May 18, 2013:
One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body. The truth of the matter is, every moment we spend worrying about our bodies, and not necessarily taking care of them, somebody is figuring out how to take money away from the poor, destroy the environment, drill, frack, burn, rape and violate women, and we’re not paying attention. Be radical: Love your body!
May 17, 2013:
Leave nothing but footprints,
Take nothing but pictures,
Kill nothing but time.
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May 16, 2013:
If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.
May 15, 2013:
A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this remote planet in a remote corner of the universe, endowed with intelligence and self-awareness. We should not despair, but should humbly rejoice in making the most of these gifts, and celebrate our brief moment in the sun.
May 14, 2013:
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
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May 13, 2013:
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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May 12, 2013:
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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May 11, 2013:
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
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May 10, 2013:
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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May 9, 2013:
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.
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May 8, 2013:
Courage is resistence to fear -mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
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May 7, 2013:
People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.
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May 6, 2013:
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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May 5, 2013:
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
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May 4, 2013:
Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It’s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.
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May 3, 2013:
It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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May 2, 2013:
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
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May 1, 2013:
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do that by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
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April 30, 2013:
Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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April 29, 2013:
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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April 28, 2013:
Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
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April 27, 2013:
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
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April 26, 2013:
The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
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April 25, 2013:
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.
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April 24, 2013:
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
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April 23, 2013:
Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.
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April 22, 2013:
Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere. And sometimes in the middle of nowhere you find yourself.
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April 21, 2013:
Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life.
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April 20, 2013:
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.
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April 19, 2013:
We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy -- sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
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April 18, 2013:
There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
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April 17, 2013:
We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.
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April 16, 2013:
Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I will not forget you.
Love me and I may be forced to love you.
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April 15, 2013:
No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
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April 14, 2013:
Don't try to win over the haters. You're not the jackass whisperer.
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Unmarketing: Stop Marketing. Start Engaging.
Contribution #7389
April 13, 2013:
...there is something wrong with any spirituality that does not inspire selfless concern for others
April 12, 2013:
To the good I would be good; to the not-good I would also be good, in order to make them good.
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The Sayings of Lao-Tzu
http://
Contribution #7426
April 11, 2013:
We are what we are because of the hard work, insights and achievements of countless others.
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Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
by Karen Armstrong
Page p. 152
Contribution #7428
April 10, 2013:
Hug O'War
I will not play at tug o' warI'd rather play at hug o' war, Where everyone hugs Instead of tugs Where everyone giggles And rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses And everyone grins And everyone cuddles And everyone wins.
Hug O'War
I will not play at tug o' warI'd rather play at hug o' war, Where everyone hugs Instead of tugs Where everyone giggles And rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses And everyone grins And everyone cuddles And everyone wins.
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April 6, 2013:
When we shift perception to appreciation, we begin to take our power away from the mind and into consciousness, where love is waiting.
April 5, 2013:
When a person lives heedlessly, his craving grows like a creeping vine.
He runs now here and now there,
as if looking for fruit:
a monkey in the forest.
If this sticky, uncouth craving
overcomes you in the world,
your sorrows grow like wild grass
after rain.
If, in the world, you overcome
this uncouth craving, hard to escape,
sorrows roll off you,
like water beads off a lotus.
-The Dhammapada
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The Dhammapada
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Contribution #7150
April 4, 2013:
Before you go and criticize the younger generation, remember who raised them.
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April 3, 2013:
I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.
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April 2, 2013:
Never cut what you can untie.
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April 1, 2013:
Habit with him was all the test of truth, It must be right: I've done it from my youth.
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March 31, 2013:
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
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March 30, 2013:
If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit.
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March 29, 2013:
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
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March 28, 2013:
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
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March 27, 2013:
Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see.
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March 26, 2013:
God and Dog. Is it not too much of a coincidence that these very same two words can also be used to describe the two extreme states of mind that every human is capable of? Strive for the one while being wary of the other.
March 25, 2013:
I almost think we're all of us Ghosts. ... It's not only what we have invited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. And then we are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Ibsen's first play "Ghosts" 1881
Contribution #7371
March 24, 2013:
We're all on our deathbed, but some of us are jumping up and down on the mattress.
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The Covert Comic
John Alejandro King
"
The Covert Comic"
http://www.covertcomic.com
Viewed on December 13, 2012
Contribution #7374
March 23, 2013:
Do not believe what you have heard
Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations
Do not believe in anything that has been spoken of many times
Do not believe because the written statements come from some old sage
Do not believe in conjecture
Do not believe in authority, or teachers, or elders
But after careful observation and analysis, when it agrees with reason
and it will benefit one and all, then accept it and live by it.
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Contribution #7377
March 22, 2013:
The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the social contract theory of Hobbes, the "back to nature" optimism of Rousseau, and the superman philosophy of Nietzsche, I found in the nonviolent resistance philosophy of Gandhi. I came to feel that this was the only morally and practically sound method open to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom.
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Stride Toward Freedom
Contribution #7378
March 21, 2013:
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
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March 20, 2013:
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.
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March 19, 2013:
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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March 18, 2013:
To all earth's creatures God has given the broad earth, the springs, the rivers and the forests, giving the air to the birds, and the waters to those who live in water, giving abundantly to all the basic needs of life, not as a private possession, not restricted by law, not divided by boundaries, but as common to all, amply and in rich measure.
