Vision and Viewpoint
Don't blow it, G8 - good planets are hard to find
I entered the life of the brown forest,
And the great life of the ancient peaks, the patience of stone
I felt the changes in the veins
In the throat of the mountain,
and, I was the stream,
Draining the mountain wood; and I the stag drinking:
and I was the stars,
Boiling with light, wandering alone, each one the lord of his own summit;
and I was the darkness
Outside the stars, I included them, They were part of me.
I was mankind also, a moving lichen
On the cheek of the round stone ... they have not made words for it...
Robinson Jeffers [6] Not Man Apart
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and the government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain
Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
True religion is the life we live, not the creed we profess.
J.F. Wright
Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the right to be free.
Charles Evans Hughes
Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.
David Ehrenfeld, The Arrogance of Humanism
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Carl Sagan
To be truly holy, we must empower the entire world
with all its colors, people, plants, and animals.
Joan Chittister, OSB
Anne Frank grew less optimistic about the future. She wrote, "I simply can't imagine the world will ever be normal again for us. I do talk about 'after the war,' but it's as if I were talking about a castle in the air, something that can never come true."
The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal,
of the crusaders a crusader,
and of the merchants a merchant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Out beyond the right-doing
and the wrong-doing,
there is a field.
I will meet you there.
Rumi
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We beg you, Great God,
give us the vision as a people
to know where global leadership truly lies,
to pursue it diligently,
to require it to protect human rights
for everyone everywhere.
Joan Chittister, OSB
Prayer for Leadership
