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. To have lasting peace in the world, you can’t just look at
. everything in pieces (i.e., in fragments). Peace = no pieces!
. The flowering plant (below) has many flowers (on different stems)…
. but they are all “one”; they are not separate. Each flower can be a bit
. different (than the others), but they all (in a big way) are also rather
. similar… and they are not separate.
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The friction between nations and groups is a reflection of the friction, fragmentation, and separative outlooks within each one of us. We will never have a lasting and holistic peace if each of us continues to see things with a “broken” perspective. Almost all of us have been educated to see things in a fragmentary way (i.e., “them” and “us”). What is fragmentary, what sees and thinks with a “broken” perspective… must, by natural law, extend more conflict, disorder, and disharmony (to a significant extent) than need be. What is ruptured internally extends that to manifest as an external rupturing. We all can benefit from more holistic, intelligent, integral understanding.
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Floral Integrity… by Thomas Peace 2013
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