a mirror of a deeper intelligence.


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Prisoner of Words

Spells, charms, incantations
Be careful what you say...
The magic of words enfolds intention
Centuries of knowledge
Layers of experience, an entire history
In a few syllables.

Our lifetime is packaged inside us
As imprints triggered by words.
Wrapped in words the way a
Spider wraps flies in gossamer
We are both the spider and the fly
Imprisoning ourselves in our own web

Prisoner of Words
posted by Deepak Chopra on August 08, 2005 at 11:56 PM

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I was inspired by Shekhar. I decided to share my poem