The Civilization
of Love Movement

The Civilization
of Love Movement

Humanity’s Next Great Adventure

The Civilization of Love is an international movement, transcending countries, religions, and philosophies, mobilizing humanity to transform institutions and societies, building a global civilization of love. We reject the culture of death with its fear, anger, hate, division, greed and war.

Love

We choose love not as sentimental emotion;
but as transcendent action,
working for each others well-being,
as we would for ourselves.

If Not Love

If not love,
then what?
If not for love,
then why?
If not with love,
then how?
If not now,
then when
If not us,
then who?

~ Tony Bellizzi

“Abundant, transcendent, unconditional, sacrificial love is the only hope humanity ever has.”
Tony Bellizzi

“We’ve tried the law of the jungle, an age of reason, an information age. It’s time to build a Civilization of Love.”
Tony Bellizzi

Will you help build the Civilization of Love?

Will you help build the Civilization of Love?

We build a Civilization of Love:

We build a Civilization of Love:

1. Personal Action

Every selfless loving action builds the Civilization of Love:

  • Family
  • Friends
  • Neighbors
  • strangers
  • work, school
  • worship
  • Community
  • Social media

2. Community Involvement

All organizations need help, form new ones for unserved needs.

3. Reforming All Social, Political, and Economic Institutions

Get involved, driving and supporting systemic change.

All institutions need a massive transfusion of love:

  • Social
  • Religious
  • Economic
  • Political

Hold leaders accountable to the code of love, acting for the greatest good.

4. Global

On the near horizon, humanity must mobilize to transform institutions and societies, building a global Civilization of Love. Help us spread this movement to your contacts around the world.

4. Global

On the near horizon, humanity must mobilize to transform institutions and societies, building a global Civilization of Love. Help us spread this movement to your contacts around the world.

Tony Bellizzi is available for live presentations about the Civilization of Love movement at colleges, churches, schools, and other venues.

Contact Info:

Address:
90-21 Springfield Blvd
Queens Village, NY 11428

Phone: (718) 479-2594

Email: Click Here

If you are serious about transforming our political system:

ACOL Party: Check out our new political party at ACOL.US
This party is just forming. Visit now to learn how you can get involved in starting a base in your state or local setting.

Tony Bellizzi for president: TonyBellizziForPresident.com

The COL Movement

The Civilization of Love movement strongly encourages citizen involvement including social and political action for the purpose of making much needed institutional reform.

The COL movement does not financially support or officially endorse COL political entities or candidates.

Please participate on this site respectfully, contributing to the cause of increasing love in this world.

You are invited to commit to building a world where love rules through your life… your family and relationships… your work and or school… your community and your country.

What’s it about?

The Civilization of Love movement strongly encourages citizen involvement on a local, national, and global scale.

Outreach & Community Growth

Working together to better the world we live in.

Social & Political Action

Enacting a global movement which stems from a basis of Love and human dignity.

Institutional Reform

Replacing gov’t corruption with integrity and legitimacy.

The Book

The Civilization of Love book is meant to further expand your knowledge of the Civilization of Love movement.

“The Civilization of Love” Book By Tony Bellizzi is available for $15 donation to benefit the Hope For The Children Foundation
(includes postage)



The Civilization of Love movement is a project of the Hope for the Children Foundation, the sponsor of this movement and website.

Food For Thought

Bite-sized morsels of wisdom and inspiration

Join the Love Revolution

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Not looking away

“THINK OCCASIONALLY OF THE SUFFERING OF WHICH YOU SPARE YOURSELF THE SIGHT." EINSTEIN Love does not look away or walk away from suffering.

Rewarding

People are looking for something to give their hearts, time and talents to. What could be more rewarding than doing your part to usher in a new era of human life on this...

Why it’s Hard

“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”...

The most?

“The most that another can do is to be able to give a helping hand.” Oliver Wendell Holmes

Even

Love is progressive, even revolutionary

True

True compassion is based on respect, not condescending pity.

Forfeit

From now on anyone seeking leadership in this country, in any institution, you commit to this basic code of love or you forfeit your right to our support.

All or Nothing

“It’s hard for me to understand a culture that not only hates and fights his brothers, but even attacks nature and abuses her. Man must love all creation or he will love...

Love Serves

“What is important is not constantly achieving great results, if I can help at least one person to have a better life, that already justifies the offering of my life.” Pope...

Stop in the name of Love

We have to stop justifying our fearful reasons to not love each other. Once you demonize your enemy, a whole range of hateful actions get put on the table.

Progressive

You think you’re progressive? What’s more progressive than love as the foundation of our collective lives; not just the government, but every human institution.

2 Options

Backwards or forwards? Choose: “In any given moment we have 2 options: step forward into growth or step back into safety.” Maslow

What?

What is everyone so afraid of? Is it that people who don’t look like you, think like you, believe like you, are going to try and make you live in ways you don’t want to...

Courage

There is a meaning and power that come into your life when you take a stand for a people or a cause. A self-centered, self-indulgent, cowardly society cannot thrive because...

Everyone

MLK: “Everyone can become great because everybody can serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”

All of Us

Our people are divided and need to come together, now. What can unite us in this moment of peril: “E Pluribus Unum” out of many, One” Forward together; all of us.

Anyway

"Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be, stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway."...

Carpe Diem

Seize the Day Be thankful for this struggle, without it we would not discover our strength.

Learn

“WE MUST LEARN TO LIVE TOGETHER AS BROTHERS OR WE ARE GOING TO PERISH TOGETHER AS FOOLS.” MLK

Beyond

This movement is about taking love beyond the realm of songs, poems, sermons, dreams and into the realm of action, relationship, community, culture, civilization.

It’s in the Eyes

You will never look into the eyes of someone God does not love.

Who wins in the End

"Whenever I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they may seem invincible, but in the end,...

A New Path

“Don't follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Power

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential...

Love Revolution

There is a revolution upon the earth. An unstoppable wave sweeping the planet. The people are rising up and demanding that love be the foundation of life on this planet...

Their Loss

Never apologize for how much love you have to give. For those who didn’t want it, it is their loss.

Which are you?

There are 2 kinds of people: “Love is in your way” or “Love is on your side.” Which one are you? Do you believe in the power of abundant unconditional, sacrificial love or...

The real Question

The question is not "why would you live in a country that puts love at the center." The real question is “why would you want to live in a country that doesn’t put love at...

Where?

The new question for humanity from now on is “Where is the Love?” Where is the Love? donde esta el amor

Start

It all starts by contemplating what kind of human being do you want to be, what kind of country you want to live in, what kind of world you want to leave for those who come...

