Peace is in solitude and books
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25 Oct 2023
In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing
About the dark times.
-- Bertolt Brecht (tr. John Willett)
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"Be generous with your time and your resources and with giving credit and, especially, with your words. It’s so much easier to be a critic than a celebrator."
—Maria Popova
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Jun 13
"The flower doesn’t go from bud to blossom in one spritely burst and yet, as a culture, we’re disinterested in the tedium of the blossoming. But that’s where all the real magic unfolds in the making of one’s character and destiny."
—Maria Popova
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HAPPY FRIENDSHIP FRIDAY 😁
"Friendship is like peeing your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel its warmth."
--attributed to many
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Jun 11
"Love does not remain within the heart, it flows out to build secret tabernacles in a landscape."
—John O'Donohue
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Jun 10
Teaching children that skin color is determinative of one’s fate is intended to produce a divided, mistrustful, and easily-manipulated society.
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“Self-Made Men are those who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, or friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved means of education. . . They are in a peculiar sense indebted to themselves for themselves.”
– Frederick Douglass
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“Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?”
—Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
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There is someone out there who loves you with warm tenderness of a rising June sun.
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I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
—W.B. Yeats
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HAPPY FRIENDSHIP FRIDAY
“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
―A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
-by H. W. Longfellow
The trees are white with dust, that o'er their sleep
Wave their broad curtains in the south-wind's breath,
While underneath these leafy tents they keep
The long, mysterious Exodus of Death.
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Bittersweet Tess retweeted
Jun 3
Most criticism of Israel can be summarized as: "Stop defending yourself! Can't you see it's hurting the people trying to kill you!"
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“Some wounds are so deep, they echo into eternity. Some justice isn’t ours to see. It belongs to another realm, another world, another court.”
—Rabbi Bernath, The Forgiveness Experiment
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“All you have is your mind in each moment. And you’re either recognizing its openness and its freedom, or you’re lost in thought.”
—Sam Harris
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“The way forward is always the way of obedience to the demand of the unconditioned good, and this does not always correspond to what we consider most rational.”
—Bishop Barron
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May 31
A thousand suns will stream on thee,
A thousand moons will quiver;
But not by thee my steps shall be,
For ever and for ever.
—Tennyson
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May 30
Character is not doing the right thing; it is doing the right thing when it is hard.
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HAPPY FRIENDSHIP FRIDAY
Your friend is your needs answered.
He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
--Kahlil Gibran
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May 28
So We must meet apart —
You there — I — here —
With just the Door ajar
That Oceans are — and Prayer —
And that White Sustenance —
Despair —
Emily Dickinson
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