Not In My Name

You kill in the name of freedom

You kill in the name of democracy

You kill in the name of God

But not in my name, will you kill

Not in my name, will you fight

Not in my name, will you kill

Not in my name, will you burn a child

Not in my name, will you lie

Not in my name, will you invade

Not in my name, will you rape

Not in my name, will you terrorise

Is it not enough what you've done?

With all the bloodshed you've caused

It is indeed a sad condition that you suffer from

This itching desire for a prime position

To have all under your thumb

Not in my name

Not in our name

Peace

Let there be peace on earth
And let it begin with me.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.

The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.

I believe ...

To accomplish great things,

we must not only act,

but also dream;

not only plan,

but also believe.

...

House Of Mercy

From the beginning of my life

I have been looking for your face
but today I have seen it
Today I have seen the charm,
the beauty
the unfathomable grace of the face
that I was looking for

Today I have found you
and those who laughed and scorned me yesterday
are sorry that they were not looking as I did

I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty
and wish to see you with a hundred eyes

My heart has burned with passion
and has searched forever f
or this wondrous beauty that I now behold

I am ashamed to call this love human
and afraid of God to call it divine
Your fragrant breath like the
morning breeze
has come to the stillness of the garden

You have breathed new life into me
I have become your sunshine and also your shadow

My soul is screaming in ecstacy
Every fiber of my being is in love with you
Your efflugence has lit a
fire
in my heart for me the earth and sky

My arrow of love has arrived at the target
I am in the house of mercy
and my heart is a place of prayer

Rumi