Sunday

  "Were I to be the founder of a new sect, I would call them Apiarians, and, after the example of the bee, advise them to extract the honey of every sect."  - Thomas Jefferson

“I teach to learn. Everyday my students teach me to be patient, to be silly, that making mistakes is okay, to try again, and to love and give with everything I got.” – Meghan Mayer, Eagle Grove Community School

The Prophet Muhammad is reported to have said: “You will not enter paradise until you believe, and you will not believe until you love one another.”

Jesus said, “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you.”

“We must remain committed to the kindness and community that are the hallmarks of civilization and

reject the troubling, unfiltered Tourettes of ... tribalism.”  

Ken Burns

“Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”

- Golda Meir

"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it."

~ Thomas Dekker

Community is the flower of belonging.

~Malidoma Somé , elder of the Dagara people of Burkina Faso

"Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed."

~Abraham Joshua Heschel

Whatever happens to you, don’t fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for you that no one knows. You can’t see it yet but so many paradises are at the end of this path. Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.

~ Shams Tabrizi

Human beings are members of one body;

At the time of creation they were of one essence.

If a member of the body is in pain one day,

The other members do not remain unmoved.

You who feel nothing at the suffering of others

Do not deserve to be called human.

Sa'di Shirazi

Persian poet, 13th century

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