On Earth There Is No Heaven.

(I went to the hills, and I came back down to earth.)

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance,
the wise grows it under his feet.

- James Oppenheim


I went to the hill to seek peace,
I came down from the hill to live peace.

- Ghostwise

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On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

- Jules Renard


When I have picked up enough of the shattered glasses,
I'll make my own mirror.

- Ghostwise

The Foxes Luv The Chickens, They Said.

(Tomorrow is Election Day. Go out and do our duty and hope it is enough. Vote wisely for the future whether we think it will make a difference or not).

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

- T.S. Eliot


The foxes are out declaring how much they love the chickens. And unfortunately, it is the truth.

- Ghostwise

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Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.

- Author Unknown


And everyone who has ever changed old diapers knows how badly they smell.

- Ghostwise

How To Attain Peace In the Storm?

(This is the scene of the storm from my office window just as I was about to leave this evening. The storm reflects my mood today and the hectic situations this week. Had a bad day in a bad week.)

“The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson


I pray that the storm will soon pass. Am I wise or am I not?

- Ghostwise

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“Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm”

- Author Unknown


If the storm reflects the turmoil in my heart, it is beautiful.
If the storm contrasts the serenity in my heart, it is also beautiful.

- Ghostwise

War & Peace

"There was never a good war or a bad peace."

- Benjamin Franklin


When will we ever learn?

- Ghostwise

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"We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with...the other nations of the world. The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours."

- Lord Baden-Powell


If our patriotism is to justice and love and not to race, class, sect, town, city and country, then maybe we may have a glimpse of Peace on earth.

- Ghostwise

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