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Thought for Seventh Month, 2009

People who know know nothing of God and whose lives are centered on themselves, imagine that they can only find themselves by asserting their own desires and ambitions and appetites in a struggle with the rest of the world.

They try to become real by imposing themselves on other people, by appropriating for themselves some share of the limited supply of created goods and thus emphasizing the difference between themselves and the other men who have less than they, or nothing at all.

They can only conceive one way of becoming real: cutting themselves off from other people and building a barrier of contrast and distinction between themselves and other men.

They do not know that reality is to be sought not in division but in unity, for we are "members one of another."

The man who lives in division is not a person but only an "individual."

—Thomas Merton,
New Seeds of Contemplation
(Boston, MA: Shambala Publications, Inc, 2003, 1961, pp.49-50)


What's NEW: Events of Concern & New Links

  • Roadmap for Peace - A set of principles and recommendations created by AFSC and other organizations to shape the foreign policy of President Obama

Committee Members

Becky Steele, Clerk peace@seym.org
Al Geiger  
Shawna Doran  
Steve Kinney  
Becky Steele  
Jack Bradin  
Ed Hotchkiss  
Warren Hoskins  
Cecilia Yocum  

Note: Friends are encouraged to send suggestions for added topics of concern and for links or other content to Mike Shell.


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