'Peace Keeper' warheads descending onto a Pacific test area circa 1979. The world, via neoconservative policy, is now resorting to the age old 'Peace Through Strength' policy to resolve global conflicts (update 106).

 

“In the throne of silence are manifest the perfections of spiritual beauty.” 

 Miguel de Molinos (d1696).  Spanish christian mystic, of Quitism similar to Zen Buddhism.  To be still and quite, meditation and transience to release oneself from the self.