Abstract

The peoples in Mindanao, Christians, Muslims, and Indigenous Peoples, have shared a common history of struggle against colonial aggression and national oppression. The problem of poverty, illiteracy, oppression and exploitation are also common to majority Filipinos. We also have a common desire to be free from the pangs of poverty, ill-health and oppression. We have the same dream of a better life. To realize this dream of a better life, the peoples of Mindanao should arise from passivity, to unite and to move towards a better Mindanao where Muslims could live as good Muslims, where Christians could live as good Christians, where Lumads could live as good Lumads, together... in co-existence. Thus the peoples of Mindanao can only achieve this common aspiration if the core formula of personal transformation is present. Without personal discipline, and personal integrity, no master plan for improving society can succeed.