A wise test of right action is this: What is the effect of this action on people seven generations from today?
Matthew Fox. A New Reformation.
Weekly Pause & Ponder
An individual has not started living untill he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Martin Luther King. The Conscious Activist, by James O’Dea, p.225.
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Our breathing is both inhaling and exhaling – not only one of them. Our walking is both a movement of our right and left leg – not only one of them. Our individual existence is both living and dying – not only one of them.
Jaroslav Havelka. Musings of an Inquisitive Mind.
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Interconnectivity is not only a law of physics and of nature, but also forms the basis of community and compassion. Compassion is the working out of our shared interconnectivity, both as to our shared joy and our shared suffering and struggle for justice.
Matthew Fox. A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity.
Weekly Pause & Ponder
It’s walking the razor’s edge of the sacred moment where you don’t know, you can’t count on, and comfort yourself with any sure hope. All you can know is your allegiance to life and your intention to serve it in this moment that we are given. In that sense, the radical uncertainty liberates your creativity and courage.
Joanna Macy. www.azquotes.com