2/11/09
Within us is the soul of the whole; the wise silence, the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is related.

When it breaks through out intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through our will, it is virtue; when it flows through our affections , it is love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

10/2/07
There is no “supposed to be” in bodies. The question is not size or shape or years of age, or even having two of everything, for some do not. But the wild issue is, does this body feel, does it have right connection to pleasure, to heart, to soul, to the wild? Does it have happiness, joy? Can it in its own way move, dance, jiggle, sway, thrust? Nothing else matters.

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

6/1/07
“ There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence…(and that is) activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence.
To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence.
The frenzy of our activism neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.” --Thomas Merton

5/31/07
"We must begin to understand not only that there is an urgent need to change
the world but that we have the power to do so." --Jonathan Cohen
(2/16/63-10/13/03)

5/8/07
"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
- Kurt Vonnegut

4/13/07
I am for Liberty, the Right of each man to own his own body and Soul.
I am for Liberty now, and always -- to the weak as well as the strong.

--Frederick Douglass, November 10, 1860
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What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver