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  • June 28th, 2012 1:29pm

    To again quote Bradbury, what optimal behaviors should we be taking to slow climate change or end wasteful oil subsidies or improve the health of our citizenry or protect the integrity of our food supply?

    We all want change on these issues, but it won’t come without action. When we look back in a year, we will want to be pleased with the sum of our work. We will want to see our hope create change through action. The Republicans continuously prove the method works. When will we do the work required to win?

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    While the individual mandate was found to be constitutional, a key lesson in the fight over health care reform is to realize how Republicans helped create this moment. In a post published prior to the today’s ruling, Chris Tackett argues that the environmental and sustainability movements need to think about creating situations or “realities” in which their goals can be politically feasible. 

    Read the rest: Whether Obamacare is Constitutional or Not, Republicans Created This Reality. A Lesson We Can’t Afford to Ignore

    (via treehugger)

  • June 26th, 2012 11:14pm

    Sometimes. Mostly, no. It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.

    — Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book (via whisperthroughtherain)

  • June 25th, 2012 6:15pm

    Very often, I am asked to address groups of people. When this happens, my approach is threefold. Firstly, as a human being, I talk about what I have termed Universal Responsibility. By this I mean the responsibility that we all have for each other and for all sentient beings and also for all of Nature.

    —  the Dalai Lama, in his book,  Freedom in Exile (Source by Ana R.)

  • June 24th, 2012 11:42am

    Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.

    — Dalai Lama

  • June 21st, 2012 11:52am

    The fundamental precept of Buddhism is Interdependence or the Law of Cause and Effect. This simply states that everything which an individual experiences is derived through action from motivation. Motivation is thus the root of both action and experience. From this understanding are derived the Buddhist theories of consciousness and rebirth.

    — Dalai Lama – Freedom In Exile 

  • June 18th, 2012 11:20pm

    I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.

    — Aristotle (via girlwithoutwings)

  • June 18th, 2012 10:28pm

    I cupped both hands over my mouth and, like Tarzan in the jungle, yelled from one sidewalk to the other: ”Maaaeeestro!” Ernest Hemingway understood that there could be no other master amid the multitude of students, and he turned, raised his hand and shouted to me in Castillian in a very childish voice, ”Adiooos, amigo!” It was the only time I saw him… [it left] me with the impression that something had happened in my life, and had happened for all time.

    — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 30 years ago, on seeing Ernest Hemingway 32 years earlier in Paris.  Full story at Wired.  (via doubledaybooks)

  • June 18th, 2012 10:02pm

    According to Greek Mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate beings, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

    — Plato – The Symposium 

  • June 14th, 2012 8:42pm

    We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

    — Dalai Lama XIV

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