This Week’s Quotation: Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ~ Albert Einstein Faithful Tenacity I have long found upliftment in Einstein’s insights, and whenever I feel discouraged by the dispiriting reality I’m perceiving, this quote comes to mind. It
This Week’s Quotation: And as I’ve gotten older, I’ve had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things. ~ Martin Scorsese Good Company My father had very clear ideas of the
This Week’s Quotation: Lent is a time of going very deeply into ourselves. What is it that stands between us and God? Between us and our brothers and sisters? Between us and life, the life of the Spirit? Whatever it is, let us relentlessly
This Week’s Quotation: The end is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the Beloved Community. It is this type of spirit and this type of love that can transform opponents into friends… It is this love which will bring about
This Week’s Quotation: Each and every one of us has the capacity within ourselves to feel into the Oneness of the universe, exist in a state of interconnectedness and beauty, and be love embodied. Imagine what the world would be like if all eight billion
This Week’s Quotation: Our habitual vision of things is not necessarily right: it is only one of an infinite number, and to glimpse an unfamiliar one, even for a moment, unmakes us, but steadies us again. ~ Nan Shepherd Expanding Fields of Possibility Sometimes, we
This Week’s Quotation: People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen or diet, learn theosophy by heart, or mechanically repeat mystic texts from
This Week’s Quotation: …if the other person were drowning, I wouldn’t ask about his faith or politics before I’d throw him a line. Who would? ~ Richard M Landau, What the world needs to know about Interfaith Dialogue Loving Beyond Difference What if
This Week’s Quotation: Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
This Week’s Quotation: To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. ~ Ecclesiastes 3:1 A Kind of Hush Over Bethlehem Christmas was canceled in Bethlehem this year. Tens of thousands of lives have been lost
This Week’s Quotation: In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ~ Albert Camus Solstice Blessings Those of us who live in the northern hemisphere are sharing in the sacred energy of the Winter
This Week’s Quotation: Bringing people together is what I call ‘ubuntu,’ which means ‘I am because we are.’ Far too often people think of themselves as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When