Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

Once he had selected the path he was going down he really had to stick with it in a 16 game match. He had to try and hit in the one direction but unfortunately for him - though fortunately for me! - he hit in the wrong direction.

Popular Topics
Education, Disco, Relationships, Nice, Comfortable, Drama, Leadership, Job, Peace Love, Character, Surprised, Poet, Talent, Stage, Memorable, Teacher, Feelings, Inspiring, Worry, Enthusiast, Bible, Smile, Afternoon, Bear, Technical, Dress, Thing, Quiet, Gossip, Curiosity, Subject, Goodbye, Impossible, Things In Life, Feeling, Reality, Love, Passive, Art, Math, Life Is Like, Perfect Love, Night, Thinking, Brain, Thought, Path Of Love, Living My Life, Religion, Food
Aurora Levins Morales

What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only through mourning everything we have lost can we discover that we have in fact survived; that our spirits are indestructible.

Deeply, Faces, Fully, Mourning, Spirits, Taken
Same Author Quotes

The spiritual is whatever allows us to notice the miraculous nature of life.

Allows, Godly, Life, Miraculous, Spiritual

Right here in our bodies, in our defense of our right to experience joy, in the refusal to abandon the place where we have been most completely invaded & colonized, in our determination to make the bombed & defoliated lands flower again and bear fruit, here where we have been most shamed is one of the most radical & sacred places from which to transform the world.

Bear, Determination, Flower, Land, Sacred, Transform

Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration in the oppression of others, and from the deep recognition of our most expansive self-interest. From the recognition that, like it or not, our liberation is bound up with that of every other being on the planet, and that politically, spiritually, in our heart of hearts we know anything else is unaffordable.

Altruism, Deep, Heart, Integrity, Matter, Self

The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing the exploitation of others, and then, when social pressure builds, be blamed and scapegoated, distracting those at the bottom from the crimes of those at the top. Peasants who go on pogrom against their Jewish neighbors won't make it to the nobleman's palace to burn him out and seize the fields. This was the role of Jews in Europe. This has been the role of Jews in the United States, and this is the role of Jews in the Middle East.

Europe, Goes On, Jewish, Make, Noblemen, Pressure
Similar Quotes