Future

In the future the kids are going to ask: "Mommy daddy, grandma, grandpa, where were you when the Civilization of Love started? What did you do to make it happen?” May we...

Not You

“Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in...

No Waste

No contribution is wasted. Somewhere someone needs what you have to contribute.

The Only Thing

“The only fulfilling life is reaching out to, seeking and working for the good of others.” Pope Francis

More & Less

Choose this day to act from love, instead of fear. More love, less hate. Look your attacker in the eye, see in them the child who has not yet learned to hate.

Dangerous

To have compassion is a dangerous thing in an era of intolerance.

What we need

We do not need violence, hate, division, and lawlessness. We need love and justice.

Empty

“It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves the effort and pain of pursuing truth, love,...

Only Love

“What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.” Lord Byron

Priorities

“Love rearranges our priorities. It shows us what really matters, and in the process banishes selfishness.” Matthew Kelly

Emerging

“Some changes look negative on the surface, but you will soon realize that space is being created for something new to emerge.” Eckart Tolle

The Only Hope

Extravagant, unconditional, sacrificial love is the only hope humanity ever has for the healing and thriving of the world, and each of us can make our contribution.

You do the math

Do the math: politics-love=disaster

Fight

"The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you’re going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes...

More

Be more moved by who and what you love than your fear and anger and hate.

Each

We belong to each other, and each of us does our part to build a loving and hopeful world.

Please

Resist the temptation to judge, exclude, mock and mistreat those who are different from you. Everyone is trying to survive, to make a good life, to have some joy, some love.

Crossroad

We are at a crossroad in the long story of human civilization, the ongoing struggle for the grace, generosity and love.

We commit

We commit to leading America and the world into being “the Beloved Community” a truly diverse, respectful, democratic, loving society.

Ever Seen

We’re going to take the freedom, opportunity, equality, and the blessings of this land; and with the Grace of God we are going to create the most beautiful thing humanity...

Love & Freedom

There is no love without freedom. We are freeing and healing humanity from an enslaving way of life.

Committed

We are committed that the godlike attributes and behaviors win out over the ugly, animal ones of fear, anger, hate and cruelty.

Melting

We have a responsibility to give close attention and great care to not just not hurt one another, but to reach out and help. We owe one another that much towards a great...

Never

Never give up and never give in. Keep moving forward, opening the heart of America to express the dignity of humanity.

When love reigns

Where there is love, people experience a closeness that includes gratitude, solidarity, empathy and compassion. Others are seen as brothers and sisters and not fearfully as...

Impossible

Impossible is a word thrown around by small people who find it easier to live in a world they have been given, rather than to explore the power they have to change it....

Rebirth

We can step forward towards a new style of life, rediscovering that we need one another. Our human family can experience a rebirth beyond the walls that separate us.

Highest

Freedom, security, opportunity to prosper- everyone wants these things, and the Love Revolution/Civilization of Love movement will lead to the fullest expressions of them.

Ready?

Are you finished blaming? We’ve got work to do together. You want to join us, great; if not get out of the way. This is about building a country where everything is run...

Stop

Stop being a prisoner of the past. Become the architect of the future.

Love is a Verb

Reactive people make love a feeling. Proactive people make love a verb. Love is something you do in the sacrifices you make, the giving of self. Subordinate feelings to...

Blessed Diversity

We have in America diversity like nowhere else on the earth. The children of every country on this planet are here; and when we start to interact with, and feed each other,...

Perfect

We are building a brighter tomorrow through courageous action today. Life is never about doing anything perfectly. It’s about doing it lovingly, and in that it becomes...

The Bridge

All of life is interrelated in a network of interdependence, and mutuality. None can fulfill their destiny alone. We are bridging the chasm of fear and hate, reaching...

New Trajectory

Announcing a New Trajectory for human history. We are reaching out for what is the best in our people, and building something better; bending the arc of history toward a...

Each & Every

Every human being is born to create something new. Each of us are once in eternity unique human beings, and each make a unique difference, and sometimes together we come...

At Best

All are created equal; but without love the principle of equality becomes at best separate but equal.

Act

Everybody dreams. History is made by those with the courage to act.

Guts

Let us have the courage to examine our lives and our families, relationships, communities, and begin this process of national healing.

Justice

The worth of every human person is to be respected. Being born in a place with fewer resources or less development does not justify the fact that someone should live with...

Listen

Let us hear the reminder, the signals faint as of now but about to get louder of the symphony we are made to create, if we rise above the fear and hate and hostility, if we...

Shame on RFK jr.

RFK Jr. is a Lying opportunist. His VP selection of the very rich funder of his Super Bowl ad solidified him as having no moral core. Now RFK, his father, is rolling in his...

Embrace

Let’s embrace the hard work of making the world better for more and more, not falling for the illusions of perfection. When it’s all over to look back and have walked upon...

Equal

To win but lift up the loser, to lose and be happy for the victor. Together we can all change something, just one thing, we can learn to accept all people as equal, that a...

How?

How do you build a nation in a digital age? We have way too much addiction, depression and anxiety, mesmerization of screens, gun violence, suicide. We have to look beyond...

Remember

We need to remember that history doesn’t have to shape us; that this simulation is far more malleable than we can even conceive. Change is possible, and acting with faith,...

Maximize

Every person, every new generation, brings new relational, intellectual, cultural, and spiritual energy. The Civilization of Love alone will maximize those contributions.

The Ocean

Awareness is that love is the ocean we, and all that lives, are immersed in. Prayer, meditation, art, service, humor, beauty, surprise gets you there.

Forward

Success or failure is not what matters. What matters is continuing action, moving forward, adding the next piece in the face of uncertainty.

Not Waiting

“Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go...

The Real problem

The real problem with humanity is: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology.” E.O. Wilson

Defy

This movement inspires people to see beyond the seemingly unchallengable status quo and defy ridiculous odds to bring about serious meaningful change, a powerful antidote to...

Work to do

Life is the work of putting love where there is none. Love does not require brilliance, wealth, beauty or perfection.

For the better

Both left and right propose change; but what matters is what is the criteria for that change. We know in our life experiences that the only change that leads to the better...

We can be heroes

“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost." Arthur Ashe

Each

“Each of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm. When we look at each other we must say ‘I understand...

Not over

It’s never too late to learn a few new moves. Nothing is over until you stop trying.

what do you want?

"And did you get what you wanted from this life even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth." Raymond Carver

Gift

“Mercy is not a rule; it is a gift” St. Mother Teresa

Only Love

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” MLK

Combating evil

“How much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of...