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March 17, 2013:
If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.
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March 16, 2013:
A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupied.
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Embrace the World
Contribution #7355
March 15, 2013:
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.
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Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984
Contribution #3328
March 14, 2013:
The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.
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Peace is Every Step
Contribution #7354
March 13, 2013:
Someone ought to do it, but why should I?" -- "Someone ought to do it, so why not I?" Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.
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March 12, 2013:
Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.
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Spoken at Legacy of Wisdom conference, April 17, 2011
Contribution #7352
March 11, 2013:
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
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March 10, 2013:
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, -- quieter, warmer.
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March 9, 2013:
We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.
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March 8, 2013:
When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful.
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March 7, 2013:
Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.
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March 6, 2013:
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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March 1, 2013:
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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February 28, 2013:
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
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February 27, 2013:
Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.
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February 26, 2013:
Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.
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February 25, 2013:
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness
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February 24, 2013:
If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!
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Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth
Contribution #7279
February 23, 2013:
Your life shouldn't be a series of "either/or" ultimatums. If you've let that become your daily view, then think harder and look deeper.
February 22, 2013:
Why seek a doctrine? As soon as you have a doctrine, you fall into dualistic thought.
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Moving Forward, Keeping Still
by Armand Eisen
Page page 132
Published by MJF Books Fine Communications
, New York, USA
, 1997
http://Barnes and Noble
Contribution #7286
February 21, 2013:
They are also clueless, who already know the answer.
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The Covert Comic
The Covert Comic
http://www.covertcomic.com
Viewed on August 10, 2011
Contribution #7297
February 20, 2013:
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.
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book of tea
Contribution #7321
February 19, 2013:
Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.
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The book of tea
Contribution #7320
February 18, 2013:
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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February 14, 2013:
There is something beautiful about scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.
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February 13, 2013:
I knew what the sanctified life was not. Not a life filled with more rituals, more scrupulously observed. Not more praying. Not becoming a better person, being more charitable, more concerned with everyone else's pains. Sanctifying had something to do with a sense of constant wonder – feeling gratitude and finding significance everywhere, in every action, relationship and object.
February 12, 2013:
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
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February 11, 2013:
The most precious jewels you will ever have around your neck are the arms of your children.
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Contribution #7298
February 10, 2013:
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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Brainy Quote
Brainy Quote
"
Richard P. Feynman Quotes"
http://Richard P. Feynman Quotes
Viewed on January 31, 2013
Contribution #7303
February 9, 2013:
Ah! There you are. You're beautiful!
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Brush Dance Live with Intention 2012 Calendar
Contribution #7302
February 8, 2013:
Most people think that shadows follow, precede, or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
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February 7, 2013:
Learning is like a boundless sea, only diligence can reach the shore.
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February 6, 2013:
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
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February 5, 2013:
It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.
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February 4, 2013:
Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.
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February 3, 2013:
An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. When you feel like you are being dragged back by difficulties, it means you are torquing up to launch forward. Stay focused and keep aiming.
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February 2, 2013:
Toleration ... is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
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Contribution #7175
February 1, 2013:
Watch your thoughts; they become your words.
Watch your words; they become your actions.
Watch your actions; they become your habits.
Watch your habits; they become your character.
Watch your character for it will become your destiny.
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Contribution #7178
January 31, 2013:
The Fellowship
At one time we were the wild ones who set fire to our lives like so many campfires run out of control, blazing forests and consuming all in their path.Ravenously we conspired against the world, and knew only craving.Sorrow and shame grew like vines of ivy, slowly dragging down.AttachingGrippingReclaimingReclaiming until we had no hope but to submit to our own spirits, and harken to the realities of our lives, and the world.Now slowly loooking inward to find love, compassion, and truth.We standWe sit.We are.The air fills our lungs as we take one more breath, and experience now.As our eyes close, we can see those same wild ones marveling at who we've become, and we offer them our service.Our generosity, sincerity, experience, strength, and hope as a lifeline:a life saving rope to tow our brothers and sisters in from those troubled waters. Those waters that we have so often found ourselves in, tired and without the energy needed to simply float.We stand united. We are all one, like the sun and the clouds, the light and the dark.We stand in singular purpose. Not one being greater than service to others;I am you and you are me; just as the the clouds, the sun, and the rain are the swaying trees.
The Fellowship
At one time we were the wild ones who set fire to our lives like so many campfires run out of control, blazing forests and consuming all in their path.Ravenously we conspired against the world, and knew only craving.Sorrow and shame grew like vines of ivy, slowly dragging down.AttachingGrippingReclaimingReclaiming until we had no hope but to submit to our own spirits, and harken to the realities of our lives, and the world.Now slowly loooking inward to find love, compassion, and truth.We standWe sit.We are.The air fills our lungs as we take one more breath, and experience now.As our eyes close, we can see those same wild ones marveling at who we've become, and we offer them our service.Our generosity, sincerity, experience, strength, and hope as a lifeline:a life saving rope to tow our brothers and sisters in from those troubled waters. Those waters that we have so often found ourselves in, tired and without the energy needed to simply float.We stand united. We are all one, like the sun and the clouds, the light and the dark.We stand in singular purpose. Not one being greater than service to others;I am you and you are me; just as the the clouds, the sun, and the rain are the swaying trees.
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January 30, 2013:
The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented.
They come from inventing new questions.
