Occupation: Author Birth: July 6, 1920 Death: June 24, 2010
A meal, however simple, is a moment of intersection. It is at once the most basic, the most fundamental, of our life's activities, maintaining the li….
Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyous words in the language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying..
We must look towards societies that set a high value on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore handle conflicts by nonviolent means. We….
When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary..
There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity..
Peace cultures thrive on and are nourished by visions of how things might be, in a world where sharing and caring are part of the accepted lifeways f….
For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot encompass suffering ….
We're never going to have respectful and reverential relationships with the planet- and sensible policies about what we put in the air, the soil, the….
War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned….
The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things..
Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting?.
Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology..
I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society..
Fasting and feasting are universal human responses, and any meal, shared with love, can be an agape..