“We tend to view compassion as something we project outward—that is, as a presence or gift we offer to another person or on behalf of a suffering world. This keeps compassion as an act of superiority, something the healthy offer the sick. We rarely offer the gift of compassionate presence to our own person.” —John … More Thursday October 1, 2020
That was the worst debate I ever watched. Neither one of those 2 deserve to be President. They stunk the place out. Find 2 more candidates please. God help this country.
“Everyone has work to do. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t have some unfinished business with themselves. Finishing that business is the healing we took birth for.” —Stephen Levine
“Until our very minds and hearts are freed from violence, freed from the need to scapegoat anybody or create victims anywhere, we will not reach any kind of ‘New Creation.’” —Alain Richard
“We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves.” —Marshall Rosenberg
“If you take care of the small things, the big things will take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.” —Emily Dickinson
“If we were built, what were we built for? . . . Why do we have this amazing collection of sinews, senses, and sensibilities? Were we really designed in order to recline on the couch, extending our wrists perpendicular to the floor so we can flick through the television’s offerings? Were we really designed in … More Friday, September 25,2020
“Go where there is silence and say something.” —Amy Goodman
“You can’t lead the people if you don’t love the people. You can’t save the people if you don’t serve the people.” —Cornel West
When a life comes into my hands, all my hope and love and my energy go to support that life, to help that life to grow to its fullness, because this person has been created in the image of God. We have no right to destroy that life.—- Mother Teresa
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