A peaceful perspective on life recognizes how interconnected we all are, and how our very survival as a species is now being threatened. Therefore, living peacefully is not just something you ‘do’ on Sundays, it is a way of living – healthy, sustainable and conscious life choices in all things. In the wise words of Margaret Mead – Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear… That old law about “an eye for an eye” leaves everybody blind… The time is always right to do the right thing… Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

If there is character in the individual,
There will be harmony in the home;
If there is harmony in the home,
There will be honor among the people,
If there is honor among the people,
There will be justice in the community;
If there is justice in the community,
There will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation,
Then there will be peace in the world!

- Confucius

from “Notes on the Next War,” published in Esquire Magazine, 1935.
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
- Ernest Hemingway