Freely we serve, because freely we love.
-John Milton
If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth. This requires building economies with the heart.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Just as rivers flow from east and west to merge with the one sea, forgetting that they were ever separate rivers, so all beings lose their separateness when they eventually merge into pure Being.
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
-Antonio Porchia
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
-Haruki Murakami