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                         What I believe , and some of my heroes
                                             I have included this page so that anyone who might be interested in supporting my
                                                                                         efforts towards Coral Reef and Rain Forest protection would have an idea of where
                                                                                         I stand philosophically and spiritually. It is always good I believe to know about
                                                                                         the background and beliefs of persons responsible for projects such as this, and I
                                                                                         share the following with that in mind.
                                                                                                                                                            Lee James Pantas

                     Photograph by Liza Schillo

   God is love,
               and Jesus was exactly who he said he was..    

     The past we all understand and can visit anytime.
     But what if we could see the future... Even if only
     occasionally.     That would change everything,
     wouldn't  it...

     "Love God, and love your neighbor as yourself."
     The two most important things in life from what I
     can see. 

                                                         
                                                                                                                                   

                   From 1 Corinthians 13

    "I may be able to speak the languages of men and even of angels, but if I
     have not love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell.

     Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous, or conceited, or proud; love is
     not ill-mannered, or selfish, or irritable; love is not happy with evil, but is
     happy with the truth.
    
     Love never gives up: its faith, hope and patience never fail."

 

Photgraph by Liza Schillo

 

                

 
 
                  St. Francis preaching to the birds, Liza's Reef
   The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

"Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O, Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love;

For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying
that we are born to eternal life."

Photograph by Liza Schillo

 

  

            Photograph by Liza Schillo 

 


           "The way is not in the sky,
            The way is in the heart..."
           Buddha  circa 550 BC

 

  

 


   "Love and faith go together,
    They complete each other." 
 Mother Teresa of Calcutta

         St John of the Cross
    "In the evening of life, we will be
            judged by love alone." 
        St. John of the Cross
                1545-1591


 

                                   

 
              Believing as I do in the theory of rebirth, I live in the hope that, if not in this birth, in some other birth,
     I shall be able to hug all humanity in friendly embrace."    Mohandas K. Gandhi     

                                                                    

 

                                     Photograph by Liza Schillo  
          The Ecstasy of St. Teresa of Avila
                   by Gian Lorenzo Bernini - 1652

           "It is love alone that gives worth to all things."
                      St. Teresa of Avila

                                                 

Photograph by Liza Schillo

                     

 

 
    

                      
  "Where the spirit does not work with the hand,
                         there is no art."  
                   Leonardo da Vinci

 

 


    "It's better to have gone out there and failed
   than to not have run at all."  Allen Johnson
  1996 Olympics Gold Medalist in 110 Hurdles
        -After finishing 4th in 2000 Olympics
 		     Photograph by Liza Schillo

 


                        "Never give up..."
            My Grandfather James Pantas
    - whose love of the sea was passed on to me.

 

       

         
        "The more clearly we can focus our attention on
the wonders and realities of the universe about us,
the less taste we shall have for destruction."
Rachel Carson