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2007 Easter Message by the Slovenian President Dr. Janez Drnovšek
Use the opportunity for a walk in nature, for a cleansing of the spirit, for the search for internal peace.

"The Easter Holidays are near. Let’s spend them in peace and good company. You can also renounce the ham, chocolate-eggs should be sufficient for an Easter atmosphere.

Would it not be more harmonious if we did not associate religious celebrations directly with ham and other non-spiritual symbols? Do really so many animals have to die when we celebrate higher consciousness and try to develop spiritually? The answer is clear: of course not.

Feasts don’t have much to do with spirituality, just the opposite. Even considering that we can try to understand that in some eras, in which food was scarce, religious events were celebrated with banquets, we can now leave such material remnants behind us. True spirituality does not need them, just the opposite, because they show us that religions demanding such identifications got stuck at a relatively low level of consciousness.

That’s why we’ll try to celebrate the occasion differently this time. We use the opportunity for a walk in nature, for a cleansing of the spirit, for the search for internal peace. We are friendly to our family, our neighbors and all those suffering in this world. Also to animals. We spare them this time from our lust for meat and we try to overcome historical behavior patterns.

We will do something good for our spirit and our body."

Source: EVANA

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Comments
Posted 7 Apr 2007 5:56 PM by marla
Very nice

We should all observe the holidays in peace

Posted 8 Apr 2007 5:56 PM by QMD333
President Drnovsek, can you please run for U.S. President in 2008?

We need a wonderful person like you!

Posted 8 Apr 2007 8:30 PM by PamelaB
We need to hear more voices like Dr. Drnovsek's at every holiday! (and every other day, too)

Posted 11 Apr 2007 3:22 PM by Allison_H
Finally a voice of reason related to religious holiday celebrations! And a brave voice at that. This could be the start of a new religious movement incorporating intelligence, compassion, and greater consciousness. Please continue the public messages, Dr. Drnovsek.

Posted 27 May 2007 12:20 PM by d_gosselin
What a wonderful find! Thanks, Evana. By posting it here, it will slowly find more and more circulation. It is exactly one of the messages that the world needs. Because it's from one of their "peers," other high-level political leaders may be more inclined to pay attention to it than they do to the nonstop drumbeat from common mortals.

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