I think that all social justice movements are destined to fail until individuals are willing to accept and cherish those things that differentiate us rather than those things that would seem to homogenize us. We cannot change society until we change the hearts and minds of those around us until I change my mind and mind first. All that is necessary to change the world is to change me.
Dominick

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.

Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Falsehood has infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. Thomas Jefferson

Oh my soul....be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions. T. S. Elliot

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. ...Lucy Maud Montgomery

The transcendence and glory of God must be conjoined with immanence; heavfen must be balanced with earth, In other words, God's distance must be complemented by his nearness....Brenman Manning