What it Means to "Be....."

Remember that quote from Gandhi that we see often?  “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
Have you ever really thought about what that means?  It means that there will never really be peace in the world till you are peaceful.  If you are not able to find peace within yourself, if you get angry when someone cuts you off on the road, if you are judgemental of someone who is not like yourself, you will never find peace within yourself. 
There is good news, however.  If you set your intent... declare to yourself that it is your intention to ‘be the change’, intend to heal those things in you that need healing, become the peace you wish to see in the world, things will start to change for you. 
The intention is enough to get it started and awareness and paying attention to your inner guidance will keep it going.  The other good thing is that once you start working on these things for yourself that energy moves out into your world.   It will effect your children, your husband, your friends, your enemies and the planet itself.  
This is what it means to “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”

Remember Gandhi...

64 years ago Mohandas Gandhi was murdered.  With the usual daily something on the news about the wars we fight and violence and death on the streets it is my desire to try to keep the peacemakers in front of us as much as possible.    We don’t hear nearly enough about the peacemakers.   Since the Harmonic Convergence in 1987 the energy of the world is slowly changing.  We are seeing a lot of violent change but we need to keep in mind that things are changing for the better.   Things cannot get better without the change but we will see that change eventually moving away from the difficult violent change to more peaceful change as time passes.    Remember Gandhi today, and tomorrow and next week.   Remember that he stood for non violent change.   Find your own peace.   Things are changing.   

"Any One Here Seen my Old Friend Martin...."

In January we celebrate the lives of two men.   They are from separate parts of the world and different generations and yet both lived their lives promoting non-violent change.   Today is the celebration of the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr.  He is known throughout the United States and many places elsewhere for his work on racial equality as well as freedom and human rights for all.   He was murdered on April 4, 1968, Shot while standing on the outside balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee.
20 years earlier, on January 30, 1948, on the steps of a building in Delhi, India, where he was to address a prayer meeting, Mohandas Gandhi was shot and killed.   Two men who used non violence to make the planet a better place to live, gunned down.  Tell me what it is about humans that we murder our good people.  
"Anybody here seen my old friend Martin?"....
"Didn't you love the things that they stood for?
Didn't they try to find some good for you and me?
And we'll be free
Some day soon, and it's a-gonna be one day ..."

From Abraham, Martin, and John by Dick Holler 

"Humanity is an Ocean......"

Mohandas Gandhi (October 2, 1869-January 30, 1948)  Indian leader and advocate of non violent civil disobedience made an permanent impact on this planet.  He was called Mahatma which means Great Soul and Bapu or Father by Indians he strove to live by non violence in everything he did.   
He was assassinated on January 30, 1948.   January 30 is now observed as Martyrs Day in India and School Day of Non Violence and Peace in Spain.   I think most of us have heard of this quote attributed to Gandhi:
  You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mohandas Gandhi

I find this quote attributed to him also very interesting.  

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
Mohandas Gandh

Another that we might pay attention to:

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mohandas Gandhi