This is what I need...

Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, “This is what I need.” It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment—not discouragement—you will find the strength there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege!! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow. Then, when looking back at your life, you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failures, followed by wreckage, were the incidents that shaped the life you have now. You’ll see this is really true. Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

~ Joseph Campbell Quotes

Education is not enough...

" Education is not enough to build and sustain a culture of peace. But there is an inextricable link between this type of education and the social and political changes that are so essential: 'There is a two way street here that gives us hope,' write Linda Lantieri and Janet Patti in Waging Peace in Our Schools.

'While the education of the heart requires changes in society in order for its most revolutionary ideals to be realized, emotionally literate people are exactly the kind of people most likely to bring about that change.' These young people, they write, who have 'learned to de-escalate violence and turn conflict into opportunity, to value each unique individual' will be 'building a future full of hope and gentleness'."

- Educating for a Culture of Peace