Friday, February 16, 2007

Peace and a self-existent bliss

Reflections on conflict and peace: Favela Morro da Pereira Written by Damon Lynch Friday, 16 February 2007
The search for perfection, the longing for freedom, truth and pure peace has been humanity's earliest preoccupation in its awakened mind (Ghose, 1971). Humanity dreams of a state of being which is in flagrant contradiction with reality. Sages like Aurobindo suggest that life might well be a series of “transitory satisfactions besieged by physical pain and emotional suffering”, but like generations before us we still long to “build peace and a self-existent bliss”.

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