OUR VISION IS TO SUPPORT PEACE AND HARMONY FOR THE ENTIRE PLANET
Heart of Peace Meditation is Calling All Spiritual Activists!
Can we, together, create a more peaceful and loving planet? The vision, the dream of the Heart of Peace program is that all live together in harmony, peace and cooperation.
Peace begins with you. Your ‘inner’ world is reflected in the ‘outer’ world. In order to move the realization of Peace forward, in our culture and around the world, activists must create, speak and pray the consciousness of Peace. We cannot use any current realities to hold us back. We are creating something new, something that perhaps has never existed before.
~ Heart of Peace Meditation
To find more information on World Peace and Peace programs, check out CSL’s Heart of Peace website.
Knowing Peace in the Midst of War
Not only must we have complete faith in Spirit and Its ability to know and to do, but we must have complete confidence in our approach to It. We must not be lukewarm in our conviction. We must know that we know.
— Ernest Holmes, “The Science of Mind,” page 159
Message from CSL Home Office
October 13, 2023 — Given the current level of escalation in Israel and Palestine, we bring our awareness and love to all of those touched by this crisis, to all whom suffer.
The loss of life is devastating, and we decry violence in all forms. To quote the patriarchs of Jerusalem, “We unequivocally condemn any acts that target civilians, regardless of their nationality, ethnicity or faith.” Further, the patriarchs said, “We implore political leaders and authorities to engage in sincere dialogue, seeking lasting solutions that promote justice, peace and reconciliation for the people of this land, who have endured the burdens of conflict for far too long.”
Read the Christian leaders’ call to end violence here. We, too, pray for a cessation of violence and for the rights of the Israelis and the Palestinians to live free from fear, violence and war.
As we explore the power of paradox as CSL’s global theme this month, we’re aware that war and peace form the biggest paradox of all. How do we continue to know peace in the midst of war? We cannot move toward a more peaceful world until we address the underlying causes of violence, inequity, injustice, colonialism and oppression of all forms.
Our founder Ernest Holmes declared, “The promise that comes from practicing a conscious sense of union with the Divine is a deep, abiding peace even in the midst of personal or planetary challenges. We can create a spiritual chain reaction which can bring peace in the midst of chaos.”
What We Can Do
We can unite in focusing the energy of love to bring peace to Israel and Palestine, to Ukraine and to all areas of the planet where there is no peace through the creation of a spiritual chain reaction. Allow the energies of peace, love and harmony to rise up and become strong. Peace begins at the center of our own being, where instead of moving to fear, anger or anxiety, we focus on the greater powers of love, peace and harmony.
We hold space for peace to be realized. We convene peace vigils, prayer calls and read sacred texts while also engaging in sacred activism. We band together to remind each other that there is an infinite and divine creative force of life that is wholeness and truth. We stay in constant prayer without ceasing to remember what we know, rekindle our sometimes-dwindling faith and continue to seek the light amid the dark abyss.
MORE RESOURCES ON WORLD PEACE
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Legacy of Peace
30-minute Video
Biographical documentary of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh narrated by Peter Coyote
Message from Rev. Edward Viljoen: CSL Spiritual Leader
A Call To Prayer
We are struck and saddened by the realization that during the celebration of the Season for Nonviolence, our world is experiencing armed conflict in more than 70 locations on the planet. We are saddened, too, by what appears to be an overarching concern about the impact of war on the economy.
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Ernest Holmes’ Prayer For World Peace
The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof….” I know there is but One Mind, which is the Mind of God, in which all people live and move and have their being. I know there is a Divine Pattern for humanity and within this Pattern there is infinite harmony and peace, cooperation, unity, and mutual helpfulness.
I know that the mind of man, being one with the Mind of God, shall discover the method, the way, and the means best fitted to permit the flow of Divine Love between individuals and nations. Thus harmony, peace, cooperation, unity, and mutual helpfulness will be experienced by all.
I know there shall be a free interchange of ideas, of cultures, of spiritual concepts, of ethics, of educational systems, and of scientific discoveries–for all good belongs to all alike
I know that, because the Divine Mind has created us all, we are bound together in one infinite and perfect unity.
In bringing about World Peace.I know that all people and all nations will remain individual, but unified for the common purpose of promoting peace, happiness, harmony, and prosperity.
I know that deep within every person the Divine Pattern of perfect peace is already implanted.
I now declare that in each person and in leaders of thought everywhere this Divine Pattern moves into action and form, to the end that all nations and all people shall live together in peace, harmony and prosperity forever. So it is—now.
~ Ernest Holmes