WHY do I endorse Nasser Zaghi “Love is the Solution?”
I believe the following:
SHOCKING -- SEARCH: DEATH TOLLS ACROSS HISTORY –
Nasser Zaghi and “Love is the Solution” contribute to bring eventual number of war deaths to zero God is one, humanity is part of God. Let’s use Nasser”s Love is the Solution principles and mission to take the journey towards this Godly oneness.

INTERNATIONAL PEACE
Nasser, my brother, now in the place of my late father and mother, has spent an extraordinary amount of time, funds, and effort to encourage and inspire the removal of hatred from human lives. I am sure he truly deserves to share in our mother’s great position and honor for accomplishments to bring peace and create a world full of love.

LOVE IS THE SOLUTION PRINCIPLES
Love Is the Solution principles of acceptance, fairness and doing one's best are the best to begin efforts for all peoples of all nations to travel the pathway to global peace, saving human lives and applying technology to have beautiful, peaceful environment for everybody.

UPROOTING HATRED REPLACING LOVE
Practicing Nasser’s principles will remove envy, greed, selfishness, corruption and injustice from the hearts of people and implants love instead.

ENJOYMENT INSTEAD OF SUFFERING
We suffer from disease, poverty, and injustice. Love is the Solution leads us into eliminating war and violence in human relationships, and teaches us to have peace all over the world through the power of love.

• LOVE PEOPLE LOVE GOD
• Love is the Solution is teaching us
• “Loving other people” is exactly equal to “Loving God”
• Serving others is serving God
• God loves those who love other people
• The only way to God is through love.

With Love is the Solution , Your brother, Nour Zaghi

Dear Nasser

Hope all is well and doing good under the heartfull circumstances.
I couldn't resist not to send you this note regarding the horrible massacre that happened Sunday morning in Orlando ,Florida .Since the occurrence of this tragedy , I have once again been hooked to all news stations and talk shows specially on my favorite radio station KGO.
I was driving around 1:30 PM yesterday and listening to my talk show station as I did during the whole week of 9/11.
Prior to the show,it was on the news that a Pastor from Sacramento was preaching to his audience and asked what are your thoughts about the killing and injuring of almost 100 innocent loving gay young people?
No response was heard and he continued by shouting that I am happy and I encourage the government to round up all of these people and shoot them.
On the other hand the talk show host and his guest speaker were trying to understand the motive for such hate and anger.
Every time a question was asked the answer started with the word of LOVE not hate.
This discussion went on for about 30 min. and the two words LOVE not HATEwere repeated numerous time.
I then thought to my self that the guest speaker must have taken a page from Mr. Zaghis Doctrine that LOVE is the solution to all the hate exist in the world.
How true this must be that all the chanting that are going on in Orlando are LOVE will overcome

DEAR MR. NASSER ZAGHI,

I so much enjoyed our meeting at St. Sava's Orthodox Church in Phoenix, as well as your web- site and printed materials. I apologize for my delay in getting back to you, but I have been thinking and praying deeply on what is the best way to materialize our shared dream of a teacher and student conference on peace education, and of a global peace education curriculum to share world-wide.  My resulting opinion is that a meeting at an Arizona school put on by students and teachers would have the greatest media impact, and thus best opportunity for global audience impact.

As a result, I consulted with a good friend and colleague, Trish McCarty of StarShine Academy.   She said she knew you well, agreed deeply with your mission, and also agreed that her high school students could put together a large state-wide conference and peace rally on their beautiful new multi-million dollar K-12 campus.  They could get it organized to coincide with the UN peace education date of September. 1, 2015.  She said for you to contact her directly, and that they could begin planning immediately for a "love is the solution" conference.  This seems to me to be a golden educational opportunity for all involved, and that it would also be a very cost effective and beautiful location for you to come for a keynote address. I will support and cooperate with Trish's efforts to implement this exciting program in any way that I can.

