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Deepak Chopra’s passionate new book, Peace Is the Way, was inspired by the saying from Mahatma Gandhi: “There is absolutely no way to peace. Peace is the way.” In a global where every way to peace has proved futile, the main one strategy that hasn’t been tried is the way of peace itself. “We must not bring one war to an end, or thirty,” Chopra tells us, “but the idea of war itself.”
How can this be achieved?
By facing the fact war is satisfying, and then substituting new satisfactions so that violence is no longer appealing. “War has become a habit. We reach for it the way a chain smoker reaches for a cigarette, promising to give up but somehow never kicking the habit.” But Chopra tells us that peace has its own power, and our task now could be to direct that power and multiply it one person at a time.
Behind the numbing headlines of violence running uncontrollable there are unmistakable signs of a change—Chopra believes that a majority of people will be ready to see an end to war. “Right now 23 million soldiers serve in armies round the world. Can’t we find ten times that number who will dedicate themselves to peace? 100 times?”
Peace Is the Way challenges each folks to take the next leap in personal evolution. “You aren’t asked to be a saint, or to give up any belief. You are just asked to avoid reacting out of fear, to improve your allegiance from violence to peace.” In a practical seven-step program, Chopra shows the reader how to become a genuine peacemaker. “Violence may be innate in human nature, but so is its opposite: love. The next stage of humanity, the leap which we could poised to adopt, will be guided by the force of that love.” That is greater than a hope or an aspiration. It is a new way to be on earth, giving each individual the power to end war inside our time.
