Sunday, November 17, 2024

Thought for the Day

This is precisely the time when artists to to work.
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity,
no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak,
we write [. . .] That is how civilizations heal.
~ Toni Morrison
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Quoted from Toni Morrison, "No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear" in The Nation (150th Anniversary Issue), April 6, 2015 (Online)

Toni Morrison (1931 - 2019), American Novelist, Editor; Recipient, Nobel Prize in Literature

Sunday, November 10, 2024

Thought for the Day

Both emptiness and form are saturated with love.
And our love for each other and for the Earth is
the most natural expression of this one quality.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
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Quoted from Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, "Unborn and Undying" (Essay) in Emergence Magazine, November 3, 2024 (Online) An audio presentation by Vaughan-Lee also is available at the link.

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Sufi Teacher, Author, Editor, Lecturer

Sunday, November 3, 2024

Thought for the Day

Who would dream for us to be better if it were not
the artist? And who would show us the way if it
were not for the storyteller?
~ Jamaica Osorio
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Quoted in Introductory Remarks to "Shifting Landscapes Film Series" in October 6, 2024, Newsletter of Emergence Magazine

See Adam Loften's and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee's Film "Aloha 'Aina" with Jamaica Osorio

Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, Ph.D., Native Hawaiian (Kanaka Maoli) Poet; Activist; Author, Remembering our Intimacies (University of Minnesota Press, 2021); Associate Professor of Indigenous and Native Hawaiian Politics, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Jamaica Osorio Website