The only peace is being out of earshot.
Peace Train is a song I wrote the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings.
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace easy taxes and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings one individual at a time.
The life of inner peace being harmonious and without stress is the easiest type of existence.
If there is to be any peace it will come through being not having.
I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
Unfortunately our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.
When your country is in a costly war with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.
Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple there they revere the family.