在6月21日我更加精确地在乔丹，在死海，邀请由女王/王后写是WEF的会议开幕式的一部分的文本。 当事件濒于结束，我出席了我找到自己在一个非凡情况的一顿晚餐。

坐在桌权利从我国王，并且乔丹的女王/王后，国务卿Colin Powell，阿拉伯国家联盟、以色列外交部长，总统德国共和国，总统阿富汗Hamid Karzai和其他突出的名字的代表在我们目击战争和和平的过程介入了。 虽然温度是紧挨40o C，软的微风吹了在沙漠，钢琴演奏家被演奏的奏鸣曲，天空是无云的，并且火炬传播了在庭院中被点燃整个地方。 在死海的另一边我们可能由以色列和耶路撒冷发光在天际的光制造。 换句话说，一切似乎在和谐和和平中-我突然然后意识到，离是很远的地方现实的变型，那非常片刻真正地和真实地是梦想对我们全部。 虽然我的悲观生长了很多结束最近几个月，如果人们能仍然设法无所事事和举行交谈，然后什么都没有丢失。

稍后，女王Rannia陈述会议的地点为它的符号字符被选择了： 死海是最深刻的地方在地球(401米的表面在海水平之下)。 要去其中任一更深，我们必须潜水-，但在这个具体案件水的盐分迫使身体回来到表面。 并且因而它是以和平的长和痛苦的过程在中东： 你比当前阶段可以是没有深。 如果我那天晚上起动了电视，我会得知犹太移居者和年轻巴勒斯坦人的死亡。 But there I was, at that dinner, with the odd feeling that the calm of the evening could spread over the whole region, that people would start talking to one another like they were talking at that moment, that Utopia is possible, and that men can go no deeper.

If one day you have the chance to go to the Middle East, do not miss visiting Jordan (a marvelous and warm country), then go to the Dead Sea and look at Israel on the other river bank: there and then you will understand that peace is necessary and possible. Below is part of the text that I wrote and read at that event, accompanied by the splendid improvisations of Jewish violinist Ivry Gitlis:

Peace does not mean the opposite of War.
We can have peace in our hearts even in the midst of the most ferocious battles because we are fighting for our dreams. When our friends have all lost hope, the peace of the Good Fight helps us to carry on.
A mother who can feed her child holds peace in her eyes, even though her hands are shaking when diplomacy has failed, bombs are falling all around, soldiers are dying.
An archer pulling his bow holds peace in his mind, even when all his muscles strain from the body’s effort.

So, for the warriors of the light, peace is not the opposite of war - because they are capable of:

A] Distinguishing what is passing from what is lasting. They can fight for their dreams and for their survival, but they respect the ties that have developed over time, through cultures and religions;
B] Knowing that their adversaries are not necessarily their enemies;
C] Realizing that their actions will affect five future generations, and that their sons and grandsons will benefit or suffer from the consequences;
D] Remembering what the I Ching says: perseverance is favorable. But let not perseverance be confused with insistence - the battles that last longer than necessary end up destroying the enthusiasm that is needed for reconstruction.

For the warrior of the light there are no abstractions; each opportunity to change oneself is an opportunity to change the world.
For the warrior of the light there is no pessimism either. He will row against the current if necessary; for when he is old and tired he will be able to tell his grandchildren that he came to this world in order to understand his neighbour better, and not to condemn his brother.

by Paulo Coelho