With all the crucial news we read in the headlines each day; about wars, revolutions, kidnappings and killings happening all around us, one tends to remember only the headlines and forgets that life has love, beauty and creativity to offer. But how are these life’s essentials to coexist in a world where power dominates and money motivates. It has been written that history will repeat itself, but we also have come to understand that we have the power to learn from history and help change the future – our future.

Today let’s take a small step in re-writing history and celebrating life. Today lets all take a short pause, and really look within, to know who we are, and where are we headed. Today let’s celebrate and spread peace, love and joy to all around us; a seed of life which I hope will spread like wild flowers, today through our environment, and tomorrow blossom and spread its fragrance across the rest of the world.

While one may claim that one person cannot change the world, and place responsibility on others or blame the institutions in power, at the end of the day it’s our world and our responsibility. We have fought many wars in the past, for freedom, for power and many an innocence have been slain – and what has been achieved. In a war there is no victory and no winners, everyone only looses, we know that now and still we continue on a path that can only lead to the destruction of a planet we have come to call home.

It’s not just the wars that are being fought on the outside; it’s the war that is going on right now within each and every one of us. We live in difficult times. It’s the end of living and the beginning of survival, an age where there is no time to enjoy a peaceful sunset, too feel the cool breeze, to admire the beauty around us and to celebrate the gift of love and life. We live in the secure confines of our own precious little worlds, where we struggle to make it through each day, hope for a better tomorrow and satisfy one-self in the meantime by tending to our petty desires.

So how does it all end? If you seek the end you must go back to the beginning. There exists a world we see and experience on the outside and our senses are the doorway, and there also exists a world which resides within each one of us which is also very real; a world in which lies our capacity to love instead of hate, create instead of destroy and rejoice instead of suffer. It’s this space one must seek. In the end…there is a new beginning, and each new moment offers us a new beginning, a new seed that can be planted to create the new earth.