We can,
Each of us,
Do the impossible
As Long as we can convince ourselves
That it has been done before.
—Earthseed: The Books of the Living
[Personal Note: This should be my personal quote right now.]
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Tuesday, 30 September 2008 at 8:30 PM | Author: bishop
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Tuesday, 30 September 2008 at 2:30 PM | Author: bishop
To make peace with others,
Make peace with yourself:
Shape God
With generosity
And compassion.
Minimize harm.
Shield the weak.
Treasure the innocent.
Be true to the Destiny.
Forgive your enemies.
Forgive yourself.
—Earthseed: The Books of the Living
[Personal Note: This is one that I desperately need to learn right now.]
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Tuesday, 30 September 2008 at 9:30 AM | Author: bishop
Purpose
Unified us:
It focuses our dreams,
Guides our plans,
Strengthens our efforts.
Purpose
Defines us,
Shapes us,
And offers us
Greatness.
—Earthseed: The Books of the Living
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Sunday, 28 September 2008 at 10:58 AM | Author: bishop
Partnership is giving, taking,
learning, teaching, offering the
greatest possible benefit while doing
the least possible harm. Partnership
is mutualistic symbiosis. Partnership
is life.
Any entity, any process that
cannot or should not be resisted or
avoided must somehow be
partnered. Partner one another.
Partner diverse communities. Partner
life. Partner any world that is your
home. Partner God. Only in
partnership can we thrive, grow,
Change. Only in partnership can we
live.
—Earthseed: The Books of the Living
[Personal Note: I just want a partner that knows the meaning of symbiosis without the need of a dictionary.]
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Saturday, 27 September 2008 at 10:11 AM | Author: bishop
The child in each of us
Knows paradise.
Paradise is home.
Home as it was
Or home as it should have been.
Paradise is one’s own place,
One’s own people,
One’s own world,
Knowing and known,
Perhaps even
Loving and loved.
Yet every child
Is cast from paradise—
Into growth and destruction,
Into solitude and new community,
Into vast, ongoing
Change.
—Earthseed: The Books of the Living
[Personal Note: How ironic this morning ...]
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Friday, 26 September 2008 at 11:49 AM | Author: bishop
God is Change
And hidden within Change
Is surprise, delight,
Confusion, pain,
Discovery, loss,
Opportunity, and growth.
As always,
God exists
To shape
And to be shaped.
—Earthseed: The Books of the Living
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Thursday, 25 September 2008 at 8:36 AM | Author: bishop
Beware:
At war
Or at peace,
More people die
Of unenlightened self-interest
Than of any other disease.
—Earthseed: The Books of the Living
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 at 9:40 AM | Author: bishop
To shape God
With wisdom and forethought,
To benefit your world,
Your people,
Your life,
Consider consequences,
Minimize harm
Ask questions,
Seek answers,
Learn,
Teach.
—Earthseed: The Books of the Living
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Tuesday, 23 September 2008 at 10:36 AM | Author: bishop
God is Change,
And in the end,
God prevails.
But meanwhile …
Kindness eases Change.
Love quiets fear.
And a sweet and powerful
Positive obsession
Blunts pain,
Diverts rage,
And engages each of us
In the greatest,
The most intense
Of our chosen struggles.
—Earthseed: The Books of the Living
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Monday, 22 September 2008 at 8:28 AM | Author: bishop
Chaos
Is God’s most dangerous face—
Amorphous, roiling, hungry.
Shape Chaos—
Shape God.
Act.
Alter the speed
Or the direction of Change.
Vary the scope of Change.
Recombine the seeds of Change.
Transmute the impact of Change.
Seize Change.
Use it.
Adapt and grow.
—Earthseed: The Books of the Living
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Sunday, 21 September 2008 at 3:26 PM | Author: bishop
A contemporary artist has a song quite popular right now for its video of the need for global relief efforts in all areas of the world that, of course, has very little to do with the actual song itself. But there are two lines of the lyrics that stand out to me: Can we see beyond the scars / And make it to the dawn? If there is one thing that I see consistently through our studies of culture is the scars that exist throughout the various attempts both to change culture and to avoid change in culture. Humanity reaches out toward a new dawn in a new millennium and we have already seen it scarred by terrorist attacks on scales never before seen, wars of vengeance and retaliation from the most “advanced democracy” in the world, cultural imperialism over the greed for natural resources, and mere simple ignorance. We face the threat of a coming winter of human brutality across the globe in every area from nationalism to religion.
—bishop. “What About Now.” 2008: 1.
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Sunday, 21 September 2008 at 12:19 PM | Author: bishop
Darkness
Gives shape to the light
As light
Shapes the darkness.
Death
Gives shape to life
As life
Shapes death.
The universe
And God
Share this wholeness,
Each
Defining the other.
God
Gives shape to the universe
As the universe
Shapes God.
—Earthseed: The Books of the Living
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Saturday, 20 September 2008 at 11:18 AM | Author: bishop
We give our dead
To the orchards
And the groves.
We give our dead
To life.
Death
Is the great Change—
Is life’s greatest Change.
We honor our beloved dead.
As we mix their essence with the earth,
We remember them,
And within us,
They live.
—Earthseed: The Books of the Living
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