This is an excerpt from my good friend Sarah’s blog. (For the full blog, go here.) I found it quite thought-provoking, and decided to share/comment. “What will be the fossils that our civilization leave behind? Our ideas and thoughts are our greatest creations. In fact, they all carry aspects of our existence! Does this mean [...]
Archive for May, 2010
21 May
“The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is nonexistent.”
I have planned to write this post for a long time. As an animal lover, I have extreme dislike for people who abuse or mistreat animals. Animal fighting is one of the most cruel forms of abuse. I am not sure if one post will do the subject justice, and I may revisit the topic [...]
10 May
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
“It is not ignorance alone that keeps us from perceiving our personal, community and planetary problems or from acting to abate them…Yet many of us have insulated and isolated ourselves from the suffering of the world. The need seems so great, the hunger so vast, as to be almost overwhelming. In fear of being overwhelmed, [...]
