Everyday ask yourself the question "Do I want to experience Peace of Mind or do I want to experience Conflict ?"

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

The ego searches for shortcomings and weaknesses. Love watches for any sign of strength. It sees how far each one has come and not how far he has to go.

Today I am determined to go through the day with ought hurting myself, or another, with my thoughts or my actions.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change other, but by simply accepting them as they are. True acceptance is always without demands and expectations.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want.

We cannot love when we feel fear. When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.

There would be very little to dislike in other people if we refused to bring to them all of our own judgements and petty grievances.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans.

In learning to utilize antibiotics for the control of human and animal diseases, the medical and veterinary professions have acquired powerful tools for combating infections and epidemics.

The cars we drive say a lot about us.

At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.

If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.

You ask rather too many questions. I have given you answers enough for the present: now I want to read.

Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather than trying to pin down a particular truth of an event.

If you use social media right, you will piss people off. It's actually recommended!

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.