Discussion of Grief and the Human Condition - Part 2

This is part two of a two-part series by 10 Million Clicks For Peace contributor, Corry Roach. Click here for part one.

Oddly, grief and loss carry hardship that often brings us closer together as a human family. Although the specific individuals who support us in the journey are often a surprise to us, there is a greater sense of meaning in life after bereavement. Our priorities change, giving us desire for depth of meaning in love, insight and relationships. Old relationships die off as new ones are born. We pass or fail a test of education in Life, depending on what we do with the challenges we are faced with in the experience.

Since Canadian soldiers have lost their lives in Afghanistan, the numbers attending Remembrance Day services in our country has grown exponentially. Our culture makes it okay to grieve on certain occasions, days, or for specific reasons or persons. And yet, when we suffer a personal loss, we tend to hide our grief away in shame or fear of being misunderstood, whether it is for the loss itself or the length of time it takes to heal from it. I must say I find this a curious habit in our western society. There appears to be a lack of education and literacy around the topic of death, bereavement and the mourning process; something I find interesting when loss is such a central part of every human life… Read more

Discussion of Grief and the Human Condition - Part 1

This is part one of a two-part series by 10 Million Clicks For Peace contributor, Corry Roach. We will feature the second part tomorrow.

It is true that the more we make peace with who we are, the greater quiet wisdom we seem to project into the world around us. Especially when those big lessons in life throw us a curve ball, it takes awhile for us to find our way back to Center again. Within those intense times of grief and growth, we do actually have immense opportunities to evolve as a person. Hence the saying, when hardship visits us in this life journey, of getting bitter or getting better…

Understanding the importance of peace making within ourselves first, it does eventually change the world, one person at a time. We must first change our own world for the better before we can presume to affect the lives of those around us with peace. Read more

Inner Peace and Gratefulness

Many people around the world today are looking for inner peace. They are searching in many places, in many techniques, in many books and in many workshops for an answer. I understand this very well because inner peace was the reason why I went to the Zen Buddhist monastery when I was 17. I realised that no one around me could really say with 100% truthfulness, “I am totally in my centre and I have a sense of inner peace”. This made me ask, “What is inner peace? Where do you find it?”

I think that anyone who asks that question begins to search and the first place I looked for it was in other people. I met and found a few wise people who claimed that they were enlightened and felt that inner peace, so from that space I asked the question to them, “What is inner peace? Where do you find it?” They invariably answered that inner peace is not an experience outside of yourself nor is it an experience inside of yourself. It is an experience that goes beyond that question because it is not an experience that you can find - it is an experience that you have to live in this moment. Read more

Dancing the Dream

10 Million Clicks For Peace members, Chief Robert and Terri Lynn TallTrees, wrote and produced this “song of peace”. You can see the wonderful work this awesome duo is doing for children in the world here. If you like this peaceful, soothing song called “Dancing the Dream”, you can support their mission and purchase a CD on their site.

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Tony Samara: The beauty of nature

An inspirational video on the beauty of nature, and our relationship with planet Earth, from 10 Million Clicks For Peace member, and spiritual guide, Tony Samara.

Grief in the Life Journey

I am often struck at how life’s experiences are all so interconnected within each individual person. We are indeed a tangle of experiences, and it is up to us what we do with those bundles, and how much we recognize the gifts in all of them, regardless of whether we name them in sorrow or in joy. I so appreciate Kahlil Gibran’s words, in The Prophet, when he says, Joy and sorrow are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed…

I truly believe our greatest opportunity for personal and spiritual growth rests in our deepest trials, because we are forever changed by them, whether we want to be or not. Life roughs us up, or shakes us out of our lethargic shoes sometimes, and although it doesn’t feel like a good thing at the time; it could, with hard work, be shaped into an eventual exercise of deep and sacred meaning. There are so many things that are indeed out of our hands… Read more

Our World at Peace

10 Million Clicks member, Paul “Wildcat” Sutherland, created a beautiful inspirational video of Rick Beneteau’s “Our World at Peace”. Thank you for an amazing job, Paul:-)

Download a beautiful PDF of Our World at Peace here.

Allowing Now

10 Million Clicks member Paul “Wildcat” Sutherland sent us his beautiful inspirational video and explanation of the concept of  “allowing”.

Allowing is thinking about what you want truly want from life and then letting it go. Releasing it to the Universe and trusting that the Divine Source will deliver that which you desire. It does not mean that no action is required or that you wait and expect things to happen. However, those actions will be right actions when you allow and flow peacefully through life.

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Life is a Trip, but Where are You Going?

Too often our experience of life is like a series of breathless, unconscious, one after the other chase scenes in a fast-paced movie. Rather, I believe life is meant to be a series of vibrant still shots or landscapes to savor and enter into with just a sprinkling of the right amount of mad-cap scenarios to add some spice.

Often, as soon as we wake up in the morning, we are immediately mentally inundated with an infinitely long “To Do” list. Instead, I would propose that we start off our day by focusing on creating an exquisite, rich, high quality “To Be” list. Let me explain.

As I see it, it’s not about what you want to “do” today that is most important, but rather what you want to “be” or feel or experience. What qualities of life do you want to primarily participate in today: peace, balance, love, courage, happiness, joy, humor, harmony, confidence, etc? Or do you really want to go into a lowest common denominator default mode and experience their opposites? Read more

The Power of Giving

It was a really hot summer’s day many years ago. I was on my way to pick up two items at the grocery store. In those days, I was a frequent visitor to the supermarket because there never seemed to be enough money for a whole week’s food-shopping at once.

You see, my young wife, after a tragic battle with cancer, had died just a few months earlier. There was no insurance — just many expenses and a mountain of bills. I held a part-time job, which barely generated enough money to feed my two young children. Things were bad — really bad.

And so it was that day, with a heavy heart and four dollars in my pocket, I was on my way to the supermarket to purchase a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread. The children were hungry and I had to get them something to eat. As I came to a red traffic light, I noticed on my right, a young man, a young woman and a child on the grass next to the road. The blistering noonday sun beat down on them without mercy. Read more

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