As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.
Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.
Behold God beholding you...and smiling.
It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will "know." As you identify less and less with the "me," you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.