Lanna Guillen, Student, (Philippines) Australia
“I want to be a better person, not just in
what I do, but in how I feel about myself. I hope to create a chain
reaction from that realisation of inner peace and channel it out in
positive ways; I’ve realised that the chain of reaction
doesn’t necessarily work from the outside in.”
Chimay Posavec, Student, United States
“To me, spirituality is listening to
yourself. If you listen to yourself and follow your heart you
will be more in tuned with the things you love and their relationship
to your talents. Everybody has something they love doing and find
peace when doing it. You will then express that peace you find in
your relations with other people and the earth.”
Lydia Black, Student, United States
“Spirituality is my inner connection to the
divine within me, and my connection with the world at large. I
volunteered at America Friends Service
Committee helping to organize peace
rallies and peace awareness around the state of Vermont.”
Joaquin Leguia, Founder of the Association for Children
and their Environment (ANIA), Peru
“Our philosophy is that the state of the
world is the reflection of the collective state of our hearts.
Therefore, if a child has a piece of land where they can build a better
world, rooted in truth and love, their hearts will be planted with life
and hope. I envision children’s land’s multiplying all over
the world propagating hope in our hearts.”
Augusto Cuginotti, Youth Peace Worker, Brazil
“I understand the meaning of spirituality
more as individual and collective search than a definition. For me
spirituality is connected to be and act integrating a spiritual
dimension, a dimension of inner knowledge and conscious connection with
our relationships.”
Lakshmi Carcelle, Student, Mauritius
“To practice outside the truths that we have
found inside... as we are spiritual, we have to respect others as we
are all related.”
“We must be more tolerant, we must learn to
forgive and to forget and we must accept the differences existing in
each other.”
Neeti Aryal Khanal, College Teacher, Youth Society for Peace, Nepal
“We can conclude that all people in this
world are craving for the same thing, happiness; everyone wants to be
happy. Spirituality in my opinion is thus a search for everlasting
happiness, a kind of happiness that is related neither with any
material thing nor with any personal being. Spiritual state is
thus that state of realization that happiness does not come from things
and people, but it comes from within, after discovering who you
are.”
Lawrence Wantay Yealue, Teacher (Volunteer),
Liberia/Ghana
“Youth can translate spirituality into
action by being the message we preach. Humanity is the key to
true service and the vehicle that brings spirituality into
action.”
Ludmilla Korkina, Peace
Pals, Russia
“Spiritual person on my opinion try to make
peace into his/her own heart, then peace will come around. My
life principal is make happy yourself and
then all people around you could be happy.”
Colin Lee, Entrepreneur and Speaker, Australia
“. . . on a mission to live life as a
message of love and a child of God by being a shining example to the
universe.”
Gracie Horne, Student, President of the Wolakota Youth Council, USA
“In order to reach world peace I feel that
we all need to recognize that we are connected. That means
accepting differences, life forms, boundaries, and having respect for
each other. Also realizing that once world peace is obtained that
there is a balance in everything.”
Sammy Jacobs Abbey, Conflict Analyst, Ghana
“I place a high value on friendship and the
human connection to my spiritual path. We are all student and
teacher and can learn from and share our experiences with others,
thereby expanding the sense that all human beings are connected.”
Nicolas Attallah, Student, PYALARA, Palestine
“I feel that whenever you are feeling as a
real human with no distinction from other human beings, when you do not
hold grudges or hate people for the way they think or act, when you
care about other people, when you help yourself and other, then you are
a good spirit.”
