"Truth alone is strong." ----James Russell Lowell

Excerpts from Martin Luther King's 1967 speech, A Time To Break Silence




"A genuine revolution of values means in the final analysis that our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.

This call for a world-wide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all men. This oft misunderstood and misinterpreted concept -- so readily dismissed by the Nietzsches of the world as a weak and cowardly force -- has now become an absolute necessity for the survival of man. When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality. This Hindu-Moslem-Christian-Jewish-Buddhist belief about ultimate reality is beautifully summed up in the first epistle of Saint John:

Let us love one another; for love is God and everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. If we love one another God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

Let us hope that this spirit will become the order of the day. We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate. As Arnold Toynbee says : ' Love is the ultimate force that makes for the saving choice of life and good against the damning choice of death and evil. Therefore the first hope in our inventory must be the hope that love is going to have the last word.'


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Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter -- but beautiful -- struggle for a new world. "

Alive Together

A very honest and ultimately, a very forgiving account of one man's experience with Prolonged Exposure Therapy. 
It did not help.  It did not heal.
And it forced him to listen to himself above those who were insisting they knew better. 
In listening to himself, he found something that did help, that did heal.




After PTSD, More Trauma


Written by David J. Morris
Artwork by Dadu Shin

Credit Dadu Shin

  

Zero

Number of times the end justifies the means.

King

“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.   Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”


---Martin Luther King Jr. 


So beautiful to read.


So difficult to live. 

Do As I Do As I Do As I Do

“Our children are watching how we live far more than they are hearing what we say. They are learning how to live by our choices, not by our words.”

– L.R. Knost

Famous Last Words

" His last words, aside from the repeated word 'God,' were 'God bless... God damn.' "

----last words of James Thurber, according to Helen Thurber