Maggie's quote for the week of 12/26/04:
"Life is so hard. How can we be anything but kind?"
--Jack Kornfield, American Buddhism Teacher, Psychologist, Author--

Maggie's quote for the week of 12/19/04:
" 'Resist not evil' means 'Do not resist the evil man,' which means 'Do no violence to another,' which means 'Commit no act that is contrary to love.' "
--Leo Nicholaevich Tolstoy, "What I Believe", 1884--

Maggie's quote for the week of 12/12/04:
"Someone might argue, 'If my falsehood enhances God's truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?' Why not say - as we are being slanderously reported and as some claim that we say - 'Let us do evil that good may result'? Their condemnation is deserved."
--The Bible, New International Version, Romans 3:7--
Personal note: I recommend reading the verses around this one.

Maggie's quote for the week of 12/5/04:
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."

Maggie's quote for the week of 11/28/04:
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
--Albert Einstein--

Maggie's quote for the week of 11/21/04:
"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

Maggie's quote for the week of 11/14/04:
"If in doubt whether an action would be good or bad, picture yourself in the position of those whom it will affect, and think again."

Maggie's quote for the week of 11/7/04:
"When a religion drops its ethical teaching to compete over metaphysics it becomes useless and detrimental to society."

Maggie's quote for the week of 10/31/04:
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold, and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than thirty cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people."
--Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953--

Maggie's quote for the week of 10/24/04:
"Remember the best relationship is the one where your love for each other is greater than your need for each other."

Maggie's quote for the week of 10/17/04:
"You can build a throne out of bayonets, but you can't sit in it for very long."
--African Proverb--

Maggie's quote for the week of 10/10/04:
"I do not accept the concept of a war for peace...a 'just' war, as I also cannot accept the concept of 'just' slavery, 'just' hatred, or 'just' racism."
--Thich Nhat Hanh--

Maggie's quote for the week of 10/3/04:
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
--Shakyamuni Buddha--

Maggie's quote for the week of 9/26/04:
"The great need of the human heart is for love...and we show our love...for our God by our love for our fellows. And that is why a great emphasis must be placed on the works of mercy."
--Dorothy Day--

Maggie's quote for the week of 9/19/04:
"A human being...experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical illusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of understanding and compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
--Albert Einstein--

Maggie's quote for the week of 9/12/04:
"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"
--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn--

Maggie's quote for the week of 9/5/04:
"All life is inter-related. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.--

Maggie's quote for the week of 8/29/04:
"Strength is not synonymous with cruelty."

Maggie's quote for the week of 8/22/04:
"Until there is peace between religions, there can be no peace in the world."
--Professor Hans Kung--

Maggie's quote for the week of 8/15/04:
"Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind."
--Albert Einstein--

Maggie's quote for the week of 8/8/04:
“You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”
--George Bernard Shaw--

Maggie's quote for the week of 8/1/04:
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
--Thomas Edison--

Maggie's quote for the week of 7/25/04:
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
--William James--

Maggie's quote for the week of 7/18/04:
"One way to get more love is to make it easier for people to love you."
--Ashleigh Brilliant--

Maggie's quote for the week of 7/11/04:
"Treat other people well and you won't have to be afraid of them."

Maggie's quote for the week of 7/4/04:
"We, the general assembly of Virginia do enact that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, or shall otherwise suffer, on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities."
--Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Act for Religious Freedom, 1786--

Maggie's quote for the week of 6/27/04:
"Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love; for it is inn giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life."
--Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi--

Maggie's quote for the week of 6/20/04:
This week's quote is another link. Everyone should be familiar with this, or at least know of its existence: "Universal Declaration of Human Rights"

Maggie's quote for the week of 6/13/04:
"We often think of peace as the absence of war, that if the powerful countries would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we see our own minds - our prejudices, fears, and ignorance. Even if we transport all the bombs to the moon, the roots of war and the roots of the bombs are still here, in our hearts and minds, and sooner or later we will make new bombs. To work for peace is to uproot war from ourselves and from the hearts of men and women. To prepare for war, to give millions of men and women the opportunity to practice killing day and night in their hearts, is to plant millions of seeds of violence, anger, frustration, and fear that will be passed on for generations to come."
--Thich Nhat Hanh--

Maggie's quote for the week of 6/6/04:
"We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole."
--J. Allen Boone, "Kinship With All Life"--

Maggie's quote for the week of 5/30/04:
"Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and of the earth."
--Teilhard De Chardin--

Maggie's quote for the week of 5/23/04:
"To hate another is to hate yourself. We all live within the one universal mind. What we think about another, we think about ourselves."
--Brian Adams, "How to Succeed"--

