"Thich Nhat Hanh's ideas for peace, if applied, would build a monument to ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity." -- Martin Luther King, Jr., nominating Thich Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize Love in Action is a collection of over two decades of Thich Nhat Hanh's writings on nonviolence, peace, and reconciliation. Reflecting on the devastation of war -- from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf -- Nhat Hanh speaks in the tradition of Gandhi, M. L. King, and the Dalai Lama of the need for mindfulness, insight, and altruistic love as the only sustainable bases for political action. From descriptions of the social programs the author helped create during the Vietnam War, to his current work healing the wounds of war with Vietnam veterans in this country, to his reflections on the teachings of Jesus as applied to the Gulf War, Love in Action is an important resource for the work of social change from the inside out. Thich Nhat Hanh played a central role in the Buddhist nonviolent movement for peace in Vietnam during the 1960s and served as Chair of the Buddhist Peace delegation to the Paris Peace Talks. His words and presence have had a great impact on many people, including Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr. Today Thich Nhat Hanh lives in a small retreat center in France, where he teaches, writes, gardens, and works to help refugees worldwide, In recent years he has led mindfulness retreats for war veterans, psychotherapists, environmentalists, social change activists, and many others. He is author of over sixty books, including Call Me by My True Names, Peace Is Every Step, and The Miracle of Mindfulness. The great, and gentle, strength of Thicb Nhat Hanh's teaching is to show that the vision of a world in peace is not only possible, but that it begins bere, begins now, with each one of us, looking deeply within, and honoring our limitless potential. We can change the world by how we live, and nothing less than the survival of our species on Earth may be at stake,"