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[simage=347,max,n,center,] You cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us..how we can take it, what we do with it..and that is what really counts in the end. Joseph Fort Newton

[simage=346,max,n,center,] Within ourselves there is a silence into which the world cannot intrude. There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost. From “A Course in Miracles”

[simage=345,max,n,center,] By expanding our desire not to harm, we create a powerful pebble-in-the-pond phenomenon. The ever-widening circles of respect and love we create touch countless people. Sue Patton Thoele

[simage=342,max,n,center,] Deep in the soul, below pain, below all the distraction of life, is a silence vast and grand – an infinite ocean of calm, which nothing can disturb; nature’s own exceeding peace, which “passes understanding”. That which we seek with passionate longing, here and there, upward and outward, we find at last within ourselves.Continue reading “21st August”

[simage=341,max,n,center,] Ultimately we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world. Etty Hillesum

[simage=334,max,n,center,] In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone’s wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa . . . the independence movement in India . . .) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggeringContinue reading “13th August”