Maggie's quote for the week of 5/16/04:
"Love is letting go of fear."
--Gerald Jampolsky--

Maggie's quote for the week of 5/9/04:
"If you attack apparent negativity with negativity, you merely feed and inflame the source. It's always best to take the positive in any conflict. If you genuinely love, or at least send kind thoughts to a thing, it will change before your eyes."
--John & Lynn St.Clair Thomas, "Eyes of the Beholder"--


Maggie's quote for the week of 5/2/04:

Many are already familiar with this verse from the Bible, Matthew 5:43-45:
"Ye have heard that it hath been said, 'Thow shalt love thy neigbor and hate thy enemy.' But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father who is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust."

The following quote is an exerpt from a commentary on the above verse by Tich Nhat Hanh:
"Many peope pray to God because they want God to fulfill some of their needs. If they want to have a picnic, they ask God for a clear, sunny day. At the same time, farmers might pray for rain.... When you pray for your own picnic and not for the farmers who need the rain, you are doing the opposite of what Jesus taught. Jesus said, 'Love your enemies, bless them that curse you . . .' When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity of accepting and having compassion for him is there. Jesus called this 'loving your enemy.' When you are able to love your enemy, he or she is no longer your enemy. The idea of 'enemy' vanishes and is replaced by the notion of someone who is suffering and needs your compassion...."


Maggie's quote for the week of 4/25/04:
"Perfect kindness acts without thinking of perfect kindness."
--Lao-Tse--

Maggie's quote for the week of 4/18/04:
"Anger is just fear wearing the mask of aggression."
-Dan Baker, Ph.D.

Maggie's quote for the week of 4/11/04:
This week's quote is going to be a link: "One World, One Heart". I hope this link is up for a very long time. There are 21 pages, so read this when you have TIME, but please try to find the time as it might be worth it to you.

Maggie’s quote for the week of 4/4/04:
"....people may forget what you say, people may forget what you do, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
--Maya Angelou--

Maggie’s quote for the week of 3/27/04:
"The fates lead him who will - him who won't, they drag."
--Seneca--

Maggie’s quote for the week of 3/21/04:
"In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, 'Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.' ...To preserve peace, our hearts must be at peace with the world, with our brothers and our sisters. ...If you say, 'Saddam Hussein is evil. We have to prevent him from continuing to be evil,' and if you then use the same means he has been using, you are exactly like him. ...When we try to overcome evil with evil, we are not working for peace."
--Thich Nhat Hanh--

Maggie’s quote for the week of 3/14/04:
"The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression."
--J. Allen Boone, "Kinship with All Life"--

Maggie's quote for the week of 3/7/04:
"Some children were playing beside a river. They made castles of sand, and each child defended his castle and said, 'This one is mine.' They kept their castles separate and would not allow any mistakes about which was whose. When the castles were all finished, one child kicked over someone else's castle and completely destroyed it. The owner of the castle flew into a rage, pulled the other child's hair, struck him with his fist and bawled out, 'He has spoiled my castle! Come along all of you and help me to punish him as he deserves.' The others all came to his help. They beat the child with a stick and then stamped on him as he lay on the ground.... Then they went on playing in their sand castles, each saying, 'This is mine; no one else may have it. Keep away! Don't touch my castle!' But evening came; it was getting dark and they all thought they ought to be going home. No one now cared what became of his castle. One child stamped on his, another pushed his over with both hands. Then they turned away and went back, each to his home."
--from the "Yogacara Bhumi Sutra"--

Maggie’s quote for the week of 2/29/04:
"The only way to abolish war is to make peace heroic."
--John Dewey, American philosopher and educator, 1859-1952 --

Maggie’s quote for the week of 2/22/04:
"If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South America. Is this not why nations engage in the madness of war without the slightest sense of penitence? Is this not why the murder of a citizen of your own nation is a crime, but the murder of citizens of another nation in war is an act of heroic virtue?"
--Martin Luther King, Jr.--

Maggie’s quote for the week of 2/15/04:
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility."
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow--

Maggie’s quote for the week of 2/8/04:
"One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means."
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.--

