| The journey to Peace starts from you- your home, your community. If we start our journey in right earnest, we have the power to write the destiny of The Rotary Foundation. Peace starts with happiness. Happiness feeds Peace. One may ask “What has Peace to do with Happiness? ” The connection is easy to understand. Our happiness gives us time to make others happy and happiness creates a frame of mind which can ponder over Peace. There can be no Peace without Happiness. If the communities are embroiled in stresses and strains of life, we have no time to devote to Peace. Happiness is but a deep sense of inner Peace and we can distribute happiness through our acts of service, we are likely to promote Peace. Happiness does not necessarily come from wealth. splendor or personal glory. Tranquility gives more happiness and tranquility is the seed that germinates into a beautiful flower of Peace. If the community is unhappy – mainly because of trials and tribulations they face – even God can not approach the community except in the form of some help that can solve a problem or two. In our daily life, we can smile and produce smiles on the faces of the less fortunate – not only we become happy but make others happy. This is the basis of Peace. Our Vedas declare “Let there be Peace within and without and May that Peace remains with us forever” This is the most secular declaration of Peace and Happiness. |
