Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be eradicated by the actions of human beings.
- Nelson Mandela
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Cultural nightmares of our time, like global warming and horror scenes of warfare, are certainly shifting our consciousness – toward the awareness that our conventional ways of being and acting are seriously out of kilter with the wider web of life. We are beginning to understand differently from the outside, but at the inner level the conversion has scarcely begun. I use “inner” here as applied to both our collective and individual identities.
– from Christianity’s Dangerous Memory by Diarmuid O’Murchu
Weekly Pause & Ponder
For Remembrance Day
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
- Dalai Lama.
Weekly Pause & Ponder
It’s easy to forget what an amazing gift life really is. Our lives are nothing but a cosmic blink. Even our seemingly all-encompassing world is just a tiny blue dot circling an average sized star spiraling around a galaxy of 200-400 billion stars, which itself is one galaxy among billions more. Yet for one brief moment, we get to experience the wonders of existence of consciousness.
Positive Quotes About Life taken from: www.keepinspiringme.com