Extra quote - 2/2/04:
A young lady named Sally, relates an experience she had in a seminary class, given by her teacher, Dr. Smith. She says that Dr. Smith was known for his elaborate object lessons. One particular day, Sally walked into the seminary and knew they were in for a fun day. On the wall was a big target and on a nearby table were many darts. Dr. Smith told the students to draw a picture of someone that they disliked or someone who had made them angry, and he would allow them to throw darts at the person's picture. Sally's friend drew a picture of who had stolen her boyfriend. Another friend drew a picture of his little brother. Sally drew a picture of a former friend, putting a great deal of detail into her drawing, even drawing pimples on the face. Sally was pleased with the overall effect she had achieved. The class lined up and began throwing darts. Some of the students threw their darts with such force that their targets were ripping apart. Sally looked forward to her turn, and was filled with disappointment when Dr. Smith, because of time limits, asked the students to return to their seats. As Sally sat thinking about how angry she was because she didn't have a chance to throw any darts at her target. Dr. Smith began removing the target from the wall. Underneath the target was a picture of Jesus. A hush fell over the room as each student viewed the mangled picture of Jesus; holes and jagged marks covered His face and His eyes were pierced. Dr. Smith said only these words... "In as much as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto Me." Matthew 25:40. No other words were necessary; the tears filled eyes of the students focused only on the picture of Christ.

Maggie’s quote for the week of 2/1/04:
“Confuse an approaching frown with a smile."

Maggie's quote for the week of: 1/25/2004
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
--Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) American Musician, Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter--

Maggie's quote for the week of: 1/19/2004
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."
--Helen Keller--

Maggie’s quote for the week of 1/11/04:
“There are many ways to victimize people. One way is to convince them that they are victims.”
--Karen Hwang--

Maggie’s quote for the week of 1/4/04:
"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."
--Samuel Johnson--

Maggie’s quote for the week of 12/28/03:
"As soon as the spirit of exploitation is gone, armaments will be felt as a positive unbearable burden. Real disarmament cannot come unless the nations of the world cease to exploit one another."
--Gandhi-

Maggie’s quote for the week of 12/21/03:
From the Editorial Page of The New York Sun, written by Francis P. Church, September 21, 1897
We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:
"Dear Editor--I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, 'If you see it in The Sun, it's so.' Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus? Virginia O'Hanlon 115 West Ninety-fifth Street"
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the scepticism of a sceptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no child-like faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Maggie’s quote for the week of 12/14/03:
“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?”
--The Dhammapada--

Maggie’s quote for the week of 12/7/03:
“Everything I do and say with anyone makes a difference.”
--Gita Bellin--

Maggie’s quote for the week of 11/30/03:
“We can learn a lot from crayons… Some are sharp. Some are pretty. Some are dull. Some have weird names, and are different colors. But they all have to learn to live in the same box!”
--Paperbacks for Education--

Special Thanksgiving quote for 2003:
“If the only prayer you say in your whole life is “thank you”, that would suffice.”
--Meister Eckhart--

Maggie’s quote for the week of 11/23/03:
“You make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offense as when you give offense.”
--Ken Keyes, Jr.--

Maggie’s quote for the week of 11/16/03:
“At any moment I could start being a better person – but which moment should I choose?”
--Ashleigh Brilliant--

Maggie’s quote for the week of 11/9/03:
“If you smile at me I will understand. That is something everybody everywhere does in the same language.”
--Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young--

Maggie’s quote for the week of 11/2/03:
“Service is not labor; it is love set free.”

Maggie’s quote for the week of 9/26/03:
“You must become the changes you wish to see in the world.”
--Ghandi--

Maggie’s quote for the week of 9/19/03:
“I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.”
--Seneca (the younger)--

Maggie’s quote for the week of 9/12/03:
“Truth is one; paths are many”
--Swami Satchidananda--

Maggie’s quote for the week of 10/5/03:
“Experience is something you don’t get until just after the moment you needed it.”

Maggie’s quote for the week of 9/28/03:
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate…”

Maggie’s quote for the week of 9/21/03:
“If only the best birds would sing, it would be a mighty quiet forest.”
--Kodaly (?)--

Maggie’s quote for the week of 9/14/03:
“Never cut what can be untied.”

Maggie’s quote for the week of 9/7/03:
“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
--Albert Einstein--

Maggie’s quote for the week of 8/31/03:
“No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helped you.”
--Althea Gibson--

Maggie’s quote for week of 8/24/03:
“Our work-a-day lives are filled with opportunities to bless others. The power of a single glance or an encouraging smile must never be underestimated.”
--G. Richard Rieger--

Maggie’s quote for week of 8/17/03:
“Thank God for what doesn’t need healing.”
--Joan Borysenko--

Maggie’s quote for week of 8/10/03:
“Be sure to laugh – those who don’t bend break.”

Maggie’s quote for week of 8/7/03:
“It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at the moment, we expected some other good.”
--C. S. Lewis--

Maggie’s quote for the week of 8/25/03:
“An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth… soon the whole world will be blind and toothless.”
--Gandhi--