Quote for Today: Jean Vanier
Deep in our hearts there is a call to live in communion with others, a call to love, to create, to risk. But there is also that radical feeling of our poverty when faced with human misery. I am afraid...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Carl Sagan
Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering...
View Article40 days of poetry: Day 9: The Third Week by Alec Solomita
In response to the Covid-19 outbreak around the globe, Synkroniciti will be posting a video of a poem every day for forty days. If you would like to participate, please make a video on your favorite...
View Article40 days of poetry: Day 29: Spell Against Sorrow by Kathleen Raine
Melanie is back today to read Spell Against Sorrow by Kathleen Raine. How do we drive away our grief, sorrow and fear? Day 29.
View ArticleQuote for Today: Elias Canetti
There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Susan Griffin
She was a normal wild beast, whose power is dangerous, whose anger can kill, they had said. Be more careful of her, they advised. Allow her less excitement. Perhaps let her exercise more. She...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Drexel Deal
There is another dangerous component to armed robberies, one that I could never understand. I noticed some time ago that with each robbery I committed there was an intense out of control anger that...
View ArticleGlobe-trotting Travel Series #17 from Wuhan, China, via NOWNESS
Day 17: The Globe-trotting Travel Series returns to Wuhan, China, the first city to go on lockdown for Covid-19, with this short film directed by Fanqing and Yurui Chen for NOWNESS. Imagine living in...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Terry Pratchett
He thought of the deep crevasses and windy caves of Underlay, and the stories of the creatures that dwelt there. Of course, he didn’t believe in them. He’d told them, because the handing on of an oral...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Catherynne M. Valente
She did not know yet how sometimes people keep parts of themselves hidden and secret, sometimes wicked and unkind parts, but often brave or wild or colorful parts, cunning or powerful or even...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Tara Brach
In bullfighting there is an interesting parallel to the pause as a place of refuge and renewal. It is believed that in the midst of a fight, a bull can find his own particular area of safety in the...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Rainer Maria Rilke
Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure. ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet Image by Xandra_Iryna from Pixabay
View ArticleQuote for Today: Erich Maria Remarque
He wants me to tell him about the front; he is curious in a way that I find stupid and distressing; I no longer have any real contact with him. There is nothing he likes more than just hearing about...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Bell Hooks
Fear is the primary force upholding structures of domination. It promotes the desire for separation, the desire not to be known. When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then...
View ArticleQuote for Today: C.S. Lewis
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Malcolm X
Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so ‘safe,’ and therefore so shrinking and rigid and...
View ArticleQuote for Today: William Shakespeare
…Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth Image by...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Mitch Albom
Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won’t hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, “All right,...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Melinda Gates
Overcoming the need to create outsiders is our greatest challenge as human beings. It is the key to ending deep inequality. We stigmatize and send to the margins people who trigger in us the feelings...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Beryl Markham
I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can....
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