Just do it

"Be the change you want to see in the world" Gandhi

Love or Judge?

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” St. Mother Teresa

Everywhere

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” St. Mother Teresa

Good News

“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your...

Imagination

Imagination is its own form of courage. We are spearheading a national rejection of mediocrity and commitment to excellence; a culture where everyone is encouraged to reach...

Do Something

It’s just common sense. When you know something is wrong, you take action.

Beyond

"Our lives don’t really belong to us, they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding." Paul Auster

It’s Time

“The time is always right to do what is right.” MLK

Attitude of Gratitude

May we all be a lot more grateful and take a lot less for granted: family, friends, food and shelter, our personal lives, life itself. If we would live in that state we...

Real Strength

Unite as a family that is stronger than the sum of small individual members. The whole is greater than the part, also greater than the sum of the parts.

Jolt

This movement serves as a jolt; jump-starting people’s hearts into an open position, from which they can act individually and together in a more noble way.

Criteria

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.” Abigail Van Buren

Formidable

“Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible. It cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more...

Who suffers most?

If We Fail to rise to this occasion who suffers most? The young. They always pay the biggest price: *When there is no love: from their parents, within their family, the...

Just Gives

“Intense love does not measure, it just gives.” St. Mother Teresa

Most Important

“The most important thing in life is to learn to give out love, and let it come in." Morrie Schwartz

This is a move

This is a movement of moral leadership and progressive reform.

Respect

This movement is about recovering our vision, our story, and making proud all those who came before us and sacrificed for us.

Period!

All human suffering and difficulties can be reduced to the inability or refusal to love.

Had Enough?

Are you tired of all the hate, the division of America into two camps? Do you long for an America of possibility, of a vision to be proud of?

The Core

The foundation of this movement of love transcends the various groups that support it. It resides in the human heart, resonating in a way that we know most powerfully that...

Keep Hope Alive

“The coward fears everything. The brave, confident man has a hopeful disposition.” Aristotle

Hope for your Children

You want your children and grandchildren to grow up in a society where we strive to live together by the highest code we strive for in our personal lives rather than...

Hope

“When, in the name of an ideology, there is an attempt to remove God from a society, that society ends up adoring idols, and very soon men and women lose their way, their...

Here

What good is it to go out into space if we have never made the earth a genuine home for all the souls who come here; always remembering that what we do to, for, and with...

Choose

Choose decency over disrespect, compassion over contempt, service over ambition, integrity over expedience.

No More

We all know love is not easy, and some are afraid that the commitment to love will exhaust the country. But hasn’t the alternative that we are currently living; an...

Dare

We dare to dream big, to rethink our priorities, to create something new that reflects our deepest values and commit our daily lives to.

Hope

The hope is where people dig in their heels and say: “this is how it’s going to be here. We care about each other.”

Where?

Where is the love? There is no love where the resources are skewed in such a way for the benefit of a few while so many others suffer.

War

This movement requires a level of courage needed and seen in war. This is facing our own lower instincts and fears. An external enemy can be easier to confront.

Allies

How we turn this around: The people you do good with become your allies; those you can trust in the future missions.

Infusion

You can’t sustain 50 years of intensified selfishness; throw in Vietnam, Watergate, 9-11, 2008 recession, 2 failed Middle East wars, Trump, and a pandemic and just say...

Don’t stop now

This is how adults behave: delaying gratification and making the hard decisions that lead to a better country down the line, if not immediately. Confronting danger and...

Transcend

When you find something that expresses love and joy you don’t keep it to yourself. Extend it, keep it going, transcending beyond what is.

Core

We all have a core life choice: for good, for evil, for pleasure, ambivalence. Those who have chosen to strive to manifest only good here: we need to join together. When you...

Choose to refuse

Every voice of fear within our own limited minds will rise up to the surface. Every loud-mouthed demagogue representing the forces that have so much to lose should a more...

The Horror

We do horrible things to each other and when we refuse to love, it’s always the kids who get hurt. We must leave them a safer, more peaceful world.

Core Message

Our core message is that love is the answer. Love manifested as the greatest good, for the greatest number, in the greatest number of circumstances, for the greatest amount...

Grit & Guts

This movement will require courage and hard work. It is not for the feint of heart; but is necessary because the only alternative outcome is raging desperation and despair.

Action not words

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.” Oscar Wilde

Prime Directive

We can arrive at the same conclusion of the primacy of Love through an infinite number of ways. Some are fed and driven by relationship, religion, some an innate sense of...

All you Need

Love is the final frontier. We have to stop pretending that a lot of other things like wealth, fame, and technology matter more. All of it is useless without love. Just as...

Correction

An age of unprecedented death and destruction has dawned upon humanity, and unless we reverse this flow and make a serious course correction, humanity will drop backwards...

Never

Love never Fails.

Final

Love is the Final Frontier.

Ahead

Love is always putting the good ahead of personal desires.

Necessary

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." Dalai Lama

no jerk

Try to do good in the world, not out of fear of hell or adherence to religious platitudes or even the reward of heaven. Do it because it feels better than being a jerk.

No Barriers

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” Maya Angelou

Blind

“That old law about “an eye for an eye” leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.” MLK

This is a push

“Sometimes history needs a push.” Lenin

Never repay

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.” John Bunyan

It’s Time

The time has come for all of us to not settle for what we have done so far, but to courageously stand in the breach, as weak, but blessed creatures, the wind of the creator...

Movement

“We need a movement. The only way you honor your prophets is when they fall, you pick up the baton and walk the next mile.” Wm. Barber

Always Action

Love Is A Verb. Love, the feeling, is a fruit of love, the verb. Serve. Sacrifice. Empathize. Appreciate. Feelings follow action. If our feelings control our actions, it is...

no Victims

Never get stuck in victim mode “They” are trying to get something for nothing. “They” enslaved my ancestors. “They" are ruining my country. When we don't believe the people...

New Ground

“Let us not go over the old ground. Let us rather prepare for what is to come.” Cicero

Source

This really is God’s movement. God’s project. It is our Creator who is shaking us out of our comfort zone towards becoming what our species was made for.

That alone

“We’re all going to die. That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, beaten up by nothing.” Charles...

It don’t come Easy

Nothing in the world worth having comes easy.

Break on Through

Breaking through to a new level requires breaking through our comfort zones and facing the uncomfortable.

Impossible Dream

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." Arthur C. Clarke

Reject

Love is rejecting any conceit of our own achievements. It rejects any willingness to impose power on those more vulnerable.

