-Vince Lombardi
(posted December 26, 2005)
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My will is easy to decide,
For there is nothing to divide,
My kin don't need to fuss
and moan?
"Moss does not cling
to a rolling stone."
My body? Ah, If I could choose,
I would to ashes it reduce,
And let the merry breezes blow
My dust to where some flowers grow.
Perhaps some fading flower then
Would come to life and bloom again.
This is my last and final will,
Good luck to all of you, Joe Hill
-Joe Hill
(posted December 19, 2005)
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If a Creature is made by God, it must depend upon God, and receive all its Power from Him; with which Power the Creature can do nothing contrary to the Will of God, because God is Almighty; what is not contrary to His Will, must be agreeable to it; what is agreeable to it, must be good, because He is Good; therefore a Creature can do nothing but what is good.
-Benjamin Franklin
(posted December 12, 2005)
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Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go, bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait, in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.
-Rudyard Kipling
(posted December 5, 2005)
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If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
-Joseph Goebbels
(posted November 28, 2005)
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The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God.
-Abraham Lincoln
(posted November 21, 2005)
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Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness Positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamities is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer! Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.
-Thomas Paine
(posted November 14, 2005)
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The Art of Peace begins with you. Work on yourself and your appointed task in the Art of Peace. Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment. Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter.
-Osensei Morihei Ueshiba
(posted November 7, 2005)
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There was a man who disliked seeing his footprints and his shadow. He decided to escape from them, and began to run. But as he ran along, more footprints appeared, while his shadow easily kept up with him. Thinking he was going too slowly, he ran faster and faster without stopping, until he finally collapsed from exhaustion and died. If he had stood still, there would have been no footprints. If he had rested in the shade, his shadow would have disappeared.
-Zhuangzi
(posted October 31, 2005)
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God is among words men learned to scream at agony's dead ends; is an idea that says something else has control over body if not mind or soul; is wrapping up everything I don't know, won't know, can't know, will die to know (I guess), in one word: It enters the ear on a trail of sound waves, from the bank of air between us pulsing from your moving lips. God is between us. Whether I believe in God or not.
-August Roussel
(posted October 24, 2005)
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People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.
-Bob Marley
(posted October 17, 2005)
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This is what youshall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.Ê.Ê.Ê
-Walt Whitman
(posted October 10, 2005)
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The highest form of goodness is like
water. Water knows how to benefit all
things without striving with them. It
stays in places loathed by all men.
Therefore, it comes near the Tao. In
choosing your dwelling, know how to
keep to the ground. In cultivating your
mind, know how to dive in the hidden
deeps. In dealing with others, know
how to be gentle and kind. In speaking,
know how to keep your words. In
governing, know how to maintain order.
In transacting business, know how to
be efficient. In making a move, know
how to choose the right moment. If you
do not strive with others, you will be
free from blame.
-attributed to Lao Tzu
translated by John C. H. Wu
(posted October 3, 2005)
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Three thousand years ago, there was a human just like you and me who lived near a city surrounded by mountains. The human was studying to become a medicine man, to learn the knowledge of his ancestors, but he didn?t completely agree with everything he was learning. In his heart, he felt there must be something more.
One day, as he slept in a cave, he dreamed that he saw his own body sleeping. He came out of the cave on the night of a new moon. The sky was clear and he could see millions of stars. Then something happened inside of him that transformed his life forever. He looked at his hands, he felt his body and he heard his own voice say, ?I am made of light; I am made of stars.?
He looked at the stars again, and he realized that it?s not the stars that create light, but rather light that creates the stars. ?Everything is made of light,? he said, ?and the space in-between isn?t empty.? And he knew that everything that exists in one living being, and that light is the messenger of life, because it is alive and contains all information.
Then he realized that although he was made of stars, he was not those stars. ?I am in-between the stars,? he thought. So he called the stars the tonal and the light between the stars the nagual, and he knew that what created the harmony and space between the two is Life or Intent. Without Life, the tonal and the nagual could not exist. Life is the force of the absolute, the supreme, the Creator who creates everything.
This is what he discovered: Everything in existence is a manifestation of the one living being we call God. everything is God. And he came to the conclusion that human perception is merely light perceiving light. He also saw that matter is a mirror ? everything is a mirror that reflects light and creates images of that light ? and the world of illusion, the Dream, is just like smoke which doesn?t allow us to see what we really are. ?The real us is pure love, pure light,? he said.
