Be Safe. This is a year to celebrate by video and phone.
Cheer for endings -- whether goals have been met or not --
whether the ending is tidy or ragged.
Without endings, there would be neither the opportunity
nor the incentive to think new thoughts,
and to begin great new projects.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It's your life.
Live it with people who are alive.
It tends to be contagious.
- Peter McWilliams
Happiness is like a kiss.
You must share it to enjoy it.
- Bernard Meltzer
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom.
It should be the first duty of those who are happy
to let others know of their gladness.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
Further reading: Create Completion
Time to Move On
Endings and Beginnings
Focus on Finishing
What's Done is Done
May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thursday, December 31, 2020
New Year's Eve 2020/2021
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Solidarity with Other Human Beings
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada
Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
- M. P. Follett
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck
As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller
Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays
Today's affirmation:
I celebrate both my uniqueness
and my connection with all that is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Recognize, Accept, and Celebrate Differences
Accept Others
Avoid Labeling Yourself
Tuesday, December 29, 2020
We Need Both the Lightness and the Solidarity, Both Wings and Roots
Those who can see value only in tradition,...
deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
- Stephen Bayley
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer
I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
- Theodore Bikel
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
Honor tradition, but
Do not be constrained by tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We Need Both the Vision and the Practicality,
Both the Lightness and the Solidarity,
Both the Wings and the Roots.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Embrace Change
Beyond Your Comfort Zone
Break with Conformity
Life is an Adventure
Monday, December 28, 2020
Make the Effort to Evolve Your Consciousness
You are here to evolve and make your consciousness high
You are here to dance, sing and celebrate life.
You are here to help others to make their life happy.
We are here not to compete, but to learn, evolve and excel.
We are not here to make divisions in the name of prophets and religions.
We are here to encompass the world with love and light.
- Amit Ray
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Those who are highly evolved,
maintain an undiscriminating perception.
Seeing everything, labeling nothing,
they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness.
Thus they are supported by it.
- Lao Tzu
As many raindrops join to form a great river of water,
many souls join their highest intent to form
the river of evolved consciousness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Be an Observer of Life
The Journey Within
Wisdom through Understanding
Participate with Consciousness
Sunday, December 27, 2020
The Power of Kindness
Know the power of kindness.
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go,
radiate your kindness to all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This is what the Lord asks of you: only this,
to act justly, to love tenderly,
and to walk humbly with your God.
- Micah 6:8
The hallmark of a true Christian is charity in thought, word, and deed.
Charity is the principle Christian virtue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar,
you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog.
You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you
to have a part in his hunger.
- Giovanni Guareschi
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
Jesus preached more and taught more
about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry
than he did about heaven and hell.
Shouldn't that tell us something?
- John Grisham
What does it profit, my brethren,
if someone says he has faith but does not have works?
Can faith save him?
- James 2:14
Further reading: Charity: To Do God's Work
The Purpose of Our Lives
Basic Kindness
Measure of Your Heart
Saturday, December 26, 2020
Choose Serenity
We have a good life when we manage to live with both
satisfied and unsatisfied needs,
when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.
- Kjell Magne Bondevik
Do what you can, and do it well.
Accept the rest with equanimity, and trust in God.
No one can ever do more than that.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp,
but which, if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time;
serenity, that nothing is.
- Thomas Szasz
Laugh at yourself and at life.
Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity,
but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain,
cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective
that seemingly terrible defeat and worry
with laughter at your predicaments,
thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution
that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.
- Og Mandino
Friday, December 25, 2020
Christmas Day 2020
May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope;
The spirit of Christmas which is peace;
The heart of Christmas which is love.
- Ada V. Hendricks
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
- Charles Dickens
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind.
To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy,
is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
- Calvin Coolidge
Further reading: Happy Birthday Jesus
With Love in My Heart
Brotherly Love
The Power of Unconditional Love
Thursday, December 24, 2020
Christmas Eve 2020 - Welcome a Stranger This Christmas
BE SAFE: Distance, Mask! This year you can love and support family, friends and strangers from a distance: call or video chat, share a virtual meal and celebration. Infecting others is not being kind or loving.
Spending the holidays without family can feel depressing.
If you are not with your family this holiday,
take positive steps to feel good about yourself:
affirm your self worth,
spend time with your religious (or community) group,
and extend yourself to be of service to the less fortunate.
Is there someone who will be alone this Christmas unless you share your holiday with them?
