“Just imagine if everybody stopped snarling, snarking, fighting, and worrying, and just did something good. Every day. Not waiting for the government to do something, not worrying about someone else taking advantage. Just doing it because it needs to be done, and our hands are free, and the needs are clear. Even if the über-rich […]
“The intense cultural acclimation period is over and now we want to stay – well not really – but our souls have been enriched. And isn’t that sense of soul-enrichment something we really hope for as this life goes by so quickly? Children grow, beauty shifts, lines of a poem seem to drift in and […]
“Love is not two people clinging to each other; it can only be fostered between two strong people secure in their individuality.” ~ Daisaku Ikeda . Of course, to be truly “secure in their individuality”, we must have the Courage to be vulnerable with each other; to have the Courage to support each other & […]
“There’s a terrible sense of dread filtering across America at the moment … It grows out of the suspicion that we all may be passengers in a vehicle that has made a radically wrong turn and is barreling along a dark road, with its headlights off and with someone behind the wheel who may not […]
“Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the Spirit fly in and out.” ~ Rumi . No matter what you fear or what tragedy lurks on your horizon; no matter what you Love or what joy is approaching from afar; no matter what seems to be happening […]
We turned a blind eye to slavery, until we woke Up to Justice … We turned a blind eye to discrimination against women, until we woke UP to Equality … We turned a blind eye to bigoted hatred of those from different cultures, following different faiths &/or having different sexual orientations, until we woke UP […]
Strive for political change if you wish … and yet if you have realized that the voting booth will not solve anything, feel free to join the revolution. And when you do so, please remember that it makes no sense to overthrow one system with the same means that screwed it up in the first […]
“I can’t say that I know how to be perfectly happy, and yet I have received spiritual power, at least to the extent that I have willingly lost myself in selfless service. Indeed, to gain real Power there is no substitute for a continuous review of our motives — to make certain we desire that […]
“I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters – they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize [with others who are suffering] enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil themselves, they collude with it through their own apathy.” ~ J. K. Rowling . “He […]
As our country rapidly approaches its next REVOLUTION, we need to remember that anything done in anger will only re-create the very thing that angers. If we are going to change the system, we can only do so using means based in feelings that are different from the ones that need changing … If we’re […]
“Love the earth and the sun and all animals … Despise riches and give alms to everyone that asks … Stand up for the ‘weak’ and the ‘stupid’ and the ‘crazy’ … Devote your income and your possessions and your labor to others … Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or […]
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