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There comes a time
when humanity is called to shift
to a new level of consciousness,
to reach a higher moral ground.
A time when we have to shed our fear
and give hope to each other.

~Wangari Maathai
(1941-12011, Kenyan social, environmental, and political activist,
first African woman to win the Nobel Prize)
 
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Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.

Mary Oliver
 
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Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.
Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them.
Our strength is our unity of purpose.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945)
32nd president of the United States
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt
 
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Poetry is a life-cherishing force.
For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold,
ropes let down to the lost,
something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.

Mary Oliver
A Poetry Handbook
 
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That moment of inward breath,
that pause and awareness
of “how beautiful this is”
is a prayer of appreciation,
a moment of gratitude
in which I behold beauty
and am one with it.

~Jean Shinoda Bolen
(1936 to pres., Transpersonal Psychiatrist)
 
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We are so brief.
A one-day dandelion.
A seedpod skittering across the ice.
We are a feather falling from the wing of a bird.
I don’t know why it is given to us to be so mortal and to feel so much.
It is a cruel trick, and glorious.

Louise Erdrich
 
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When you recover or discover something
that nourishes your soul
and brings joy,
care enough about yourself
to make room for it in your life.

~Jean Shinoda Bolen
(1936 to pres., Transpersonal Psychiatrist)
 
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It may be that when we no longer know what to do,
we have come to our real work
and when we no longer know which way to go,
we have begun our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.

Wendell Berry
 
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Imagine a country whose citizens—
maybe even its leaders—
are brave, calm, and open
towards each other;
a country whose people realize
that all human beings belong together
as one family
and must act accordingly.

~Br. David Steindl-Rast
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Judith Browning wrote:It may be that when we no longer know what to do,
we have come to our real work
and when we no longer know which way to go,
we have begun our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.

Wendell Berry



I love this one. It has such astonishing wisdom to it. Just this one quote is worth the price of three books!

No, more than that, it is worth one’s devotion, because it is the way of living.
 
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When we begin to hold
our markers for success
in concepts like interconnectedness and kindness,
when we place our highest value
on each other, our children
and our relationships,
then our human spirits soar.

~James Arana
(Gratefulness teacher)
 
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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much;
it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
 
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“The kind of hope I often think about (especially in situations that are particularly hopeless, such as prison)
I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world.
Either we have hope within us or we don’t; it is a dimension of the soul;
it’s not essentially dependent on some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation.

Hope is a not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart;
it transcends the world that is immediately experienced, and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons.
Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well,
or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success,
but, rather, an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.”

Vaclav Havel,
former president of the Czech Republic,
poet, playwright, and dissident
 
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To work in the world lovingly
means that we are defining
what we will be for,
rather than reacting to
what we are against.

Christina Baldwin
(Writer, spiritual teacher)
 
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I bless this day
for the wonderful adventure it can become
as I walk through it with the eyes of wonder
rather than boredom,
use every opportunity
to express peace rather than irritation,
and choose love over fear.

Pierre Pradervand
(1937-2024, French sociologist and peace activist)
 
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Of course, there is no 'going back' in general,
but it is important to remember that global unsustainability
is something very new and that for a wide variety of stable cultures,
our planet was a tremendously big, rich, eminently hospitable, and benign world.

Arne Naess
Norwegian philosopher
deep ecology movement
 
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing:
the last of the human freedoms—
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.

Viktor Frankl
Austrian neurologist, psychologist,
philosopher, and Holocaust survivor
 
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Every moment is unique,
offering its own way to connect
to what is deepest within us,
to the wonder and mystery
of being fully alive.

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
(1953 to pres., Sufi Mystic)
 
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Guilt and anger and fear
are part of the problem.
If you want to save the world,
save it because you love it!

~Gary Snyder
(1930 to pres., American Poet, Essayist,
Environmental Activist and Buddhist Teacher)
 
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Practitioners of nonviolence
seek to become their truest selves
by slowly learning to love all beings,
confident that all are kin
and that we are called
to embody this kinship concretely,
especially in the midst
of our most difficult and challenging conflicts.

Ken Butigan
(1953 to pres., peace and justice activist)
 
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"I have a full life. A privileged life. An unendangered life.
But sometimes the simple joys escape me.
Joy is not always a feeling that is freely bestowed upon us,
often it is something we must actively seek.
In a way, joy is a decision, an action, even a practised method of being.
It is an earned thing brought into focus by what we have lost
— at least, it can seem that way."

Nick Cave
Australian singer, songwriter, musician, writer
 
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Change the story
and you change perception;
change perception
and you change the world.

~Jean Houston
(1937 to pres., Philosopher, Spiritual Teacher)

 
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it is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in this broken world.

Mary Oliver, Red Bird
 
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In a world of noise,
confusion and conflict,
it is necessary that there is a place
of inner silence and peace;
not the peace of mere relaxation
but the peace of inner clarity and love.

