Category: Love
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The Seeds of the Future…
Movement forward doesn’t depend on everyone changing. When just one person takes on the challenges of becoming more accepting, allowing, and strong, a ripple effect is created. Everyone in that person’s sphere is now touched with the new possibility. Even if the reasons are unclear, anyone who plays by new rules will be noticed by…
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Everything we do is Sacred
Now Is The Time Now is the time to know That all that you do is sacred. Now, why not consider A lasting truce between you and the Divine. Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child’s training wheels To be laid aside when you…
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Art
Nature’s Interpreter The beautiful is a manifestation of the secret laws of nature… When nature begins to reveal her open secret to a person, he feels an irresistible longing for her most worthy interpreter, art. Johann Wolfgang Goethe, German poet, scientist, novelist, statesman, playwright
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The Truth of Ourselves
Where it resides Many years ago, but not so long ago, there were those who said, ‘Well, you have three strikes against you: You’re black, you’re blind and you’re poor,’ But God said to me, ‘I will make you rich in the spirit of inspiration, to inspire others as well as create music to encourage…
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The Measure of Civilization
I do not think the measure of a civilization is how tall its buildings of concrete are, but rather how well its people have learned to relate to their environment and fellow man. Sun Bear, Chippewa Tribe, Native American
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Planetary Stewardship
We must move beyond democracy to biocracy, beyond loyalty to our own tribe to a view of ourselves as citizens of planet Earth… We must begin to see ourselves as interrelated and interdependent with the animate and inanimate elements of our planet and begin to follow earth’s house rules of limited use, recycling, and long-term…
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We Must Champion Unity, Tolerance and Love
We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters and at all times, we must teach tolerance and denounce racism, anti-Semitism and all ethnic or religious bigotry wherever they exist as unacceptable evils. We have no place for haters in America —…
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Gifts and Giving
The heart of the giver makes the gift precious. —Martin Luther, German priest, theologian, author, hymn writer, professor (Quiz question 1: What three gifts did Jesus, the Christ, offer? To whom?) (Quiz question 2: What three gifts were you born with? To whom are you giving them?)
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The Second Discovery of Fire
Some day, after mastering the winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love and then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin S.J., Priest, scientist, philosopherToward The Future