Another way of looking at these remembrances is that they are a means to prevent healing of old, and new, wounds so that we may use them to judge others, to glory in our victim hood and be morally superior. “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” I marvel at how much wisdom and societal guidance is contained in those ten little words.

An external war can only emanate from an internal one.

Once again, I have said nothing.

Some people hear that phrase and say, “Yes, I am going to be that change,” and then struggle to force that into their lives without taking a moment to see the violence in their struggle.

For those that are the change, it is a natural extension, or perhaps we could say, a natural functioning with no struggle to change what one is.

This clarity must come from the inside, and not from the stacking up of outward strategies.

We hold this remembrance to justify the continuation of violence. The remembrance is held to provide the right and wrong, or maybe it is more accurate to say, to prove that right and wrong is a good response to the action, whatever it may be.

There are some humans that have ‘gone beyond’ this superficial thinking. They have seen this in all things, and not just with a small portion of human activity. They are not here to provide answers necessarily, but their very existence may be a hint of what is to come.

But it has always been this way; the many who follow the stream (including the leaders), and the one that is not even a part of it all, for lack of a better phrase.

There is a blindness to it as well. In North America, we celebrate Remembrance Day so it will never happen again. But it has and continues to.

The key is to stop believing this message. And the way to stop believing it is to experience it’s not true. To find that peace for yourself, in yourself.

Great post – I would only disagree with the 2nd to last sentence. We have been without a shadow of war. But not for a very long time.

Beautiful.

Gandhi said be the change you want to see in the world.