What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?

The best way to be healthy is to be a part of a healthy world.  But the world is sadly and dramatically unhealthy.  We wonder why we feel like crap, and we never stop to consider the sewage that we pour out through our own violent thoughts.   Everywhere there is war.  Everywhere there is chaos.  Everywhere people suffer, and everywhere people cause other people (and other living things) to suffer.  How can we find true health without peace and love?  How can we find peace and love in a world filled with chaos and hatred?  We have two choices - either give up . . . or start somewhere, do something.

"Peace and love" is not just a cliché from a past generation.  It's not a joke.  If you can learn to be at peace and live peacefully, peace will radiate out of you, and improve the world.  It will also make you healthy and sane and good.  The physical world is a manifestation of thought.   If you think peace and love, you'll create it.  If you think turmoil and hatred, you'll create that.   Please work hard to starve out all of the hatred and turmoil inside you, and to nurture and grow peace and love.

If you pray, pray for peace.

If you meditate, meditate on peace

If you chant, chant for peace.

Live peacefully.

Do good.  Be good.  Live, love, serve, meditate, realize.

It doesn't matter so much what you do - what matters is that you care.  If you care enough, you'll do good things.  Below I have placed some quotes, prayers, mantras, chants, philosophies, etc. about peace.  It is a work in process.  Perhaps you'll find something that moves you.   Please feel free to submit others to me via email, or however you like.

Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me and 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 in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Thought Power for Inner Peace - World Peace

Words of Wisdom by Swami Sivananda from the book "Thought Power" 

Thought is a living force.  Caused by the vibration of psychic vital energy on the mental substance it is the most subtle and irresistible power that exists in the universe.  The stronger the thought, the more effective it is in accomplishing it's work.  You can move the world through thought force.  the powerful thoughts of great sages and rishis (wise men) of yore are still recorded.

As you think so you become.  Be careful of your thoughts.  Whatever you send out of your mind comes back to you.  If your mind is full of hatred for another, hate will come back to you.  If you love others, love will come back to you.

A negative thought harms the thinker by doing injury to his mental body.  Secondly, it attacks the person or persons against whom it is directed.  And lastly, it radiates out, poisons the general environment, and promotes negativity in the world.

A positive thought benefits the thinker by nourishing his mental body.  Secondly, it helps the person or persons for whom it is directed.  Lastly, it radiates out, and improves the general environment, and promotes positivity in the world.

Thought can be used for positive or negative purposes.  Promote your own inner peace, as well as world peace, by radiating out loving thoughts.