Fred is an author, lecturer, and founder and chair of International Cities of Peace.&nbsp;He mentors peace leadership in over 400 member cities. His books include The Elements of Peace: How Nonviolence Works, The Economics of Peace: Freedom, the Golden Rule, and Broadening Prosperity, and The Physics of Spirit: Four Energetic Propositions to Enliven the Human Condition.

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<h4 style="text-align:justify;">In this final conversation of the series, J. FREDERICK ARMENT continues to talk with CHRISTINE JONES about promoting peace in the world. They discuss the awakening of consciousness that is happening around the world, and the need for humanity to reach a tipping point where we can make the leap into a higher way of being.</h4>&nbsp;Q: Daaji recently talked about the Sanskrit word for meditation, Dhyana, and he said “Dhi” means ultimate wisdom, and “Yana” is a vehicle. I had this revelation that humanity may now be capable of having the ultimate wisdom while we receive the gift of being in this vehicle.FA: Yes, Yāna refers to a vehicle or the means by which we reach our destination, which is ultimate wisdom. Meditation and also International Cities of Peace can be important aspects of Yāna. It may be a little optimistic, but I do think humanity has purpose in the universe, and it is to expand and extend and become perfect in our consciousness.Q: The idea of consciousness seems to be happening in all different groups. In March we had a Global Spirituality Conference in India, where one hundred thousand people from diverse spiritual faiths and traditions came in person and also joined virtually. I believe there is a tipping point happening. This idea of consciousness is about everyone coming together and contributing to a resonance on the planet.FA:&nbsp;We create these waveguides—ways we can contribute and receive at the same time. International Cities of Peace is a waveguide, and communities can use International Cities of Peace as the ideal of a city of peace. No city in the world is an actual 100% city of peace, but they can use the ideal of a city of peace to work for a better community: have safety for their families, prosperity for the community, and a quality of life for everyone who is in that community.That’s our definition of peace, the consensus values of safety, prosperity, and quality of life. We’ve never had any pushback on that definition of safety, prosperity, and quality of life. Whether it’s in Sudan, Colombia, China, or Canada, everybody is working toward that, because everyone has a family and everyone has a community.So International Cities of Peace creates an infrastructure, community by community, to localize, democratize, and sensitize the world to what is best for families and people. That can contribute positively to the Tipping Point. To express our love of community, our love of place, is the intention of International Cities of Peace, and it’s working quite well.&nbsp;<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:75%;"><img src="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/the_tipping_point2_fc36cc9159_56efaeac03.jpg" alt="the_tipping_point2_fc36cc9159.jpg" srcset="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/thumbnail_the_tipping_point2_fc36cc9159_56efaeac03.jpg 191w,https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/small_the_tipping_point2_fc36cc9159_56efaeac03.jpg 500w,https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/medium_the_tipping_point2_fc36cc9159_56efaeac03.jpg 750w," sizes="100vw"></figure>&nbsp;Q: I was in a retreat last week and I was so moved by the people who were participating in a meeting. I felt blessed that I can associate with so many people doing so many good things. You commented in one of your podcasts that 95% of the world’s people are good. They’re working people trying to take care of their families. And there are different communities doing tremendous work—reciprocating love and peace, something we all want.FA:&nbsp;You find divisions everywhere in the United States. It’s become 50-50, tossing the dice on who’s going one way and who’s going the other. But, when it comes down to it, love can heal those divisions.Whether you’re on one side of the political spectrum or the other, both sides are working for peace, both sides want safety, and both sides want prosperity and quality of life. It depends on the waveguides that everyone is choosing, so look at the energy; a community has heart, and that heart beats with the resonance of each person in that community. That’s why Heartfulness centers are so important: You start with the heart and you expand from there. And the community needs a heart. I’m so excited about more and more Heartfulness centers becoming Cities of Peace.Q: Daaji said we don’t come here to change the world or save it; we come here to create a center so that the Universal Laws can work around that. So, your book about The Physics of Spirit, is actively staying centered in your heart. The principles of nature that you write about automatically start formulating around a peaceful soul.FA:&nbsp;It could be anything people love; how they express love and receive love is their domain. It has to do with that vessel called the soul, and