Tag: Civil Rights Movement

Heart-shaped hands and flame candle in darkness | Credit: Marco Verch | License: CC-BY 2.0

Hope

“Hope of consciousness is strength; hope of feelings is slavery; hope of body is disease.”  — Gurdjieff “This is a fearful, hopeless and even nihilistic time.”  — Michelle Goldberg “Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”  — Nietzsche Whew!! Other than placing your hope in consciousness, those are some pretty bleak quotes! Is hope hopeless? That’s the question I want to take on in this post. Read More

(Left: Title: Shoes taken off of the Jews-Holocaust Museum | Author: rpavich | Source: rpavich | License: CC BY 2.0) (Right: Berlin Holocaust Memorial)

The Menace of Mendacity

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. —Albert Einstein There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. —Buddha Truth is not a trivial thing. Words matter. Being accurate requires curiosity, diligence, and rigor. I know that everyone has a different idea about what is truth. Much of the debate started when Pontius Pilate asked Read More