I just left this on the Wall of Beliefs at http://www.peacescooter.com

I invite you to leave your beliefs there as well. And share them here. Peace!

It is easier to wage war against nameless, faceless strangers than it is to raise weapons against friends.
Make as many friends in as many corners of the world as possible.
Make communities across oceans. read more »

Hello there everyone,

I just got back from a trip cross country and have added several new photos of peace signs to my site: www.signsofpeace.net

Please take a look and if so inspired, please send me your own photos to add to mine. That's really the reason I made the site - to have everyone looking around for signs of peace.

Thanks so much!

Rhan Wilson
www.rhanwilson.com

"Planting Peace"

An Affirmation for Well-Being

Every day
when we rise
we can make
the decision
to plant
the seeds of peace...
through our thoughts
speech and actions
we have the power
to maintain
our own well-being
and while the spirit crushers
and war mongers
attempt to infect us
with their malignancy
our serenity
will shield us
from their strife... read more »

I have often been struck by the parallels between Maureen Moss's teaching at World Puja and what we are trying to do with Marshall Rosenberg's model of Nonviolent Communication - this in spite of the differences between their approaches. I have shared Maureen's newsletters in this forum in the past because they give me so much power to live in my integrity. read more »

Washington Post-ABC News Polling on Iraq War
Released April 18, 2008 read more »

In honour of the man and his mission, this the 40th year anniversary of his assassination.

On Martin Luther King Day

When all the marchers shall have lost their way
and the Way shall not have been forgotten
and the colour of skin, the slant of eye,
mere shadows that block the great internal Sun,
then peace will no longer be purchased
in salt or oil, read more »

Here on the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. King, I believe his words and actions are no less relevant today than they were forty years ago. In particular his actions. You see, I know I will never be the orator that he was, but I can be a similar active, participating force, an agent for change, a contributor to peace and nonviolence. read more »

CLOSING Apr. 4: Every day, I join others in this prayer for World Peace.

With each kind thought,
each choice for nonviolence,
we plant a seed that shall bloom
to bring forth rich fruit in its Season.
Together, friend, we till the soil and
plant the seeds that all creation may
sing for joy and dance in the
Garden of Peace.
May our prayers and practices read more »

There is a Red Book

There is a red book lying on my floor
rows of crimson-robed monks
sitting in meditation
on its cover...
there are rows of soldiers
marching to a different drum,

the monks are falling in Tibet and Myanmar,
the soldiers in Israel and Iraq,

there are voices of despair, hope and
innocence in rows of graves where all colours read more »