Originally posted on I Want Ice Water!: Just a wacky image assortment reflecting the weird chaos in my head today… 😳 All images via A Little’s Black Book on Tumblr – Specifically here, here, here, here and here Either I just got very lucky with this post, or those magical WordPress folks have been working…
“And as long as human beings can sit and watch with hands folded while their fellow-men are tortured and butchered so long will civilisation be a hollow mockery, a wordy phantom suspended like a mirage above a swelling sea of murdered carcasses.” Henry Miller
There was an excellent breakfast on the sunny terrace with local specialties, fresh bread and home made marmalade and jam and Doris sold us tickets for the water taxi to Dubrovnik, which I think was probably another part of the family business.
We had about an hour to wait between breakfast and the…
You’ve got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You’ve got to be taught
From year to year,
It’s got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You’ve got to be carefully taught.
You’ve got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff’rent shade,
You’ve got to be carefully taught.
You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You’ve got to be carefully taught!
–Oscar Hammerstein II (from South Pacific)
It’s time to stop teaching hatred.
Hatred leads to bigotry and violence and prejudice and racism and misogyny and bullying….
Where it never leads is to Peace.
Children learn racism
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Babies are not born thinking others are different.
Praying hands that mean so much to God. The praying matters, not the color of the hands
This is the first of March, but if this were a leap year it would be February 29. I found a new poet today that I am excited to share with all my readers. I realize some of you may all ready know him. But he may be new to others as he was to me. The date is important because this should have been part of Black History Month. I was just a little late with my discovery.
Paul Laurence Dunbar was born in 1872 to freed Kentucky slaves. This man became a published poet at fourteen years of age. After he grew up, he became an elevator operator. His first published book was called, Oak and Ivy. It was published in 1893. He would sell it to people who rode his elevator. He moved to Chicago and became good friends with Fredrick Douglass. Mr. Dunbar became an internationally known poet and toured around the world. He is most noted for his dialect poems. This poem in particular caught my eye because it contains a very famous line that I never where it came from.
Out in the sky the great dark clouds are massing,
I look far out into the pregnant night,
Where I can hear a solemn booming gun
And catch the gleaming of a random light,
That tells me that the ship I seek is passing, passing.
My tearful eyes my soul’s deep hurt are glassing;
For I would hail and check that ship of ships.
I stretch my hands imploring, cry aloud,
My voice falls dead a foot from mine own lips,
And but its ghost doth reach that vessel, passing, passing.
O Earth, O Sky, O Ocean, both surpassing,
O heart of mine, O soul that dreads the dark!
Is there no hope for me? Is there no way
That I may sight and check that speeding bark
Which out of sight and sound is passing, passing?
—Excerpted from Ships That Pass in the Night by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Mind is expression of Energy originating from beyond the limits of space-time.
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Most of this post is from work
by Eckhart Tolle.
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Eckhart Tolle is asked, “Is the ego the source of our thoughts or are our thoughts generated elsewhere and pass through the ego?”
Tolle begins, “There is no ego apart from thoughts. The identification with thoughts is ego. But the thoughts that go through your mind, of course, are linked to the collective mind of the culture you live in, humanity as a whole, so they are not your thoughts as such, but you pick most of them up from the collective (most of them). And so, you identify with thinking and the identification with thinking becomes ego, which means simply that you believe in every thought that arises and you derive your sense of who you are from what your mind is telling you…
Mensen maken de samenleving en nemen daarin een positie in. Deze website geeft toegang tot een diversiteit aan artikelen die gaan over 'samenleven', belicht vanuit verschillende perspectieven. De artikelen hebben gemeen dat er gezocht wordt naar wat 'mensen bindt, in plaats van wat hen scheidt'.
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