Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in “justice” or in affirmation of “rights” or in defense of “peace” do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.
Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful.
Invest in the millenium.
There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.
Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away.
What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.
It’s mighty hard right now to think of anything that’s precious that isn’t endangered. There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
At night make me one with the darkness In the morning make me one with the light.
You can’t be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.
We don’t know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.
We must see that it is foolish, sinful and suicidal to destroy the health of nature for the sake of an economy that is really not an economy at all but merely a financial system, one that is unnatural, undemocratic, sacrilegious, and ephemeral.
Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.
We have become blind to the alternatives to violence.
In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.
We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.
But in its de facto alliance with Caesar, Christianity connives directly in the murder of Creation. For in these days, Caesar is no longer a mere destroyer of armies, cities, and nations. He is a contradicter of the fundamental miracle of life.
To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.
A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people.
We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy.
The mercy of the world is you don’t know what’s going to happen.