Peace comes through rising above the mundane and seeing the larger picture. In seeing the larger picture, one sees all components of truth in the expression known as earth. In seeing all truths simultaneously, one will see how each individuated truth is necessary to the whole dance... Each truth is unique, whether it is to ascend to full consciousness or beyond, or to ascend to a certain point then experiencing the next phase of work through one's future ancestry. Each has a story, and each story when combined with all others provides all of the lessons necessary to teach humanity at large and as a collective what it has created in it's numerous falls in consciousness so that such a dance shall never recur again. Why? Because the human species will be all the wiser and shall not choose such a fall in consciousness again. (The Lion and Dragon Kingdoms through Karen Danrich "Mila") - www.ascendpress.org

The process of learning through limitation has reached deep levels of restriction. Many now, no longer remember that they are a spiritual being and child of God, part of a Divine source and connected to all living things with all being brother and sister. Man also no longer realizes that he creates his own reality and hence his own world. This pattern has been taken to its greatest learning potential and its learning could be considered by many to be complete. (Sandy Stevenson) - www.nvisible.com

The tyrant grinds down his slaves, but the slaves don't turn against him, they crush the slaves beneath them. (Emily Bronte, 1818-1848 British Novelist Poet)

Throughout recorded time... there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude towards one another, have varied from age to age: but the essential structure of society has never altered. Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other. The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. (George Orwell, 1903-1950 British Author)

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. (Joseph Stalin, 1879-1953 Georgian-born Soviet Leader)

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. (Henri Nouwen, Christian Author)

If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights. (Stuart Briscoe)

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men. (Herbert Clark Hoover, 1874-1964 American - 31st American President)

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace. (U. Thant, 1909-1974 Burmese Diplomat)

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation. (Richard M. Nixon - 37th president of US)

…blindness to the innate sacredness of all life has been nurtured by cultural prejudices designed to serve the needs of dominating economic and political organizations whose sole purpose is to accrue ever more money and power for the sake of personal and national gains and glory. To counter this now deeply ingrained social legitimacy to killing other human beings for politically motivated purposes, a profound spiritual awakening to the greater all-encompassing unifying reality we are all part of seems to be the only true antidote available… May this growing awareness becomes so overwhelmingly acute for everyone that it will render utterly unacceptable the killing and maiming of another human being, no matter the motive invoked or the perceived need for retribution. May loving compassion guide the efforts to resolve all existing local and global conflicts so as to foster a profound and permanent healing of every living soul on Earth, for the Highest Good of All. (Jean Hudon) - www.earthrainbownetwork.com

When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people? (Borman Frank, American Astronaut)

If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better. (Lyndon B. Johnson, 1908-1973 Thirty-sixth President of the USA)

If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile. (Indian Proverb)

It is impossible to overstate how vital it is for awakened people to be elected into public office. These must be people who are consciously aware of the Oneness of ALL Life. They must be people who realize that Humanity is totally interrelated, interdependent and interconnected to one another. It is time for governmental officials everywhere to understand the Divine Truth that what harms one Human Being harms all Human Beings; what harms any part of life harms ALL life. Consequently, what genuinely benefits and blesses one person assists all people; what is healing and nurturing for one part of life lifts up and blesses all life. When that reality registers in the hearts and minds of leaders throughout the world, the concept that anyone can benefit from killing another person will seem preposterous. Governments will then know that killing people only perpetuates the problem. It never solves the problem.

With an awakened consciousness, governments will join together and search for viable, peaceful solutions to the maladies existing on Earth. They will create mutually beneficial options and make decisions based solely on the highest good for all concerned. A win-win consciousness will then be the basis for all global interactions, and Humanity's lives will be transformed. Like attracts like is a Universal Law. It is an irrefutable fact of life. War begets war; hate begets hate; peace begets peace; love begets love. It is just that simple. Nothing will change that Divine Truth…

We are in a transitional period, and new frequencies of Divine Consciousness are flooding into the mental and emotional strata of Earth. It may seem as though there are very few awakened people available to vote for at this time, but that is rapidly changing. You and I have the ability to accelerate this process. Through our thoughts, words, actions and feelings we are co-creating this reality. If we will join our hearts and minds together and invoke the Light of God into all of the political systems on Earth, we will transcend the old, corrupt, greed-infested, power-hungry, special-interest, politics-as-usual consciousness that got us into this mess, and we will establish a new global political system that is based on Oneness and Reverence for ALL Life. Don't ever underestimate your ability to make a positive difference. (Patricia Diane Cota-Robles) - www.1spirit.com/eraofpeace

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. (Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919)

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love. (Mohandas Gandhi)

The insight that we have a wider duty toward human beings has never attained the dominance to which it is entitled. Down to our own times it has been undermined by differences of race, religion, and nationality. Man belongs to man. (Albert Schweitzer)

One must care about a world one will never see. (Bertrand Russell, British mathematician and philosopher, 1872-1970)

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come. (Charles Sumner)

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. (Thomas Paine)

All people are a single nation. (The Holy Koran)

It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. (Baha'u'llah)

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. (Francis Bacon)

In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may too easily be dismissed as a “soft issue,” or a luxury to be addressed after the urgent problems are solved. But kindness is the greatest need in all those areas — kindness toward the environment, toward other nations, toward the needs of people who are suffering. Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile. Simple kindness may be the most vital key to the riddle of how human beings can live with each other in peace, and care properly for this planet we all share. (Bo Lozoff)

Strange is our situation here on earth. However, there is one thing that we do know, we are here for the sake of others. Above all, for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends. And, also, for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. (Albert Einstein)

With malice toward none, with charity for all, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. (Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865)

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings. (Margaret Atwood)

Another kind of love and compassion is not based on something appearing beautiful or nice, but based on the fact that the other person, just like oneself, wants happiness and does not want suffering and indeed has every right to be happy and to overcome suffering. On such a basis, we feel a sense of responsibility, a sense of closeness toward that being. That is true compassion. This is because the compassion is based on reason, not just on emotional feeling. As a consequence, it does not matter what the other's attitude is, whether negative or positive. What matters is that it is a human being, a sentient being that has the experience of pain and pleasure. There is no reason not to feel compassion so long as it is a sentient being. (The Dalai Lama)

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places - and there are so many - where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. (Howard Zinn)

In the next 30 years we can destroy our world. With the very same powers - spiritual, social, scientific - we can evolve our world. Our mission is to serve as catalysts for a planetary awakening in our lifetime, to take a non-violent path to the next stage of our evolution. (Barbara Marx Hubbard)

We either fear that human culture is falling apart, or we can hold the Vision that we are awakening. Either way, our expectation is a prayer that goes out as a force that tends to bring about the end we envision. Each of us must consciously choose between these two futures. (James Redfield)

Separateness is the religion of a false god. (Stuart Wilde) - www.stuartwilde.com

I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream - a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)