Healing the World, One Heart at a Time

"later that night

i held an atlas in my lap

ran my fingers across the whole world

and whispered

where does it hurt?

it answered

everywhere

everywhere

everywhere."

- Warsan Shire

"World Peace must develop from inner peace.  Peace is not just mere absence of violence.  Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion."
- The Dalai Lama


"Do not wait for leaders;  do it alone, person to person."
 - Mother Teresa 

"Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
- St Francis of Assisi

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness:  only light can do that.  Hate cannot drive out hate:  only love can do that."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.


"Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.  I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others, to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings..."
- The Dalai Lama

"Love is a way of being, not something you give.  When a person is truly loving, he is love."
- Deepak Chopra

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