A selection of Sunbeams from the SUN Magazine August 2013

"All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished."

Marshal Rosenburg

"Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.... The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul."

Carl Jung

"In our struggle to restrain violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that us it also a crucial survival tool."

Katherine Dunn

"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."

Mahatma Gandhi 

"You have to want to lose your appetite for violence or aggression. And to do that, you have to lose your self-righteousness."

Pema Chödrön 

"Even fighting in self-defense is wrong, though it is higher than fighting in aggression. There is no "righteous" indignation, because indignation comes from not recognizing sameness in all things." 

Vivekanada 

"Peacekeeper missile." Doesn't that sound like "ax-murderer baby sitter"? 

Elayne Boosler 

"Through violence you may murder the lier, but you cannot murder the lie, now establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate.... Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

Martin Luther King Jr. 

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

Mother Teresa