In the universal love of God for all of his children,
Dr. Heather
214 934-8893
Heather Koger Devich, ED.D.
Founder, Executive Director
Global Seed: Sustainable Environment Education demonstrations
Google nonprofit Montessori Ed channel: http://www.youtube.com/ globalseed.org

Dear Mr. Zaghi, I was delighted to participate in your care while you were hospitalized at JFK Medical Center. It was nice to hear about your concepts on love. To answer your question, how your definition of love relating to the practice of medicine, there is no doubt every physician has to practice medicine with love and empathy. Each patient must be joyfully accepted and of course one has to be for the patient and do ones best. Doctor Saketkhou Cardiologist Boca Raton, Florida

Dear Nasser:

It is over twenty years that my family and I have had the pleasure of knowing you and your family through our business association. I am very proud and happy to have had this fantastic acquaintance over these years. Our business partnership in Park 3rd and Park 4th investment project, with your relentless effort and leadership as managing partner, has been without a doubt, a unique and masterful one.

I value our friendship and hope it will continue for many, many more years to come. You and your family are in my and my family's thoughts, and we wish you and yours a very happy, healthy, and successful future.

Most Sincere Regards,

My Dear Zaghi,

I have not seen you for some time now, and have recently discovered what you are doing with your Love Is the Solution peace project. I am amazed at you! I can't believe it! I have known you for more than fifty-five years, and have always believed in you, expected big things from you, but nothing as big as this project for peace. I repeat, you are amazing. What you are doing is wonderful and your formula works! I know because I have tried it several times - very successfully - both in business and with family and friends.

When I think back to the old days, when we were in school, I remember that you were a smart and ardent student, you excelled in volleyball -- you were always considered to be the best player, you know. You always were persistent, even back then you were doing your best. I recall a very good example -- when you were bedridden for months with a herniated disc, you summoned the commitment and determination to complete all those law courses- always doing your best, Zaghi. You have carried this zeal into the present and are putting your entire self into your work as a messenger of peace. It is incredible to see this transition.

I know that your life was transformed after your oldest daughter survived a horrific car accident. Your life was touched after that tragedy and the event triggered you to get involved in writing your book, "Love Is the Solution - Peace Is Possible. It is clear that you have put a huge amount of time and effort into publishing and promoting it and it is surely not to get rich, since you already have everything you could ever need. You have done this because you believe in it completely and are so deeply committed to peace.  You are incredibly patient, consistent, willing to listen, talk things out, and you have the ability to sift through passionate emotions to see to the heart of the issue. You are extraordinarily compassionate, and you understand the human heart.

I applaud you, my friend. You are helping to change the world forever - peace is really possible and you are carrying that message to every corner of the earth. As you know, I am happy to offer my full support for your project, now and at any time in the future.  May you be well and travel far on this journey to peace!

With love,
Ira Farnoush Los Angeles, California

(The following is an email that came in response to visiting LITS’ website.)

Nasser, I would like to tell you how much I admire the efforts you're expending to make the world a better place. Man has striven throughout our entire history to achieve a state of peace and tranquility. Unfortunately, we have failed. We have had one war after another. Worse yet, we have seen millions of people massacred within their own borders. Based on the weapons available today, we may be facing the worst crisis of all time. Fundamentalism in one form or another is threatening us all.

In the face of all this Nasser, you have stated simply Love is the Solution. It is every person's responsibility to meet life's challenges with an attitude of loving acceptance; each person must act with a commitment to fairness and everyone must be dedicated to doing their best in every way. If we could adopt these three core principles the world would be transformed. So many people have come before you and tried to make a difference by putting mankind on the right track, and have failed. We can only hope that you will succeed.

The enormity of your undertaking equals the good that would be achieved. We must all pass your principles on to all with whom we come in contact. This, in our own small way, will help to advance your cause which is really the cause of all man.

Let me close by saying how moved I am to have met you. If all of us just followed your example, we could succeed where so many others have failed. Your endeavor has my prayers for its success.  

