Our prayers are prophets.
At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different
One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capital should be free to roam but labour must remain imprisoned within the nation state.
In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.
Social solidarity must rest (instead) on the sole secure basis it can have: direct responsibility of people for one another. Such responsibility can be realized through the principle that every able-bodied adult holds a position within a caring economy - the part of the economy in which people care for one another - as well as within the production system
The essential thing, the ultimate goal of politics and thought, is a bigger life for the individual. A bigger life – that remains the main objective…to increase our divine attributes to have moral life.
The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.
I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.
Providing internship opportunities… changes the whole equation.
How we live our lives does not,unfortunately depend on us alone. Circumstances,good or bad,constantly intervene. A person close to us die. A person not so close to us carries on living. All these things affect how we live.
Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.