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I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I’m just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren’t fully open yet. — Olivia Thirlby Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind … — William Shakespeare I have looked into your […]
You have been walking the water’s edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, deeper, under a thousand times deeper. Love flows down. — Rumi People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on […]
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us. — Jean-Paul Sartre The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. — Coco Chanel When I discover who I am, I’ll be free. — Ralph Ellison We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at […]
… give them to all the people who helped mother our children. … I don’t want something special. I want something beautifully plain. Like everything else, it can fill me only if it is ordinary and available to all. — Anne Lamott Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are. […]
Allegories of slavery & freedom in sacred texts: liberating or problematic? At the end of his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. alludes to the apostle Paul’s words in Galatians 3:28: “There is no longer Jew or […]