All my best,
Donald Ashkenase
Rochester, New York

Dear Mr. Zaghi, I have read your book, Love Is the Solution, and I feel I must write this letter to you, to share my own personal experience. I believe that I and my story are the best proof of love is the solution in practice. Like yourself, I was born in Shiraz, Iran. You were born Jewish, and I Muslim. I remember my childhood years, growing up in school.  A frequent activity of mine, together with my friends, was to hit Jewish boys' heads, to make fun of them and laugh. That was my fun - it was a common activity, a hobby for us.   I am 56 years old now. I have lived Las Vegas, Nevada, for the last 30 years. Looking at my past, I realize I was product of an environment that trained me to hate and to single out other classmates, like the Jewish boys, because of their religion or even just how they looked. After realizing all of this, and now having read your book, Love Is the Solution, I am transformed. I would love to hug any Jewish boys and ask them to their face, “Please forgive me. I am sorry for my childish behavior, and most importantly, I love you”.   Love was my solution to transform the blind hate, to be open to love everyone in my life. Thank you, Mr. Zaghi, for your book.  It opened up my eyes, my mind and my heart and now I have a more complete understanding of my past. You have helped me to see it so clearly -- love IS the solution. Sincerely,

‍Habib‍
‍Businessman San Francisco,
California.

“Love is the Solution” has been an inspiring read for me during 2010, and now having met Nasser Zaghi, and speaking with him at length, I know that we not only embrace the same vision for Peace, but that he passionately embodies the notion, furthering the move toward peace to a larger degree than the majority of people are capable. What excites me is that his influence reaches diverse cultures that in the West many have grown to askew with mistrust, disapproval or fear. To me these cultures are mysterious, historically ancient, and similar to all of us in one respect, ‘malleable to a new paradigm’. It would be an honor to endorse and work with Zaghi’s organization. As a representative in Arizona for the Department of Peace Campaign, a bill on the ballot in Congress, I resonate deeply with his voice of reason in an unreasonably violent world. There are many of us working for the abstract concept of Peace, and each in our own way is a cog in the wheel. It is vital for us to come together, endorse one another, our varied visions for a better world than the one we are subjected to, and while practicality is fundamental to my way of thinking, in the last analysis, it boils down to - Love is the Answer! The most fundamental value those of us who are concerned with Peace share is the universal trust that all peoples, however diverse in culture and denomination, religion or non belief, conclude that life requires ‘we treat others as we ourselves would be treated’. Nonetheless, driven by personal agendas and societal slants, many good people find themselves abusing others in the name of ‘justice,’ or ‘might makes right’. For those of us who see all life as one impartial whole, furthering the notion of peace among us is not only a required natural law; it is a dire necessity at this juncture in our evolution. The ability to discuss values globally, to reconsider what is moral behavior among the social networking that now links us, we are further reminded to address these issues, and return to that simple axiom that is fundamental to all religion, and all civilized cultures, that we should do unto others, as we would wish to be dealt with ourselves. Peace begins with us. Consideration, and compassion towards another is prerequisite, and our willingness to develop understanding that allows for acceptance of our differences. These qualities are sometimes mistaken for weakness as opposed to strength. But they are the mechanics of collaboration. Commitment and flexibility, which are true signals of strength, must allow for separation in non agreement, while maintaining mutual collaboration, and sustained effort to reach out even if it requires patient, hard work, but never force. Should we cultivate humility and resist the temptation to meddle in the affairs of others? Yes, there will undoubtedly be those slower to arrive at the trailhead to these qualities, or who choose to evolve by unfathomable means. But we might find that some will emulate those who chose the path of least resistance, our higher path of peacefulness, observing how peace engenders genuine joy and prosperity.