Thomas Merton
(1915-1968, Trappist Monk)
 
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The president is a nationalist, which is not at all the same thing as a patriot.
A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best.
A nationalist, 'although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge,' wrote Orwell, tends to be 'uninterested in what happens in the real world.'
Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others.
As the novelist Danilo Kiš put it, nationalism 'has no universal values, aesthetic or ethical.'
A patriot, by contrast, wants the nation to live up to its ideals, which means asking us to be our best selves.
A patriot must be concerned with the real world, which is the only place where his country can be loved and sustained.
A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well—and wishing that it would do better.

Timothy Snyder,
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In each of us there is a spark
that can reverse the trends
of violence and depression
spiraling within us
and in the world around us.
By setting in motion
the spiral of gratefulness
we begin the journey
toward peace and joy.

Bro. David Steindl-Rast
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Mindfulness of our own mortality,
of the preciousness of our time,
can bring a sense of aliveness.
The heart that doesn't cling
just holds everything—
all the comings and goings—
with ease, an open heart,
and a sense of freedom.
It's such a powerful thing
that we're going to die.
It's so powerful
that our lives are impermanent.

Nikki Mirghafori
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If you are willing to look at another person's behaviour toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person, then you will, over a period of time cease to react at all.

Yogi Bhajan
 
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When people turn away from pursuing
excitement, comfort, wealth, status,
or other such goals,
it is common to discover
a deeper valuing of simplicity.
Simplicity could be seen as
one of the wholesome aspirations.

Kim Allen
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In order for plants or trees to become your beloveds, you must build your relationship with them to the point at which you not only become partners but you fall deeply in love with each other. After falling in love, a union develops, where instead of being in love you are love with each other.
To "be love" is a state of being that requires constant presence where, like a state of grace, you are influenced by the divine.

Pam Montgomery
 
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Every human being has a right to be fed.
A right to food.
...even if it’s the worst thief in the world,
he has a right to food.
...food is not a bargaining tool of power;
food is a basic, shared manifestation of God.
And somehow, the haves and have-nots
lose sight of that very easily.
We can bargain about television sets.
We can bargain about automobiles.
But we can’t bargain about food.

Ram Dass
(1931 to 2019, Spiritual Teacher and Mystic)
 
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All intimate relationships—
close friendships and good marriages—
are based on continued and mutual forgiveness.
You will always trespass
upon your friend's sensibilities
at one time or another, or your spouse's.
The only question is,
Will you forgive the other person?
And more importantly,
Will you forgive yourself?
We have to deepen our understanding,
make ourselves more equal to circumstances,
more easy with what we have been given
or not given.
We must drink from the deep well
of things as they are.

David Whyte
(1955 to pres., English poet)
 
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Moving through the stages of life and meeting each on its own terms is the supreme art of living — the ultimate test of self-respect and self-love.
Often, what most blunts our vitality is the tendency for the momentum of a past stage to steer the present one, even though our priorities and passions have changed beyond recognition.

Maria Popova
 
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Ring the bells that still will ring;
Forget your perfect offering;
There is a crack, a crack in everything;
That's where the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen
 
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The light of love
is always in us,
no matter how cold the flame.
It is always present,
waiting for the spark to ignite,
waiting for the heart to awaken

bell hooks
(1952-2021, AKA Gloria Jean Watkins,
feminist, author, social activist)
 
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That is interesting. It relates to a passage I was reading from Matthew Wood’s Book of Herbal Wisdom.

Lactuca is suited to conditions where cold has supervened over the normal body-heat. This results in a cold, tight state, with tight sinews and muscles, rheumatic aching the joints, but with evidence of heat still showing through at the corners. When the heat has been completely extinguished, we need Wormwood or one of its cousins, Mugwort or Sagebrush.

Internal cold is not caused by a lack of heat in the system, but by external cold which has invaded, and become locked in. When cold results from a lack of internal heat it is called "yang deficiency" in Chinese medicine. Because of the deficiency of yang (fire) the patient is not only cold but weak and relaxed. Internal cold, on the other hand, is associated with tension because the cold has forced its way in.



He goes on to describe the lettuce personality as associated with homelessness or extended hardship and a sense of being mostly deadened, saying again that wormwood is best for when the internal heat has been completely deadened. It’s interesting to make a parallel with that above quote.
 
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In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed.
I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it,
before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.

Mary Oliver,
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If in our daily life we can smile,
if we can be peaceful and happy,
not only we, but everyone
will profit from it.
This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Thich Nhat Hanh

(1926 to 2022, Vietnamese Zen Buddhist Monk)
 
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Coming to the spiritual path
is coming to the path of love.
Spirituality is not a cold, dry subject
to be studied and memorized.
It is not a rigid meditation
in which we cut ourselves off from people
in our family and community or life.
Rather, spirituality is immersing ourselves into the love
that is our true nature,
into the love between ourselves and others,
and our loving connection with all life itself.
Spirituality is an experience of becoming love itself.

~Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj
(1946 to pres., Author, Scientist,
Mystic Adept of Light and Sound Current Yoga,
Leader of Science of Spirituality and
International Movements for World Peace)
 
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The search for happiness
is not about looking at life
through rose-colored glasses
or blinding oneself to the pain
and imperfections of the world.
Nor is happiness a state of exaltation
to be perpetuated at all costs;
it is the purging of mental toxins
such as hatred and obsession
that literally poison the mind.

Matthieu Ricard
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