that human organ called the heart. We can center ourselves and be able to work to receive and give love.Q: How can we guide people to create a City of Peace? I’m feeling drawn to help them.FA:&nbsp;That’s great. People need facilitators. For each city, there is a facilitator within the community who is a liaison. There are literally thousands of facilitators all over the world. I think the Heartfulness centers don’t need to worry about this. We don’t charge anything, but there’s the possibility of donations. We want the smallest village in Kenya to be able to do exactly what the largest city in the United States can do.I have one story for you about Nakivale, the refugee camp in Uganda. There are refugees from different nations inside the camp, which has been around since 1959. It is literally a city, so we opened it up to become a City of Peace. Now there are 13 Cities of Peace among the 80 different villages within the camp. And there’s a movement now to coordinate all the Cities of Peace in the Nakivale refugee camp. They're supported by Aalborg, Denmark, which is the 400th City of Peace, and so we’re looking forward to the city-to-city collaboration. It’s not just communities but regions that start to expand the base of Cities of Peace that can work together.<hr><h4 style="text-align:center;">International Cities of Peace creates an infrastructure,&nbsp; community by community, to localize, democratize,&nbsp; and sensitize the world to what is best for families and people.&nbsp; That’s the intention of International Cities of Peace,&nbsp; and it’s working quite well.</h4><hr>It becomes a twinning between two cities, then four cities, then a region, and that’s happening all over the world. So the Heartfulness Centers are very important as a path that can expand this network to other cities around the world. Your universal meditation at 9 o’clock at night can expand to other cities through this city-to-city coordination. So there are a lot of reasons for Heartfulness centers to become cities of peace, and it’s not just within the community, it’s also beyond the community.Q: It was very clear early on that the Cities of Peace is not an agenda-driven organization. I love that. It makes it so much purer in the essence of what the goal is.FA:&nbsp;That’s why I separate my spirituality from it. That’s why I separate my books from it. I don’t post anything about myself on the Cities of Peace website because I don’t want to become a luminary or force my thoughts about the universe on anyone else. We’re just providing a tool, a waveguide, for people to work for their purposes.Q: I was surprised at how much I didn’t know about you. It feels like &nbsp;your approach isn’t personal. I’ve noticed a similar shift in my own work; it must be a natural evolution of the soul.FA:&nbsp;That’s the whole intention of the International Cities of Peace—to provide the means for other intentions. It will be great when you’re facilitating the effort.Q: Do you believe a global awakening of consciousness can happen and bring peace to humanity?FA:&nbsp;Clearly, we face some serious existential threats right now, and we’ve relied on evolution to make progress. The physics of evolution is one of the concepts I’m working on, but we need a leap, and the awareness that we need a leap will lead to the leap because we are highly creative entities.Whether we do it from the heart or the brain, or using artificial intelligence because it’s part of our creativity, we are ready for a leap. I believe that if it is apparent that we do have existential threats, then people will put their shoulders to the boulder, their nose to the grindstone, and we will achieve awakening and also a manifestation of existence, rather than existence with a limitation. I do believe there is already an awakening, but we need more, and we need to drive it to the point where there is a leap in our evolution.Q: That’s what I think happened with me, after Daaji’s comment then reading your book; it was a leap of consciousness in me. This must be happening to so many people.FA:&nbsp;I am the eternal optimist and so are you. That’s probably why we get to be part of the team.Q: Thank you very much for sharing your story.&nbsp;<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:75%;"><img src="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/the_tipping_point3_259a3e48ca_0da35e88f9.jpg" alt="the_tipping_point3_259a3e48ca.jpg" srcset="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/thumbnail_the_tipping_point3_259a3e48ca_0da35e88f9.jpg 245w,https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/small_the_tipping_point3_259a3e48ca_0da35e88f9.jpg 500w,https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/medium_the_tipping_point3_259a3e48ca_0da35e88f9.jpg 750w," sizes="100vw"></figure> &nbsp;

The tipping point