Never before

Humans have never before committed their collective life to this goal and purpose of love. Meanwhile always hoping that somehow the worst won’t occur; perpetually perplexed...

Crippled

Not allowing someone their voice is claiming that you are crippled by the fear of what they might say.

Never Surrender

Would good can possibly come out of surrendering to “this is the way it will always be, and you can’t change it.” Does that feed your soul? We do not have to accept this...

New

Old ways won’t open new doors.

Belong

We need each other, and to belong to each other as a nation, as a family of nations, as a species.

Re-set

This movement is the ultimate re-set; capturing the power of new beginning; activating new and novel pathways and rhythms.

Unity

“Unity is certainly not proposing an authoritarian and abstract universalism, devised or planned by a small group and presented as an ideal for the sake of leveling,...

Good News

The paradigm is shifting.

Out to Launch

This is the launch of a huge national renewal, offering an ideal and goal that is profound enough that we can unite behind it and move forward.

Not Conformity

United is not uniform conformity. The syntheses of diverse cultures grows a more vibrant, beautiful world.

Many Identities

In this era of identity politics remember that we have many identities. Let's focus on our ultimate identities: 1- we are each God’s beloved child 2- we are all members of...

A Big Chunk

We all want to feel that this is our home. But we’re afraid. The greed, stupidity, hate, anger, fear, chaos, corruption, insanity has gone so far that we fear we are...

Highest

There is nothing more beautiful, meaningful, and life-giving than the person doing whatever task is before them radiating with peace, joy and love from within.

Let it go

It’s a big country. There’s a lot of people who don’t think like you do. We don’t have to agree on everything. Let it go. The only hope for healing is to take the ego out of...

Now

Now is the time to let go of what no longer serves us.

Today

Our past is never our future. Yesterday does not equal tomorrow.

Change

We cannot change one moment of the past, but we can change our whole future.

Smoke & Mirrors

Ultimately love, translated into just acts, is the only real hope for peace. Everything else is smoke and mirrors.

Bonding

The Civilization of Love facilitates bonding for the larger purposes of why we have been brought together.

Take a good look

We will benefit and shape a more noble culture by deeply examining our lifestyles, relationships, the organization of our society, and the very meaning of our existence.

Intelligent design

“It is more intelligent to hope than to fear, to try than to not try.” E. Roosevelt

Go with the flow

Flow of social change: 1-Awareness of deficiency 2-desire for better 3-protest for better 4- movements for change 5-systemic change

Only Human

We are all human, each flawed, and the more you learn history, you see that we are just the latest in a long line. We may be foolish, filled with hatred, malice, jealousy,...

Love or Greed?

Do you want a love or greed based social order? They don’t go together. You have to choose.

Remember the Future

THE BEST WAY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE IS TO HELP CREATE IT

Shame

It is shameful and cowardly to insist that the level of cruelty and injustice in the world is inevitable and cannot be improved.

No one is Insignificant

The modern world tends increasingly to functionalize the satisfaction of human desires, now classified and subdivided among different services. Their illnesses known only in...

Real Guts

When it comes to love there is no end to the amount of songs, sermons, poetry, stories, and inspirational speeches. What takes real guts is daring to enter the arena of...

Only

“It’s only the giving that makes you what you are.” Ian Anderson

Worst Thing

The worst thing we can do is not try. There is a Chinese proverb: “Failure is the mother of success.”

Home

We don’t die when our hearts stop beating. We die when and where we feel we don't matter anymore.

More than Animals?

When a large number of animals are thrown together in a harsh environment each regards every other animal as an enemy.

Crazy

Seal sings: “We’re never going to survive unless we go a little crazy.” The Civilization of Love Movement is way outside the box. And necessary.

Hope this is true

Most people still want to be on the right side of good vs. evil.

True Friends

“Friendship that insists on agreement in all things is not worthy of the name.” Gandhi

For Good

We are changing the world for good, with love. Go the Way your Blood Beats

See the best

We need to stop defining each other by our worst moments.

Common Humanity

The common needs and desires within all people supersedes all differences. At the same time there are also unique cultures and values which must be known and respected.

Only the Heart

This is a movement that makes no sense when limited to the calculating mind. It is written in the Little Prince: “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is...

Victory

Competition is not the way to defeat evil, only communication and collaboration; together not opposed. Interdependence is at the heart of what holds America together, its...

This is your life

And so it begins We reach for the stars Lift up your voice Freedom is ours The struggle begins This is your chance The spirit's alive Oh what a ride! This is the price of...

Respect

The way you disagree is more important than the argument you make. If you don’t respect people they will believe that everything you say, believe, and do are wrong.

Why?

Why can’t we live together? Because there’s a lot of people that the only way they can keep their power and privilege is to keep us at each others throats.

Instinct

Trust your intuitive gut instinct. We pick up each others vibrations and know when someone needs love and also when something is not right.

Humility

Stay humble. The good intentions of some past movements turned into insane arrogance from thinking that their revolution was so awesome that they had brought about a new...

Easter

For those who believe; abundant, transcendent, sacrificial love always has the last word.

Love finds a way

Love finds a way. If you love something or someone, you have to take care of them.

Good Friday

Action

Love is powerful transcendent action.

Fully Alive

Faith and hope keep us going, and love keeps us alive.

Love karma

“In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us." Flora Edwards

The Ultimate

"For one human being to love another: That is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but...

Action!

Love is not what you say, it is what you do.

Choose

We are born with this animal nature cooperating with the law of the jungle. We are also born with this capacity to act in the ways of our creator: transcending self,...

Be the Change

Whatever you wish for the world, create it right where you are.

It Takes Commitment

Love is not something you glide into. If you don’t commit to it, again and again, you don’t get there.

Redeem

Love is the redemption of the heart.

Triggering goodness

Be the reason someone believes in the goodness of people.

Building

Love, overflowing with small gestures of mutual care, is experienced in every action to build a better world.

Don’t wait

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Anne Frank

Move Mountains

Love is a force so powerful that fully, truly expressed; can move mountains.

Love’s strength

Love cultivates, not dominates.

Heart

Life is about your heart and who it beats for.

Eternity

“What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.” Leo Buscaglia

Never Lose

“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” Barbara De Angelis

Opposite

"The opposite of love is not hate; it's indifference." Elie Wiesel

Hate is a burden

“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” MLK

Never Fails

Why don’t we love? Because we are afraid to fail at it; that the decision to love will make us vulnerable to danger. One of the most important lines in the bible is: “Love...

Action

“Love is a verb, not a noun. Love is something we do, not something that happens to us.” Matthew Kelly

Forward

Forward, together, in love.

