Comments on: World Peace Day http://www.chanlilian.net/2006/01/02/world-peace-day/ Life, Lies, Sex, Humor, Politics of a Malaysian blogger Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:27:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mwt http://www.chanlilian.net/2006/01/02/world-peace-day/comment-page-1/#comment-11794 mwt Mon, 02 Jan 2006 02:15:09 +0000 http://chanlilian.net/2006/01/02/world-peace-day/#comment-11794 Our civilization is in sad straits -- not because you have allowed spontaneity or fulfillment to individuals, but because you have denied it, and because your institutions are based upon that premise. You think that, left alone, the natural inclinations of man would destroy civilization. Then what, indeed, started civilization, if not the natural inclinations of man? What began the cooperation that allows people to unite even in tribes, if not the natural inclinations of man? There is no man who hates but that hatred is reflected outward and made physical, and there is no man who loves but that love is reflected outward and made physical. Who will ultimately shoulder the great privilege and joyful responsibility for our behavior, welfare and destiny of mankind but the innate wisdom of your own individual being? As long as you fight for greed and gain, there will be no peace. Our civilization is in sad straits — not because you have allowed spontaneity or fulfillment to individuals, but because you have denied it, and because your institutions are based upon that premise.

You think that, left alone, the natural inclinations of man would destroy civilization. Then what, indeed, started civilization, if not the natural inclinations of man? What began the cooperation that allows people to unite even in tribes, if not the natural inclinations of man?

There is no man who hates but that hatred is reflected outward and made physical, and there is no man who loves but that love is reflected outward and made physical.

Who will ultimately shoulder the great privilege and joyful responsibility for our behavior, welfare and destiny of mankind but the innate wisdom of your own individual being?

As long as you fight for greed and gain, there will be no peace.

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