These characteristics are inherent in every human being, every culture, and among peoples of all race. But also present is the darker side of human nature. This voice very often eclipses the majority of good people living their lives as best they know how, as all of us wish, with family, friends, comfort and dignity. The darker voice of force can be heard loud and clear above the distracted chatter of the average person, and it is that voice, above all, that needs to be brought into the shared dialogue, understood for its angst, urged into alignment with nature’s rhythm of regeneration. The majority of people, if we chose to believe them to be fundamentally good, will overcome evil in their own time and in their own way, and we must lead by elective example, rather than by collective power. Those who elect lasting peace endorse steadfastness in the face of brutality. They do not shy away from the beast in others; it is met with its polar opposite, and thus dissolved. Handled with flexibility enough to tolerate other interpretations of what we ourselves consider acceptable boundaries of human behavior. To Peacemakers, ideological differences such as too much clothing, or too little clothing for instance pale beside the pain of hungry children. This sounds like an altruistic approach to what we see as intractable differences on a global scale. How do we bridge this gap between reality and possibility? Like Zaghi’s organization, the Department of Peace Campaign proposes 1% of the defense budget to establish a third leg to our collaborative Global decision-making. A voice of reason at the collective table! Sounds philanthropic once again, and what of the additional expense and expansion of government delving even further into our lives and our pockets? Isn’t it quality of life that urges us to contain others less than peaceful behavior? Protect our sovereign right to security? Well then, doesn’t the wise man check his brakes/tires, rather than try to steer an automobile out of control and trust it all to the insurance policy after the accident? And if this is so, then shouldn’t we see as crucial common sense, a foundation that delivers peaceful infrastructure before conflicts arise, and that reduces the outrageous expense of war both on our global economies, and our global human families? ‘Department of Peace’ seeks furtherance of cross-cultural education, and linguistic capabilities. Provide violence prevention and conflict resolution skills and mediation, tolerance, in all schools, and as part of our emerging global culture. Address the ‘Root Cause’ of domestic violence, gang psychology, drug and alcohol related violence. Rehabilitate offenders who qualify, rather than locking them away at great expense. Remember a child well occupied with tinkering and toys, rarely seeks to get into mischief! And importantly, support our military with complementary approaches to conflict. We need our gallant first responders to attend to the growing incidence of turbulent natural disasters first and foremost. And of course the reduction of arms, a weapon for a weapon does not, nor never has, ensured safety. Fear is our most treacherous opiate. Love is its antidote, by mysterious kismet.

Finally, these approaches must become part of the dialogue at peak levels in all governments, and encouraged for those who do not see the wisdom therein. We owe it to ourselves, and to that patient Creative Force, whatever name we chose to apply to innate intelligence, that after millenniums of floundering, we have evolved to the point of collectively bringing ourselves into alignment with our inherent loving nature. Ready to rebirth a more profound persona. That new archetype = Peace.

Sincerely,
Susanna Holt

September 8, 2004
Dear Nasser,

My wife and I would like to thank you and all of your family for having us at your daughter's Graduation party and family reunion. We don't have enough words to express how grateful we are to be a part of this grand celebration. The night after the party my drive home felt like I was flying. It felt like I was in the clouds. When we got home I was so excited to tell all my kids my experience at the party. And when I sent to bed I cannot sleep. If you were to cut me with a knife, I don't think I will bleed. I have never experienced this before. Nor felt like this before. You showed us so much respect, importance, trust and so much love. You are very special to us. You will always have a special part in my heart. I am sure that I was not the only one that felt like this that evening. What you do for everybody is so wonderful. Just imagine bringing every one of your family members in one roof, just enjoying each other's company is a milestone achievement. You and your family made everyone very welcomed and very special. Love is the Solution. Nasser, you are love, therefore you are the solution. You give so much love and understanding to people. You make every individual very important and special. I just wish that everyone would think like you. Once again, I think you for being a friend and accepting me as part of your family. Our love for you will always be very special.

Love Always,

Fred Ramirez

Dear Mr. Zaghi,

Certainly, I agree with you that love is the solution on both the personal level and within the community at large. Some may ask, “What is the rationale behind this statement?”

The answer is quite simple: only love brings the experience of oneness which, in turn, is key to sensing mutuality and connection. One experiences oneness when one is completely tuned into the other’s feelings. This is also known as ‘empathy’.  

Empathy is a mutually recognized connection between two human beings. It can also come about as the result of a selfless attempt to understanding another’s differences. I am pleased to hear you are so interested in nurturing greater understanding about love and have devoted your life to his noble endeavor.

Be assured that I am delighted to support you as you strive to enhance individual happiness and therefore, ultimately achieve the critically needed resolution of the world’s conflicts.

