The Art of Peace begins with you. Work on yourself and your appointed task in the Art of Peace. Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment. Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter.
We humans have always wondered what the purpose of life is. O’Sensei gives us a glimpse here of an answer. Refinement and service. Each one of us can be of use no matter what our circumstances or abilities are. Each one of us can strengthen our ability to be of use through training. One of the ways we can be of service is to help create and maintain peace. Peace in the world and peace in our relations, our day to day living. There is a saying, “we cannot transmit what we don’t have.” If we wish to be of use in proliferating peace we must first have a measure of it ourself.
