Syria. A woman's call
For a long time we have hidden what we truly know in our being. For too long we have veiled our wisdom since it seemed so far away from the common logic that reigns our societies. We have learnt to believe that there is such a thing as impossible. We believed that there really was no choice but to hurt, kill, suffer, fear and die. For so long we have accepted that there is no other option and that our loyalty and belonging require us to lose hope and turn to paths of cruelty and heartlessness. Over the generations, we washed the blood out We licked our wounds Strove to restore the will to live and we all went back to the battlefield. Over what seemed like an eternity we were the comforters, the caregivers, those that encouraged and gave reassuring hope. We've been sending children which are our children, to war cooking them food to strengthen them, in what is the largest human paradox More and more women know that they cannot anymore. Cannot accept the explanations Cannot put up with the lack of option and choice Cannot participate in thinking that if one does not know what to do, one should stay where he is. More and more women can no longer believe that war will ever lead to peace and tranquility and that hatred leads to love. It just does not happen. We see what is happening in Syria for the last three years. We observe the slaughter, the cruelty, reckless destruction, the lust of power that knows no God and allows no man or woman to stand in its way and restore sanity. We see the various authorities and international influential entities in the world standing indifferent or helpless, captive to the narrow and arrogant thought of control and power, and crushed under the pressure of interests and diplomacy in which they believe and even worship. Given to fears and benefit analysis, makes one forget who one is, and turn one into a wild beast or an efficient machine of destruction, fear and death. A woman's voice for peace is the simple voice of truth. It is the voice that says that it is love, and only love, that gives life. That to be human unconditionally, reminds man of his spirit and power. A woman's voice remembers and reminds that being able to move in the darkness gives a person the knowledge of light, beyond any doubt, and that every form of life that does not say yes to love and to life's energy creates cycles of fear and suffering that do not cease Women are spiritual beings. The physiology and psychology of the woman and her femininity derive from - and reach out to the spiritual entity that she is. We are in a journey of elaborate oneness. Feminine wisdom, the mystery and the primordial yearning women carry, create a deep communion with the Divine We feel this, remember that in our physical being, carry in ourselves the past, the present and the future of humanity and long for divinity and oneness on each level of body, mind and soul. Changing Paradigms As a starting point, we identify a few major paradigms which have been dominant in shaping our lives and are now shifting, ways of thought which have managed the way we have been acting and needs to change in order for us to act in a new way, a way that is in harmony with our true nature: We live in a world of co-creation From believing that the power that runs our lives is somewhere “over there” to acknowledging that the world around us and inside us is inseparable and is in a constant move, taking form through our beliefs. Hence, no change can happen outside of me without taking place simultaneously internally. What we see as the current situation of the world is not an objective reflection but more of a creation of thought. We live in a world of co-creation, movement of co-dependent and co-responsive forces, more than fixed objects. Act upon Love as the greatest force of life From a worldview which originates in fear, competition and scarcity (“it is either “them” or “us”, “I have to fight to get what I want”, and “the world is a dangerous place”) into a worldview based on trust, Love, and the beauty of our nature. Since we trust Love more than we trust Fear, we can no longer believe that self-defense is necessary, nor that it can lead to peace. In a world of co-dependence, only trust and love can lead to trust and love. Interconnection and interdependence From a paradigm of a pyramid, in which a person's value is determined by the number of people that are subjected to his authority and control, into a paradigm of a net – interconnection and interdependence between all forms of life. Each one has a unique contribution out of his unique perspective of life. Therefore, justice is needed not in order to save the poor but to ensure that no part is left aside, causing the whole to remain incomplete and missing ______________________________________________________ If you want to think together contact us: Ruth Bar-Shalev (Gur) * [email protected] * Phone: +972-54-445-6847 Nirit Shapira * [email protected] * Phone: +972-54-696-8702 |
Proposals for action
The general aim of these lines of action is to echo a call to people to go back to being human, to know that love and faith in the human spirit works miracles and transforms the entire world
To demand the resources and legislation to establish a network of schools for girls, teaching them the new principles and the ways to live them out. Demanding the immediate return of all refugees exiled in the last three years in Syria
I want to lose hope. And live. I want to lose forever the hope that war will bring peace I want to lose all hope that injustice will lead to justice I want to lose forever the hope that destruction will lead to building I want to lose forever all hope that one can be cruel and remain good I want to lose forever all hope that one can kill and not be a murderer Many of us already know that such hope is unfounded and leads to destruction, fear and terrible pain. Few of us, if at all, say so. Some of us are silent from fear. Some of us from an apparent lack of an alternative. That is why we march in cycles of suffering and death for years. We - parents, children and children's children. Many of us already know that only trust creates confidence and only forgiveness leads to forgiveness. The winning logic tells us it's a danger to believe someone unconditionally and without limit. Our concept of justice would often excuse the injustice and suffering incurred by us. Let us return the people to their homes - the refugees, the mercenary army who fought with unspeakable viciousness against civilians three years it was mean to safeguard. Let's say enough to mercenaries and rulers lacking compassion Let's stop our self-defense, because we already know that such protection, performed by the best of people with hearts full of devotion, loyalty and love for country and people, bring only more war and more blood. Let's allow ourselves to finally be defenseless Let's go out this time to the Lebanese people , to the Palestinian people , to the Syrian people and the Iranian people when we bring with us only uncompromising and unconditional trust, thus dislocating their souls from war , death , fear and pain , with them only asking for themselves joy , freedom and love. Let's believe they wish for it, as we wish it to ourselves, with all our hearts, all our souls and all our might. Let's believe that it is in their hands and ours, in the hands of the people, a man and another man and another man. If necessary, we will be disappointed and pained and meet refusal and anger, but we won't leave. In the absence of a path we will invent a path - simple, human, an everyday path which gives life. We will believe the other - who is one with me, and more than they believe in themselves. More than we believe in ourselves. We will tell them that. And recall that for ourselves. When we do such things miracles happen. The time has arrived. |