Peace is a Dynamic Power

‘Peace is a dynamic power. From the heart of peace comes right action.’  (White Eagle)

I am sure you have enjoyed as much as I have all the positive stories in the media in recent weeks about our Olympic and Paralympic heroes. It is always so encouraging to read of courageous endeavour and high principles. Last week, by chance, I watched a deeply moving documentary about the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese politician who spent nearly 20 years under house arrest by the country’s military junta, and became a global symbol of the power of peaceful resistance. What a moving story it is. She is a truly remarkable woman and as I watched the film about her, and heard her quiet, gentle, yet strong words, I felt that here indeed is someone who is working under the ray of the Star of Brotherhood. One thing that struck me very much is how she told some of her assistants, when they were going on a possibly dangerous trip across the country, ‘Anyone who retaliates will not be on the next trip’. All her actions and speeches are about reconciliation (now she is no longer under house arrest), never recrimination or revenge. This does not mean that she is passive in a negative way. I wrote down her words: ‘Wanting something is not enough. You must dare to do it’. She truly is a demonstration of what White Eagle says: ‘Peace is a dynamic power’. She is now in dialogue with the military leaders and says that this is the way to bring change, not revolution. She begins each day with meditation and says that it brings her a sense of calm and awareness.

White Eagle says:

‘When there is conflict in the mind there is no peace in the soul, but when the spirit controls the mind and the nervous system, then peace and tranquility rule. The love, the light in the heart, is pure spirit; and human life must be guided by the spirit. Once you can relax and relinquish your problems to God, all conflict ceases and health, wholeness and holiness return.’