recruiting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fkkdoDOIJM

to see

to see the world
 not as a pyramid
where many must be on the bottom
so that a few can be on top,
but as a circle,
a weaving,
a dance of life.

a little nut

“The might oak was once a little nut that stood its ground.”

                                                         source unknown

because

“… because the headlines don’t tell the whole story; because truth is a living force, more stubborn and resilient than any politician; because life is bigger and more mysterious than all our words for it…….”

                                                       Sy Safransky (The Sun magazine, July 2003)

I am not I…

I am not I.

                I am this one

walking beside me whom I do not see,

whom at time I manage to visit,

and whom at other times I forget;

who remains calm and silent while I talk,

and forgives, gently, when I hate,

who walks where I am not,

who will remain standing when I die.

                     Juan Ramon Jimenez

golden tree

All theory, dear friend, is grey, but the golden tree of actual life springs ever green.

 

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)

water…

We are like those who,
immersed in water,
stretch out their hands,
begging for a drink.

                                    Seppo

                                  (from The Book of Angelus Silesius by Frederick Franck)

…to look at the moon

A child of a poor family
Stopped grinding rice
To look at the moon.

                               Basho

truth

All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

                                              Arthur Schopenhauer

Soul force

Gandhiji told us in I forget which session, “There is a soul force in the universe which if we permit it will flow through us and produce miraculous results.”
                                            . . . .

“…we have an audacious idea that says nonviolent peacekeeping is effective and infectious.”

                                         Mel Duncan

http://www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org/en/summaryia2007