Celebrate

Celebrate

“People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.” 

~Abraham Joshua Heschel

This Precious Human Life

This Precious Human Life

“Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.”

The Greatest Power on Earth

The Greatest Power on Earth

It can defy gravity and disrupt the electro-magnetic field.  It can kill the strong and empower the weak.  It can miraculously heal the most afflicted and terminally disease the healthiest.  It can topple empires and build nations.  It can mercilessly slaughter countless millions and save the lives of countless more.  It turns particles into waves and waves into particles.  What is this unfathomably ambivalent power capable of such greatness and horror?