The Central Cause of Conflict ( 24 june 2006)

Do not think by merely wishing for peace, you will have peace, when in your dailylife of relationship you are aggressive, acquisitive, seeking psychological securityhere or in the hereafter. You have to understand the central cause of conflict andsorrow and then dissolve it and not merely look to the outside for peace. But yousee, most of us are indolent. We are too lazy to take hold of ourselves andunderstand ourselves, and being lazy, which is really a form of conceit, we thinkothers will solve this problem for us and give us peace, or that we should destroythe apparently few people that are causing wars. When the individual is in conflictwithin himself he must inevitably create conflict without, and only he can bringabout peace within himself and so in the world, for he is the world.

The Book of Life - June 24