Invite them to spend the day with you. (virtually)
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Constant kindness can accomplish much.
As the sun makes ice melt,
kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer
There are no strangers on Christmas Eve.
- Adele Comandini
Further reading: The Universal Sacrament of Compassion
Do God's Work
Love All, Judge None
Jesus Commands Us: Love One Another
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Practice Keen Awareness and Conscious Choices
Today's affirmation: I practice keen awareness,
and make my choices with consciousness, courage,
and compassion toward all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
Today, begin to look on all things
with love, appreciation and open-mindedness.
- A Course in Miracles
It is the Consciousness with which we participate
in activities that makes the difference.
- Michael Beckwith
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious
privilege it is to be alive -
to breathe,
to think, to enjoy, to love.
- Marcus Aurelius
Pay attention. Cultivate awareness.
Life cannot be lived fully or joyfully if
our thoughts are focused on regretting the past,
preoccupied with anticipating the future,
or lost in the mind-fog of unconscious habitual behavior.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Let Go and Accept This Moment
Assumptions are Dangerous
Be Open - Welcome the New
Bounty of the Earth
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Nature is Sacred
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him,
that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men,
and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
- Albert Schweitzer
This land, this water, this air, this planet -
this is our legacy to our young.
- Paul Tsongas
People must feel that the natural world is important
and valuable and beautiful and wonderful
and an amazement and a pleasure.
- David Attenborough
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow,
we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology.
We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created,
not just as it looked when we got through with it.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Be gentle with the earth.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Further reading: Our Future is the World's Children
One Planet, One People, One Destiny
Legacy to Future Generations
Reverence for Our Earth
Monday, December 21, 2020
Each Of Us Has Our Own Song
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Indifferent to whether your mood is grumpy or cheerful,
Nature always sings her passionate song of joyful celebration.
You can never stop the happy song of life,
so join the celebration -
sing along, dance, make love,
smile your biggest smile, and cheer on God's music.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: What We Expect to See
Soar Your Spirit
Profound Questions
The Mysterious
Answers
Sunday, December 20, 2020
Peace Which Passes All Understanding
There is no way to peace; peace IS the way.
- A. J. Muste
May the peace which passes all understanding be among you and remain with you always.
- Paraphrase of the blessing that concludes the Episcopal communion service
We all share unity with each other
and with the one Creator Spirit.
We are one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each one has to find his peace from within.
And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Further reading: Be a Bringer of Peace
Support Each Other
Peacemakers
Become Centered, Breathe
Saturday, December 19, 2020
Try Something Beyond Your Comfort Zone
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy
If you put yourself in a position where you have to
stretch outside your comfort zone,
then you are forced to expand your consciousness.
- Les Brown
To the degree we're not living our dreams,
our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
- Peter McWilliams
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.
You must break out of your current comfort zone and
become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
- Denis Waitley
Further reading: Take Charge of Your Life
Time to Move On
Finding Joy in Our Troubled Lives
Your Intuition is Your Guide
Friday, December 18, 2020
Engage the Dance of Life
The journey between what you once were
and who you are now becoming
is where the dance of Life really takes place.
- Barbara De Angelis
Live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new, to meet a new friend,
to bring joy into someone's life,
to feel the wind newly on your skin,
to touch a new fear and a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
to find an ample measure of your own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I will dance a little. I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Further reading: Choose to Dance
The Dance of Life
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Consign Past Wrongs to the Past
Forgive those who have injured you -
not because they deserve your forgiveness,
but because you can never be happy until
you release your anger and grant forgiveness.
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else -
Forgiving is your gift to yourself - a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
- Publilius Syrus
Forgiveness is not always easy.
At times, it feels more painful
than the wound we suffered,
to forgive the one that inflicted it.
And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
- Marianne Williamson
Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past.
- Lama Surya Das
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business
that allows us to experience the present,
free of contamination from the past.
- Joan Borysenko
Further reading: How to Forgive and Move On
Stop Anger Before it Stops You
Forgive Others for Your Own Sake
Forgiveness is Essential to a Great Relationship
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Wisdom, Science, Perspective
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One cannot have wisdom without perspective,
but once gaining perspective, one attains wisdom.
Wisdom is the ability to view every situation
as each person who is in any way affected
by that situation might view it.
Wisdom benefits from having a knowledge of history,
and therefore a historical perspective,
as well from as having the perspective of imagination -
the realm of the what-might-be
inhabited by futurists and science-fiction writers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr. - If a man is called to be a street sweeper...
