Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Humanity's earliest preoccupation

Reflections on conflict and peace: 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”. Ghose, A. (1971). The Future Evolution of Man: The Divine Life Upon Earth (2d ed.). Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram.posted by Damon Lynch @ 12:19 PM I am doing an MA in peace studies. My primary interest is religion and conflict and religion and peacebuilding. Tuesday, February 06, 2007

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