My Best,
Nehzat Farnoody, Ph.D.
Cross-Cultural Clinical Psychologist

During the years of 1989 to 1992, Dr. Farnoody hosted the first Iranian-American Radio and TV program on psychological topics related to the needs of the Iranian-American community. From 1995 to 2001, she hosted several Radio and TV psychology media literacy programs. Since 2002, she has been the host of a popular satellite TV Talk Show called, “Inner Sight (Negahi be Daroon)” on American Farsi Network (www.AFNL.com) where she has an opportunity to reach out, educate, and raise awareness on Mental Health and psychological principles of parenting and healthy families for Iranian-Americans, as well as, the Iranians living in the global community Excerpts developed from www.drfarnoody.us

Dear Mr. Zaghi,

We have heard it in song: "Love is all you need." We recently witnessed it on TV when a bookkeeper--a woman of deep and abiding faith--prevented another school massacre from occurring by extending compassion and love to an unhinged and heavily armed young man. Love stopped him in his tracks. What mystics have always known and what scientists have demonstrated of late is that love is the source and also the great healing balm of our universe. A Japanese scientist who now travels the world has been able to demonstrate that crystals of polluted water can actually be transformed into pure and potable water through thoughts of love.

As a person who has dedicated her adult life to creating interfaith harmony, I resonate deeply with your mantra "Love is the Solution." As a person who has produced films, written articles, organized peace pilgrimages and delivered countless speeches advocating personal responsibility and urging that we befriend the stranger, I salute your plan to inculcate the youngest and most tender of souls with lessons in love and peaceful co-existence. As someone who has spoken on many college campuses, in many mosques, churches, synagogues, embassies and livings rooms, I salute your call for peace education on a global level. The time is now and we are ripe for this next stage.

What you are proposing, a pedagogy of love, has never before been adopted on a global level. We know in our hearts that this generation of children, and the generations to follow, must receive our immediate loving attention if we are going to rescue the world from war and violence. When we teach love, we create hope. When we teach respect, we model cooperation. When we teach fairness, we promote justice.

Thank you for keeping this cause alive and vital. Your passion for advancing the pedagogy of love to all the peoples of the earth, starting with our children, is most praiseworthy. May we be inspired to achieve this noblest of ventures through our collective holy collaboration.

Sincerely,
Ruth Broyde Sharone,
Co-Chair
Southern California Committee for a Parliament of the World's Religions

Interfaith Leader Ruth Broyde Sharone, an inspirational speaker, filmmaker, journalist, author and coach, empowers people to take on a "global stretch for peace." A self-appointed peacemaker since she was a young girl in Chicago, Ruth is convinced that people—not governments—will ultimately bring about the long-awaited and eagerly hoped for era of global peace. Her personal mission to promote interfaith harmony has taken her far beyond the US, to the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, Europe, and Asia.


Her motto: Be Interfaithful and Multiply!

www.MinefieldsAndMiracles.com and  www.FilmsThatMatter.com

Dear Zaghi,

I have written quite a few letters to the wonderful recipients of THIS AMERICAN HEART Award. They have been easy to write but I sit here struggling with your letter and I know why. There are so many things to say, they all come at once and I simply can't get them all written down! LOVE IS THE SOLUTION is an intention of the Heart. Your commitment to letting the world know the truth...that Love is the Solution...inspires others to make a difference. On a personal level, I know that every time I get stuck, I think "Love is the Solution" and it becomes the best advice ever. Your dedication and passion is in everything that you do and you do everything with kindness. When you say "I love you", you mean it. Only through this great wisdom could you have given birth to LOVE IS THE SOLUTION.I know firsthand that your Heart, born in another country but here as a citizen of the United States, is a perfect recipient of THIS AMERICAN HEART Award. This work that you do creates the spreading of kindness and love all over and we love THIS AMERICAN HEART Award. The idea for this Award is to acknowledge and celebrate the compassion, kindness, courage, and "Heart" of the American people. There are limitless heroes in every state, and you are one. Thank you for your Heart.

Sincerely,

‍Potenza Every child, everywhere, deserves to be safe.

‍Potenza, Artist. Hearts of the World, Santa Rosa, California. Contact: POTENZA1@AOL.COM    Web: WWW.POTENZA1.COM

Meeting Nasser Zaghi was a special time for me—to meet a kindred spirit whose heart and soul overflowed with sincerity and passion in pursuit of achieving the goal of critically needed Peace Education was beyond refreshing and joyful.

