We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who belong to our ethnic, national or ideological tribe. We need myths that help us to realize the importance of compassion, which is not always regarded as sufficiently productive or efficient in our pragmatic, rational world. We … Continue reading Quote for Today: Karen Armstong
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Quote for Today: Yann Martel
To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow? Can you shake that area of darkness that clings to you, always shaped like you, as if constantly to remind you of yourself? You can’t. This shadow is doubt. And it goes wherever … Continue reading Quote for Today: Yann Martel
Quote for Today: Victoria Erickson
Half of me is filled with bursting words and half of me is painfully shy. I crave solitude yet also crave people. I want to pour life and love into everything yet also nurture my self-care and go gently. I want to live within the rush of primal, intuitive decision, yet also wish to sit … Continue reading Quote for Today: Victoria Erickson
Quote for Today: Lao Tzu
If the Great Way perishes there will be morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants. --Lao Tzu Public Domain Image via Pixabay
Quote for Today: Kamand Kojouri
The reason as to why we are attracted to our opposites is because they are our salvation from the burden of being ourselves. ―Kamand Kojouri Image: Dog and cat © kitty.green66 with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Marc Chagall
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. -Marc Chagall Image: Shaded Colour Wheel, Moses Harris (1731-1785)
Quote for Today: Dave Hickey
Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us--simpatico dudes that we are--while playing this complicated song together, might somehow be free and autonomous as well. Tragically, this never quite works out. At best, we can only be free one or two at a time--while the other dudes hold onto the wire. … Continue reading Quote for Today: Dave Hickey
