Meditation as a Universal Path: Meditation is the way most universally employed by seekers of God throughout history in their quest to penetrate surface appearances and come to grips with the Real. Meditation is not intellectual or emotional effort to master certain ideas or feelings about God. Its purpose is not to acquire or to deepen our speculative knowledge of God or of revelation. Rather than seeking to know about God through words, thoughts, feelings and images, the meditator is seeking to experience God directly with the awareness of loving faith. Christian Meditation Page.

On the one hand, people of all nations proclaim not only their readiness but their longing for peace and harmony, for an end to the harrowing apprehensions tormenting their daily lives. On the other, uncritical assent is given to the proposition that human beings are incorrigibly selfish and aggressive and thus incapable of erecting a social system at once progressive and peaceful, dynamic and harmonious, a system giving free play to individual creativity and initiative but based on co-operation and reciprocity. As the need for peace becomes more urgent, this fundamental contradiction, which hinders its realization, demands a reassessment of the assumptions upon which the commonly held view of mankind's historical predicament is based. Dispassionately examined, the evidence reveals that such conduct, far from expressing man's true self, represents a distortion of the human spirit. Satisfaction on this point will enable all people to set in motion constructive social forces which, because they are consistent with human nature, will encourage harmony and co-operation instead of war and conflict. The Promise of World Peace, A Statement by the Universal House of Justice, Baha'i World Center,Haifa, Israel, October 1985. T he Promise of World Peace.

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