David | July 26, 2008
Gaia was, in Greek mythology, the original Earth Goddess. From Gaia sprang all life.
The term has become popular with environmentalists and others as a sort of shorthand to identify the interconnectedness of everything on the planet – the entirety of our world as one living, interlinked organism. A “Gaia Hypothesis” was put forward by James [...]
David | July 23, 2008
Definition of a saint: a saint is someone who has been dead long enough that there is no one living to tell us what this person was really like – Source Unknown
An interesting “tongue-in-cheek” comment. Not quite true of course. We have histories of many folks whom we now call “saints” whose early lives were [...]
David | July 14, 2008
This is one of the best video representations of the universality of the Golden Rule that I’ve come across.
Very well done
David | July 13, 2008
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jesuit priest 1881 – 1955
It’s an interesting way of understanding ourselves. One that can help to liberate us from the well worn ruts of tradition and dogmatic belief. When I first read this quote, [...]
David | July 10, 2008
Resolved, never to say any thing at all against any body, but when it is perfectly agreeable to the highest degree of Christian honor, and of love to mankind, agreeable to the lowest humility, and sense of my own faults and failings, and agreeable to the golden rule; often, when I have said anything against [...]
David | July 9, 2008
Peace is the marriage of the people and the planet, with all attendant vows – AnonymousI came across this quote when I was surfing sites dedicated to peace. If anyone happens to know who actually said it, I’d love to know.
While “marriage” is sometimes a contentious term these days, no one has much trouble understanding [...]
David | July 4, 2008
The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is [...]
David | July 2, 2008
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his/her religion or belief, and freedom either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his/her religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance. – Article 18, Universal Declaration of Human RightsThis [...]
David | July 1, 2008
We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us. – Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835- 1910)
Is it possible that we’ve made progress [...]
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