To Better Serve

The grassroots Civilization of Love movement changes the tone of society and practice of govt. to better serve the people through cooperation and collaboration.

More to Give

A deprivation mentality is that the more you give opportunity and access to others, the less you have for yourself. With love, the more you give, the more you have. Along...

Give it All

The true American ideal is not just short-term winning. It’s giving your all to go as far as you can go, to push on towards the impossible.

Enrich not Diminish

Love does not diminish resources. The more we give, the more we have to give.

Two Generations

On the earth at any given time, there are only two races of human beings, two generations: those striving to love. and those who do not.

Rising

We are altering the trajectory of America, life on this planet, and our species towards love. Nothing less. Join us.

Hurt?

Is the lack of love in the world hurting your heart?

Valuable

What is more valuable: Rare gems and metals or the greatest resource in the universe: the love of the creator of the universe: infinitely abundant, unconditional, sacrificial?

So True

We wonder how we can love our enemies, when lots of times we don’t even like our friends.

Love is Strong

Love is not weak. It is ultimate strength. You would be very mistaken to think that love is softness. As we grow in our capacity to love, our strength grows even greater.

Remember the Future

“Life is a series of collisions with the future. It is not a sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.” Jose Ortega y Gasset

Grow Up

There is no change or growth without pain. It’s time for the adolescent period of humanity to end; for us to grow up and face difficult, even unpleasant tasks.

Life, not death

Let’s create a world that empowers loving people who want to live and not one that produces hate-mongers willing to die.

Generosity

Generous love holds the power to rehumanize the world.” Matthew Kelly

Greed Kills

The priority of building a Civilization of Love, and an end to economic injustice, demands that we each give up our greed. Otherwise, if we don’t refuse to play, the...

True Solidarity

When we become allies of those who are marginalized while enjoying privilege, our efforts don’t register. Solidarity requires humility and a willingness to be uncomfortable.

Reconciliation

We build a Civilization of Love by reconciling with God, neighbor, creation, and self.

Return to the Route

We can all agree that we need more decency and civility. They are not enough though. Most of all we need love.

Looks Like This

This is what a Civilization of Love looks like: the adults at Brentwood HS, LI NY working with their students, bringing out the best in them to shape an amazing musical...

Freedom & Love

We are freedom-loving people, with the freedom of loving. There is no true freedom without love and there is no love without freedom.

Any time is the right time

I’ve been told this is not the right time for this message. ANY AND EVERY TIME IS THE RIGHT TIME FOR LOVE. Just because there is a resistance to it, doesn’t mean it should...

Human Rights

All human beings deserve to live with the right of freedom to choose love.

Conscience

Keep alive our collective conscience, so in the midst of great inhumanity, suffering, and corruption; we may retain our dignity, and choose goodness, forgiveness, and love.

Bridges, not Walls

Human beings defend ourselves at all costs for self-preservation. We are rapidly in many ways building a culture of walls around hearts and territory. We need to build...

What is enough?

What we’ve learned: affluence and economic wealth are not enough, infinite amusement is not enough, infinite information is not enough. Freedom itself is not enough; it’s...

Real change

What is needed for real change for the better? In any institution you can only do good when there are people in place to build a Civilization of Love.

Take a side

The Civilization of Love agenda delineation is not male vs. female, rich vs poor, color vs white. It’s love vs no love.

Not Normal

Without the power of love, the splintered, fragmented, divided world feels normal.

Follow the Money

Why do you have to get economics involved in this movement? Because there is no Civilization of Love when there is economic injustice, destruction of the planet, destruction...

9 Month Pregnancy begins

Nine months to go until the US 2024 elections. Every day, until the Election Day, I’m posting bold perspectives, ideas, and solutions that could give birth to a whole new...

Ghosts

Let us strive to have more empathy and compassion. Most of us are one bad thought, one mistake away from never coming back to who we really are. Remember how fragile we can...

Finally

At least now you have a choice. We can now stand up and say we want love as the cornerstone of our culture and the centerpiece of our society.

Once in a Lifetime

You can get on board the “Civilization of Love” train, but if you refuse or get in the way, history will not judge you honorably.

Can’t say

They can never say- “Oh we tried love, it didn’t work.” It’s never been tried.

No Lying

Can’t say you love your country if you hate half the people in it.

Come Together

Among the greatest goals of the Civilization of Love Movement is to foster unity; to build new coalitions, and de-escalate tribal conflict.

No Whining

We are all frustrated and confused and we complain. But this noise is not enough. it is easier to complain than help.

Replace

“Replace consumption with sacrifice, greed with generosity, wastefulness with a spirit of sharing.” Pope Francis

justice=peace

IF YOU WANT TO REAP PEACE; WORK FOR, SOW JUSTICE FOR ALL. SIMPLY: NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE.

Pay the rent

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” Muhammad Ali

A Great Society

“A great society results when the old plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in.” Greek Proverb

Love & Laughter

“All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.” August Wilson

All you see

“See the light in others and treat them as if that is all you see.” Wayne Dyer

Only Love

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.” Martin Luther King, Jr

We Learn

“Everywhere, we learn only from those we love." Goethe

True Peace

TRUE PEACE IS NOT MERELY THE ABSENCE OF TENSION, IT IS THE PRESENCE OF JUSTICE-MLK

Only Love

You own nothing, everything surrounding you is temporary, only love lasts forever.

why not?

“I dream things that never were and say why not.” RFK

Character

The content of character is expressed in contribution. Character is not the enemy of freedom and self-expression. It is their foundation because without it there can be no...

Arrogance

Humility makes space for new possibilities, while arrogance= the death of civilization.

Here Together

We are here together. What a blessing. Let’s go forward together in a new way.

Golden Rule

All humans need to treat each other with love and respect as they themselves would like to be treated.

Don’t Fall

"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little." Thomas Merton

Active

This movement is about being active, not passive. It’s making opportunity happen rather than complaining about the past; being motivated by hope not grievance.

Crawl

“Love makes your soul crawl out from under its hiding place.” Zora Meale Harstom

Desperate

Desperate times require courageous action and innovative solutions.

Come Together

We’re all in motion. We're all trying to become better individually. Can we dare to make a commitment together for the first time in a long time, for the first time in a new...

No Matter

How we treat and deal with each other is more important no matter what we say we believe.

Looking

Most people are looking for deeper meaning, relevant information, and truth.

Change

“We are never as close as we hope, and never as far as we fear.” Gabor Mate

No

No Justice, No Peace.

Subvert

Subverting the dominant paradigm. It’s not us vs. them. It’s we over me.

