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guerilla-love: “Called “Favela Painting,” this brightly colored...

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:45:31 -0400

“Called “Favela Painting,” this brightly colored village is the work of Dutch artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn. Working in a slum outside Rio, their goal is to use art “as a tool to inspire, create beauty, combat prejudice, and attract attention.”

www.favelapainting.com/home

ELOQUENCE “There is a tremendous freedom in focusing on...

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:11:53 -0400

ELOQUENCE

“There is a tremendous freedom in focusing on connectedness, love, harmony, and being fully present. This is a critical aspect of eloquence through one central focus: Dare to be fully present and connected off the platform, every day, and in every single relationship. Eloquence is a way of living, not simply a way of speaking.”

Via: MichaelHyatt.com, From:Paid to Speak (Austin, TX: Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2011), 14

Image via: medformat; via speedtrials

“May you be at prayer in every stance, and reach...

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:38:39 -0400

“May you be at prayer

in every stance,

and reach heaven

from the place where you are.”

-In the Sanctuary of Women, by Jan L. Richardson

Image (by PerisianPowerhouse)

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Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:40:55 -0400

"My father used to say, “Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument."

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:19:10 -0400

“My father used to say, “Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument.””

- Archbishop Desmond Tutu (via quotebites)

Help #Joplin families by purchasing something from an Amazon Wish List

Sun, 29 May 2011 01:18:41 -0400

Help #Joplin families by purchasing something from an Amazon Wish List:

gailbhyatt:

“Help Joplin! I’ve Never Been to Joplin, But, I have sisters who live there (and don’t even know me:) …” this is the beginning of Tracey Solomon’s story and why she cares. It really moved me.

What a great idea. An Amazon Wish List for families in Joplin. I just bought some PullUps for little ones in Joplin. You can help too, and it’s so easy.

Read the story here: http://snipurl.com/27xp87 (There is a link embedded to the Amazon Wish List.)

Go straight to Amazon here: http://snipurl.com/amazonjoplinmops

May it be the end of the world as we know...

Sat, 21 May 2011 11:03:41 -0400

May it be the end of the world as we know it.

(via miketodd07)

"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides..."

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 03:55:09 -0400

““Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being ‘in love’ which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.””

- Captain Corellis Mandolin (via tinafrancis)

"The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best..."

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:36:46 -0400

“The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn’t seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late.”

- Joseph E. Stiglitz, Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% (Vanity Fair, May 2011)

Love is …

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 02:06:56 -0400

Love is …

soupsoup: I know you are asking today, “How long will it...

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:17:02 -0500

soupsoup:

I know you are asking today, “How long will it take?”….

I come to say to you this afternoon, however difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long, because truth crushed to earth will rise again.

How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever.

How long? Not long, because you shall reap what you sow….

How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"I don’t think of it as working for world peace, she said. I think of it as just trying to get along..."

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 23:44:16 -0500

“I don’t think of it as working for world peace, she said. I think of it as just trying to get along in a really big strange family.”

- StoryPeople.com (via miketodd07)
Blessed are the peacemakers

Ugh. So much to unlearn. tobehoweth: Wow.

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:09:04 -0500

Ugh. So much to unlearn.

tobehoweth:

Wow.

Dreams. Mountains. Yes. I believe.

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:20:21 -0500

Dreams. Mountains.

Yes.

I believe.

For the love of jumping off cliffs and rocks and dreams. #leap

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:17:28 -0500

For the love of jumping off cliffs and rocks and dreams. #leap

tinafrancis: (by VvBerger)

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:05:49 -0500

tinafrancis:

(by VvBerger)

"It is when we begin to pay attention, and seek integrity to the task within the task that we begin..."

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:06:38 -0500

“It is when we begin to pay attention, and seek integrity to the task within the task that we begin to move from the first to the second half of our lives. Most often we don’t pay attention to that inner task until we have had some kind of fall or failure in our outer tasks. This pattern is invariably true for reasons I have yet to fathom.”

- Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life (via miketodd07)

“The kingdom of God is for the bigoted, the murderers, the child...

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:24:00 -0500

“The kingdom of God is for the bigoted, the murderers, the child molesters, the brutals, the drug lords, the terrorists, the perverted, the raging alcoholics, the over-consumerists, the incredibly ugly, the dumb, the ignorant, the starving, the filled, the filthy and the filthy rich. The Kingdom of God is for everyone.”

HT, Tina Francis @teenbug via SheLovesmagazine.com

Love Thu night girls. All of you. Also those of you not in the...

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:38:41 -0500

Love Thu night girls. All of you. Also those of you not in the pic. (Taken with instagram)

Many words, deep wisdom

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:58:36 -0500

I need to drink You deeply.

Today.

“Many words rush along like rivers in flood, but deep wisdom flows up from artesian springs.” -Proverbs 18:4