in Fifth Month rain
splish-splash the strutting
crow

-Issa, 1814

http://cat.xula.edu/issa/

‘Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.’ ~Seneca

‘The art of looking at pictures can only be properly acquired by constantly looking at pictures ….’

Dr S.D. Jouhar FRPS FPSA (1946)

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth.” Oscar Wilde

“…the honor and distinction of the individual consist in this, that he among all the world’s multitudes should become a source of social good. Is any larger bounty conceivable than this, that an individual, looking within himself, should find that by the confirming grace of God he has become the cause of peace and well-being, of happiness and advantage to his fellow men? No, by the one true God, there is no greater bliss, no more complete delight.”

Abdu’l-Baha

the ontological vocation of the human race: humanization Paolo Freire

the goal of a true democracy such as ours, explained simply, is that any baby born in these United States, even if he is born to the blackest, most illiterate, most unprivileged Negro in Mississippi, is, merely by being born and drawing his first breath in this democracy, endowed with the exact same rights as a child born to a Rockefeller.

Of course it’s not true. Of course it never will be true. But I challenge anybody to tell me that it isn’t the type of goal we should try to get to as fast as we can.

Thurgood Marshall – Chief Justice United States Supreme Court (in the 1940s)

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1144

“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” (Sinclair Lewis)

“Contemplation is the highest expression of man’s intellectual and spiritual life. It is that life itself, fully awake, fully active, fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of life, of being. It is gratitude for life, for awareness, and for being. It is a vivid realization of the fact that life and being in us proceed from an invisible, transcendent and infinitely abundant Source. Contemplation is, above all, an awareness of the reality of that Source.”

Thomas Merton
New Seeds of Contemplation

I am the solution looking at the problem?