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I would rather have questions
that can't be answered
than answers
that can't be questioned.

Richard Feynman
(1918-1988, Theoretical physicist)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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.....the message (from the pope) of Easter responds to the cry of pain that rises
from every corner because of the abuses that crush the weakest among us,
because of the idolatry of profit that plunders the earth’s resources,
because of the violence of war that kills and destroys.
Let those who have weapons lay them down.
Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace.
Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue.
Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them.

Pope Leo XIV

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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You were not just born
to center your entire existence
on work and labor.
You were born to heal, to grow,
to be of service to yourself and community,
to practice, to experiment, to create,
to have space, to dream, and to connect.

Tricia Hersey
(1974 to pres., poet, performance artist, and activist)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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Epictetus’s quote “No one is ever unhappy because of someone else” is a corner stone of Stoic philosophy.
It emphasizes that our happiness and unhappiness are internal and not external.
The Stoics believe that true happiness lies within us, and we should not let others’ actions or feelings dictate our own.
This teaching encourages individuals to focus on their own choices and reactions, rather than blaming others for their emotional state.
By understanding this Stoic wisdom, one can cultivate inner peace and freedom from the burden of external influences.

Kirpal Singh

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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"Tonight we ask all of you to join with us in choosing hope over fear, democracy over authoritarianism, the rule of law over lawlessness, ethics over unrivaled corruption, resistance over complacency, truth over lies, unity over division, and peace over war.”

Bruce Springsteen’s opening last night at his concert in Los Angeles

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
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"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.
Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism,
while messes are the artist's true friend.
What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children
was that we need to make messes
in order to find out who we are and why we are here.

Anne Lamott,
Bird by Bird

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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To live without forgiveness
is to live separated from the sacred
and from the most basic instincts of our heart.
To live with forgiveness
is to reveal in each moment the beauty
and value of life.
To live with forgiveness
is to choose in each moment
an active role in creating relationships,
organizations, communities,
and a world that works for everyone.

Robin Casarjian
(founder and director of the Lionheart Foundation
and its National Emotional Literacy Projects)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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What if becoming who and what we truly are happens
not through striving and trying
but by recognizing and receiving
the people and places and practices
that offer us the warmth of encouragement
when we need to unfold?
How would this shape the choices
you make about how to spend today?

Oriah Mountain Dreamer
(1954 to pres., spiritual teacher, story teller, poet)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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The world needs dreamers
and the world needs doers.
But above all,
what the world needs most
are dreamers that do.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
(1947 to pres., author and Spiritual teacher)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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Our emotions are like clouds.
We can’t see the sun when we’re stuck in our emotions.
But has the sun gone anywhere?
Have we gone anywhere?
It is our minds that create the suffering
and our minds that liberate us from suffering.
You will always be right here
where you are every minute.
So how do we free ourselves?
Practice.
It’s not about being high,
having bliss or love all the time;
it’s about dealing with what’s here.
We can always start again.

Krishna Das
(1947-pres., Bhakti yogi, meditation teacher, mystic)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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If you are busily doing many things,
the concern for getting things done
can blind you to the tension
building in the body and mind.
Only by stopping to be mindful
may you become aware of the tensions
and feelings that are present.

Gil Fronsdal
(1954 to pres., Soto Zen and Vipassana Teacher)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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Loving kindness protects us
from our fears that come up.
When you go into the jungle, watch the news,
or whatever wild thing you do,
loving kindness is a basis
to tend and care for your own heart.
The practice is to hold
the tainted glory of your humanity
in loving kindness,
all of it, all the difficult, beautiful, amazing,
and horrifying parts we have as humans.

Jack Kornfield
(1945 to pres., clinical psychologist and Buddhist teacher)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth.
What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you.
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave.
They show us what community and friendship mean;
they show us how to live and die.

