Love is a precious thing
It is a feeling that
makes your heart sing.
Whether you are far or near
it is like whispering in my ear.
When you find true love
it is something you
keep within your heart.

Author: Unknown 

While we are able to sit, eat, sing and meditate peacefully, we should take some time to thank our heroes, our patriots who are risking their lives every day and night to provide us this peaceful moment. ~Jendhamuni

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. ~Carlos Casteneda

A powerful message from my great master, Buddha of the Battlefield

What can Buddhism do to heal the wounds of the world? What did the Buddha teach that we can use to heal and elevate the human condition? One of the Buddha’s most courageous acts was to walk onto a battlefield to stop a conflict. He did not sit in his temple waiting for the oppressors to approach him. He walked right onto the battlefield to stop the conflict…

We Buddhists must find the courage to leave our temples and enter the temples of contemporary human experience, temples that are filled with suffering. If we listen to the Buddha, Christ or Gandhi, we can do nothing else. The refugee camps, the prisons, the ghettos, and the battlefield will then become our temples. We have so much work to do. ~H.H. Maha Ghosananda

Source: http://dannyfisher.org