The Intimate Command
…sometimes i am overwhelmed by the sheer beauty that surrounds me. what kind of magic is this? to live on a planet with flowers, bees, trees, fox, owls, mountains, oceans, birdsong and the list is endless really. With so much work waiting for us — it can be easy to forget the mighty gift it is to just be here at all.
~ Sierra Hollister
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In Jewish thought, a sin is not an offense against God, an act of disobedience. A sin is a missed opportunity to act humanely.
~ Rabbi Harold Kushner
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I think Dostoevsky was right, that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.
~ Rollo May
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It took me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship into people’s lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.
~ Sister Helen Prejean
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The greatest enemy of authority is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
~ Hannah Arendt
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My life wants me to be a writer so I write. It’s not a choice: it’s an intimate command.
