A Recipe for Society

There are many folks who follow this blog who are misunderstood by family and friends, even shunned or shamed. It can be terribly painful and anger inducing. But how do we help ourselves let go and focus on our healing? This quote is a start for our individual and societal hearts:

"I can be angry. I can hate. I can rage. But the moment I have defined another being as my enemy, I lose part of myself, the complexity and subtlety of my vision. I begin to exist in a closed system. When anything goes wrong, I blame my enemy? Slowly all the power in my life begins to be located outside, and my whole being is defined in relation to this outside force, which becomes daily more monstrous, more evil, more laden with all the qualities in myself I no longer wish to own. The quality of my thought is then diminished. My imagination grows small. My self seems meager. My enemy has stolen all of these."

~ Susan Griffin

Where Love Rules ...

“Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”

~ C.G. Jung

Happy Earth Day!

"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons."

~ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1))

“A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.”
 

~ William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

 “It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.” 

~ Mahatma Gandhi