Recovery. Sobriety. Living Wise.
This post is best viewed from the Just A Thought website. Please click here. “The lamps are different – but the Light is the same.” ~ Rumi While our cultures, traditions, and beliefs may differ, light emanates from the same shared human experience. It’s been said living in a diverse environment — enriches one’s perspectives, broadens one’s horizons, and teaches us that our differences are but … Continue reading Mother India Claims a Son
This post is best viewed from the Just A Thought website. Please click here. “Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Compassion recognizes in another what we recognize in ourselves.” ~ Pema Chodrom In all my years no virtue has come to make more sense to me than compassion, the willingness to act for the well-being of … Continue reading Why Compassion?
Recently we attended an inspiring and interesting event at the Carter Center with former Irish President Mary Robinson, and saw a documentary about her life. After being the first female president of Ireland and ushering in a spectacular transformation of rights in that country, she became UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and later participated in and chaired “The Elders,” an illustrious group of world … Continue reading Prisoner of Hope (by Eileen)
To enjoy the music in today’s post, please click the link above to go to the Just A Thought website, or Click Here. I dedicate this post to my Seattle Prep ’67 classmates who are an ever-present source of inspiration to me. “You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your … Continue reading When Suffering is Transformed
“A hero is not braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson We are in need of Emerson’s five-minute heroes. Lots of them! People willing to hold their feet to the fire for five extra minutes to: guard protect defend the soul of a nation being sorely tested. Thomas Paine observed during the early days of the … Continue reading Five-Minute Heroes