Category: peace
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More peace of mind
“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace,” the Dali Lama once said.
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Inner peace
If the world is not peaceful, we must try our best to create inner peace. The Tenton Sioux had a proverb: “Inner peace and love are the greatest of God’s gifts.”
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Wait and be calm
“By waiting and by calm you shall be saved. In quiet and in trust your strength lies.” –Isaiah30:15 I found this verse in Martin Laird’s book Into the Silent Land.
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A dream of peace
“We must begin with a world perspective, for we will not be able to realize the American Dream until we work to realize a world dream,” Martin Luther King Jr. once said. “A world dream of peace, and brotherhood, and goodwill.”
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Keep it from happening again
“What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again,” Anne Frank once said. We recently discussed a book about Anne Frank at a Girl Scout summer book club. –Joy
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A world of peace for every child
We recently discussed a book about Anne Frank at a Girl Scout summer book club. We talked with the girls about being upstanders instead of bystanders—and how every child deserves to be safe and loved—and have enough food—and live in peace. –Joy
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The power of harmony
I am still going through “stuff”—getting ready for a major house renovation. I’ve been sorting through boxes of my mother’s papers, and I found a quote my mother, an English teacher, liked. William Wordsworth said, “While with an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into…