Quote of the Week 249 - New Years Resolution for Added Perspective - Remember the Earth

Once a day remember that you live on a globe largely covered with blue water, slowly rotating.

--Sparrow, “Fifteen Ways to Survive the Coming Collapse of Civilization”, The Sun magazine, December 2012, Issue 444

Writings of the Dawn Now Available at Online Retailers, Including Amazon and Barnes and Noble

My newest book, Writings of the Dawn - The Spiritual Adventures of a Baby-Boomer, is now available at online retailers, including Amazon and Barnes and Noble, in addition to the publisher, Lulu.

Quote of the Week 248 - How Will The World End?

How will the world end? The world will end in joy, because it is a place of sorrow. When joy has come, the purpose of the world has gone. The world will end in peace, because it is a place of war. When peace has come, what is the purpose of the world? The world will end in laughter, because it is a place of tears. When there is laughter, who can longer weep? In blessing it departs; it will not end as it began.

--A Course in Miracles

Quote of the Week 247 - It Takes Some Diving

Men are not free when they are doing just what they like…Men are only free when they are doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.

--D.H. Lawrence

Quote of the Week 246 - Prayers That Don't Work, Prayers That Work

We can’t pray that He make our lives free of problems; this won’t happen, and it is probably just as well. We can’t ask Him to make us and those we love immune to disease, because He can’t do that. We can’t ask Him to weave a magic spell around us so that bad things will only happen to other people, and never to us. People who pray for miracles usually don’t get miracles, any more than children who pray for bicycles, good grades, or boyfriends get them as a result of praying. But people who pray for courage, for strength to bear the unbearable, for the grace to remember what they have left instead of what they have lost, very often find their prayer answered. They discover that they have more strength, more courage than they ever knew themselves to have. Where did they get it? I would like to think that their prayers helped them find that strength. Their prayers helped them tap hidden reserves of faith and courage which were not available to them before.

--from When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner

Quote of the Week 245 - Falling Into the Cup of Wisdom

It seems as though I had not drunk from the cup of wisdom, but had fallen into it.

--Soren Kierkegaard

VIDEO ADDED: The One and Only Church of Universal Ice Cream

I am happy to announce that a video of my presentation on Universal Ice Cream is now available. It has been added to the links section at the right sidebar to this blog, and is also available here:
Universal Ice Cream - Vimeo
Universal Ice Cream - YouTube

Quote of the Week 244 - The Adventure of Life, the Superstition of Security

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

--Helen Keller

Quote of the Week 243 - A Definition of Sin

Sin is the refusal of humanity to become who we are.

--Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

Quote of the Week 242 - Teaching the Same Things

It seems that all my teachers teach the same things, and I continually fail to learn them:

1)   there is no limit to God;

2)   there is no limit to love; and

3)   there is no limit to how many times I can fail to realize there is no limit to God and love.

--Rabbi Rami Shapiro