Religion is belief in someone else's experience. Spirituality is having your own experience.
(source unknown)
4 January 2014
3 January 2014
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
—Thomas Merton, 1915-1968 (No Man Is an Island)
1 January 2014
31 December 2013
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
29 December 2013
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
—Albert Einstein
26 December 2013
Edward Snowden Christmas message : End mass surveillance.
London, UK
Ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden has delivered an “alternative” UK Christmas message, urging an end to mass surveillance. The broadcast was carried on BBC Channel 4 as an alternative to the Queen’s traditional Christmas message. The 30-year-old has temporary asylum in Russia after leaking details of US electronic surveillance programmes.
Snowden opened his two-minute message, recorded in Russia, with a reference to novelist George Orwell, author of 1984, saying the surveillance technology described in his works was “nothing compared to what we have today”.
View Edward Snowden’s two-minute video message here.
“Asking is cheaper than spying.”
23 December 2013
22 December 2013
A choice worth making…
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
21 December 2013
Axial tilt : the reason for the season.
Happy Solstice everyone…
18 December 2013
A problem for optimists is that they can never be pleasantly surprised.
Not that optimism is a bad thing…