Thought for Today

“There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.”—  Todd Gitlin Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/todd_gitlin.html

Thought for Today

“Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it”. —Kevyn Aucoin Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_freedom.html

Thought for Today and a Few of My Own

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” ― Joe Klaas, Twelve Steps to Happiness Yes, it will — do both things.  I remember one of my college classes, The God Man Christian Experience.  It was basically a class on Christian Mysticism, not from so much an historical perspective asContinue reading “Thought for Today and a Few of My Own”

Thought for Today

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, onContinue reading “Thought for Today”

Thought for Today

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” — Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfman/2014/07/04/20-quotes-on-liberty-and-freedom-in-honor-of-independence-day/#1a5d304645b7

Thought for Today

“Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery”. — Pope John Paul II Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/nationalism.html