“Anyone who closes his eyes to the past is blind to the present. Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risk of infection.”
~~~ Richard von Weizsäcker, President of West Germany, in 1985 marking the 40th anniversary of the end of World War II (copied from an article in the Washington Post)
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If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.
~~~ Richard Rohr
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Intellect does not function in opposition to mystery; tolerance is not more pragmatic than love; and cynicism is not more reasonable than hope.
Krista Tippett, from Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living, p. 236
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A gift from my sister to honor our dad, known here as Paco, on his 96th birthday last week. ❤
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No pot of gold at the end of this rainbow, but happy Saint Patrick’s Day nonetheless!
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Our brains prefer a simple falsehood to a complex truth.
Brian McClaren describing complexity bias in an insightful post
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I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I take it as an elemental truth of life that words matter.
Krista Tippett in Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living, page 15
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Rest in peace, Officer Brian Sicknick and Captain Sir Tom Moore.
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