There are people with conscience trying to spiritualize commerce, and there are people without conscience trying to commercialize spirituality. A mediocre can hardly see the difference between the two, much less understand it. The difference, however, can easily be seen by a person with some intelligence. For, conscience is the blossoming of human intelligence. Mere intellectual knowledge can never give birth to the conscience in a human being.
“Those were peaceful days….” We often hear and read such or similar statements made by men and women of distinction, as if peace was prevailing in our society in “those days”.
The Peacemakers, the real peacemakers are never at peace. They can never work for peace if they are at peace. They are a bunch of disturbed people. They are disturbed with what they see around them. And, they are extremely sensitive. They feel the slightest disturbance, the slightest pain felt by anyone.
Someone has sent me a very interesting story that I must share here:
Dr Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute in his June 9 (year not mentioned, but perhaps 2005 – a.k.) lecture at the University of Puerto Rico, shared the following story:
Machiavelli and Sun-Tzu may have lived thousands of miles apart, they may have hailed from different continents and may have never met each other — but they spoke the same language. They always agreed that all is fair in politics and war, and that there are no permanent friends and foes… that is, it is right to “use” people to attain your goals and objectives.