OCEAN OF GRATITUDE CRUISE 2008

 In February 2008, Love Is the Solution Founder, Nasser Zaghi, joined Karol Avalon's Ocean of Gratitude cruise to the western Caribbean for eight remarkable days.  Karol created and produced  this remarkable journey, which was dedicated to the exploration of teachings and experiences within a community circle of spirit and gratitude.  Teachers included  Reverend Doctor Michael Beckwith, who was featured in the 2006 film, The Secret.  Zaghi was also invited to share his vision and mission of peace in a special session for cruise participants.

Mo Panahi, a member of the board of directors of Love Is the Solution, was also on the cruise and had this comment for Karol: This trip was great experience of gratitude as community in space of acceptance, peace and love. I thank you again for wonderful coordination and your love and leadership to cause such event like this. Many thanks and wishing the best for you dear Karol." Mo P.

February 2008
Dear Mr. Zaghi,

I am writing to express my appreciation of your work and your nonprofit organization, Love Is the Solution. I find it to be in great harmony with that of my own work in support of peace and goodwill in the world. My activity is primarily in the field of (spiritual) music. I believe it is through the language and sound of such music that a sense of acceptance, love and grace arises. These are major elements of Love Is the Solution, which its simple, direct message of love and peace. It is a beautiful message your present, in harmony with all voices of peace in the world. Thank you for your efforts and what you have created in the interest of world peace.
Sincerely,
Rickie Byars Beckwith
Agape International Spiritual Center

Rickie Byars Beckwith, Music and Arts Director for Agape International Spiritual Center in Culver City, California, composes and performs moving, melodic music "to inspire deep feeling in the heart and to bring joy to the earth." She has produced six CDs that are favorites to thousands. Her most recent project, Supreme Inspiration, was produced by her daughter, Georgia Anne Muldrow, and led to her first music video, Alle-Alleluia.  Rickie and her husband, Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith, are also among an eminent faculty presenting at the Omega Institute's Being Fearless conference scheduled for April 11-13 in New York City.  Rickie looks forward to future creative endeavors with her husband and other like-minded seekers.

March 19, 2008 

Dear Zaghi, 

It was such a pleasure to meet you on the Gratitude Cruise. It is my honor to write a testimonial for you and your peace movement. I really admire your efforts and I hope they will bring about peace---we certainly need it! 

While in the tropical forest of Costa Rica, I learned a valuable lesson in coexistence. My guide, a retired doctor and biologist, explained how the lumbering of one area threatens the ability of other areas to remain standing; because each tree is connected to the others through an intertwined root system, cutting down one tree weakens the roots of all the others. The forest is a microcosm of humanity: it shows that by standing alone we are unique but fragile; by uniting harmoniously with others, we are productive and strong. If mankind wishes to leave a strong, enduring legacy, we must see ourselves as part of the whole. The peace movement reinforces this lesson. It teaches us that our existence is rooted in peaceful unity.

I am a testament to the fact that unity means strength.  During my immigration voyage to America, I was involved in the most catastrophic collision in history between two ocean liners. Thanks to the kind assistance of strangers on land and on sea, my family and I were saved. Moreover, this collaboration led to the "greatest sea rescue in peacetime history".

Mr. Zaghi's peace efforts give mankind hope for survival.

Pierette Domenica Simpson

Author of Alive on the Andrea Doria! The Greatest Sea Rescue in History

Co-author of Thank God I...Stories of Inspiration for Every Situation

www.pierettesimpson.com

Dear Mr. Zaghi,

It is only through inner peace that the world will one day know world peace. I am honored and humbled by the clear vision you have to help raise the cousciouness of humanity. Love is the solution. Keep shining!

With infinite Love and Gratitude
Dr. Darren Weissman
www.infiniteloveandgratitude.com

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February, 2008
Dear Mr. Zaghi, 

The mission of your nonprofit organization, Love Is the Solution, with its simple, direct message of love and peace is one that every person needs to hear.  All of us can benefit greatly by practicing the essential elements you put forth as components of love -- acceptance, fairness,and doing our best.  Such awareness and conscious practice can only lead to a more loving and peaceful world. 

I am deeply interested in the quest for peace, and am grateful for all who actively advocate for peace. I would like to extend my personal expression of appreciation and support for your efforts. I, too, can sincerely say that love is indeed the solution and the way. 

Sincerely,

Dr.  Michael Bernard Beckwith
Agape International Spiritual Center

Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith is a world leader and teacher in the New Thought-Ancient Wisdom tradition of spirituality. He is the founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center, co-founder of the Association for Global New Thought, and the Season for Nonviolence, which are extensions of his vision of one human family united on a foundation of peace, based on the spiritual origin of every man, woman, and child. In 1986 Dr. Beckwith founded the Agape International Spiritual Center, a transdenominational community which today counts a membership of 9,000 devoted to the study and practice of New Thought-Ancient Wisdom. Agape's outreach programs feed the homeless, serve incarcerated individuals and their families, advocate the preservation of the planet's environmental resources, and globally build and support orphanages whose children have survived the ravages of war and AIDS.

The principles of this spiritual peace organization and Nasser Zaghi's book Love is the Solution are so incredibly relevant to individuals and teams leading transformational change in business today. Business leaders have a responsibility to practice these principles every day.