Ethiopia needs a Spiritual Warrior as a leader
23 November, 2010 | By Teodros Kiros (Ph.D)
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others to live in ease.
This spiritual warrior combines the moral purity of a good person,
with the astuteness of a psychologist, who is profoundly aware of
the imperative of nurturing peaceful citizens who can think clearly
because their souls are in order. The internal interaction among
reason, courage and desire is in perfect balance, and their everyday
lives are in ease, their minds and bodies are in good health, and they
understand love and its dangers. Such citizens hate lightly but love
deeply.
In these turbulent times, we Ethiopians must look deep into our
rational hearts and think about our beloved Ethiopia and its
traumatized population, particularly the poors, who spend their
nights gazing at stars and getting burned by a nothingness, which
does not speak, the quiet nights, which oppress through their
stillness, when the rich and powerful are driving on the ring
highways and drinking away with thirteen year olds at our marbled
hotels and motels.
The spiritual warrior as a leader knows the interiors of pain, the
corrosive effects of prejudice and leads by helping the citizens to
confront the drone inside and seek spiritual healing.
Reconciliation, for example, is an attempt at self-purification; it is a
very difficult but necessary step at moving forward from frozenness
in hate, suspicion and mistrust towards the sunlight of loving the
other, who is your other part, the part that non-spiritual warriors
have fostered into un enemy. The Spiritual warrior can outsmart the
material warrior, who is dividing us, and invite him to the spiritual
table of communicative rationality.
A new spiritual warrior can change this situation, and we ordinary
Ethiopians can help her by wishing every living Ethiopian good
health in mind and body, the right to live in ease, and the ability to
love profoundly.
I challenge us all to be existentially serious and not let the DDT of
Ethnicity destroy our historical Ethiopia.
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Teodros Kiros Professor of Philosophy and English (Liberal
Arts) Berklee College of Music is also a Senior Editor at Ethio
Quest News. His weekly column appears here
23 November, 2010 | By Teodros Kiros (Ph.D)
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- Desperate times need
leaders who lead us through
compassion and
understanding, and not
leaders who inflame our
passions and ignite our
prejudices by refusing to
forgive and forget.
- Ethiopia is yearning for the
arrival of a messiah, in the
form of a spiritual warrior, a
warrior who leads by
forgiving, a warrior who
wishes total strangers health
in body and mind, a warrior
others to live in ease.
This spiritual warrior combines the moral purity of a good person,
with the astuteness of a psychologist, who is profoundly aware of
the imperative of nurturing peaceful citizens who can think clearly
because their souls are in order. The internal interaction among
reason, courage and desire is in perfect balance, and their everyday
lives are in ease, their minds and bodies are in good health, and they
understand love and its dangers. Such citizens hate lightly but love
deeply.
In these turbulent times, we Ethiopians must look deep into our
rational hearts and think about our beloved Ethiopia and its
traumatized population, particularly the poors, who spend their
nights gazing at stars and getting burned by a nothingness, which
does not speak, the quiet nights, which oppress through their
stillness, when the rich and powerful are driving on the ring
highways and drinking away with thirteen year olds at our marbled
hotels and motels.
The spiritual warrior as a leader knows the interiors of pain, the
corrosive effects of prejudice and leads by helping the citizens to
confront the drone inside and seek spiritual healing.
Reconciliation, for example, is an attempt at self-purification; it is a
very difficult but necessary step at moving forward from frozenness
in hate, suspicion and mistrust towards the sunlight of loving the
other, who is your other part, the part that non-spiritual warriors
have fostered into un enemy. The Spiritual warrior can outsmart the
material warrior, who is dividing us, and invite him to the spiritual
table of communicative rationality.
A new spiritual warrior can change this situation, and we ordinary
Ethiopians can help her by wishing every living Ethiopian good
health in mind and body, the right to live in ease, and the ability to
love profoundly.
I challenge us all to be existentially serious and not let the DDT of
Ethnicity destroy our historical Ethiopia.
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Teodros Kiros Professor of Philosophy and English (Liberal
Arts) Berklee College of Music is also a Senior Editor at Ethio
Quest News. His weekly column appears here
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