40 OVERTONES OF PEACE

 

40 OVERTONES OF PEACE

• AWARENESS - An ongoing fuller discovery of self and a mindful, spacious realization of creations interactions.

• CARING- to be concern, have thought or regard.

• COMMITMENT- The firm carrying out of purpose.

• COMPASSION- Sensitivity and the capacity to commiseration for another's suffering or misfortune.

• CONVICTION - A strong persuasion, a firm belief.

• COURAGE- Strength of mind and will to carry on with audacity and fortitude in spite of challenges and danger.

• CREATIVITY- The generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations, to go outside the box.

• DEEP LISTENING- non-judgmental, quiet, calm, emphatic understanding

• DEPENDABILITY - Reliable, worthy of reliance or trust.

• DETERMINATION - Firmness of purpose.

• ELOQUENCE - Powerful and effective language. Fluent, persuasive and articulate speech.

• ENTHUSIASM - A feeling of excitement. Exuberance: overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval.

• FAIRNESS - Free from bias or injustice; evenhandedness.

• FAITHFULNESS - Steadfast in affection or allegiance; loyal.

• FORGIVENESS - disposition or willingness to forgive to grant pardon for or remission of an offense.

• FORTITUDE - Strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage.

• GENEROSITY - Giving or ready to give freely, free from meanness or prejudice.

• GENTLENESS - Moderate; mild, quiet.                           

• GRACIOUSNESS - Elegance and courtesy, in speech or behavior acknowledges     that the worth of others.

• GRATITUDE - Being thankful.

• HONESTY - Integrity, veracity, and devotion to telling the truth especially when it is difficult.

• HUMILITY - A disposition to be humble; honesty, modest.

• INTEGRITY - Moral soundness; Integrity is consistency of values and actions. Unbroken completeness, congruent

 • JOY - A state of happiness, peace and a cause of rejoicing in the delight of one's life and others.

 • JUSTICE - Fair, impartial, giving a deserved response.

 • KINDNESS - To act with grace and benevolent assistance in service to others.

 • LOVE - Constant selfless regard for and dedication to others.

 • MYSTERY - something difficult or impossible to understand or explain.

   MERCY- Compassion/forbearance shown to an offender or to those in distress.

• PATIENCE - The quality of waiting for events to unfold in proper time without worry or distress.

 • RESPECT - Admiration for others. Treating people with due dignity.

• RESPONSIBILITY - Having control over and accountability for appropriate events.

 • SERVICE - Work done by one person or group that benefits another.

 • SIMPLICITY - Straightforward; not complex or complicated, Unpretentious.

• SINCERITY - Free from pretense or deceit in manner or actions.

• SPACIOUSNESS - A beginning, a possibility, a potential, and a capacity for new awareness in the midst of a graceful peaceful presence.

 • THANKFULNESS - Warm friendly feelings of gratitude.

 • TRUST - Reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person.

 • UNDERSTANDING - The perceptive capacity for knowing and sharing the feelings of another.

 • WISDOM - The insight and ability to understand, usually with age, inner qualities of ideas and personal relationships.

 • WONDER - The feeling aroused by something strange and surprising.

             

                   GANDHI'S TOP 10 FUNDAMENTALS

FOR CHANGING THE WORLD

1. Change yourself.

 "You must be the change you want to see in the world."

2. You are in control.

 "Nobody can hurt me without my permission."

3. Forgive and let it go.

 "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." "An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

4.. Without action you aren't going anywhere.

"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching."

5. Take care of this moment.

"I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following."

6. Everyone is human.

 "I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps." "It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."

7. Persist.

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

8. See the good in people and help them.

"I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others." "Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men." "I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people."

9. Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony," "Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."

10. Continue to grow and evolve.

"Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position."