No Drama Zone

Reject the distractions and drop the drama, so we can focus on important issues.

Simply

The era of intimidation of the weak by the strong is ending.

A New Beginning

We are at a turning point in human ingenuity. Turn the page America!

Labels

Now, in America people are afraid that if they don’t allow themselves to be put in a category in the world of politics they will have no power and be shut out. So we are...

Courage to Love

“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk...

The Torch

This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments...

Hamas/Israel war

Perhaps nowhere in the world is the Civilization of Love agenda of the greatest good for the greatest number needed more than in the Israel/Hamas tragedy. Who will be the...

Reject/Embrace

We reject cynicism, and embrace the opportunity of being part of something noble and bigger than ourselves. A small army through force of will can harness historical forces...

Transformation

Our agenda is the transformation of our culture My platform: Love transforming our national story 1-equality transform national culture- give the government back to the...

Energy Law

When you put your energy into fighting something, you are growing it. Instead put your energy into cultivating something new- the outcome you want to materialize. Any...

love or chaos?

We’re getting to the point of there being no question that the human race was created intentionally. The question that determines the rest of human history is: are we...

Power Reveals

Always look at how a person acts when they get power. As Trump rolls over his weak GOP opponents, and leads Biden in the polls, observe the increasingly vulgar tone of his...

This is your Life

I've seen it before I've seen many times An impossible task Cut down to size We stand in the breach We fight at the front This is your life. “This is Your Life” The Call

Divided

Fear-based propaganda, apathy, distrust and the incompetence of government to keep us safe and do the right thing causes people to isolate; breeding a proliferation of...

Cultivating Love

Faith, hope, and trust cultivate love. Lies and cynicism try to diminish, ridicule, and dismiss those things, but without them we have nothing but fear, anger, hate,...

Inside/Outside

The outside, our bodies and the culture, is wasting away a little bit more each day; every one of us, everything we build. But the inside, our souls, relationships, and...

Earthquake

We are shaking the foundations of the “culture of death.” We are dismantling the three pillars of evil: militarism, materialism, and racism.

Home

This movement is about making this world a home where God’s children can thrive in, and for the adventure of what God and his children can do together.

Contagious

Choices are contagious, the decision to love is no exception, especially since our hearts are drawn to it. Each of us are beloved by God, and made to live in a Civilization...

Lion King

Mufasa said it best “You are so much more than what you have become. Remember who you are.” Lion King

Threshold

We are standing on the threshold of a great era of spiritual awakening to reclaim lost balance, spiritual planting; an era of great spirituality, art, beauty and science....

Our Mission

We are altering the trajectory of America, life on this planet, and our species towards love. Nothing less. Join us.

Reject all violence

"Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.” Martin...

Reality

Yes, slavery is part of our history. Yes, racism is an issue we struggle with. Yes, we need to acknowledge both nobility and disgrace in our national story, and commit to go...

Forward

Steve Jobs said"Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday." A new and greater mission awaits, one worthy of human activity: Building a...

Remember the future

We are constantly imagining possible futures. All people want to believe that they will have a great future. Unless our systems and our collective way of being and...

This is your life

The future is ours The promise is true This is your life This is your world Beginning to end This is the price of heaven, our hope This is the time This is your life. “This...

By any means necessary

We walk, run, crawl, sprint toward the Civilization of Love. It is always more fully ahead. Our understanding of it, and our ability to manifest it grows every day. It...

Nurture

This movement is about nurturing the soul of America, helping keep the membranes between us thin enough that what is happening organically can break through more readily.

On Israel-Hamas conflict

I agree with Pope Francis: “Enough! Enough, brothers, enough! ... Every human being, whether Christian, Jew or Muslim, of whatever people or religion, every human being is...

We’re Better than this

We are Gods beloved children and we need to start acting that way, and treating each other as family, because we are.

What will you say?

What will you be able to say when the grandkids ask “Grandma, Grandpa, what did you do when the Civilization of Love was being born?” Will you have to tell them that you...

Fuel

Deep spirituality is fuel for the fire of renewal; moving us to make the sacrifices needed, for without those sacrifices there is no movement. Secular arguments are not...

Unconditional

The thing about love is that you don't do it to become popular, and you don't pull back when it’s not returned, or mirrored by those around you. You plow ahead anyway,...

Refuse

This movement is about refusing to say to the future generations “sorry, we just couldn’t get up the courage to build you a more loving world.”

Market

Clearly there is a market for hate in America. But there is also a market for love, and I am mobilizing that community.

Great Re-set

This Civilization of Love movement is a giant re-set in favor of kindness, civility, and compassion.

Bigger

The Civilization of Love Movement is bigger than any of us individually. This about the deepest yearnings of the human heart; recovering the vision that our creator placed...

Rise Above

Refuse to get in the gutter. We are better than this. We can do better than this. America is just getting started. We are restoring and expanding America’s original...

Tsunami

This negativity can feel like an insurmountable tsunami; but never stop believing in the power of divine love, and our capacity to be instruments of it.

Cesspool

How do we deal with the cesspool of vitriolic negativity in our Society? We counter the rising tide of hate rhetoric that inspires violence with love rhetoric, and most of...

The Big Idea

The Civilization of Love is the idea that, if implemented, changes the whole trajectory of human history.

Service out of Compassion

Muhammad Ali’s tombstone reads: “service to others is the rent you pay for your room in heaven.” It has been said that the poor will decide on our entrance to heaven or...

What matters?

In the end it will not matter what you did. It will matter even less how well you did it. In the end it will matter who you did it for. Tony Bellizzi

Everyone can serve

Radiating joy and confidence wherever you are is an essential act of service to humanity. Every one of us can do this.

Slipping Away

You only want the best for those you love; but don’t you feel goodness is slipping away and we have to do something now to reverse the tide before it gets even worse?

Sick Society

A society governed solely by market freedom, efficiency, and benefit for the powerful ahead of all else, will never have real solidarity or fraternity. Neither will...

Driving you mad

Morpheus says in the Matrix “you’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your...

Nothing More Urgent

Victor Hugo said: “The task is urgent, the task is difficult, the time is now.” Nothing could be more urgent at this time than a course correction for our country and the...

The Biggest Idea

There is no idea on this planet more revolutionary than the transformation of every human institution with an infusion of transcendent, abundant, unconditional, sacrificial...

Hope for the Children

The Civilization of Love is about giving hope for the children; all the American people, who are the children of every race, culture, creed, nation on the planet. If we can...

Would you change?

“If you could see the face of God and love, would you change?” Tracey Chapman

Peace in a war-torn world

Peace comes only with love, expressed as compassion, charity, and justice. This love starts with personal action, flows out into community involvement, and institutional...

