Dwell on the past, and you'll lose an eye.
Forget the past, and you'll lose both eyes.
Russian Proverb
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Monday, November 11, 2013
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Beauty
Beauty is a sense of universal relations, of being brought into the intensities of even painful feeling.
Robert Duncan
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 12, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Particularity & Universality
Our particularity is our universality. Only by being what we uniquely are, can we respect other people for what they uniquely are.
Jonathan Sacks, To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Destiny
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Agnes DeMille
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Fear
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living in better conditions.
Hafiz
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Sunday, November 7, 2010
"I"
Just as it is known
That an image of one’s face is seen
Depending on a mirror
But does not really exist as a face.
So the conception of “I” exists
Depending on mind and body.
But like the image of a face
The “I” does not at all exist as its own reality.
Nagarjuna, Precious Garland of Advice
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Light
We light a light
in the name of the God who creates life,
in the name of the Saviour who loves life,
in the name of the Spirit who is the fire of life.
J. Philip Newell, Celtic Treasure: Daily Scripture and Prayer
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Imagination
Imagination brings you close to compassion.
Amy Tan,
from "Language Is a Place of Struggle": Great Quotes by People of Color, edited by Tram Nguyen
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Questions
How we ask questions, what questions we ask, and how we respond to them determine the insights we have and rate at which we will grow.
Christina Baldwin, One to One
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Defeats
We may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be.
Maya Angelou, The Art of Fiction, The Paris Review Interviews, vol. IV
Friday, September 17, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
A Sign of health in the mind
A sign of health in the mind is the ability of one individual to enter imaginatively and accurately into the thoughts and feelings and hopes and fears of another person; also to allow the other person to do the same to us.
Donald Winnicott
Saturday, September 11, 2010
All that has ever mattered
I love you, I love you.
That is all that has ever mattered.
Live your full life and I will always be with you.
cell phone call, September 11, 2001
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Question to ponder
What did you do when the poor
suffered, when tenderness
and life
burned out in them?
Otto René Castillo
Robert Márquez, ed. Latin American Revolutionary Poetry
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