The terrorists, they have the wrong perception. They believe that the other group is trying to destroy them as a religion, as a civilization. So they want to abolish us, to kill us before we can kill them. And the antiterrorist may think very much the same way - that these are terrorists and they are trying to eliminate us, so we have to eliminate them first. Both sides are motivated by fear, by anger, and by wrong perception.

Deep listening helps us to recognize the existence of wrong perceptions in the other person and wrong perceptions in us.

Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything. When a child presents himself to you with his smile, if you are not really there - thinking about the future or the past, or preoccupied with other problems - then the child is not really there for you. The technique of being alive is to go back to yourself in order for the child to appear like a marvellous reality. Then you can see him smile and you can embrace him in your arms.

I am you and you are me; it is obvious we inter-are.

It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.