Fighting for peace is like shouting for silence; it just creates more of what you don’t want.
These days there is a war against everything: a war against terror, a war against disease, a war against hunger. Every war is actually a war against ourselves. The fight is part of a collective delusion. We say that we want peace, but we continue to elect leaders who engage in war. We lie to ourselves saying that we are for human rights, but continue to buy products made in sweatshops. We say we want clean air, but we continue to pollute. We want science to cure us of cancer but won’t change our self-destructive habitual behaviors that make us more likely to be sick. We delude ourselves that we are promoting a better life. We don’t want to see our hidden parts that are condoning suffering and death. The belief that we can win a war against cancer, hunger, terror, or any enemy that was created by our own thinking and behavior, actually lets us continue to delude ourselves that we don’t have to change the way that we operate on this planet.
The inner world is where the revolution must first take place.
- Samadhi Part I - "Maya, the Illusion of the Self"