-don Miguel Ruiz
(posted September 26, 2005)
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Africa South of the Sahara is isolated, Africa south of the Sahara is changing. That stereotype of "There is trouble in Africa all the time" is nonsensical. There is trouble in Africa, there is trouble in Asia, there is trouble in Europe, there is trouble everywhere, and it would be amazing if after the suffering of the blessed continent for the last 100 years, we didn't have what we are having. Some of these nations we have are not nations at all. They make no sense at all, any geographical sense or ethnic sense or economic sense. They don't. The Europeans set somewhere and said, "you take that part, you take that part." They drew these lines on a map and here we are, trying to create nations which are almost impossible to create. But we are changing. The continent is changing. ...Africa is beginning to realise and we should all encourage Africa to get that realisation more and more that we have to depend upon our selves, both at national level and at the collective level. Each of our countries will have to rely upon its own human resources and natural material resources for its development. But that is not enough. The next area to look at is our collectivity, our working together. We all enhance our capacity to develop if we work together.
-Julius Nyerere
(posted September 19, 2005)
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
-Hunter S. Thompson
(posted September 12, 2005)
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My detention in jail pending the appeal of my case has in no way affected my vision of justice. To those who are conscious of themselves there can be no incrimination from without, it must be from within. When a man's conscience convicts him then there is no appeal.
-Marcus Garvey
(posted September 5, 2005)
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I hate a song that makes you think that you're just born to lose, bound to lose, no good to nobody; songs that run you down and poke fun of you because of your bad luck, or hard travlin'. And I'm out to fight these songs 'til my very last breath of air, and my last drop of blood. I'm out to sing the songs that will prove to you that this is your world, no matter what color, what size you are, or how you are built. I'm out to sing the songs that will make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up, for the most part, by all sorts of folks just about like you. I could hire out to the other side, the big money side, and get several dollars every week just to sing the kinds that knocks you down still further, and the ones that make you think that you've not got any sense at all. But I decided a long time ago that I would starve to death before I would sing any such songs as that. The radio waves and your movies, and your jukeboxes are already loaded down and runnin' over with such no good songs as that anyhow.
-Woody Guthrie
(posted August 29, 2005)
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The man who follows the crowd, will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been before... You have two choices in life; you can dissolve into the mainstream, or you can be distinct. To be distinct, you must be different. To be different, you must strive to be what no one else but you can be.
-Anon
(posted August 22, 2005)
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Natural talent, intelligence, a wonderful education?none of these guarantees success.Ê Something else is needed:Ê the sensitivity to understand what other people want and the willingness to give it to them.Ê Worldly success depends on pleasing others.Ê No one is going to win fame, recognition, or advancement just because he or she thinks it's deserved.Ê Someone else has to think so too.
-John Luther
(posted August 15, 2005)
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The idea that space and time may form a closed surface without boundary also has profound implications for the role of God in the affairs of the universe. With the success of scientific theories in describing events, most people have come to believe that God allows the universe to evolve according to a set of laws and does not intervene in the universe to break these laws. However, the laws do not tell us what the universe should have looked like when it started ? it would still be up to God to wind up the clockwork and choose how to start it off. So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?
-Stephen Hawking
(posted August 8, 2005)
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A medicine man shouldn't be a saint. He should experience and feel all the ups and downs, the despair and joy, the magic and the reality, the courage and the fear, of his people. He should be able to sink as low as a bug, or soar as high as an eagle. Unless he can experience both, he is no good as a medicine man. Sickness, jail, poverty, getting drunk?I had to experience all that myself. Sinning makes the world go round. You can't be so stuck up, so inhuman that you want to be pure, your soul wrapped up in a plastic bag all the time. You have to be God and the devil, both of them. Being a good medicine man means being right in the midst of the turmoil, not shielding yourself from it. It means experiencing life in all its phases. It means not being afraid of cutting up and playing the fool now and then. That's sacred too. Nature, the Great Spirit?they are not perfect. The world couldn't stand that perfection. The spirit has a good side and a bad side. Sometimes the bad side gives me more knowledge than the good side.