<h4 style="text-align:justify;">J. FREDERICK ARMENT continues his conversation with CHRISTINE JONES about promoting peace in the world. He especially focuses on the foundation of it all—the importance of relationship, community, and love.</h4>&nbsp;<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:75%;"><img src="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/waveguides_community2_3ed6ec674b.jpg" alt="waveguides-community2.jpg" srcset="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/thumbnail_waveguides_community2_3ed6ec674b.jpg 123w,https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/small_waveguides_community2_3ed6ec674b.jpg 396w,https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/medium_waveguides_community2_3ed6ec674b.jpg 594w," sizes="100vw"></figure>&nbsp;Q: Last fall, you were having a conversation with Daaji, and you said, “After 15 years and 400 cities of peace, I’m not really seeing much peace anywhere. There’s a sense of discouragement sometimes in my work.” Daaji responded with, “Well, we do this intention for peace, which originally came from Ram Chandra (Babuji), who called it the universal prayer. He had an epiphany that everyone should come together at night at 9 p.m. local time.”&nbsp;We created a modern day version, a universal intention for peace, so that everybody can join. Daaji said to invite all these cities of peace to join us in this intention for peace—a common time where we join together for only 15 minutes.And he mentioned the word egregore, a thought form that acts to hold a group of people together. As thoughts are added to the egregore, it grows, but it also allows those connected to the current of the egregore to access the knowledge of that group. In your book, The Physics of Spirit, you’re well versed in this idea of egregore, although you use a different word—waveguide. This may be why Daaji invited the cities of peace to join in the intention for peace. When a group has the same thought at the same time, a waveguide will radiate the harmony we all hope for.Can you expound on this in layman’s terms?FA: Yes, a waveguide is a structure that guides wave. They are around everybody right now. It’s like a wire that plugs in and the current runs through the wire. It directs the waves. And when you guide a wave, you can increase the consonance by bringing in other waves. The consonant wave becomes much more powerful. For example, the churches of the Middle Ages had tall steeples and the podium was up high so that everything was raised to the sky. We create waveguides even within churches. Also, we create waveguides in whatever activity we are doing. The waveguide of a spouse allows you to love and receive love. That means your spouse is a waveguide for your love in order to expand it, replicate it, increase the intensity, and make an impact on the world and yourself at the same time.So the Heartfulness Centers are waveguides in the community. You come to a Heartfulness Center to learn meditation, but also for the relationships. So I see the Heartfulness Centers as waveguides and the heart of the community. Community needs a heart, needs this waveguide. I’m very excited about Heartfulness Centers around the world becoming cities of peace, because you’re already working for peace in your community.&nbsp;<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:75%;"><img src="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/waveguides_community1_6cb3a4e689.jpg" alt="waveguides-community1.jpg" srcset="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/thumbnail_waveguides_community1_6cb3a4e689.jpg 245w,https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/small_waveguides_community1_6cb3a4e689.jpg 500w,https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/medium_waveguides_community1_6cb3a4e689.jpg 750w,https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/large_waveguides_community1_6cb3a4e689.jpg 1000w," sizes="100vw"></figure>&nbsp;The cities of peace ideal is something that will enable all of the Heartfulness Centers to tell their story of how they affect the community in a positive way. Whether there’s a potluck, you’re planting trees, or you’re giving a prize to a child who does beautiful artwork, you’re impacting the community. So if Heartfulness Centers have this idea of egregore, then all of a sudden we have this means of working for peace.People do need a way to work in their communities, and all the different aspects of community, like government, the library, etc., can work together through the ideal of a city of peace. Heartfulness Centers can become the heart of that effort.<hr><h4 style="text-align:center;">People do need a way to work in their communities, and all the different aspects of community, like government, the library, etc., can work together through the ideal of a city of peace.&nbsp;</h4><hr>Q: You just explained that spiritual waveguides give purpose through reciprocal love. Spiritual interactions like meditation, rituals, and worship are energy interactions that help us experience a feeling of unity beyond oneself. A waveguide guides the propagation of waves, such as electromagnetic waves or sound, with minimal loss of energy. It routes energy along a path, I love it!FA: You know, wave guides can also be destructive. So we need to create our waveguides with the understanding that they route our energy. If you choose waveguides that are destructive, there is destruction at the end of the path. If you construct your wave guides as positive influences on community, then the result will be positive.Q: Daaji recently said, “Your readiness to do things perfectly takes you forward.” So, there has to be completion and conclusion