Quote for Today: Anthon St Maarten
There is no need for us all to be alike and think the same way, neither do we need a common enemy to force us to come together and reach …
Quote for Today: Desmond Tutu
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. ―Desmond Tutu, …
Quote for Today: Henri Nouwen
Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with …
Quote for Today: Howard Zinn
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, …
Quote for Today: Lao Tzu
Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with …
Quote for Today: Laurie Perez
Feel compassion for your own heart that was broken open by grief or confusion. Then tune in to the other level of that experience. Some part of you was heroic …
40 days of poetry: Day 23: Kindness: Naomi Shihab Nye
The poem for Day 23 is Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye. May we all use our trials to learn how to be kind rather than getting bitter and mean.
Quote for Today: David Whyte
To want to run away is an essence of being human, it transforms any staying through the transfigurations of choice. To think about fleeing from circumstances, from a marriage, a …
Possessed by Violence: Valhalla Rising
Valhalla Rising is a complex and violent film, full of beautiful, savage images and scant dialogue. What actually happens onscreen? Nicolas Winding Refn‘s brutal tour-de-force Valhalla Rising stars Mads Mikkelsen …
Quote for Today: Oli Anderson
The first step to empathy and compassion is realising the similarities between yourself and those that are suffering; the first step to forgiveness is realising that we’re all human and …