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    “We have to continue to practice mindfulness and reconciliation until we can see a child’s body of skin and bones in Uganda or Ethiopia as our own, until the hunger and pain in the bodies of all species are our own.  Then we will have realized nondiscrimination, real love.  Then we can look at all beings with the eyes of compassion, and we can do the real work to help alleviate suffering.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace is Every Step

      “If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” ~ Dalai Lama, via Life Hack

        “The way out of the dehumanizing effects of modern capitalism and industrialism is not to change the system but to read good books.”

        Thomas Moore, Original Self | ★ Featured on this book list.

          “We are a population that is satisfied with sound-bite news, instant and opinionated political analysis, manipulative popular psychology, and insubstantial novels and magazines.  At the same time, and understandably, we feel the absence of meaning and are speechless when we learn of atrocities in our society.  We don’t know how to think about them because we don’t know how to think, and we don’t know how to think because we don’t believe that thinking for its own sake is worthy of our attention.  We educate our children to make a good living rather than to become thinking persons, and often we honor as celebrities those who have not made a genuine contribution to society but who mirror our own madness.”

          Thomas Moore, Original Self | ★ Featured on this book list.

            “One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you’re in the room… Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you’re not.  The first involves making noise.  The second involves making a difference.”

            Seth Godin, Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?

              “We make a difference to other people when we give gifts to them, when we bring emotional labor to the table and do work that matters.  It’s hard for me to imagine that this way of living and working is available to only a few.  Yes, the cards are unfairly stacked against too many people.  Yes, there are too many barriers and not enough support.  But no, your ability to create and contribute isn’t determined at birth.  It’s a choice.” ~ Seth Godin, Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?

                “It feels much better to contribute to spreading love, than to contribute to destroying hate. Because ultimately, hate only exists from a lack of love. Darkness only exists from the absence of light.”

                Apollo Poetry, Good Men Project