Why There Is No Peace on Earth and
What You Can Do About It: Snoopy and The Red Baron
This has to be the craziest (and longest)
article title I've ever come up with -- I admit it! But bear with
me.
This is a repeat of a Christmas article we published several
years ago. I think it’s perhaps even more appropriate and timely
today than it was then.
John Cali
Years ago, Chief Joseph and I wrote a newsletter article called Peace
on Earth. In that article, Joseph gave us an
interesting, and somewhat different, view of how we can achieve what
has clearly been an elusive goal for the human race.
Back in the days when I was a young pilot, Charles Schulz's Peanuts
comic strips were at the peak of their popularity. One of Schulz's
main characters was Snoopy, "the funny looking dog with the big
black nose." Snoopy was, and still is, one of my all-time
favorite cartoon characters.
As many of you know, he was a beagle who loved to pretend he was
a World War One flying ace. He and the Red Baron were sworn enemies.
Snoopy, of course, is a fictional cartoon character. The Red
Baron, however, was real. His actual name was Manfred von Richthofen.
The Red Baron was an incredibly talented German fighter pilot
during World War One. With 80 "kills" to his credit, he
died in a 1918 air battle at the age of 25.
Back in the late 1960s, the Royal Guardsmen were a short-lived
singing group. One of their most popular songs was Snoopy's
Christmas.
At the end of the song, Snoopy is caught from behind by the Red
Baron on Christmas Eve. Meanwhile, on the ground, the allied forces
and the Germans were negotiating a Christmas truce. The Red Baron
didn't shoot Snoopy down, but instead forced him to land behind the
German lines.
To Snoopy's great surprise, the Red Baron jumped out of his
fighter plane, popped open a bottle of champagne, and offered Snoopy
a holiday toast, "Merry Christmas, mein friend!"
Then they both flew off into the darkening skies of Christmas
Eve, knowing they would meet again another day.
Here's Chief Joseph.
Chief Joseph
Don't you think Christmas truces are a rather strange, and
contradictory, idea? Where's the sense there?
We are not against declaring peace among your fellow humans. And,
strangely enough, we are not against declaring war. War is, to many
of you, a game. A rather silly game, it seems to us, since almost
all of you say you want peace. But you want it on your terms.
You cannot create peace on earth by "fighting for"
peace. You cannot create peace on earth by "fighting
against" war. You cannot create anything you want -- peace on
earth, or anything else -- when you are coming from a place of
resistance. And when you are fighting -- for or against -- you are
resisting the natural flow of well-being that is yours, individually
and en masse.
Peace on earth begins with you, each of you individually. You
cannot march out there to protest or fight when you are in a place
of peace within yourselves. They are opposite vibrations.
When you have found peace in the only place you will ever find it
-- within your own hearts -- then, and only then, will you be in a
place of power. A place from which you are empowered to begin
creating peace on earth.
One person, centered in her/his own still, quiet place within, is
a million times more powerful than all the armies who ever marched
across the centuries.
That is how powerful each of you is.
And so if you want to create peace on earth, know you absolutely
must create it within yourselves first.
When you reach the point in your growth, as a human race, where
your government leaders are truly peaceful -- peaceful warriors, you
might say -- only then will you stand a chance of realizing this
seemingly elusive goal of peace among all people on the planet.
Of course, when you reach that point, you won't need government
leaders. You won't even need governments. And you won't need
boundaries and borders to separate yourselves from each other.
Then you will find true peace on earth.
An impossible dream? You may see it that way. We don't.
Centuries upon centuries of war across your planet have not
brought you peace. There must be a better way. And there is -- YOU
are the way.
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P.S. Joseph and I wish all of you and your loved ones a most
blessed and beautiful holiday season. Happy Hanukkah! Happy Kwanzaa!
And whether you celebrate Christmas on December 25 or January 7,
Merry Christmas! But no matter what you celebrate, or even if you
don't celebrate, have a happy December and January!
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