Just Be Together

Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating.
Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.

Ram Dass

Didn't You Know?

If you knew yourself

for even one moment,
if you could just glimpse

your most beautiful face,
maybe you wouldn't slumber

so deeply in that house of clay.
Why not move into your house of joy
and shine into every crevice!
For you are the secret Treasure-bearer,
and always have been.
Didn't you know?

Rumi

The Best for Our People

What I do know is that elders of most cultures
want the best for their people ... If my granddaughter
is threatened by terrorism, I will resist with an alert love.
Monsters move among us.

And if my Palestinian granddaughter is
threatened by American-made rockets,
I will resist with an alert and angry love.
Monsters move among us.

And if dim-witted zealots threaten to
ravage this earth, my granddaughter's only home,
I will resist with all the love and fury I still have
at my command.
For monsters move among us.

We elders want the best for our people.

Steven Foster

Life on Fire

Set your life on fire.
Seek those who
fan your flames.

Rumi

Feeling Alive

The whole mission of therapy is to
give people access to feeling alive.

Esther Perel

The Known Meets the Unknown

All our science and philosophy
form only an island of knowledge
surrounded by an ocean of mystery.
The larger the island grows,
the longer the shoreline where
the known meets the unknown.

Ralph Washington Sockman

The Witness

Everything changes once we identify
with being the witness to the story,
instead of the actor in it.

Ram Dass