June Namaste Being Peace

I wanted to share with you the June Namaste: Being Peace from the Chopra Center. Below is the opening letter but if you click on this link http://chopra.com/namaste/jun08 you will see a lot more.
With Love, Faerlight

P>S. I listened to a wonderful show on World Puja the other night where hostess Maureen Moss interviewed Deepak Chopra on his new book. http://www.worldpuja.org/home.php

June 2008
Being Peace

If there is to be Peace in the world,
There must be Peace in the nations.

If there is to be Peace in the nations,
There must be Peace in the cities.

If there is to be Peace in the cities,
There must be Peace between neighbors.

If there is to be Peace between neighbors,
There must be Peace in the home.

If there is to be Peace in the home,
There must be Peace in the Heart.
—Lao Tzu

This issue of Namasté brings the message of peace right into your home. And as Lao Tzu’s timeless words resonate, if there is to be peace in your home, there must be peace in your heart. We transform the world most effectively by transforming ourselves, and this issue of Namasté is filled with various tools to help you transform your heart into a beacon of peace. It is not a difficult task – simply one that requires willingness, awareness, and surrender to an ideal that is easily attainable, one heart at a time.

Each day, The Chopra Center is flooded with requests from those looking to spread the message of Peace. If everyone who receives this Namasté passes it on to at least 5 other people, and each of those individuals pass it on to 5 more, by sunrise tomorrow more than 10 million people will have touched a piece of peace and begun a global peace transformation. Click here to “Pass the Peace.”

We can shift the global consciousness by creating this subtle shift within ourselves and change the world before we’ve even logged off our computers for the night. The power to do this rests within your keyboard, your mouse, and most deeply in your heart.

We invite you to immerse yourself in this Namasté of Peace, where Deepak announces “War Ends Today” and David Simon’s article provides you with a powerful daily practice to create your own personal peace transformation.

Our featured seminar is “The Peace Event of the Year" – the Seduction of Spirit taking place next month in Dublin, Ireland.

This month’s poetry and timeless words of wisdom from rishis and prophets of peace will allow you to rest more easily on your pillow. As Deepak has written in The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, “Today my awareness will remain established in Defenselessness. I will relinquish the need to defend my point of view. I will feel no need to convince or persuade others to accept my point of view. I will remain open to all points of view and not be rigidly attached to any one of them.”

Embracing defenseless in our relationships, our interactions with co-workers, our yoga and meditation practices – and especially in the ongoing dialog we have with ourselves – will give us the opportunity to innocently bring peace into our very souls, even if only for the day. And then of course . . . there’s always tomorrow.

We hope you feel peaceful and inspired to pass the peace to your friends, relatives, colleagues & acquaintances. Peace makes no demands. Peace carries no secret agenda. Peace requires no forcing or additional effort. It is already who we are – we need only to BE it.

In peace,
The Chopra Center staff