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Thoughts have wings

“Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your … Continue reading

24 September, 2006 · 1 Comment

Lao Tse on peace

If there is to be peace in the world, There must be peace in the nations. If there is to be peace in the nations, There must be peace in … Continue reading

23 September, 2006 · 1 Comment

Calling Budding Poets for Palestine

From Poetic Injustice, Remi Kanazi writes:  Al Jisser is accepting submissions for its upcoming book: Poets for Palestine. The concept of this book was inspired by two spoken word shows … Continue reading

6 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Perhaps the UN General Assembly could try this approach? :)

… substituting individual actions, of course, for nations …. “In the Babemba tribe of South Africa, when a person acts irresponsibly or unjustly, he is placed in the centre of … Continue reading

4 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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