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Comment by Lucy Gordon on October 15, 2011 at 12:38

Hey I've just created a new Intersect group called Writing for Change. If you enjoy writing come have a look :)

Comment by Lucy Gordon on May 22, 2011 at 19:01

If the Earth were only a few feet in diameter, floating a few feet above a field somewhere, people would come from everywhere to marvel at it. People would walk around it, marvelling at its big pools of water, its little pools, and the water flowing between the pools. People would marvel at the bumps on it, and the holes in it, and the different areas on it. And they would marvel at the very thin layer of gas surrounding it and at the water suspended in the gas. People would marvel at all the creatures walking around the surface of the ball, and at the creatures in the water, and at the green vegetation growing on the surface. The people would declare it as sacred, because it was the only one, and they would protect it so that it would not be hurt. The ball would be the greatest wonder known, and people would come to pray to it, to be healed, to gain its knowledge, to know its great beauty, and to defend it with their lives because they would somehow know that their lives, their own roundness, could be nothing without it. If the Earth were only a few feet in diameter.

(Olaf Skarsholt, 1990)

Comment by Lucy Gordon on May 1, 2011 at 22:53

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.

Frederick Douglass

Comment by Peter Fernando on April 30, 2011 at 11:41

Came across this quote yesterday... Nice!

Nothing touches us more deeply than the implicit value of our own beingness itself

Hammed Ali

Comment by Kara-Leah Grant on April 23, 2011 at 16:41

Was given Heart Yoga - The Marriage of Yoga and Mysticism yesterday and it's rocking my world.

We believe that only intense and deep mystical love, strength, and passion, combined with a commitment to sustained transformative action, can now preserve the planet. This fusion of body and soul enables people to find the luminous energy, calm and power they will need in order to become Sacred Activists and give birth to a new world." Andrew Harvey & Karuna Erickson

 

 

 

Comment by Carl Chenery on January 20, 2011 at 14:31

‘I bargained with life for a penny
And life would pay no more
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store
For life is just an employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.
I worked for a menial’s hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have willingly paid.'

- Napolean Hill’s Think and Grow Rich

Comment by Megan Salole on September 30, 2010 at 11:20

I wanted to share this prayer by Dr Jane Goodall with with you because, this year is the UN Year for Biodiversity:

We pray to the great Spiritual Power in which
we live and move and have our being.
We pray that we may at all times
keep our minds open to new ideas and shun dogma;
that we may grow in our understanding of the nature of all living beings
and our connectedness with the natural world;
that we may become ever more filled with
generosity of spirit and true compassion and love for all life;
that we may strive to heal the hurts that we have inflicted on nature
and control our greed for material things, knowing that
our actions are harming our natural world and the future of our children;
that we may value each and every human being
for who he is, for who she is,
reaching to the spirit that is within,
knowing the power of each individual to change the world.
We pray for social justice,
for the alleviation of the crippling poverty
that condemns millions of people around the world
to lives of misery - hungry, sick, and utterly without hope.
We pray for the children who are starving,
who are condemned to homelessness, slave labour, and prostitution,
and especially for those forced to fight, to kill and torture
even members of their own family.
We pray for the victims of violence and war,
for those wounded in body and for those wounded in mind.
We pray for the multitudes of refugees, forced from their homes to alien places
through war or through the utter destruction of their environment.
We pray for suffering animals everywhere,
for an end to the pain caused by scientific experimentation,
intensive farming, fur farming, shooting, trapping,
training for entertainment, abusive pet owners,
and all other forms of exploitation
such as overloading and overworking pack animals,
bull fighting, badger baiting, dog and cock fighting and so many more.
We pray for an end to cruelty,
whether to humans or other animals,
for an end to bullying, and torture in all its forms.
We pray that we may learn the peace that comes with forgiving
and the strength we gain in loving;
that we may learn to take nothing for granted in this life;
that we may learn to see and understand with our hearts;
that we may learn to rejoice in our being.
We pray for these things with humility;
We pray because of the hope that is within us,
and because of a faith in the ultimate triumph of the human spirit;
We pray because of our love for Creation, and because of our trust in God.
We pray, above all, for peace throughout the world.

Prayer for World Peace - Dr. Jane Goodall
UN Messenger for Peace
Founder of Roots and Shoots

Comment by Elizabeth Connor on June 11, 2010 at 14:27

"My home is New Zealand. We're as close to the South Pole as you can get and still have running water. The edge gives us a special attitude. Cutting edge, leading edge, bleeding edge, the edge of inspiration, on the edge of our seats. It's a place to shake off conventions and worn-out formulas, and shake out ideas. New Ideas. The edge is exciting and risky and extreme. I love it." Kevin Roberts, Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide CEO

Comment by christina bellis on June 7, 2010 at 16:12

hey beka - what's that mean?? books can blow your mind???

Comment by Rebeka Whale on June 6, 2010 at 17:40

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