“The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.”

“On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.”

“If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?”

“Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.”

“Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.”

“Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.”

“Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…”