Matters That Move Me
Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama, “there is no need for temple or church, for mosque or synagogue, no need for complicated philosophy, doctrine or dogma, for our own heart, our own mind, is the temple and the doctrin...
Rilke “Letters to a Young Poet”
“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart And try to love the questions themselves. Don’t search for the answers, Which could not be given to you now, Because you would not b...
John W. Gardner
Life isn’t a mountain that has a summit. Nor is it a riddle that has an answer. Nor a game that has a final score. Life is an endless unfolding, and if we wish it to be, an endless process of se...
Rev Barry Lynn
Rev Barry Lynn, President of Americans United has written, “The goals of Christ and the goals of the Religious Right seem to have little in common. Christ did not spend his time trying to forge ...
El Salvador Rising
by TOM HAYDEN June 15, 2009 Tom Hayden has traveled to El Salvador three times, has written extensively about cross-border street gang issues and, as a California state senator, passed legislation aut...
ABOUT MY FAITH
I am frequently asked about my faith. At the end of my marriage to Ted Turner I became a Christian. For several years prior, I had begun to feel I was being lead. I felt a presence, a reverence hummin...
Joseph Campbell
Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called “the love of your fate.” Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happ...
George Santayana Quote
“Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age…Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet o...
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
This is a chapter from Joan Dideon’s 1961 book “Slouching Towards Bethlehem.” The chapter is called “On Self Respect.” Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters acr...