Heaven and earth and I are of the same root, the ten-thousand things and I are of
one substance.....Zen Master Seng-chao.

Month: January 2007

Brave new world……….

Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!……..Friedrich Nietzsche.

Tell the truth long enough……..and nobody will believe you.

Johnny got his gun and became a……..rude full-scale joke……..impossible to tell…….if he was awake or dreaming………what makes you so sure you’re not dreaming?

Let’s stop…….for a moment…….and smell the roses……..because we’re lost in the garden.

If life is so precious……why are 18,000 children dying each day…….from hunger?

Poverty is but the worst kind of violence…….Mahatma Gandhi.

Where is our sense of priority……when the words……..scrotum, in a child’s book…… and nigger, in Tom Sawyer……set off more outrage in our world than all those thousands of poor and helpless children who want only for a mouth full of food to keep them alive?

There’s no such thing as a bad word……there are no bad words……only bad deeds.

Our ignorance and over-inflated sense of entitlement……has blinded us to the rest of the world.

The needs of the many…….far outweigh the needs of the few……or the one……Spock.

We must not fight for war…….we must fight for peace……make love……not war.

I’m changing the world…….you can too……..you are only a part of the family…….remember your brothers and sisters.

We are all children of God…….we have more in common……than we have differences…….oh, God help me……I am afraid…….I am weak.

The surest way to corrupt a youth…….is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike…….than those who think differently……….Friedrich Nietzsche.

I am proud to be an American……do not mistake my love of peace for weakness……I am a Warrior for Peace.

Murder in Darfur……murder in Iraq……murder in Rwanda……murder in America……murder in your world……murder in the streets…….when will you stand up and say STOP?

I’ll tell you what’s dying…….the truth…………our ignorance is their power.

There are only two levels above death……acceptance and sharing.

I believe that putting resources into improving the lives of the poor people…….is a better strategy than spending it on guns…….poverty is a threat to peace…….Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammad Yunus.