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Death is like birth; I know you might think that’s a strange thing to say, but you are being born into a new life.

The willingness to win or lose moves us out of an adversarial relationship to life and into a powerful kind of openness… a place beyond preference for outcome, a life beyond life and death.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

We lived contentedly under the Gai Eneshah Go’ Nah, The Great Law of Peace. We were instructed to create societies based on the principles of Peace, Equity, Justice, and the Power of Good Minds.

Nonviolence… applies the force of love and truth as a means to transform conflict and the root causes of conflict.

One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual’s right to live.

I never again want to see the face of a starving child or hear the weeping of a mother who has lost her son to war. Peace, this is what my husband gave his life for…

Peace would no longer be an absence of war, but the unfolding of worldwide processes making for the nurture of human life.

We will have to want peace, work for it, suffer for it, and, above all, live it in our daily lives.

To me, the Beloved Community is a realistic vision of an achievable society, one in which problems and conflict exist, but are resolved peacefully and without bitterness.