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Monday, February 28, 2011
Attitude
We should treat all the trivial things of life very seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.
Oscar Wilde
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Within Us
Within us is the soul of the whole,
the wise silence,
the universal beauty,
the eternal One.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Beauty
Times are bad and the poet is broke,
But around him is that permanent world of beauty.
James Wilhelm
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
This world
This world is too beautiful to be true,
and too beautiful not to be true.
Roo Borson, Kim Maltman & Andy Patton, Pain Not Bread
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Beauty
Beauty is a sense of universal relations, of being brought into the intensities of even painful feeling.
Robert Duncan
Monday, February 21, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
for the Other
I am responsible for the Other without waiting for reciprocity, were I to die for it. Reciprocity is his affair. It is precisely insofar as the relation between the Other and me is not reciprocal that I am subjection to the Other; and I am "subject" essentially in this sense. It is I who support all... The I always has one responsibility more than all the others.
Emmanuel Levinas
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Peace & Religion
Peace involves a profound crisis of identity. The boundaries of self and other, friend and foe, must be redrawn. … If faith is enlisted in the cause of war, there must be an equal and opposite counter-voice in the name of peace. If religion is not part of solution, it will certainly be part of the problem.
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations
Friday, February 18, 2011
In silence
In silence we must wrap much of our life, because it is too fine for speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thursday, February 17, 2011
This we know
This we know:
We were
not meant
to suffer
so much
& to learn
nothing.
Alice Walker, The Taste of Grudge, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Love everything
Love all God’s creation, the whole of it and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light! Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. And once you have perceived it, you will begin to comprehend it ceaselessly, more and more every day. And you will at least come to love the whole world with an abiding, universal love.
Fyodor Mikhail Dostoevsky
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
When you love
When you are touched,
May it be the gentleness
You desire,
Your lover’s hands sending
Each caress deep into your skin
Like a discovering glance.
John O’Donohue, For Eros
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Individuals
Individuals are expressions of all those who have influenced their lives.
Michael Schut, Simpler Living, Compassionate Life: A Christian Perspective
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
Breakage
Breakage, whatever its cause, is the dark complement to the act of making; the one implies the other. The thing that is broken has particular authority over the act of change.
Louise Gluck
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Walk Alone
Walk alone
If they answer not thy call, walk alone;
If they are afraid and cower mutely facing the wall,
O thou of evil luck,
Open thy mind and speak out alone.
Rabindranath Tagore
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
In a room alone
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
Blaise Pascal
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
The gaze
Most people don’t look . . .
The gaze that pierces – few have it –
What does the gaze pierce?
The question mark.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Seeing beyond
Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.
Mahatma Gandhi
Saturday, February 5, 2011
What we do for God
It is not what God does for us, but what we do for God, that changes us.
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Covenant & Conversation
Friday, February 4, 2011
Walks
How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.
Elaine Scarry
Thursday, February 3, 2011
At the edge
The beautiful can exist at the edge precisely because it has nothing to lose and everything to give away.
Frederick Turner
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Neutrality
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Bishop Desmond Tutu
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