Sunday

Transformational Truth 20:

Greet everyone you meet with a warm smile, no matter how busy you are.

Don’t rush encounters with coworkers, family and friends.

Speak softly. Listen attentively.

Act as if every conversation you have is the most important thing on your mind today.

Look your children and your partner in the eyes when they talk to you.

Stroke the cat, caress the dog.

Lavish love on every living being you meet.

See how different you feel at the end of the day.

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."

- Rumi

"In the end it's all about finding a way to live in this world, to create your own structure."

-Rinus Van de Velde

“To make bread or love, to dig in the earth, to feed an animal or cook for a stranger—these activities require no extensive commentary, no lucid theology. All they require is someone willing to bend, reach, chop, stir. Most of these tasks are so full of pleasure that there is no need to complicate things by calling them holy. And yet these are the same activities that change lives, sometimes all at once and sometimes more slowly, the way dripping water changes stone. In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life.”

― Barbara Brown Taylor, 

An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age."

-Sophia Loren

"A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him.”

- Pablo Neruda

"You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life."

-Salvador Dali

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

- William Shakespeare

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."

- Harriet Tubman

"The food we eat, the clothes we wear, the air we breathe have all arisen interdependently. We cannot survive alone. We cannot eat, wear clothes or breathe alone. The more keenly we are aware of this, the more we will begin to take responsibility for the welfare of other beings."

– H.H. the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje

"Above all, love a stranger wherever you go -- across the street, across the world.

Find your strangers and love them. And you will change history.

You will change the world."

- Marc Gopin: director of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution

Published on Jul 16, 2015

The massacre at the Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina, in June is just the latest in a string of racially charged events that have broken my heart. There are a lot of things to fix in this world, but history says if we don't address this canker, centuries in the making, these things will continue to happen. No matter what level privilege you have, when the system is broken everybody loses. We all have to speak up when injustice happens. No matter what. And music is one of the best way I know to do so. —Rhiannon Giddens

Directed by Harvey K Robinson
Filmed at United Congregational Church in Greensboro, NC