This is the big lie the world tells us: that the universe is connected by trade agreements, electronic banking, computer networks, shipping lanes, and the seeking of profit—nothing else. Whereas this is the truth of God: all creation is one holy web of relationships, and gifts meant for all; that creation vibrates with the pain of all its parts, because its true destiny is joy. — Julie Polter
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Rumi
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground. — Rumi
Turkish proverb
No road is long with good company. — Turkish proverb
MaryAnne Radmacher
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometime courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow." — MaryAnne Radmacher
Steven Weinberg
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. — Steven Weinberg
Shakespeare
A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind. — Shakespeare
Thomas Carlyle
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Thomas Carlyle
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. — Thomas Carlyle
dallasnews.com
When Jeffrey Weiss of the Dallas Morning News wanted to find the origins of Kum-ba-ya, he talked with ethnomusicologist Thomas Miller, who said the song originated as a spiritual among the Gullah, an African-American people who live in the Sea Islands and the coastal regions of South Carolina and Georgia. It’s believed that a missionary couple transported the song to Angola, where it was rediscovered and brought back to the US in the ‘50s and ‘60s. — dallasnews.com
Howard Zinn
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders . . . and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . . . Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves . . . (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem. — Howard Zinn