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Martin Luther King, Jr. quote: Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Balance Action and Rejuvenation
The ancient Chinese Yin-Yang symbol represents the balance of yin (peacefulness, serenity, acceptance, rest, rejuvenation, roots, tradition) with yang (activity, strength, striving, movement, change, wings, invention, progress). A meaningful and joyful life is to be found in balance.
In the midst of movement and chaos,
keep stillness inside of you.
- Deepak Chopra
Manage the remarkable balance between acting
from your heart and close to your gifts
with completing the obligations
that your labor and tasks require of you.
Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
- Confucius
Maintain a balance between skepticism and faith.
Maintain a beginner mind. Be open to possibility.
Don't give in to skepticism,
but don't give in to fantasy either.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be aware of wonder.
Live a balanced life -
learn some and think some
and draw and paint
and sing and dance
and play and work every day some.
- Robert Fulghum
Further reading: Go With the Flow - Six Ways to Live a Happier Life
Seek Balance in Life
Balance Work and Play
Monday, December 14, 2020
Be the First to Condemn Injustice
If you are neutral in situations of injustice,
you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
- Desmond Tutu
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If everyone howled at every injustice,
every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness,
then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.
- Nelson DeMille
Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to
agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
- Bryant H. McGill
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth
and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
- William Faulkner
When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.
-Steve Maraboli
Further reading: Do Right
Being Big - Standing Tall
A Single Step
Unconditional Love
Do What You Can Do
All Different - All One
Sunday, December 13, 2020
Empathy With Those Who Are Very Different From Yourself
To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places,
but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing
ourselves in their places.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick (Founding Pastor of New York's Riverside Church)
That which is hateful to you,
do not do to your fellow.
That is the whole Torah;
the rest is the explanation.
- Talmud (Jewish Wisdom)
Do not do to others what would anger you
if done to you by others.
- Isocrates (Ancient Greek)
Do to others as you would have them do to you.
- Luke 6:31 (the "Golden Rule")
Make A Special Effort To Have Empathy
With Those Who Are Very Different From Yourself.
Know that the true essence of the Golden Rule
is always being compassionate, kind,
generous, and being in service to others.
Compelling others to behave as you wish
them to behave in the name of the
Golden Rule is a corruption of a sacred principle.
Compassion is the universal standard for moral living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Allowing Others the Right of Free Speech
Social Morality
Make Empathy a Daily Practice
God Calls Us To Help Others
Saturday, December 12, 2020
To Be Myself
The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
Life is not a having and a getting,
but a being and a becoming.
- Matthew Arnold
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
To be what we are,
and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end in life.
- Baruch Spinoza
Don't go through life - grow through life.
- Eric Butterworth
Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings,
of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home.
He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.
- Osho
Today's affirmation:
I follow my own star and my own inner compass.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Leap
Your Intuition is Your Guide
The Inner You
Be Simply Yourself
Friday, December 11, 2020
Be Safe. This is a holiday season like no other.
This is a holiday season like no other. Our task is to find ways to celebrate and to show our love for each other from a safe DISTANCE. Friends don't endanger the health of friends. PLEASE share your Christmas/Holidays with extended family and friends by video or phone this year.
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
A true friend is the one who walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
Our relationships - love and friendship - are at the core of the meaning
of our lives. Let today be a day to appreciate your relationships and
friendships. Let today also be a day to be clear which connections are
committed, and which are merely for temporary convenience.
Further reading: Appreciate Your Friends
Happy Friends - Happy You
Today's picture features words and calligraphy by my dear friend Mary Anne Radmacher
and art by my wife Suze Huie.
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Don't Lose Your Little Spark of Madness
Today is your day to practice whimsey,
smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
watch wondrous cloud animals parade your story,
search every rabbit hole
for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast
and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat,
and dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Follow Your Bliss.
- Joseph Campbell
You're only given a little spark of madness.
You mustn't lose it.
- Robin Williams
If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Follow Your Bliss.
- Joseph Campbell
Who said that life had to be serious?
Imagine, Play, Sing, Turn Cartwheels, Be Unstoppable, Dance Wildly With Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What if we like our outrageous side best?
We "know" that the "right" thing to do is to suck it up,
put the costume and the happy face back in storage for another year,
re-dress in our frown and gray flannel suit,
and trudge back to job, chores, "responsibilities," and "duty."
Stop! Maybe TODAY is the day to put the frown and gray flannel
into that dusty storage locker, and start to LIVE.