in anything we start in perfection. The tendency to perfect our work will come only when we are proud of ourselves. This is the positive use of ego. Ego can be used in either direction, and the same with these waveguides.FA: Yes, we have to look at what we do and who we are as energy. If we do something halfway, the energy dissipates, whereas if we go to completion the energy is transferred. What Daaji says is very revealing, because it gives us the urge to do good.And I've been working on the concept of least and urgent; the urge is to life and the least is to death. It leads to entropy, the dissolution of energy. It’s the old couch potato routine. If you sit on the couch and don’t work in your community, then your energy will dissipate. If you get up and become engaged, then life is created, beauty is created. That’s how people do wonderful paintings and become great writers, ride horses and work with their dogs and walk in nature. All these beautiful things are because we have the urge to complete this idea that the spirit comes out of us and it comes back into us. That’s the reciprocal truth of all things being energy.&nbsp;<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:75%;"><img src="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/waveguides_community4_ca9ccb9c43.jpg" alt="waveguides-community4.jpg" srcset="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/thumbnail_waveguides_community4_ca9ccb9c43.jpg 245w,https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/small_waveguides_community4_ca9ccb9c43.jpg 500w,https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/medium_waveguides_community4_ca9ccb9c43.jpg 750w," sizes="100vw"></figure>&nbsp;Q: Something changed in me when Daaji said that about how I participate in the intention for peace. I realized I was working more from hope than completion, and it was interfering in the intention for peace.You wrote in your book about the Latin root of the word inspiration—a sudden and spontaneous breathing in of the divine spark that gives us creative purpose. Fulfilling our purpose is simply resonating with the energy of universal love. So Daaji’s idea about willingness to do things perfectly, and your idea that purpose is resonating with the energy of universal love, a new understanding changed the way I was approaching the universal intention for peace. I moved to feeling that peace was already established in the world.So my question is, do you feel your personal vision for peace has already manifested?FA: Each of us manifests, so I believe it is our manifestation and I work for peace. I founded a couple of things, I’ve written some books, but I don't take any personal pride in those things as the idea is that we are working in concert. My wave is in concert with your wave, Christine, so we are together, and that’s why I can smile. With all the bad news in the world, if we get bogged down by the idea that there’s only hope, we’ve already started giving up. We’ve been given so many gifts as human beings, and we just need to calm down and work as we can and in our own way. I think that’s how humanity will raise our consciousness. And when we raise our consciousness, all will be well.To be continued.

Waveguides and community

<h4 style="text-align:justify;">J. FREDERICK ARMENT has a conversation with CHRISTINE JONES about his organization, International Cities of Peace, as well as the other ways he promotes peace in the world. The foundation of it all is the importance of relationship, community, and love. This is the first in a series of conversations.</h4>&nbsp;Q: Fred, you are the founding director of the organization, International Cities of Peace, which was established fifteen years ago. You are stewarding its growth with the goal of 1,000 cities by 2030. Currently there are 414. You’re one of the co-founders of the Dayton International Peace Museum, and you see yourself as a facilitator of peace. You have dedicated your life to peace efforts.FA: The idea of facilitator is very important to me. I used to be called a director, and I dropped that because everything is collaboration, just as the trainers at Heartfulness Centers are facilitators, and there is a relationship based on the facilitating of peace. Rather than telling people how to find peace, directing them, or coordinating them, I consider myself a lead facilitator. I run a team called ICP Central, which we’re keeping very small, because the cities of peace themselves are what should be given accolades. They are the people. They are the leaders. They are the teams that work in their community, not because of money (although money is always useful) but because of love of community and love of place. We facilitate that love, and that is what creates cities of peace.Q: What inspired your inclination toward peace initiatives? Was there an event that happened when you were young that moved you in this direction?FA: Maybe playing basketball at 11 years old, and wondering what the heck was going on, and how an 11-year-old could contribute to the world. I became a writer, not because I knew a lot but because I had so many questions. Questioning is what drove me to the idea that we need peace in this world.We opened the Dayton International Peace Museum in 2005. I