-John (Fire) Lame Deer
(posted August 1, 2005)
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Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology.Ê He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world.Ê There in the horrors of prisons, lunatic asylums and hospitals, in drab suburban pubs, in brothels and gambling-halls, in the salons of the elegant, the Stock Exchanges, socialist meetings, churches, revivalist gatherings and ecstatic sects, through love and hate, through the experience of passion in every form in his own body, he would reap richer stores of knowledge than text-books a foot thick could give him, and he will know how to doctor the sick with a real knowledge of the human soul.
-Carl Jung
(posted July 25, 2005)
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The time element is more complex than the space element. That day was awful but it was a day of your life. You want that day to return, you want to begin your life from the moment it was interrupted. You want it to be glued in the place where it was axed. But this is impossible. The justice that triumphs after many years is not the justice which your heart aspired for then. And your heart is not the same now.
-Anna Akhmatova
(posted July 18, 2005)
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I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet.
-Rosa Parks
(posted July 11, 2005)
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Remember these words: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness." This vision still grips the imagination of the world. But we know that democracy is always an unfinished creation. Each generation must renew its foundations. Each generation must rediscover the meaning of this hallowed vision in the light of its own modern challenges. For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival; liberty is human rights; the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
-Jimmy Carter
(posted July 4, 2005)
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It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The present is merely the past rolled up and concentrated in this second of time. You, too, are your past; often your face is your autobiography; you are what you are because of what you have been; because of your heredity stretching back into forgotten generations; because of every element of environment that has affected you, every man or woman that has met you, every book that you have read, every experience that you have had; all these are accumulated in your memory, your body, your character, your soul. So with a city, a country, and a race; it is its past, and cannot be understood without it.
-Will Durant
(posted June 27, 2005)
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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
-Michael Jordan
(posted June 20, 2005)
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For it has been said so truthfully that it is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.
-Zell Miller
(posted June 13, 2005)
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What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. Contact with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of balance in the chaos of existence. A saint does not dissolve the chaos; if he did the world would have changed long ago. I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order. It is a kind of balance that is his glory. He rides the drifts like an escaped ski. His course is the caress of the hill. His track is a drawing of the snow in a moment of its particular arrangement with wind and rock. Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape. His house is dangerous and finite, but he is at home in the world. He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
-Leonard Cohen
(posted June 6, 2005)
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Leaders are individuals who can help create options and opportunities, who can help clarify problems and choices, who can build morale and coalitions, who can inspire others and provide a vision of the possibilities and promise of a better community, a better America. Leaders have those indispensable qualities of contagious self-confidence, unwarranted optimism, and incurable idealism that allow them to attract and mobilize others to undertake tasks these people never dreamed they could undertake. Most of the significant breakthroughs in our country have been made by people who saw all the complexities ahead of them, but believed in themselves and their purposes. They refused to be overwhelmed and paralyzed by doubts. They were willing to invent new rules and gamble on the future.
-Thomas E. Cronin
(posted May 30, 2005)
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Liberty has never come from the government.Ê Liberty has always come from the subjects of government.Ê The history of liberty is the history of resistance.Ê The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
-Woodrow Wilson
(posted May 23, 2005)
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Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned; that until there are no longer first class and second class citizens of any nation; until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; that until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; that until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain in but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained.
-Ras Tafari Makonnen
(posted May 16, 2005)
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A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
-Albert Einstein
(posted May 9, 2005)
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If you practice spiritual discipline for some time in a solitary place, you will find that your mind has become strong, and then you can live in any place or society without being in the least affected by it.Ê When the plant is tender, it should be hedged around. But when it has grown big, not even cows and goats can injure it.Ê Spiritual practices in a solitary place are essential.
-Sri Sarada Devi
(posted May 2, 2005)
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The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.Ê Only those who know the most about it can appreciate how little we know about it.Ê The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant:Ê "What good is it?"Ê If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not.Ê If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts?Ê To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
-Aldo Leopold
(posted April 25, 2005)
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One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.Ê "My son, the battle is between two wolves," the elder said.Ê "One is Evil.Ê It is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.Ê The other is Good.Ê It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."Ê The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"Ê The grandfather simply replied, "The one you feed."
-Cherokee wisdom (author unknown)
(posted April 18, 2005)
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There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
-Douglas Adams
(posted April 11, 2005)
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Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
-Pope John Paul II
(posted April 4, 2005)
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The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.
