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We are all paying the price for climate change. Some of us though, are bearing a greater burden. It’s a scary commentary on inequity writ large, and it points to an urgent need for all of us to work harder to advance environmental justice everywhere.
- Rhea Suh, NRDC President.
There is a higher court than courts of justice, and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.
Mahatma Gandhi.
There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.
- Pope Francis.
Pope Francis walks near a statue of St. Francis in Assisi, Italy, in 2013. (CNS/Paul Haring)
Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union.
Simple Truths, by Ken Nerburn
In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it is time to inject “new meaning into the veins of human civilization.” We need to expand our sense of love beyond the personal, to its social and political implications as well. Only in doing so will we cast out the darkness that now hangs like a specter above the world. It is time for us to get deeply serious about love.
from The Shadow Effect, by Marianne Williamson.
