Saturday ~ February 19, 2017

Why are we suddenly a nation and a people who strive for security above all else? In fact, security is essentially elusive, impossible. We all die. We all get sick. We all get old. People leave us. People surprise us. People change us. Nothing is secure. And this is the good news. But only if you are not seeking security as the point of your life. Here's what happens when security becomes the center of your life. You can't travel very far or venture too far outside a certain circle.You can't allow too many conflicting ideas in your mind at one time as they might confuse you or challenge you. You can't open yourself to new experiences, new people, and new ways of doing things. They might take you off course. You cling desperately to your identity... Real security cannot be bought or arranged or accomplished with both bombs. It is deeper. It is a process. It is the acute awareness that we are all utterly interdependent and that one action by one being in one town has consequences everywhere. Real security is the ability to tolerate mystery, complexity, ambiguity - indeed hungering for these things.

( Eve Ensler, 1953 -    )

Sunday ~ February 12, 2017

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Those to which this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, are as good as dead. Their eyes are closed.

( Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955)

Sunday ~ February 12, 2017

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do.

( Naomi Shihab Nye, 1952 -   )