from the book I'm reading right now...

"Every day we could think about the aggression in the world, in New York, Los Angeles, Halifax, Taiwan, Beirut, Kuwait, Somalia, Iraq, everywhere. All over the world, everybody always strikes out at the enemy, and the pain escalates forever. Every day we could reflect on this and ask ourselves, 'Am I going to add to the aggression in the world?' Every day at the moment when things get edgy, we can just ask ourselves, 'Am I going to practice peace, or am I going to war?'"

-Pema Chodron