"World's Most Enlightening Region" [View all]

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What are our best qualities? Very interesting documentary.

Source: AL.com, by Greg Garrison

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Dr. N.S. Xavier believes the world would have less religious strife if people of all faiths learned the lessons of a region in India where Hindus, Christians, Muslims and Jews co-existed peacefully for centuries.

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He points to Kerala, near the southern tip of India, as a model of religious peace.

"It's the only historical example of interfaith peace and harmony for 2,000 years," Xavier said. "Hinduism, Christianity and Judaism co-existed from the First Century, and Islam from its beginning."

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"There was a belief that all good people can achieve heaven," he said. "There were several influences that promoted conscience. That really helped to maintain the peace."

Mystics in all the faiths have inspired better behavior, he said.

"That area has had an amazing number of mystics, Christian, Hindu, Muslim and Jewish mystics, people who have had some kind of divine experience and promote peace, promote developing the inner spirit of compassion. They had a mystical worldview, not a materialistic worldview."

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Read it all at: http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2017/12/can_different_faiths_live_in_p_1.html#incart_river_home

"We were talking
About the love that's gone so cold
And the people who gain the world
And lose their soul
They don't know, they can't see
Are you one of them?

When you've seen beyond yourself
Then you may find
Peace of mind is waiting there
And the time will come
When you see we're all one
And life flows on within you and without you."