THE WORLD I WANT by: Manue Luis Abiog

Peace and goodwill,brotherhood and unity!!!These are expressions  of hope,faith,of mutual love and trust,expressions that should erase  discrimination,prejudice and misunderstanding which set brothers,countrymen  and nations against each other.Yet they are expressions too of a dream that  continues to elude mankind.Will world peace and brotherhood remain just a  thought? Life then is war,peace is much harder to define.Peace is neither  an original paradisiacal state nor a form of co-existence by mutual  consent.Peace is something we can only sense and search for.True peace is  more difficult and unusual than any other achievement even fot two persons  who live together and need each other. Many believe that last war set in motion such a gigantic  mechanism of horror that future generations would be frightened of even  making war again.But this opinion is absolutely mistaken.Fear teaches men  nothing.If men enjoy killing,no memory of war will deter them.Nor will the  knowledge of the material wrought by war? That is why i believe that world peace cannot be brought about by  preaching,organization and propaganda.What then can give rise to a true  spirit of peace on earth?Not commandments and not practical experience.Like  all human progress,the love of peace must come from knowledge which may be  seen and formulated in a thousand different ways.But it must always embody  one truth:the knowledge of the living substance in each of us,of the secret  magic,the secret godliness that each of us bears within.There war and enmity  cease.Any enemy becomes a brother;death becomes  birth;disgrace,honor;calamity,good fortune. What I am saying is self-evident.But just an every soldier shot  to death is the eternal repetition of an error,so the truth must be repeated  forever and ever in a thousand forms.