"A country which prefers guns to flowers will live the beauty of the flowers only in its graveyards." —Mehmet Murat Ildan
About Me
- Jeff White
- Erie, CO, United States
- Parent and LGBTQ+ ally. To decry evil is far from doing good. "When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice." Cherokee proverb "Live your life so that your children can tell their children that you not only stood for something wonderful - you acted on it." Dan Zandra
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- "The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes i...
- "Learn to look behind your judgments to the need a...
- A Prayer
- "The soul of our country needs to be awakened. . ....
- "Why do we keep hiding our deepest feelings from e...
- "'I tell my students, “When you get these jobs tha...
- "Hope is not about what we expect. It is an embrac...
- Knowing Jesus, reading his words, and praying crea...
- "She asked why I was so black. I asked why she was...
- "You cannot change any society unless you take res...
- "In normal life we hardly realize how much more we...
- The Beauty of Letter Writing
- "We must first of all love ourselves. But as we gr...
- "Writing is a process in which we discover what li...
- [Reactions to victims pardoning offenders shows] h...
- "Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not s...
- "Just imagine if all the energy that goes into fig...
- "I know how great a temptation it is in times of ...
- "A country which prefers guns to flowers will liv...
- Spiritual Freedom
- "Religion without humanity is very poor human stuf...
- "Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to...
- "Peace is not merely the absence of visible confli...
- "In the flush of love's light / we dare be brave /...
- "Going high doesn’t mean putting on a smile and sa...
- "You do not need to know precisely what is happeni...
- "The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic ...
- "It is time to be honest about our beliefs and who...
- "It makes no one safer to make our cities and the ...
- Poverty is a Quality of the Heart
- Receiving the Gifts of Others
- "I think part of Gandhi's greatness was that he di...
- Our Gifts Are Not The Same As Our Talents
- Let Go
- "Gandhi was probably the first person in history ...
- "Hope is not a form of guarantee, it's a form of e...
- "Every person needs to take one day away. A day in...
- "Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and p...
- "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of hum...
- "Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is ...
- We Are Seen by God’s Loving Eyes
- "To survive as a human being is possible only thro...
- Nothing Human is Alien
- Being is More Important than Doing
- "What will make [humans] change, deeply, fundamen...
- Sowing Love
- "Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed...
- “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is...
- "All miracles are due to the silent and effective ...
- "If we don’t work with our own mind and perception...
- We Are Called To Be Fruitful
- "The prophets didn’t spend time blaming or demoniz...
- "Because we live in a nation that has begun its pa...
- "Our anger is moral. Our rage is sacred. Our anxie...
- "For some decades now, we have been going through ...
- Know What the Scoop Is
- "The corporate revolution will collapse if we refu...
- "Each of us must decide whether it is more importa...
- Where to Put Our Attention
- "It is the truth that to be a person of faith in A...
- "For the millions in a prisonThat wealth has set a...
- "We can collectively regain our faith in the trans...
- "Anchor the eternity of love in your own soul and ...
- "If we are mentally trying to understand the other...
- The Sacred and the Holy
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