-Carl Sagan
(posted March 28, 2005)
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We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind. To do so effectively, the world needs a global ethic with values which give meaning to life experiences and, more than religious institutions and dogmas, sustain the non-material dimension of humanity. Mankind's universal values of love, compassion, solidarity, caring and tolerance should form the basis for this global ethic which should permeate culture, politics, trade, religion and philosophy. It should also permeate the extended family of the United Nations.
-Wangari Maathai
(posted March 21, 2005)
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I disdain political methods?although driven by expediency to accept them?because I rely on spiritual ones.Ê As soon as you solve one problem by a political method, another will inevitably arise in its place.Ê There is, there can be, no end to such troubles because the root-man's greedy, warring nature-remains untouched.Ê It springs up like a weed into new growths.Ê Brains can plan improvements, but only goodwill can initiate them.Ê There is only one way to deal with these problems that is really satisfactory and lasting.Ê Change men and you thereby change all the problems which arise out of their defective nature." This is a truth which will be repeated and remembered long after this era is gone.Ê Spiritualize them, and in the atmosphere of goodwill which shall arise you will solve all problems for good.Ê For in the sublime atmosphere of the higher life, all troubles, frictions, hatreds and so on will vanish of their own discord, automatically.Ê There will be no need to hack at the root of each separate one.Ê But remember?you can begin to change men only after you have changed yourself.Ê Words alone will not do it, but the power of the Spirit will.Ê The effect of mere words preached to others is likely to fade with their echo, but concentrated thoughts of dominion and endurance and wisdom that have gained intense power in overcoming the mind's long established error, radiate their strength and illumination to every other mind within the sphere of their influence.
-Dr. Paul Brunton
(posted March 14, 2005)
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We habitually erect a barrier called blame that keeps us from communicating genuinely with others, and we fortify it with our concepts of who's right and who's wrong. We do that with the people who are closest to us and we do it with political systems, with all kinds of things that we don't like about our associates or our society. It is a very common, ancient, well-perfected device for trying to feel better. Blame others. Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself. Rather than own that pain, we scramble to find some comfortable ground.
-Pema Chodron
(posted March 7, 2005)
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
-R.D. Laing
(posted Feb. 28, 2005)
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We hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth that religion, or the duty which we owe our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence. The religion, then, of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man: and that it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate.
-James Madison
(posted Feb. 21, 2005)
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I am sure that contrary to the media, we were meant to be happy because there are so many beautiful things in our world?trees and birds and faces.Ê There are no two things alike and things are always changing.Ê How can we get bored?Ê There has never been the same sunset twice.Ê Look at everybody's face.Ê Each face is different.Ê Everybody has his own beauty.Ê There have never been two flowers alike.Ê Nature abhors sameness.Ê Even two blades of grass are different.Ê The Buddhists taught me a fantastic thing.Ê They believe in the here and the now.Ê They say that the only reality is what is here, what is happening between you and me right now.Ê If you live for tomorrow, which is only a dream, then all you are going to have is an unrealized dream.Ê And the past is no longer real.Ê It has value because it made you what you are now, but that is all the value it has.Ê So don't live in the past.Ê Live now.Ê When you are eating, eat.Ê When you are loving, love.Ê When you are talking with someone, talk.Ê When you are looking at a flower, look.Ê Catch the beauty of the moment!
-Leo Buscaglia
(posted Feb. 14, 2005)
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Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves.Ê Perhaps, then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear, amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope.Ê Some will say that this hope lies in a nation, others, in a man.Ê I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished by millions of solitary individuals whose deeds and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history.Ê As a result, there shines forth fleetingly the ever-threatened truth that each and every man, on the foundations of his own sufferings and joys, builds for them all.
-Albert Camus
(posted Feb. 7, 2005)
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Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action? Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
-Rabindranath Tagore
(posted Jan. 31, 2005)
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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Taka (the Great Spirit), and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.Ê This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this.Ê The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations.Ê But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is known that true peace, which, as I have often said, is within the souls of men.
-Hehaka Sapa
(posted Jan. 24, 2005)
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I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states...Ê Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.Ê We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.Ê Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(posted Jan. 17, 2005)
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Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation, and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
-Mahatma Gandhi
(posted Jan. 10, 2005)
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God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner, the virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, "God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous."
-Sri Ramakrishna
(posted Jan. 3, 2005)