47 years ago today, Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in Memphis, and a Great Voice for Peace was seemingly silenced — and the world rightfully mourned both his passing and the apparent fading of his Great Dream. Indeed, I myself have recently heard others publicly pronouncing that Martin Luther King Jr. fully failed in […]
on SALVATION & FACING FEAR Why are we so afraid? … so afraid to swim in oceans open, … so afraid to forgive those who have wronged us, … so afraid to take 30 minutes each day to reach out to the downtrodden, … so afraid to champion animals’ equal right to live, … so […]
P.S. Here are some of those same Truths transposed onto many of the things I would do were I to be “elected” King of any land or region … P.P.S. And here as a matter of contrast, for those who might be interested or intrigued, is a similar meme of Truths that I created back […]
When we examine the not insignificant swath of recorded history occupied by our still-young species, there are a few men & women who cannot help but shine forth their Greatness … Martin Luther King Jr. was one of those Bright Lights. He shone forth Justice in a time of persecution … He shone forth Compassion […]
“Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.” ~ M. Gandhi … Our world is falling apart all around us — there is corruption in our politics & zealotry in our […]
“Distress is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
Some gurus say that it is impossible to “cleanse the ego” — that all we can hope to do is cope with its evils; that all we can really do is train ourselves to “just remain calm” whenever its fear-based desires repeatedly resurface. Of course a true Master knows that, even though the ego IS […]
“We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.” ~ William Ralph Inge First things first, a few challenging facts: FACT: animals are sentient […]
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