Love And Justice

Painting: “Stained Glass Window,” by Odilon Redon

“We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.” — J. R. Tolkien

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All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One. — Black Elk

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The emergence and blossoming of understanding, love, and intelligence has nothing to do with any tradition, no matter how ancient or impressive-it has nothing to do with time. It happens on its own when a human being questions, wonders, inquires, listens, and looks without getting stuck in fear, pleasure, and pain. When self-concern is quiet, in abeyance, heaven and earth are open.
- Toni Packer

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The basis of Sufism is consideration of the hearts and feelings of others. If you haven’t the will to gladden someone’s heart, then at least beware lest you hurt someone’s heart, for on our path, no sin exists but this. — Javad Nurbakhsh

Watching the political theatre as it plays out on our national stage, we can’t help but wonder at our fellow Americans. We try to imagine how they see the world, what their concerns are, how they can be so easily led by heartless criminals. We try to imagine their vision of things. How can exclusion and…