Not just today, but EVERY DAY for the rest of your life!
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today: Do something Outrageous - just because you want to.
Take off your shoes and dance on the beach... Play in the mud... Sing at the top of your lungs... and don't care who hears you.
Celebrate today... Celebrate ME... Celebrate Life... Celebrate Rainbows and Butterflies... Celebrate Whimsey...
Further reading: Life Lessons I Learned From My Cat
Life is too important to be taken seriously
Do Something Crazy
Today is Your Day (my complete poem)
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Choose From Strength
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Further reading: Courage has a Quiet Voice
Choose Your Attitude
Honor Your Heart
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Honor Our Differences
As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck
It is not our differences that divide us.
It is our inability to recognize, accept,
and celebrate those differences.
- Audre Lorde
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
- Theodor Adorno
When we have expectations (demands), we think we know how people SHOULD behave, and we can have no compassion. Only after we accept that another person's uniquely "right" path does not follow our own preconceptions, we can be compassionate.
The essence of compassion is accepting others as unique individuals,
without believing that they are less good for not being carbon copies of ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Condemn None
Empathy
Understanding
Signs of a Compassionate Person
Do What You Can
Monday, December 7, 2020
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day 2020
Today, fear again grips America - in public and in private. Remember FDR's words and focus with courage on the job at hand - the job of living joyfully regardless of external circumstances.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill
We must be the great arsenal of democracy.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
This world of ours... must avoid becoming
a community of dreadful fear and hate,
and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy...
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd President of the United States)
Watch FDR's 1941 "Live in Infamy" Speech
Further reading: Serenity rather than Fear
Sunday, December 6, 2020
Refrain from Judging Others
Judge not, that you be not judged.
For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged;
and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
- Matthew 7:1-2
If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed
by the defects of those with whom we associate.
- Francois Fenelon
You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely
as small as what you allow to annoy you.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Today's affirmation
I Resist the Temptation to Judge Others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: The Essence of Jesus' Teaching
Love All, Judge None
The Price of Anger
Keep the Golden Rule
Saturday, December 5, 2020
Do Not Rebuke the Sufferer
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside
of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
- Aeschylus
Could a greater miracle take place
than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Henry David Thoreau
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Philo
We are all different - and we are all one.
Take time to understand, and to appreciate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Understanding is a two-way street.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We will never have true civilization until we have
learned to recognize the rights of others.
- Will Rogers
When the rights of any group, no matter how small, no matter how marginal,
are violated, your liberty, your freedom is put at risk.
Let there never be a day when we cast about in horror
and have to ask the question, "How did it ever come to this?"
- Thomas Childers
Further reading: The Art of Listening
Opportunity for Kindness
Of all the keys to happiness, Service to Others is the big one
Open Your Mind
Friday, December 4, 2020
Choose Inner Peace, Choose World Peace
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist.
I am willing to fight for peace.
Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
- Albert Einstein
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Today's affirmation:
I am at Peace with myself,
my family, my community, and the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Do God's Work
World Peace
Thoughts of Peace
Choose Peace
The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Not Facts, But Lifetime Learner Skills
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm Forbes
The function of education is to teach one
to think intensively and to think critically.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
- Margaret Mead
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts
but the training of the mind to think.
- Albert Einstein
The wise man doesn't give the right answers,
he poses the right questions.
- Claude Levi-Strauss
The principle goal of education in the schools
should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things,
not simply repeating what other generations have done.
- Jean Piaget
Further reading: Our Future is the World's Children
Welfare of Our Children
The Nature of Learning
Teaching by Example
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Always Follow Your Heart
Set Life’s Rhythm with Your Heart-Drum
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
You can choose to follow your heart always.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
Do what you feel in your heart to be right.
You'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Further reading: Choose to Follow Your Heart
Choose Inner Peace
Live from Your Heart
Change Your Heart
The Beat of the Universe
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Let Go of Blaming and Judging
We have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging,
to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want.
- Joe Vitale
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
As soon as we find someone to blame,
we act as if we've solved the problem.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
The impulse to blame something or someone is foolishness.
There is nothing to be gained in blaming,
whether it be others or oneself.
- Epictetus
When we are disappointed, we look for someone to blame.
Declaring someone to be at fault is the nature of anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Accusation of "Fault"
Judging Others
Why I Choose to Believe that Others are Never the Cause of My Unhappiness
Disappointment and Criticism
Categorizing People