Thank God, it's Frida!

Good Morning #BlueSky “The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.” ~ Reinhold Niebuhr “Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.” ~ H. Richard Niebuhr #religion

Remind you of anyone?

Finally! A solution we can live with

Rings true.

Good Morning #BlueSky "Nurture GREAT thoughts, for you will NEVER go HIGHER than your thoughts." ~ Benjamin Disraeli “What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein “Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Good Morning #BlueSky “The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures – is a definite symptom of maturity.” ~ Paul Tillich “Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone, and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.” ~ Paul Tillich

Morning #BlueSky “If you can't say ‘no’ you can't say ‘yes.’ You cannot affirm something unless you have the ability to deny it. Unless you have the ability to maintain your individuality by saying ‘no,’ any ‘yes’ that you may say is not a ‘yes.’ It's simply compliance and submission.” ~ S. Keleman

Good Morning #BlueSky “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” ~ Antonio Gramsci "...this is the liquid liminal time. Solids melt.” ~ Nora Bateson

#LindseyGraham

Good Morning #BlueSky Let's get loose With Compassion, Let's drown in the delicious Ambience of Love. ~Hafiz Last night while walking under the stars I caught the happy virus. It’s very contagious. So, kiss me! ~ #Hafiz

Good Morning #BlueSky Study me as much as you like, you will never know me, for I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes, and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see. ~Rumi

Thank God, it's Frida! #FridaKahlo

Good Morning #BlueSky “The Pueblo Indians told me that all Americans are crazy, and of course I was somewhat astonished and asked them why. They said, ‘Well, they say they think in their heads. No sound man thinks in his head. We think in the heart.’" ~ C.G. Jung

Another rough week in #Lyon #France

Good Morning #BlueSky “Ignore people who threaten your joy. Literally, ignore them. Say nothing. Don’t invite any parts of them into your space.” ~ Alex Elle “The problem with mental clarity is that you need to have mental clarity to understand what it means.” ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Good Morning #BlueSky “Max Planck, usually seen as the father of quantum mechanics, said:‘A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.’”~S Forrest

Who didn't see this one coming? #HarrietTubman

Good Morning #BlueSky “Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.” ~ Horace Greely "I am not interested in #fame and glory, but my rascal #shadow is." ~ Daryl Sharp, Jungian analyst, Eyes Wide Open: Late Thoughts

Good Morning #BlueSky “If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.” ~ Thomas Merton

Good Morning #BlueSky “Paradox is the essence of living. Perhaps the greatest paradox in the human psyche is our longing for union, for peace, for solutions, though experience has taught us that it is our conflicts and our failures which are our points of growth.” ~ Irene Claremont de Castillejo

Happy 250th America! "I could never lend myself to any transaction, however respectable, that would commercialize on the prestige and dignity of the office of the presidency. Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook." ~ President Harry Truman

Thank God, it's #Frida!

Good Morning #BlueSky "People decide to live a #spiritual life, they think it's going to be all flower petals and incense; but really it's much more like 'I can't eat my dinner because I've just learned something upsetting about myself.’" ~ David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., Transcending the #Mind

Of course they are. But hey, the radical liberal decision by #SCOTUS made them do it!

Good Morning #BlueSky “If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.” ~ Ramakrishna

Good Morning #BlueSky: “I am unmoved by appearances; therefore appearances move.” ~ Florence Shovel Shin “They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works." ~ Titus 1:16 "I am learning to love the sound of my feet walking away from things not meant for me." ~ St. Paul de Vence, France

Some fuckery going on . . .

Good Morning #BlueSky "Our culture suffers from materialism, consumerism and narcissism, with a few computer skills thrown in." ~ James Hollis “We are living in a Star Wars civilization with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions and Godlike technology.” ~ E. O. Wilson, Biologist

Good Morning #BlueSky It's Still #PrideMonth “No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.” ~ Marsha P. Johnson “We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise.” ~ Elliot Page “Gender is who you are, and sexuality is who you want.” ~ C.N. Lester