Anne Lamott,
Bird by Bird

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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Biology also shows us that we can expand our cognitive domain.
This arises through a novel experience brought forth through reasoning, through the encounter with a stranger, or, more directly, through the expression of a biological interpersonal congruence that lets us see the other person and open up for him room for existence behind us.
This act is called love, or, if we prefer a milder expression, the acceptance of the other person beside us in our daily living.
This is the biological foundation of social phenomena: without love, without acceptance of others living beside us, there is no social process and, therefore, no humanness.
Anything that undermines this acceptance of others, from competency to the possession of truth and on to ideological certainty, undermines the social process because it undermines the biological process that generates it…
Biologically, without love, without acceptance of others, there is no social phenomenon.
If we still live together that way, we are living indifference and negation under a pretense of love.

Chilean philosophers Humberto Maturana (September 14, 1928–May 6, 2021)
and Francisco Varela (September 7, 1946–May 28, 2001)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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If I had influence with the good angel
who is supposed to preside
over the christening of all children,
I should ask that her gift to each child in the world
would be a sense of wonder so indestructible
that it would last throughout life
as an unfailing antidote
against boredom and disenchantments of later years,
the sterile preoccupation with things
that are artificial,
the alienation from the sources of our strength.

Rachel Carson
(1907 to 1964, marine biologist, writer,
conservationist, and environmentalist)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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Judith,

Your sig line always catches my attention because of the quote from Ram Dass. It resonates with me, because it is so true. If we all had this attitude, the world would be a better place. We are walking each other home. This thread is a treasure.

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thank you j.
this has been a kind of therapy for me...to try to keep my head in a better space...so glad that other's are enjoying.

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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If we take responsibility
for our own little piece,
because of interconnectedness,
you take care of yourself,
you're also taking care of the world.
Each one of us
is the cells of the one body of the planet.
And when it becomes we,
rather than me,
that's a very healing direction to go in.

Jon Kabat-Zinn
(1944 to pres., Medical Doctor and Mindfulness Teacher)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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Gratitude places you
in the energy field of plentitude.
Glow with gratitude
and see how awe and joy
will make their home in you.

Michael Bernard Beckwith
(1956 to pres., New Thought minister, author, founder and spiritual director
of the Agape International Spiritual Center)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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Our experience is moored to our structure in a binding way.
We do not see the “space” of the world; we live our field of vision.
We do not see the “colors” of the world; we live our chromatic space…
We are experiencing a world.
But when we examine more closely how we get to know this world,
we invariably find that we cannot separate our history of actions — biological and social — from how this world appears to us.
It is so obvious and close that it is very hard to see.

Chilean philosophers Humberto Maturana (September 14, 1928–May 6, 2021) and Francisco Varela (September 7, 1946–May 28, 2001)

https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/04/14/tree-of-knowledge-maturana-love/?mc_cid=f7b26aa5de&mc_eid=a3782d59bf

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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Oneness is even an easy thing to profess,
until we realize that it must include
not only the people we like and agree with,
not only those to whom we are sympathetic,
but also those whom we view as abhorrent
(whatever side of a political position we may hold).
We don’t get to choose who we are one with—
it’s everybody.

Liza Rankow
(Interfaith minister, educator, activist, and writer)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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I have a lot of faith.
But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything.
I remembered something Father Tom had told me-
-that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.
Certainty is missing the point entirely.
Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort,
and letting it be there until some light returns.

Anne Lamott,
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

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The insight at the heart of nonviolence
is that we live in a tragic gap—
a gap between the way things are
and the way we know they might be.
If we want to live nonviolent lives,
we must learn to stand in the tragic gap,
faithfully holding the tension
between reality and possibility
in hopes of being opened to a third way
of breaking our collective hearts open
to justice, truth, and love.

Parker Palmer
(1939-Pres., Senior associate
of the American Association
of Higher Education,
senior advisor to the Fetzer Institute,
founder of the Center for Courage and Renewal)

"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious - Oscar Wilde

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