God laughs when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each other, ‘This side is mine and that side is yours.’ He laughs and says to Himself, ‘The whole universe belongs to me, but they say they own this portion or that portion.’
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
-Thomas Jefferson
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
-Theodor W. Adorno
Spiritual teacher enjoins us to comprehend by our soul the infinite spirit which is in the depth of the moving and changing facts of the world; the urging of our artistic nature.
Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, “Christ is risen,” but “I shall rise.”
Stop waiting for the right person to come into your life. Be the right person to come to someone’s life.
-Leo Babauta
