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Monday, May 31, 2010
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Courage
Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.
Maya Angelou
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Culture of Peace
" . . . in the conflicts in the past 15 years, only 7.5% have ended with a military victory by one party over the other. the negotiation route, though long and difficult, is the one that prevails in 92% of the cases. The challenge is thus not being a skilful warrior but a skilful negotiator."
2008 Peace Process Yearbook, School for a Culture of Peace, Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Monday, May 24, 2010
Eyes of the unfeeling
A picture lives by companionship. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impared by the eyes of the unfeeling.
Mark Rothko
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Language of God
Never place a period where God has placed a comma.
The Language of God, God is Still Speaking, United Church of Christ media campaign
Friday, May 21, 2010
Life
Life can never stop asserting its need to create itself, and life never stops searching for connections.
Margaret J. Wheatley, Finding Our Way: Leadership For an Uncertain Time
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Awake
“Tell us what you got from enlightenment,” the seeker said. “Did you become divine?”
“No, not divine,” the holy one said.
“Did you become a saint?”
“Oh dear, no,” the holy one said.
“Then what did you become?” the seeker asked.
And the holy one answered, “I became awake.”
From Welcome to the Wisdom of the World and Its Meaning for You: Universal Spiritual Insights Distilled from Five Religious Traditions by Joan Chittister
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Beauty
Today like every other day we wake up empty
and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
Rumi, The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Road
Wanderer, the road is your
footsteps, nothing else;
wanderer, there is no path,
you lay down a path in walking.
Antonio Machado
Monday, May 17, 2010
The beginning
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
Louise L’Amour
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Good for Something
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
Saturday, May 15, 2010
God in All Things
The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw – and knew I saw – all things in God and God in all things.
Mechtild of Magdeburg
Friday, May 14, 2010
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Seeking
Seek not to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; rather, seek what they sought.
Gautama Buddha
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Consciousness
A basic definition of consciousness is the mind’s capacity to observe the self in reality and to be thoughtful about our actions.
Christina Baldwin, Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Starting Point
Any place we stop to rest must also serve as the platform from which we leave.
Catherine Bateson
Monday, May 10, 2010
'America, America'
. . .
America:
let’s exchange gifts. Take your smuggled cigarettes
and give us potatoes.
Take James Bond’s golden pistol
and give us Marilyn Monroe’s giggle.
Take the heroin syringe under the tree
and give us vaccines.
Take your blueprints for model penitentiaries
and give us village homes. …
from 'America, America' by Saadi Youssef, Damascus, 20/8/1995 translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa, New Internationallist (May 2010)
America:
let’s exchange gifts. Take your smuggled cigarettes
and give us potatoes.
Take James Bond’s golden pistol
and give us Marilyn Monroe’s giggle.
Take the heroin syringe under the tree
and give us vaccines.
Take your blueprints for model penitentiaries
and give us village homes. …
from 'America, America' by Saadi Youssef, Damascus, 20/8/1995 translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa, New Internationallist (May 2010)
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Friday, May 7, 2010
All Beings
It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of human beings. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.
Maimonides
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Marvellous Error!
Last night, as I slept,
I dreamt – marvellous error! –
that it was God I had
here inside my heart.
Antonio Machado
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Organization
Life seeks organization, but it uses messes to get there. Organization is a process, not a structure.
Margaret J. Wheatley, Finding Our Way: Leadership For an Uncertain Time
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
Do not harm others
All beings tremble before violence. All fear death. All love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?
Buddha
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Asleep
There's nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
The Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Saturday, May 1, 2010
In relationship
Nothing can exist without the other ... it is only in relationship that one can be fully one's self.
Margaret J. Wheatley, Finding Our Way: Leadership For an Uncertain Time
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