November 2011
34 posts
“We are people who need to love, because
Love is the soul’s life, Love is simply...”
– Hafiz (via thefreenomad)
“I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not...”
– James Kavanaugh (via thefreenomad)
“First Sunday of Advent
This Advent, I’d like to invite you beyond a merely...”
– Richard Rohr, Adapted from Preparing for Christmas with Richard Rohr
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude...”
– ― G.K. Chesterton (via bgable)
“The rogues’ gallery of Wall Street crooks, such as Lloyd Blankfein at Goldman...”
– Chris Hedges (via azspot)
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“But now, I get it. People want to go someplace for at least five minutes where...”
– Matt Taibbi (via katiecar)
“If God is an object that makes life meaningful or happy, three things can...”
– Peter Rollins (via azspot)
“The founders never intended indefinite free speech. They assumed that after two...”
– Stephen Colbert, addressing Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s decision to oust Wall Street protesters
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do,
we have come to our real work...”
– Wendell Berry (via chary)
Amen.
(via fcb4)
“Still here! Jesus didn’t need a tent! Gandhi didn’t need a tent! Martin Luther...”
– Occupy Wall Street protester and construction worker JOHNNY RABUSE, greeting protesters returning to Zuccotti Park.
(via the New York Daily News)
“A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum....”
– Robert Reich
“Mend the part of the world that is within your reach.”
– Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Mystical moments are experiences of enlargement and connectedness or union....”
– Richard Rohr, Following the Mystics through the Narrow Gate
Gitmo costs $800,000 per detainee per year. →
motherjones:
Inmates in stateside federal prisons only cost 3 percent of that.
Hey, Congress: Still looking for budget cuts?
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“Truth is what is true, and it’s not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not...”
– Madeleine L’Engle (via firstbreath90)
“In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
...”
– John McCrae
“If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in...”
– George Monbiot (via azspot)
I would give anything to hear just one international leader—any one—stand up and say, “OK people, it’s time to change the world.”
“We must learn how to walk through the stages of dying. We have to grieve over...”
– Richard Rohr, Adapted from Near Occasions of Grace
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How to fix Google Reader white space, line... →
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“Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and...”
– Victor Frankl (via theorthodoxheretic)
“I want to sing like birds sing, not wondering who is listening and what they...”
– Rumi (via thefreenomad)
“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland (via elige)
