"The Peace Index provides a framework to help people find sustained balance in their lives. It is comprised of five parts: purpose, people, place, personal health, and provision. Each part informs a person's overall wellbeing and happiness. To calculate your peace index, you assign a number between 1-100 to each part. For example, if you assign your purpose a 70, that indicates you need to rediscover what drives your life. If you assign people a 95,...

If a hawk can become a dove, can war become peace? A story that dares us to imagine peace. Quarrelsome Hawk tires of conflict and wills himself to change - and he turns into peaceful Dove. As tanks and warships transform into tractors and brightly-colored sailboats, all the land is enveloped by a comforting blanket of calm. People everywhere celebrate the coming of peace. And Dove, victorious, is glad - but still she worries how this story will...

""Once upon a time there was a man who worked very hard and very quickly, and who had left his soul far behind him long ago. In fact his life was all right without his soul--he slept, ate, worked, drove a car and even played tennis. But sometimes he felt as if the world around him were flat, as if he were moving across a smooth page in a math book that was covered in evenly spaced squares... " --from The Lost Soul. The Lost Soul is a deeply moving...