Inspiration for the Week
Monday, April 7th, 2008“It just seems to me that as long as we are both here,it’s pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet,rather than to divide it.”Alice Walker
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Inspiration for the Week
Monday, March 31st, 2008“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived,yet if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”Maya Angelou (Someone on their blog recently mentioned what a powerful voice Maya Angelou has; I can share that that power emanates from her very core – she is one solid and deeply spiritual woman. I had the bounty […]
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Monday, March 17th, 2008“I’d rather be hated for who I amthan loved for who I’m not.”Chuck D of Public Enemy
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Monday, March 10th, 2008“The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.” Dag Hammarskjold, former Sec. Gen. of the U.N., 1953-61
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail. I try to increase […]
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Monday, February 25th, 2008“When I say it’s you I like, I’m talking about that part of youthat knows that life is far more than anything you can eversee or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows youto stand for those things without whichhumankind cannot survive.Love that conquers hate,peace that rises triumphant over war,and justice that […]
Inspiration for the Week
Monday, February 18th, 2008“You think because you understandONEyou must understandTWObecause one and one makes two.But you must also understandAND.”* Sufi teaching
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Monday, February 11th, 2008I do not feel obliged to believe that the same GodWho has endowed us with sense, reason and intellecthas intended us to forgo their use.Galileo Galilei, circa 1600
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008“It isn’t enough to talk about peace.One must believe in it.And it isn’t enough to believe in it.One must work at it.”Eleanor Roosevelt, 1951
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Monday, January 28th, 2008“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” * Rabindranath Tagore, nobel poet laureate, 1913