For over 25 years my husband and I have dedicated our lives and efforts to promote a Culture of Peace and have “walked the talk” sacrificing and devoting our time and resources to bringing people together through the arts, with the hope that this interaction would build understanding and respect. This work has evolved into a global movement and indeed has surpassed our expectations of promoting education, cultural awareness and most of all HOPE. We are very fortunate to have sought out, found and networked with over 1,000 organizations and thousands of individuals who share our hope. We are even more fortunate to witness how these efforts DO WORK when synergy and collaboration is involved.  

Mr. Zaghi spoke eloquently from his heart and after reviewing his own lifetime work efforts, I feel compelled to join in support of his organization “Love is the Solution”—because I know this to be the truth. I have worked all over the world as a UN senior executive and in places ranging from refugee camps, homeless centers, soup kitchens and war ravaged communities to areas where thousands of people live and survived as a result of both natural and human disasters. Part of my own payment in participating in these interactions resulted in treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome Disorder (PTSD), something that scratches the heart of civilians as well as military personnel. And like Mr. Zaghi, I have danced with death as a result of three bouts of cancer and other maladies, surviving because some of us have a higher purpose in life and much unfinished work. My rewards have outnumbered these challenges—the joy of seeing PEACE BUILDING, PEACE EDUCATION and PEACE MAKING has been bountiful and is the fuel that keeps us moving forward, despite the onset of aging and health. The joy of working with today’s youth has so much promise and we must tap into their energy and intellect as they continue to participate and create their own peace education efforts.

It is this network of like-minded peace builders who can only join hands and share a common dream of creating the basis for a Culture of Peace and that is to teach peace beginning with ourselves and of our offspring, always keeping the solution to prevention of violence and hatred in our hearts as we seek support through other individuals and organizations to join this challenge of teaching peace and building peace education curricula at every step of life’s journey.

The goal of identifying Peace Ambassadors is a noble one and perhaps in my eyes, as important as Nobel Laureates. They seem to focus this prestigious recognition and award on those who are already recognized for their leadership and efforts and although are very deserving; there are hundreds that live throughout the world without recognition and support despite how very active they are and take on challenges that seemingly go unnoticed and who do this as a daily activity—living, breathing, mentoring peace education.  

The world needs leaders that are on the ground, out there among the populations of each continent, that teach peace and build peace education programs often times done at great self sacrifice. It is time the global community builds these leaders, mentors and achievers who can create a network and IMPLEMENT a successful method to transform humanity’s downward spiral with a never seen before that focuses strictly on peace building through education, global education. The reasons for violence and conflict are many—but the world is full of bountiful and more meaningful reasons for peace education that outweigh the results of what violence and conflict leaves with its ugly footprint of suffering, destruction and death.  

That’s why I support the work of my colleagues who are intent on Peace Education, Peace Building and Peace Making. It is our human destiny to stop the destruction of humanity and Mother Nature, through the love and affection that is inborn in our human hearts at the first sight of our Mother who birthed us, and not through the violence we are taught for the sake of financial gain for the few who rely on a Culture of Violence to oppress and suppress the goodness that is within each of us.

Joanne Tawfilis
Co-Founder, www.artmiles.org
and
National Commissioner
US National Commission for UNESCO

Mrs. Tawfilis is a retired UN Executive (Director of Human Resource Management Services, United Nations Environment Program; and Director, Management Services, International Atomic Energy Agency) and former Director of the Women of Srebrenica Project in the former Yugoslavia under the Clinton Administration. Joanne is a multi award-winning careerist; winner of the Bob Marley Peace Award; recipient of the Peacemaker of the Year Award/My Hero Project, United Nations Association UNA USA (regional and local chapter); honored by the International Committee of Artists for Peace, the Youth For Human Rights International Peace Hero Award and a commendation from the California State Superintendent of Schools, to name but a few of her honors.

Joanne and her husband are passionate advocates for youth, and together they have dedicated their lives to unifying people through the language of the arts in a meaningful, fulfilling, and fun way. Their work teaches and promotes collaboration, understanding, and respect on a global scale with the hope of generating sustainable educational programs and actions that prevent violence and promote peace.