The Work

The Heart of Peace Initiative, comprised of members from all over the world, is a subcommittee of the Global Services Committee and is also dedicated to carrying the message of Science of Mind through peace to our international communities. In addition to providing Peace meditations every week on the CSL Facebook page, they also sponsor yearly events like day-long meditations supporting the International Day of Peace and the New Year’s Eve morning meditation for World Peace.

 

Committee Members

Rev. Lauren Martin
Rev. Lauren MartinChair
Rev. Dr. Trish Hall
Rev. Dr. Trish Hall
Rev. Dr. Sharri Johnson
Rev. Dr. Sharri Johnson
Rev. Steve Kindsfather
Rev. Steve Kindsfather
Rev. Chris Plym
Rev. Chris Plym

Can we, together, create a more peaceful and loving planet? The vision, the dream of the Heart of Peace program is that all live together in harmony, peace and cooperation.

Peace begins with you. Your ‘inner’ world is reflected in the ‘outer’ world. In order to move the realization of Peace forward, in our culture and around the world, activists must create, speak and pray the consciousness of Peace. We cannot use any current realities to hold us back. We are creating something new, something that perhaps has never existed before.

“We must think peace if we wish to express peace. The mind that is always confused and distraught is not at peace; the mind that is continuously upset and agitated by the little, petty things of life is not at peace; it is at war with itself. It is only when the individual mind ceases combating itself that it will stop combating others.” ~ Ernest Holmes

In addition to shifting our consciousness, Centers for Spiritual Living encourages everyone to consider involvement in certain peace actions in the world. Below are some we support:

Peace Actions We Support

Association for Global New Thought
Season for Nonviolence
Annual Event: January 30 – April 4

World Labyrinth
Day Walk
Annual Event: First Saturday in May

 

 

United Nations
International Day of Peace
Annual Event: September 21

 

 

World Healing Peace Meditation

World Healing
Peace Meditation
Annual Event: December 31

 

 

The Heart of Peace Initiative invites you to join us by creating your own meditation program or joining one of ours that is in progress.

Start a Group

Would you like to start a group for peace meditation? If so, click here.

Find a Group

Would you like to find a group (either in person or online/telephone) that comes together for a group meditation for peace? If so, click here.

Monthly Newsletter Articles

For articles to expand your consciousness of Peace, click here.

Reference Resources

 

 

“Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us and the world will be as one.”
~ John Lennon

Annual Recurring Events

Season for Nonviolence AGNT

Association for Global New Thought: Season for Nonviolence (January 30-April 4)

The Gandhi King Season for Nonviolence (SNV) commences on January 30, in cities across the globe. The annual 64 day campaign, co-founded in 1998 by Dr. Arun Gandhi and The Association for Global New Thought (AGNT), is an educational, media and grassroots awareness campaign spanning the January 30th and April 4th memorial anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Spiritually guided citizen leaders in 900 cities in 67 countries have participated since the campaign began in 1998. Heart of Peace is committed to supporting and further expanding participation in the Gandhi King Season for Nonviolence (SNV).

Here are resources for you and your communities to participate each year:

World Labyrinth Day

World Labyrinth Day (First Saturday in May)

World Labyrinth Day: “Walk as One at 1:00” in your time zone

Find our this event on the CSL Facebook page. Learn more here.

 

International Day of Peace

United Nations International Day of Peace (September 21)

The links below are for documents to assist you in participating in the International Day of Peace. Click on the links to download your desired documents:

World Healing Peace Meditation

World Healing Peace Meditation (December 31)

More than 500 million people from an array of faith traditions and philosophies, across seven continents, meditate simultaneously each year on December 31, at 12 p.m. UTC/GMT. The gatherings begin at precisely the same moment all around the world in all the many languages, to pray in the ways of their own traditions. We each affirm Peace and commit to do our part to heal the world. It is truly an amazing experience to sense the consciousness and the presence of hundreds of millions of people sharing the hour! Centers for Spiritual Living’s Global Heart of Peace initiative participates in this event every year as we contribute our consciousness to healing the world and establishing sustainable peace.

John Randolph Price and Jan Price established World Healing Day, a global mind-link for peace involving millions of people that began on December 31, 1986 — with the Los Angeles Times reporting up to 400 million participants. The event has continued on the same date and time each year. The purpose of this mind-link was to bring human consciousness to the tipping point — that level of awareness of our oneness that would ensure peace and eliminate suffering, conflict, and inequity.

Learn more here.