life of peace

[desmond dillon]

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i know the words within my heart
that have not yet been said.
they speak the hopes of all of us
the hopes not left for dead.
that youth continue forth our line
that we may live on ahead
and perish not our fathers work
whose seed with care was spread..
.
thru rape and exploitation
our virgin earth is bled
until the ghost is given up
and mankind can't be fed.
extinct unless we nurture now
lifes purpose in the bed.
continual reproduction
being natures endless thread
demands we know the 'life of peace'
or suffer then instead
the fate of privileged children
when disinherited.
.
.

[janice wilson]

wow you remind me of these words ----

‎"...species will die out, including Homo sapiens. That is why we have to learn to touch eternity with our in breath and out breath. Extinction of species has happened several times. Mass extinction has already happened five times and this one is the sixth. According to the Buddhist tradition there is no birth and no death. After extinction things will reappear in other forms, so you have to breathe very deeply in order to acknowledge the fact that we humans may disappear in just 100 years on earth.

You have to learn how to accept that hard fact. You should not be overwhelmed by despair. The solution is to learn how to touch eternity in the present moment. We have been talking about the environment as if it is something different from us, but we are the environment"

~   thich nhat hanh

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/1291786/thich_nhat_h...