Apiarians

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

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”

Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.

-Geronimo

'May we live in peace without weeping.

May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing.

And may our love fill the world, angel wings tenderly beating.'

Owen Waters

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.

~ Sufi Saying (Hafiz)

  “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.”

― Richard Bach

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is a crack in everything.

That's how the light gets in.

~ Leonard Cohen

When Love breathes life through dry branches, young leaves begin to grow.

~ Rumi

""[Ubuntu is] a concept that we have in our Bantu languages at home. Ubuntu is the essence of being a person. It means that we are people through other people. We cannot be fully human alone. We are made for interdependence, we are made for family. When you have ubuntu, you embrace others. You are generous, compassionate. If the world had more ubuntu, we would not have war. We would not have this huge gap between the rich and the poor. You are rich so that you can make up what is lacking in others. You are powerful so that you can help the weak, just as a mother or father helps their children. This is God's dream."

~ Archbishop Desmond Tutu