"When we define we also confine..."
Could it be this ??
Angels here on earth. I feel there are those souls who were "assigned" certain life paths to be such. Maya Angelou, Martin Luther King, Oprah, and who knows -- perhaps our own Jeanne Mayell. Just because one person's role is perhaps larger than another's doesn't detract from the assignment for good. ?
Thought of all of us here when I read this today:
Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.
Angels here on earth. I feel there are those souls who were "assigned" certain life paths to be such. Maya Angelou, Martin Luther King, Oprah, and.... ?
And each of you.
I've always loved and often shared that L.R. Knost quoation!
Here's another one of hers:
"Life is amazing. And then it's awful. And then it's amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it's ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That's just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it's breathtakingly beautiful."
It's good for all of to accept the plateaus as well as delight in the view from the hills and grieve in the cavernous sorrows.
Oh, that last part is from me not her ?
I've always loved and often shared that L.R. Knost quoation!
Here's another one of hers:
"Life is amazing. And then it's awful. And then it's amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it's ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That's just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it's breathtakingly beautiful."
It's good for all of to accept the plateaus as well as delight in the view from the hills and grieve in the cavernous sorrows.
Oh, that last part is from me not her ?
I heard Joaquin Phoenix's Oscar speech (posted elsewhere in this forum) but his brother's words resonate with me:
"Run to the Rescue with Love and Peace will Follow".
Thank you River Phoenix.
here is the full transcript of Joaquin Phoenix's speech:
Hi. What’s up? Hi. God, I’m full of so much gratitude right now and I do not feel elevated above any of my fellow nominees or anyone in this room, because we share the same love, the love of film, and this form of expression has given me the most extraordinary life. I don’t know what I’d be without it.
But I think the greatest gift that it has given me, and many of us in this room, is the opportunity to use our voice for the voiceless. I’ve been thinking a lot about some of the distressing issues that we are facing collectively, and I think at times we feel or are made to feel that we champion different causes. But for me, I see commonality.
I think whether we’re talking about gender inequality or racism or queer rights or indigenous rights or animal rights, we’re talking about the fight against injustice — against the belief that one nation, one race, one gender or one species has the right to dominate, control, and use and exploit another with impunity.
I think that we’ve become very disconnected from the natural world and many of us, what we’re guilty of is an egocentric worldview — the belief that we’re the center of the universe. We go into the natural world and we plunder it for its resources. We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow, and when she gives birth, we steal her baby. Even though her cries of anguish are unmistakable. And then we take her milk that’s intended for her calf and we put it in our coffee and our cereal.
And I think we fear the idea of personal change because we think that we have to sacrifice something to give something up but human beings, at our best, are so inventive and creative and ingenious, and I think that when we use love and compassion as our guiding principles, we can create, develop, and implement systems of change that are beneficial to all sentient beings and to the environment.
Now, I have been — I’ve been a scoundrel in my life. I’ve been selfish, I’ve been cruel at times, hard to work with. And I’m grateful [to] so many of you in this room [who] have given me a second chance and I think that’s when we’re at our best, when we support each other, not when we cancel each other out for past mistakes, but when we help each other to grow, when we educate each other, when we guide each other toward redemption. That is the best of humanity.
I just — I want to — when he was 17, my brother wrote this lyric. He said, “Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow.” Thank you