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Live To Love

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Imagine what the world would be like if we all adopted this simple moral code and embraced Ms. Rachel's statement about children (and adults) everywhere, the essence of global citizenship. (See the graphic below.) No … Continue reading Live To Love

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) Speaks to Us Today & Always

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Source: Wikimedia Commons This is one of my favorite quotes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche), whose writings I discovered in English and the original German when I was a university student. Bonhoeffer was arrested in April 1943 by the … Continue reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) Speaks to Us Today & Always

The Transition & Continuation of Thích Nhất Hạnh

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Look into a plum tree. In each plum on the tree there is a pit. That pit contains the plum tree and all previous generations of plum tree. The plum pit contains an eternity of plum trees. Inside the pit is an intelligence and wisdom that knows how to become a plum tree, how to … Continue reading The Transition & Continuation of Thích Nhất Hạnh

The Five Remembrances by the Buddha

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Translated by Thích Nhất Hạnh Thích Nhất Hạnh Worth (re)reading from time to time, including at the end of another Lunar Year. (Follow this link for a PDF version of The Five Remembrances. or click on Thích Nhất Hạnh's photo to the left. As he notes, When you deny the reality of life, you appreciate … Continue reading The Five Remembrances by the Buddha