February 2012
“Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with...”
– http://tinybuddha.com/
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“Every day brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.”
– ~Joan Borysenko (via trust-faith)
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“Notwithstanding the election of Barack Obama, the last 40 years have been a...”
– From Stephen Steinberg’s “Poor Reason: Culture Still Doesn’t Explain Poverty” (via bostonreview)
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Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our... →
Peter Corning, who was trained as a biologist and is now the director of the Institute for the Study of Complex Systems, joins the conversation at just the right time. His most recent book, The Fair Society, was published in early 2011, and—like Joseph Stiglitz’s Vanity Fair article “Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%”—it has turned out to be remarkably prescient. Several chapters read like an...
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“It is the tragedy of our time that the average individual learns too late that...”
– Manly Hall (via commondense)
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“Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a...”
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“Saul Alinsky stood up for the poor, the abused workers and lower classes drafted...”
– Brian Rooney (via azspot)
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“Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.”
– Samuel Beckett (via hip-)
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“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via lazyyogi)
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“I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is...”
– Lord Henry Wotton, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via mercutiosbowtie)
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“I’ve often thought there ought to be a manual to hand to little kids, telling...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (Interview with Playboy, 1973)
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“We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble...”
– Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, Chapter XXI  (via whyexistence)
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“Spirituality is about seeing. It’s not about earning or achieving. It’s about...”
– Richard Rohr (via azspot)
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“‎Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate....”
– Deepak Chopra (via nirvikalpa)
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“Aloneness yields strength. Aware interaction with others yields warmth. Both are...”
– Almine (via lucifelle)
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“By being receptive, we can avail ourselves of the spiritual wealth available to...”
– Deng Ming-Dao (via lucifelle)
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“Take advantage of five matters before five other matters: your youth, before you...”
– The Prophet Muhammad (saw)
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“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m...”
–  Jonathan Safran Foer (via black-wolves)
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“The basis of a democratic and a republican form of government is a fundamental...”
– Noah Webster (via azspot)
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you've got to remember to breathe today.
breathe with awareness. do it at your desk at work, or at school, or in the shower, in the car, or do it now. breathe deeply in through your nose for a count of 4, belly expanding outwards, hold the breath in for a count of 8, exhale out through pursed lips until your empty, then hold that emptiness for either 4 or 8, depending on your comfort. try and repeat this for at least ten minutes...
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“Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and...”
– The Kybalion (via metaconscious)
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“It is the heart that sees always, before the head can see.”
– Thomas Carlyle (via elige)
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“Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are...”
– C. S. Lewis (via thelittlephilosopher)
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“Imagine yourself as a being of energy and light.. Because in reality, you are.”
– John Holland (via elige)
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“First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter...”
– Jesse Ball, The Way Through Doors [go, go] (via mythologyofblue)
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“‎”Within the human being there lives a flame of life that never really...”
– http://www.dharmaocean.org/default/index.cfm/vision/reginald-a-ray/ From my sweet Love  @marseellee on twitter parkstepp
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Elections Are for Suckers →
Let’s just dip our fingers in purple ink and pose for photos now that voting has the same significance for us as it had for those Iraqis who got conned into thinking they were participating in some grand democratic experiment. Our own elections, the ones our government has modeled for the world, are a hoax. What other word should we use to describe this year’s presidential election, whose outcome...
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Kucinich bill aims to protect food supply from... →
 On Friday, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) announced new legislation to protect the food supply from a potential crisis brought about by biotech giants like Monsanto,and the unrestricted use of their GMOs -  Genetically modified organisms.  H.R. 3554, The Genetically Engineered Safety Act, would help prevent the biological contamination of our food supply.   Kucinich’s common sense legislation...
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“Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning...”
– Howard Zinn (via americandissident)
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