Monthly Archives: October 2013
“I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would also be free.” ~ Rosa Parks
Women’s suffragists parade down Fifth Avenue, New York, October 1917, carrying the signatures of a million women. So amazed by all the ass kicking women who came before us and risked so much for our freedoms. Forever inspired and grateful!!
Thanks to Women’s Rights News for this post.
“We are first and foremost citizens of the Earth.” ~Vandana Shiva
This is an awesome and short video where Vandana Shiva explains her concept of an Earth democracy. Love her!
“Let us fall in love again and scatter gold dust all over the world. Let us become a new spring and feel the breeze drift in heaven’s scent. Let us dress the earth in green and like the sap of a young tree let the grace from within us sustain us. Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to Love. The glance of Love is crystal clear and we are blessed by its light.” ~Rumi
Art by Rio Bagoes Nugroho
Abby Martin from Breaking the Set highlights a number of communities around the world that have risked life and limb to force out corporations who are pillaging their land and resources citing cases like Dole in the Philippines and McDonalds in Bolivia. Power to the people!!
“The global corporatocracy—composed of a few giant industrial-financial oligopolies—makes a striking 75 percent of all profits in the third world today. Giant corporations based in the world’s richest countries—the Triad of the United States, Western Europe, and Japan—control the world’s technology, natural resources, finance, communications and information, and weapons of mass destruction. These powers now substitute, for the ancient privilege of the exclusive industrialization of the West, in ensuring the worldwide dominion of this super-elite.”
~Ravi Bhandari
“If your private dreams are out of accord with the public mythology you’ll be in trouble if you’re forced to live in that system – many visionaries and leaders… they’ve moved out of the society that would have protected them and into the dark forest, the world of fire, of original experience. Original experience has not been interpreted for you so you’ve got to work out your life for yourself… The courage to face trials and to bring in a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience is the hero’s deed.” ~Joseph Campbell
Art by Anne Bachelier
“This magnificent refuge is inside you. Enter! Shatter the darkness that shrouds the doorway. Be bold. Be humble. Put away the incense and forget the incantations they taught you. Ask no permission from the authorities. Close your eyes and follow your breath to the still place that leads to the invisible path that leads you home.” ~Theresa of Avila
Art by Dan Elijah G. Fajardo
“As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.” ~Charlie Chaplin
“Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the ‘normal people’ as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like ‘Have a nice day’ and ‘Weather’s awful today, eh?’ you yearn inside to say forbidden things like ‘Tell me something that makes you cry’ or ‘What do you think deja vu is for?’ Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everybody carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.” ~Timothy Leary
Art by Cameron Gray
Under The Blue Door 