Sunday, April 4, 2010

Martin Luther King, Jr. on Progress

A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
April 4, 1967

Source: hartford-twp.com

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Scott Memmer on Skidding

Look where you want to go, and not at what you might run into. One big mistake novice drivers make is to focus on obstacles.... Unfortunately, the human body has an invisible connection with the mind. When the mind focuses on something, the body follows. Don't do that. Instead, direct your attention to the open space next to the tree. The body -- and car -- will follow.

Scott Memmer
Here's Looking at You, Skid
Driving Tips at Edmunds.com

Source: edmunds.com

Joseph Campbell on Perspective

We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes.

Joseph Campbell from Sukhavati
 
Source: goodreads.com

Joseph Campbell on Living

People say that what we're seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Joseph Campbell


Source: sapphyr.net