shook everyone’s hand as they arrived, and whoever came through that door had their unique way of creating peace. We documented all the ways people work for peace, and I realized that everyone is working for peace. That was a big epiphany. It’s like the idea that even someone in prison for murder loves his mother. The heart is why everyone works for peace. We documented statecraft, mediation, etc., and came up with 30 different ways to work for peace.Then I wrote a book called The Elements of Peace, describing those 30 ways. It depends on who you are, your background, your values, but it doesn’t depend on someone telling you to work for peace. It’s what you do, whether you’re a nurse, a teacher, a plumber, somebody who works with their hands, their mind, or their spirit; everyone works for peace. That epiphany set me in a new direction in the early 2000s.Q: I admire your tremendous capacity for acceptance of all the different ways communities and individuals build peace. Some come with a political view; others work in villages in Africa; in Heartfulness, we believe inner peace leads to world peace. Do you have a personal practice that keeps you grounded and centered within all these different ways people define peace for the world?FA: Yes. When you look around the world you see that honesty is undervalued. My father was honest, and his honesty made me take a look at myself and helped me be in communion with everybody else. If you’re honest, you realize we’re all one, and the person who is holding a gun is the same as you. Working for peace is what our essence is about. There are 8 billion people on the planet, 8 billion ways to work for peace, and we need to respect that.Q: That helps me understand the statement that peace is not a hope, it’s a right.FA: Yes, we have a right to harmony in our lives; we start with the heart, and we work out from there. There are physical reasons, spiritual reasons, emotional reasons, and intellectual reasons, but it starts with the heart, and that’s why Heartfulness Centers are very important for humanity. The heart is the essence.Q: When I read your book, The Physics of Spirit, I realized the spiritual influence in what you do. It felt like a very advanced version of Heartfulness and I was so moved by it.FA: Thank you. The Physics of Spirit is part of the questioning I had. The old idea of science and physics is that there’s a dichotomy, a tension in our little universe, between matter and spirit. Yet, every law of physics tells us it’s not true—that dichotomy doesn’t exist.So, what is it about the material world and the spiritual world that is intertwined? I’m not a physicist, but physics helped me to understand that matter and spirit, matter and light are interchangeable. As human beings, we have a heart-soul that brings in light and turns it into material things and relationships. So, I consider the soul is a vessel for the spirit, and the soul is an evolved entity within us that brings in light from other people, from the sun, from what we do every day. It brings love in and it moves love out. It’s a vessel that provides the mechanism within us to feel love and to give love.<hr><h4 style="text-align:center;">We have a right to harmony in our lives;&nbsp; we start with the heart, and we work out from there.&nbsp; There are physical reasons, spiritual reasons,&nbsp; emotional reasons, and intellectual reasons,&nbsp; and that’s why Heartfulness Centers are very important&nbsp; for humanity. The heart is the essence.</h4><hr><figure class="image image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img src="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/international_cities_peace2_b1e985ffa1.webp" alt="international-cities-peace2.webp" srcset="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/thumbnail_international_cities_peace2_b1e985ffa1.webp 145w,https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/large_international_cities_peace2_b1e985ffa1.webp 494w,https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/international_cities_peace2_b1e985ffa1.webp 494w," sizes="100vw"></figure>&nbsp;Q: We do an intention for peace every night at 9 p.m. We share it with people who join virtually. That intention is: “Our hearts and the hearts of all are filled with lightness and love. May everyone be radiant with joy. And may the entire earth be engulfed with peace.”When I read your book, it was fascinating to me that you relate light and love with the soul, because that is really the foundation.In Heartfulness meditation, the first thing we teach people to do is to bring their attention to their heart and feel the presence of divine light, which is the source attracting them from within. In your book you wrote, “Spirit is also not matter. In theological terms, spirit is defined as incorporeal, immaterial, or ethereal. Spirit is often described in the context of light. For instance, in the Gospel of John in the Bible, God is light. In Hinduism, Diwali is the festival of light. In Islam, Ayah-an-Nur means God is the light of the heavens and earth."This is the part that really moved me: “Spirit is consonant with at least two characteristics of light. It has no mass that can be measured, and in theological thought, it is pervasive throughout the universe