Does your heart hurt?

Is your heart wounded by the lack of love in the world? You can do something. The Civilization Of Love is coming.

Enough

The “thoughts and prayers” response to disaster is better than “I could care less.” But we could use less of “thoughts and prayers” and more of “hearts and...

Debacle

The debacle that is the state of American politics and government is the result of the pursuit of power and personal benefit superseding the desire to serve. These selfish...

Tribal aggression

Tribal aggression Humanity has never rejected, and is currently caught up in the frenzy of tribal aggression: the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Middle East, the countless...

The Power of Love

The Civilization of Love Movement is about taking love beyond sentimental emotion, poetic sentiment, and even personal relationship; into the world of action, both at the...

True Antidote

The Civilization of Love Movement is the only true antidote to the endless manifestations of the vicious cycle of fear, anger, hate, division, and war that humanity is...

Founder’s Message

Tony Bellizzi is the founder of the grassroots “The Civilization of Love” movement whose mission is to energize people to reject the negative spiral of fear, anger, hate,...

Growing From Pain

Allow yourself to experience the hurting side of life. Get your hands dirty. Be willing to meet people that make you better appreciate what life has given you.

Healing Presence

You have the potential to be a healing presence in someone's life. The ability to empathize with the pain they carry inside can make you a more loving person in the future.

Withdrawal

People not coming out of their shells to make a better life is because of what has become a scary place, and we need to transform that this moment.

Kindness

The world is in dire need of more love and kindness. Each and every one of us can contribute to this by practicing random acts of kindness in our daily lives. It is truly...

How We Treat Others

Building a community is not about special tricks or programs, but about treating each other with kindness, support, and respect.

Food For Thought

Bite-sized morsels of wisdom and inspiration

Join the Love Revolution

The Civilization of Love will only come into existence through a Love Revolution. Join this movement to transform the world with love. LoveRevolution.xyx

Not looking away

“THINK OCCASIONALLY OF THE SUFFERING OF WHICH YOU SPARE YOURSELF THE SIGHT." EINSTEIN Love does not look away or walk away from suffering.

Rewarding

People are looking for something to give their hearts, time and talents to. What could be more rewarding than doing your part to usher in a new era of human life on this...

Why it’s Hard

“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”...

The most?

“The most that another can do is to be able to give a helping hand.” Oliver Wendell Holmes

Even

Love is progressive, even revolutionary

True

True compassion is based on respect, not condescending pity.

Forfeit

From now on anyone seeking leadership in this country, in any institution, you commit to this basic code of love or you forfeit your right to our support.

All or Nothing

“It’s hard for me to understand a culture that not only hates and fights his brothers, but even attacks nature and abuses her. Man must love all creation or he will love...

Love Serves

“What is important is not constantly achieving great results, if I can help at least one person to have a better life, that already justifies the offering of my life.” Pope...

Stop in the name of Love

We have to stop justifying our fearful reasons to not love each other. Once you demonize your enemy, a whole range of hateful actions get put on the table.

Progressive

You think you’re progressive? What’s more progressive than love as the foundation of our collective lives; not just the government, but every human institution.

2 Options

Backwards or forwards? Choose: “In any given moment we have 2 options: step forward into growth or step back into safety.” Maslow

What?

What is everyone so afraid of? Is it that people who don’t look like you, think like you, believe like you, are going to try and make you live in ways you don’t want to...

Courage

There is a meaning and power that come into your life when you take a stand for a people or a cause. A self-centered, self-indulgent, cowardly society cannot thrive because...

Everyone

MLK: “Everyone can become great because everybody can serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”

All of Us

Our people are divided and need to come together, now. What can unite us in this moment of peril: “E Pluribus Unum” out of many, One” Forward together; all of us.

Anyway

"Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be, stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway."...

Carpe Diem

Seize the Day Be thankful for this struggle, without it we would not discover our strength.

Learn

“WE MUST LEARN TO LIVE TOGETHER AS BROTHERS OR WE ARE GOING TO PERISH TOGETHER AS FOOLS.” MLK

Beyond

This movement is about taking love beyond the realm of songs, poems, sermons, dreams and into the realm of action, relationship, community, culture, civilization.

It’s in the Eyes

You will never look into the eyes of someone God does not love.

Who wins in the End

"Whenever I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they may seem invincible, but in the end,...

A New Path

“Don't follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Power

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential...

Love Revolution

There is a revolution upon the earth. An unstoppable wave sweeping the planet. The people are rising up and demanding that love be the foundation of life on this planet...

Their Loss

Never apologize for how much love you have to give. For those who didn’t want it, it is their loss.

Which are you?

There are 2 kinds of people: “Love is in your way” or “Love is on your side.” Which one are you? Do you believe in the power of abundant unconditional, sacrificial love or...

The real Question

The question is not "why would you live in a country that puts love at the center." The real question is “why would you want to live in a country that doesn’t put love at...

Where?

The new question for humanity from now on is “Where is the Love?” Where is the Love? donde esta el amor

Start

It all starts by contemplating what kind of human being do you want to be, what kind of country you want to live in, what kind of world you want to leave for those who come...

Future

In the future the kids are going to ask: "Mommy daddy, grandma, grandpa, where were you when the Civilization of Love started? What did you do to make it happen?” May we...

Not You

“Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in...

No Waste

No contribution is wasted. Somewhere someone needs what you have to contribute.

The Only Thing

“The only fulfilling life is reaching out to, seeking and working for the good of others.” Pope Francis

More & Less

Choose this day to act from love, instead of fear. More love, less hate. Look your attacker in the eye, see in them the child who has not yet learned to hate.

Dangerous

To have compassion is a dangerous thing in an era of intolerance.

What we need

We do not need violence, hate, division, and lawlessness. We need love and justice.

Empty

“It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves the effort and pain of pursuing truth, love,...

Only Love

“What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.” Lord Byron

Priorities

“Love rearranges our priorities. It shows us what really matters, and in the process banishes selfishness.” Matthew Kelly

Emerging

“Some changes look negative on the surface, but you will soon realize that space is being created for something new to emerge.” Eckart Tolle

The Only Hope

Extravagant, unconditional, sacrificial love is the only hope humanity ever has for the healing and thriving of the world, and each of us can make our contribution.

You do the math

Do the math: politics-love=disaster

Fight

"The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you’re going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes...

More

Be more moved by who and what you love than your fear and anger and hate.

Each

We belong to each other, and each of us does our part to build a loving and hopeful world.

