" The Great Peace"

I believe in humanity,
I believe the ingredients for world change
lies ready with in humanity now..!!!

all though, i believe humanity currently
understands and sees the world in the following
light;


A quote from Hemingway

"If people bring so much courage
to this world the world has to kill
them break them,
so of course it kills them.
the world breaks every one
and afterward many are strong
at the broken places.
But those that will not break
it kills.
It kills the very good,
it kills the very gentle
and the very brave
impartially".


These words are the echo of a tragic life.
I believe this echo resonates now in the heart of humanity
as truth.

This is what we must change this truth
into a new truth, with the following;


THE GREAT PEACEMAKER

One of our earliest founders lived well before Columbus
discovered America.The Great Peacemaker is said to
have been born in the great Lakes region of North
America sometime around 1000 Ad.
His people, the haudensaunee, now called the Iroquois,
were beset by endless conflict.Village fought village.
Blood raids led to retaliation. No one believed there
was a way out. Then came the time of the
Great Peacemaker.

.....When he comes of age, the Great Peacemaker
tells his grandmother and his mother that his time
has come to seek out other tribes and nations
and bring the a message of peace.
He sets off in his canoe,scanning the horizon for smoke.
Day after day he sees nothing,for all the
settlements are now hidden in the hills to
protect themselves from the war parties plaguing the land.
Finally, the Great Peacemaker sees hunters running
along a barren shore. He beaches his canoe and
says to them, "Go back to your settlement and tell
your chief that a new and good message has come,
the message of peace that is power."
When the tribal chief hears their news,
he asks the hunters," Who told you this?''
" He is called the Great Peacemaker in the world."
The chief wonders at this and asks, his eyes turning
toward the stockades that hold his starving,
quarreling people, " How could it be? From what
source will such peace come?''
the hunters simply reply: " it will come."
the hunters strength of conviction fully opens the chiefs
mind to his own faith that in the world of man
there is a force of peace that can come to the
people if only they will turn their minds to it.
" Truly," he says, " this is a wonderful thing.
This news of itself will bring the beginning of peace
to our people if once they can hear it and understand it
and believe it. It will begin to free their minds of the
hatred that comes from fear." The Great Peacemaker
passed from settlement to settlement, and the same scene
was repeated with each of the chiefs as they were quickly
convinced of the power of peace.

Why should these proud nations and warriors
so readily accept the message of peace?
Not because they were afraid of war. the message
is accepted not only in the hope of being freed of
something negative,but also because they glimpse
a peace that is infinitely more honorable than war
and more active. This peace demands a higher
level of courage and sacrifice than war.
It is neither static nor dull, nor is it fantasy of endless
pleasure.It is a force that can harmonize the
actions and impulses of human life in all their
multiplicity.It is a unifying energy that paradoxically
allows each element to flourish in its individuality.
It is the call to serve that which is far greater
than oneself. Who would not agree to this peace?


(i found this in "Yes Magazine")

I propose such a peace, now..!
"The Great Peace"
I am hear now and i will not go away.
Others have gone before me,
there substance steadies me now.

i am one human but if you add me up
i am legions.

peace, now.!!


gent jim / the traveler