song of a thousand addicts

mercy, mercy

i'm sorry

please forgive me

help me

i need your help

why do i do this

here i go again

thank you

i want to change

before i die

*Our society is full of violence, hatred and fear and we are influenced by that.  Young people growing up today receive many seeds of unhappiness.  Why are we so violent?  Why is there so much fear and hatred in us?  It is because there is so much violence, hatred and fear in society, in our collective consciousness.  A society like ours will always produce police like the ones who beat up Rodney King.  If we fire policemen or lock them in prison, we will not solve the problem, because the roots of the problem are in society.  A policeman knows he has to take care of himself, because he can be killed by anyone on the street.

-Thich Ngat Hanh

*A regular human being cannot kill another human being.  To be able to kill, you have to become a beast.

-Thich Ngat Hanh