Twain on war

 

"All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it."

Every moment

 

Bernard Beckett

 

Baldwin

 

Robespierre

 

Will Rogers

 

Make Your Children Proud

 

Banned books

 

Persecution

 

Bukowski

 

Byron Katie

 

Inflated Ego

 

Tom Paine

 

Earth at night

 

Age does not bring wisdom

 

from John Steinbeck

 

Prejudice

 

Seven sins

 

Hafez

 Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

On banning books

 

Tomson Highway

 

Camus

 

Without elders…

 

Page 4

 

Kahlil

 

Penn Jillette

 

Oppressors

 

Thich Nhat Han

 

I celebrate your long life of teaching and being part of this world. Birth - Jan 22, 2022.

“I asked the leaf whether it was afraid to fall, since it was autumn and the other leaves were falling. The leaf told me, "No. During the whole spring and summer I was very alive. I worked hard and helped nourish the tree, and much of me is in the tree. Please do not think that I am just this form, because this leaf form is only a tiny part of me. I am the whole tree. I know that I am already inside the tree, and when I go back to the soil, I will continue to nourish the tree. That is why I do not worry. As I drop from the branch and float down to the ground, I will wave to the tree and tell her, ‘I will see you again very soon.’"

Suddenly I had a kind of insight very much like the insight contained in the Heart Sutra. You have to see life. You shouldn’t say, life of the leaf, but life in the leaf, and life in the tree. My life is just Life, and you can see it in me and in the tree. I saw the leaf leave the branch and float down to the soil, dancing joyfully, because as it floated it saw itself already there in the tree. It was so happy. I bowed my head, and I knew that we have a lot to learn from the leaf because it was not afraid; it knew that nothing can be born and nothing can die.”

Thich Nhat Hanh in “The Other Shore” (Parallax 2017)

Chagdud Rinpoche

 

"From the depth of my heart I tell you:

one moment of kindness to another being,

one act of pure intention

is worth more than all the wealth in the world

when you are dying.

So practice now, while you can,

to the greatest possible extent in every situation.

This will fulfill the supreme purpose of your life,

and at the time of death,

you will have no regrets."

Remembering Malidoma Somae

 

On MLK Day

 

Libraries

 

Woodstock

 

Feuerbach

 

Schopenhauer

 

Huxley

 

Freedom the read

 

Under thirty

 

Plunder

 

Time Heals ~ Not