Please

Resist the temptation to judge, exclude, mock and mistreat those who are different from you. Everyone is trying to survive, to make a good life, to have some joy, some love.

Crossroad

We are at a crossroad in the long story of human civilization, the ongoing struggle for the grace, generosity and love.

We commit

We commit to leading America and the world into being “the Beloved Community” a truly diverse, respectful, democratic, loving society.

Ever Seen

We’re going to take the freedom, opportunity, equality, and the blessings of this land; and with the Grace of God we are going to create the most beautiful thing humanity...

Love & Freedom

There is no love without freedom. We are freeing and healing humanity from an enslaving way of life.

Committed

We are committed that the godlike attributes and behaviors win out over the ugly, animal ones of fear, anger, hate and cruelty.

Melting

We have a responsibility to give close attention and great care to not just not hurt one another, but to reach out and help. We owe one another that much towards a great...

Never

Never give up and never give in. Keep moving forward, opening the heart of America to express the dignity of humanity.

When love reigns

Where there is love, people experience a closeness that includes gratitude, solidarity, empathy and compassion. Others are seen as brothers and sisters and not fearfully as...

Impossible

Impossible is a word thrown around by small people who find it easier to live in a world they have been given, rather than to explore the power they have to change it....

Rebirth

We can step forward towards a new style of life, rediscovering that we need one another. Our human family can experience a rebirth beyond the walls that separate us.

Highest

Freedom, security, opportunity to prosper- everyone wants these things, and the Love Revolution/Civilization of Love movement will lead to the fullest expressions of them.

Ready?

Are you finished blaming? We’ve got work to do together. You want to join us, great; if not get out of the way. This is about building a country where everything is run...

Stop

Stop being a prisoner of the past. Become the architect of the future.

Love is a Verb

Reactive people make love a feeling. Proactive people make love a verb. Love is something you do in the sacrifices you make, the giving of self. Subordinate feelings to...

Blessed Diversity

We have in America diversity like nowhere else on the earth. The children of every country on this planet are here; and when we start to interact with, and feed each other,...

Perfect

We are building a brighter tomorrow through courageous action today. Life is never about doing anything perfectly. It’s about doing it lovingly, and in that it becomes...

The Bridge

All of life is interrelated in a network of interdependence, and mutuality. None can fulfill their destiny alone. We are bridging the chasm of fear and hate, reaching...

New Trajectory

Announcing a New Trajectory for human history. We are reaching out for what is the best in our people, and building something better; bending the arc of history toward a...

Each & Every

Every human being is born to create something new. Each of us are once in eternity unique human beings, and each make a unique difference, and sometimes together we come...

At Best

All are created equal; but without love the principle of equality becomes at best separate but equal.

Act

Everybody dreams. History is made by those with the courage to act.

Guts

Let us have the courage to examine our lives and our families, relationships, communities, and begin this process of national healing.

Justice

The worth of every human person is to be respected. Being born in a place with fewer resources or less development does not justify the fact that someone should live with...

Listen

Let us hear the reminder, the signals faint as of now but about to get louder of the symphony we are made to create, if we rise above the fear and hate and hostility, if we...

Shame on RFK jr.

RFK Jr. is a Lying opportunist. His VP selection of the very rich funder of his Super Bowl ad solidified him as having no moral core. Now RFK, his father, is rolling in his...

Embrace

Let’s embrace the hard work of making the world better for more and more, not falling for the illusions of perfection. When it’s all over to look back and have walked upon...

Equal

To win but lift up the loser, to lose and be happy for the victor. Together we can all change something, just one thing, we can learn to accept all people as equal, that a...

How?

How do you build a nation in a digital age? We have way too much addiction, depression and anxiety, mesmerization of screens, gun violence, suicide. We have to look beyond...

Remember

We need to remember that history doesn’t have to shape us; that this simulation is far more malleable than we can even conceive. Change is possible, and acting with faith,...

Maximize

Every person, every new generation, brings new relational, intellectual, cultural, and spiritual energy. The Civilization of Love alone will maximize those contributions.

The Ocean

Awareness is that love is the ocean we, and all that lives, are immersed in. Prayer, meditation, art, service, humor, beauty, surprise gets you there.

Forward

Success or failure is not what matters. What matters is continuing action, moving forward, adding the next piece in the face of uncertainty.

Not Waiting

“Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go...

The Real problem

The real problem with humanity is: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology.” E.O. Wilson

Defy

This movement inspires people to see beyond the seemingly unchallengable status quo and defy ridiculous odds to bring about serious meaningful change, a powerful antidote to...

Work to do

Life is the work of putting love where there is none. Love does not require brilliance, wealth, beauty or perfection.

For the better

Both left and right propose change; but what matters is what is the criteria for that change. We know in our life experiences that the only change that leads to the better...

We can be heroes

“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost." Arthur Ashe

Each

“Each of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm. When we look at each other we must say ‘I understand...

Not over

It’s never too late to learn a few new moves. Nothing is over until you stop trying.

what do you want?

"And did you get what you wanted from this life even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth." Raymond Carver

Gift

“Mercy is not a rule; it is a gift” St. Mother Teresa

Only Love

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” MLK

Combating evil

“How much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of...

Just do it

"Be the change you want to see in the world" Gandhi

Love or Judge?

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” St. Mother Teresa

Everywhere

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” St. Mother Teresa

Good News

“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your...

Imagination

Imagination is its own form of courage. We are spearheading a national rejection of mediocrity and commitment to excellence; a culture where everyone is encouraged to reach...

Do Something

It’s just common sense. When you know something is wrong, you take action.

Beyond

"Our lives don’t really belong to us, they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding." Paul Auster

It’s Time

“The time is always right to do what is right.” MLK

Projects

To facilitate the spread of love at the community level we are modeling what we hope will be the spread of hubs of activity to cultivate local healing and creativity for all ages.

Hope Center

9021 Springfield Blvd
Queens Village NY 11428

Proudly located in one of the most diverse zip codes in America, the Hope Center has been serving the NYC and Long Island area for 30 years.

The Hope Center also houses the artwork and photography of local and Navajo artists.

Education
The Hope Center is regularly used for professional workshops including: singing, poetry, and creativity.

For more info: The Hope Center

The Vault

9021 Springfield Blvd
Queens Village NY 11428

The Vault is a performance venue housed within the Hope Center. It has held countless open mic and cultural events featuring: poetry, music, performance art, hip-hop, magic, dance, spoken word, and comedy; welcoming all ages and all levels.

Vault News & Upcoming Events: TheVault.org

To book an event contact : Tony Bellizzi 718-479-2594

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