To Love

RIC_9598-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

To Love another person is

to see the face of God.

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Birthing

RCC_6231-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

No one is born just once. 

If you’re lucky, you’ll emerge again

in someone’s arms;

or unlucky, wake

when the long tail of terror brushes

the inside of your skull.

Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces

God

RIC_9639-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

   The God who is present to us is present
     to others as well. The God who guides
     us guides others also; the God who
     cares for us cares also for others. The
     whole world is touched by God,
     and therefore the world can mediate
     God’s presence to us. 

    Marjorie Suchocki,

    God, Christ, Church: A Practical Guide to Process

    Theology

Rationality & Emotion

RIC_8676-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality.

It is only because our emotional brains work so well that our reasoning can work at all.

Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

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Bliss

RIC_2105, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Bliss does not come from outside. It comes from inside, from serving the people.

Anna Hazare

Saving the world

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One who saves one child saves the world.

The Talmud