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Spirit & Stardust As citizen-diplomats of the world, we
send peace as conscious expression where ever, whenever and to whomever
it is needed: to the Middle East, to the Israelis and the Palestinians,
to the Pakistanis and the Indians, to Americans and Al Queda, and to
the people of Iraq, and to all those locked in deadly combat. And we
fly to be with the bereft, with those on the brink, to listen compassionately,
setting aside judgment and malice to become peacemakers, to intervene,
to mediate, to bring ourselves back from the abyss, to bind up the world's
wounds. As we aspire to universal brotherhood
and sisterhood, we harken to the cry from the heart of the world and
respond affirmatively to address through thought, word and deed conditions
which give rise to conflict: Economic exploitation, empire building,
political oppression, religious intolerance, poverty, disease, famine,
homelessness, struggles over control of water, land, minerals, and oil.
We realize that what affects anyone, anywhere
affects everyone, everywhere. As we help others to heal, we heal ourselves.
Our vision of interconnectedness resonates with new networks of world
citizens in nongovernmental organizations linking from numberless centers
of energy, expressing the emergence of a new organic whole, seeking
unity within and across national lines. New transnational web-based
email and telecommunications systems transcend governments and carry
within them the power of qualitative transformation of social and political
structures and a new sense of creative intelligence. If governments
and their leaders, bound by hierarchy and patriarchy, wedded to military
might for legitimacy, fail to grasp the implications of an emerging
world consciousness for cooperation, for peace and for sustainability,
they may become irrelevant. |
“If governments and their leaders, bound by hierarchy and patriarchy, wedded to military might for legitimacy, fail to grasp the implications of an emerging world consciousness for cooperation, for peace and for sustainability, they may become irrelevant.” |
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