When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.

...according to the teachings of Islam, war is to be waged not against the enemy but against the aggressor. (p. 49)

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap

True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which can be discovered and developed, although never possessed or fixed.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth