http://blog.onwardoregon.org/a-dream/ Here are snippets from the three most-recent postings. Click an article title below to read more. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:19:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://blog.onwardoregon.org/a-dream/#comment-3502 Bobbie Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:52:31 +0000 http://blog.onwardoregon.org/?p=101#comment-3502 Thanks for making your dream vivid to me, as well. I recently saw the film Munich and was struck by how impossible it is to fight "terrorism" with "terrorism". It is like chopping off the head of the mythical "Hydra". Hercules discovered that for every head he cut off, two grew back. What a powerful message from antiquity. Those Greeks knew a little something that we have yet to learn. Might doesn't make right. It just challenges one's enemies to grow mightier. Peace is not the absence of war. Peace is a state of being in the world with love and compassion in the front of your mind. Peace is in the response to someone driving too fast, cutting in line, being thoughtless or downright hurtful. Peace is responding peacefully in every moment. Even if we feel we cannot change to world, each of us has the power to respond with love and compassion to those around us. Maybe Peace is "catchy". Maybe we can spread it if we are it. Thanks for making your dream vivid to me, as well.
I recently saw the film Munich and was struck by how impossible it is to fight “terrorism” with “terrorism”. It is like chopping off the head of the mythical “Hydra”. Hercules discovered that for every head he cut off, two grew back. What a powerful message from antiquity. Those Greeks knew a little something that we have yet to learn. Might doesn’t make right. It just challenges one’s enemies to grow mightier.
Peace is not the absence of war. Peace is a state of being in the world with love and compassion in the front of your mind. Peace is in the response to someone driving too fast, cutting in line, being thoughtless or downright hurtful. Peace is responding peacefully in every moment. Even if we feel we cannot change to world, each of us has the power to respond with love and compassion to those around us.
Maybe Peace is “catchy”. Maybe we can spread it if we are it.

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