Integrity

"Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it
politic?’ But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there
comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor
politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right." —
...Martin Luther King, Jr.

Women's Bodies

"Women's body has carried the man's shadow of lust, greed and sloth.  Consciousness is also absent that neither recognizes the rape of the body soul.  Neither considers it a moral issue.  Neither hears the voice crying out from dis-eased genitals.   Each goes to the doctor for pills and salve."  Marion Woodman

Soulful Relationships

"A soulful relationship is not a simple gift; it asks for concentrated cultivation. Anyone can find vernacular sources of soul in the familiar world around them, but there is a spirit in our time that goes against the vernacular. It prefers the abstract, the general, and the numerically insignificant. This abstracting spirit trickles down to our relationships and shrinks the space necessary for the soul. It is a philosophy that finds comfort in knowing what the majority feels and thinks. It's also a moralism that tells us, based on majority opinion, how to be in relationship. But to live a vernactular life and find vernacular intimacy, one has to go against the tide and cherish the things that call out to us in particular, whether or not they are valued by the culture around us." Thomas Moore

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Integrity

"Integrity does not mean a moral judgment.  It simply means to live from the place in you that has the greatest truth."  Rachel Naomi Remen

Soulful Relationships

"The soulful relationship asks to be honored for what it is, not for what we wish it could be.   It has little to do with our intentions, expectations and moral requirements.   It has the potential to lead us into the mysteries that expand our hearts and transform our thoughts, but it can't do that when our primary interest is in pursuing our cherished ideologies of love, family, marriage and community."   Thomas Moore

Morality and Religion

"The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to
any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the
authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action."  Einstein

Morality and Religion

"One of the greatest tragedies in human history was the hijacking of morality by religion." Sir Arthur C. Clarke

God's Image

"We have done terrible damage to the image of God.   We have caricatured Gad as a moral accountant and done what should never have done: We have frozen the feeling of God and separated the mind of God into war with our own nature.   God has not done that, our thinking has.  This has closed the door on any possibility of entering into our true belonging.   We are victims of longing and we cannot come home."  John O' Donahue

Discovery

"When you limit your life to one frame of thinking you close out the mystery.   When you fence in the desires of your heart within fixed walls of belief, morality and convention, you dishonor the call of discovery.   You create gray fields of 'quiet desperation'.   Discovery is the nature of the soul.   There is some wildness of divinity in us, calling us to live everything."   John O' Donahue