Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by their own rules cannot make that sacrifice. They are the steady adherents of (global) conflict because they are forever fighting both themselves and others to do whatever they think that they want to do. Criss Jami
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One of the most important lessons that we can learn from Nelson Mandela is that peace is a choice. It is a choice that we make every day. We live in a world where there are so many people who want to live the way they want to live, but they don’t have the ability to do so because of the circumstances in which they live. In order to live the way you want to live, you have to be willing to do things that go against your personal values and your personal desires.

Take for example a person who thinks that he wants to eat four burgers with everything on it for lunch every day, but then he finds out his boss will dock him a half-hour of his work time if he eats four burgers with everything on it for lunch every day. So what does this person do? He could quit his job and starve, or he could say “I am going to make my job the most important thing in my life and I am going to eat four burgers with everything on them for lunch every day because I choose not to make my job more important than me.” We all have choices in life, and we must always remember that peace is not just something that happens by accident; rather, peace is something that we choose every day, and it is something that we must strive for because peace is not just something that happens naturally.

Source: Killosophy

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