Eyes To See and Ears To Hear

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

The Second Coming, W.B. Yeats


"We speak not only through our actions but also through our failure to act...We have options in life, some better than others, and that, in many instances, we must deal with situations set up by others."

A Quaker Book of Wisdom, Robert Lawrence Smith


"...people who bring light into the world wrench it out of darkness and contend openly with darkness all of their days."

Speaking of Faith, Krista Tippett


"Man has always been his own most vexing problem."

The Nature and Destiny of Man, Rienhold Niebuhr