Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882 American Poet Essayist)

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors. (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881 Scottish Philosopher Author)

Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred - this is the law of eternal. (Buddha, 568-488 BC Founder of Buddhism)

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost. (Karl Kraus, 1874-1936 Austrian Satirist)

War is only acceptable to those who have had no experience of it. (Desiderius Erasmus, 1466-1536 Dutch Humanist)

You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill. (Hari Dass Baba)

War - what a waist of time. It's all about great achievements for the very few but hideous losses for the very many. (Unknown)

He who fights monsters should see to it that in the process, he does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you. (Nietzche)

The hardest part of the soldier is looking each day at the man in the mirror having known all that he has done to other men just like himself. (Dean Fraser)

Every man who would fight in a war will have to murder his own soul. (Dean Fraser)

A just war is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience. (Alexander Cockburn, 1941 Anglo-Irish Journalist)

The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for “God in themselves,” but against the “devil in others,” never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself. (Aldous Huxley)

In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. (Jose Narosky)

War has always been the grand sagacity... its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. (Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900 German Philosopher)

How does one find compassion for the [911] perpetrators? Ah, this is a difficult one, but not impossible. Antichrist behavior often strikes out. Has not the United States in their own fear also struck out, bombing seeming terrorist sites? This is the pattern of the antichrist. Those in the East also struck out at the United States in the highjacking and destruction of the New York Trade Center. Therefore, what happened? What happened that caused the Middle East to feel so fearful that they would strike out at the United States and the West in this manner?

Perhaps we will not really ever know the actual cause. Perhaps the cause is the Middle Eastern policies of the United States, or perhaps it is a stance of the CIA or FBI or other secret service organizations, or perhaps something in relation to the secret government. In any case, something occurred that caused the Middle East to feel so fearful, so terrorized that the circumstance justified from their point of view the shattering of the New York Trade Center. One may never know the actual details, however, if one did, then one could perhaps understand.

One perhaps can understand the reasons for the United States retaliation. However understand that both were caused by the same set of circumstances, something that terrorized humans into action. Is one set of circumstances warranted and another not? Beloved, terror is terror regardless of cause. Who is to judge terror, and what terrorizes one may not terrorize another…

In recent years, those in the West have seen humans in terror, enough terror to gun down strangers or fellow schoolmates at a University. What happened to such an individual that would be in such a state of terror that they would choose to gun down another? Perhaps, much like the Middle Eastern circumstance, one will never know, as one would have to be inside of the individual at cause to truly understand. Perhaps something had caused the individual to splinter so greatly that they went insane with terror, and then out of the insanity chose to kill another or group of others. And is this not also what has occurred in New York beloved? Something has terrorized the East into taking such action?

And what of the disgruntled employee who guns down their boss or workmates? Has not this scenario played itself out as of late in various places all over the world? What was such an employee thinking? Were they not somehow in a place of such great hopelessness and terror that they felt that the only solution was death - death to the one who threatened them so, and perhaps death to themselves through suicide? What was such a human thinking? Why were they so terrorized? Perhaps they had gone into a form of insanity, and from the terror of the insanity, sadly, the choice to kill appeared as the only appropriate action.

War torn places create a form of insanity, as the damage is not only physical but also nonphysical… How many of one's own ancestors have gone insane and committed such crimes? Go within beloved and see, and we guess that there are more than you realize. In the examination of your own history, perhaps you will understand. In the understanding, one can have compassion for the perpetrator, for one can see how another can be tormented into such a place that they would commit such a crime, as the crime appears as the only solution to the internal terror and insanity that they exist within, daily.

Compassion is a state of being in which there is love for all others. In a state of compassion, one would have understanding for the terrorists, empathy for those living in such war torn and dire circumstances, and sympathy for the victims who lost their lives upon the plane or in the devastation of the towers. One would also have sensitivity for those left behind mourning the loss of their loved ones, along with those firemen or policemen wounded or killed trying to save the day. One would have love for all involved, regardless of role.

Difficult? Perhaps. As one attains unity, such compassion is an automatic way of being. For one understands that the human form is so limited, that there is a prescribed role for any genetic package. Those who ended their lives as the terrorist were born to fulfill upon such a role. Those who died in the collapsing towers, or as the fireman or policemen trying to save the day, they too were born to fulfill upon such a role.

How can this be so? Is there not free will in the human dance? The human dance is so limited, beloved, that it can go no other way than the genetic predisposition of the form from birth, unless one chooses to ascend. In order terms, the destiny of the life is known the moment the child is born. Through ascension, one may modify the genetics and thereby modify the genetic predisposition that causes a particular destiny in one's life dance. Such a destiny will go from death to ascension in the choice to ascend.

If such humans had no choice as to the role that they were to play, who is to blame? No one is to blame beloved. However, Mila takes the stance that this human dance must change, and it has the opportunity to change through evolution. Through evolution, the very lineages and genetics that would cause a future terrorist or Hitler to be born again can be phased out allowing a new day in human civilization to dawn. The new dawn will occur as all humans enter a state of unity with one another, as in a state of unity, all shall have compassion, and from compassion, one will not seek to harm to destroy another out of fear. This shall occur as fear is no longer a part of the dance; the human form will have transcended the vibrations of fear, anger, pain, grief, suffering, along with death, illness, deformity and disease through ascension. (Natalia of the One Source through Karen Danrich "Mila") - www.ascendpress.org

Morality is contraband in war. (Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948 Indian Political Spiritual Leader)

Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings to become numbed and indifferent, have emerged from their experiences with growth and humanness greater than that achieved through almost any other means. (Elisabeth KuBler-Ross, 1926 Swiss-born American Psychiatrist)

...when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. (Sogyal Rinpoche)

The secret to bringing peace to earth is bearing in mind that the world is simply what it is. And is it so small a place, that you could change it radically? Live at peace with yourself, if you would bring peace even to one other human being. (Donald Walters)

Courage is the price life exacts for granting peace. (Amelia Earhart)