as a massless and omnipresent field of potential. Spirit is a form of energy, though mysterious and little understood. As with all mysteries, once revealed, either in life or death, spiritual energy will necessarily be incorporated within the expanding laws of physics.” After reading your book, my question is: Do you think the solution to world peace is scientific or spiritual?FA: Since I believe that matter and light are in essence the same, I have to say that all roads lead to peace. We may go to church, the synagogue, or a sports arena; we may be a nurse in a hospital; whatever, it is our personal way. What’s inside us reciprocates with whatever we’re doing and creates the relationship with the universe that allows us to work for peace every single day.The reason most people don’t know I have a spiritual nature is because I’m busy doing my life’s work, which is creating the organization so that people can be empowered to arrive at a peaceful condition within themselves and their communities.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/international_cities_peace3_5eea7d5d22.webp" alt="international-cities-peace3.webp" srcset="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/thumbnail_international_cities_peace3_5eea7d5d22.webp 145w,https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/large_international_cities_peace3_5eea7d5d22.webp 1000w,https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/international_cities_peace3_5eea7d5d22.webp 1097w," sizes="100vw"></figure>&nbsp;Q: I didn’t know that side of you until I read, The Physics of Spirit, which is only 11 pages, yet you pack so much in there.I’m part of the “Intention for Peace” team. During the pandemic, we created a virtual platform to be connected. It remained after the pandemic Monday through Friday. Then we partnered with the Dayton International Museum of Peace in a 64-day intention they sponsored. It was an initiative titled, “A Season of Non-violence.” Our combined efforts spanned from January 30 through April 4, 2024, coinciding with the memorial anniversaries of the assassinations of Mahatma Gandhi and the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. So many more people joined us in the intention for peace during that time, and after that we have continued it every night. The physics of the spirit seems to have a plan that’s much bigger than you, me, cities of peace, Heartfulness, or the Dayton Museum of Peace. That was a turning point for me. I felt a shift inside, and I could now truly relax.FA: That’s absolutely true. And I think that goes back to your previous question: how do I keep calm within the storm. I work in war-torn areas, and I see things that are unspeakable. It goes back to the intention of the museum, the intention of my books, the intention of the heart. You know, with International Cities of Peace, we start out with a letter of intent. It’s from intention that everything comes forth. That’s why we’re going to stay small centrally and expand to 1,000 cities or more in the coming years. We’re just allowing people to do what they are already intending to do. We’ll help out here and there, but essentially it’s these teams, these communities.Our mission is world peace. I’m not doing this to fill my day. I’m doing this for world peace. So every day I acknowledge my intention. I believe in this, and think we’ll be able to get there if we can create the infrastructure that allows our intentions to start in community, build to the region, build to the nation, then build to the world.We have to have an infrastructure, the material aspect, and that’s why cities of peace are for people, whether it’s Cleveland, Beavercreek, or our 413th city, Chiwere, Malawi. It’s amazing what they've come up with as the vision, mission, and goals for their community; we just put it out there for them to create the city of peace ideal. Every single day I open my email and there are stories that inspire, and stories that challenge us.The idea is to create a tipping point for global peace; we just need an infrastructure to go there. The international cities of peace ideal is thousands of years old—we didn’t create it. All we do is allow people to remember in their DNA this ideal that has been with us since the first village was created. The idea was to create a city of peace right then, and we’ve forgotten that. It hasn’t been flourishing because we get lost in the chaos. If we settle down and remain calm, and realize that everything’s going to be all right because we’re in a universe of love, then we can work very carefully and methodically for peace.To be continued…&nbsp;<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img src="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/international_cities_peace4_fed50393d6.webp" alt="international-cities-peace4.webp" srcset="https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/thumbnail_international_cities_peace4_fed50393d6.webp 145w,https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/large_international_cities_peace4_fed50393d6.webp 500w,https://cdn-prod-static.heartfulness.org/international_cities_peace4_fed50393d6.webp 500w," sizes="100vw"></figure><hr>For more information visit www.internationalcitiesofpeace.org and www.fredarment.com.