This Week’s Quotation: Humankind is but one thread within the great web of life. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~ Chief Seattle of the Suquamish and Duwamish Tribes Interconnectedness Did you know
This Week’s Quotation: Be full of sorrow, that you may become a hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter… What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle… When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to
This Week’s Quotation: If you but knew the meaning of His Love, hope and despair would be impossible. For hope would be forever satisfied; despair of any kind unthinkable. His grace is His answer to all despair, for in it lies remembrance of His Love.
This Week’s Quotation: Let justice well up like water, and righteousness like a flowing stream. Book of Amos 5:24 Justice The Prophet Amos of the Hebrew Scriptures is a prophet of social justice. Justice in all forms is extremely important in Judaism, as justice is
This Week’s Quotation: Form is no other than emptiness; emptiness no other than form. Form is exactly emptiness; emptiness is exactly form. Sensation, conception, discrimination, and consciousness are also like this. ~ An excerpt from an English translation of the Buddhist Heart Sutra Emptiness Buddhists
This Week’s Quotation: Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are
This Week’s Quotation: O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever… The Lord is on my side; I will not fear… The Lord is my strength and song… This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will
This Week’s Quotation: We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our
This Week’s Quotation: Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. ~ Luke 12:32 Divine Order It is a time of enormous uncertainty in the world. It’s natural to feel agitated, anxious, angry or helpless
This Week’s Quotation: Consider the flowers of a garden. Though differing in kind, color, form, and shape, yet, inasmuch as they are refreshed by the waters of one spring, revived by the breath of one wind, invigorated by the rays of one sun, this diversity
This Week’s Quotation: Five hundred years before the birth of Christ, Confucius was asked for a rule of practice for one’s life. He answered, “One word which sums up the basis of all good conduct…loving-kindness. Do not do to others what you do not want
This Week’s Quotation: Hineh mah tov umah na’im shevet achim gam yachad! Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for people to dwell together in unity! Psalm 133:1 How Good and Pleasant It Is In the Jewish tradition, these words attributed to King