We Can Learn To Suppress Our Feelings

Some People Say, Therefore, That Violence And War Are Inevitable. I Say Rubbish: Our Brains Are Fully Capable Of Controlling Instinctive Behavior.

The Tree I Had In The Garden As A Child, My Beech Tree, I Used To Climb Up There And Spend Hours. I Took My Homework Up There, My Books, I Went Up There If I Was Sad, And It Just Felt Very Good To Be Up There Among The Green Leaves And The Birds And The Sky.

We Have The Choice To Use The Gift Of Our Life To Make The World A Better Place--or Not To Bother

Especially Now When Views Are Becoming More Polarized, We Must Work To Understand Each Other Across Political, Religious And National Boundaries.

I Had Never Been Able To Believe That God Would Give Us Poor Frail Humans Only One Chance At Making It -- That We Would Be Assigned To Some Kind Of Hell Because We Failed During One Experience Of Mortal Life. ... So The Concepts Of Karma And Reincarnation Made Logical Sense To Me.