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Archive for November, 2007

Laurence Overmire.

War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.
Laurence Overmire
And see the world through someone else’s eyes
Trip along the syllables
And taste the sweetness of the rhyme
The dripping of the consonants
Creates a music all its own
Thundering vowels and whirling images
Transcend our sleeping thoughts
The drums [...]

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Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Saint-Exupery
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
To love another person is to see the face of God.
Les Miserables
At the touch of love everyone [...]

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The fountain of youth is movement.
Life is a shooting star, burn bright.
Only a tenacious few will evade the smudge of history’s eventual eraser.
It is a comforting moment when we suddenly realize that our commitment to race, to participate in something so important to us-our dream-will be actualized. We have made it to the starting line. [...]

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“Our technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the fullness of being, that seeks to rest in an intuition of the very ground of all being. Without wisdom, the apparent opposition of action and contemplation, of work and rest, of involvement and [...]

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