If only...

If saying Ram (God) gave liberation
saying candy made your mouth sweet,
saying fire burned your feet,
saying water quenched your thirst,
saying food banished hunger,
the whole world would be free.

Kabir.

Martyred in Pakistan

"I have led an unusual life....I have buried a father
killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime
of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother
when my husband was arrested and held for eight
years without a conviction - a hostage to my political
career.

I made my choice when the mantle of political
leadership was thrust upon my shoulders after
my father's murder. I did not shrink from
responsibility then, and I will not
shrink from it now."

MRS. BENAZIR BHUTTO (Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
from The Washington Post. As quoted in the Editorial and Opinion
of the Rocky Mountain News, Friday 12/28/07.

Judging others...

There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly behooves any of us
To talk about the rest of us.

Joaquin Miller (1841-1913)

Morality

Morality, thou deadly bane,
Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain!
Vain is his hope, whase stay an' trust is
In moral mercy, truth, and justice!

Robert Burns...

Faith question

FAITH THAT DOES NOT DOUBT IS DEAD FAITH

MIGUEL DE UNAMUNDO

....but preparation..

To love is good, too: love being difficult.
For one human being to love another:
that is perhaps the most difficult of all
our tasks, the ultimate, the last
test and proof, the work for which all
other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke
from Letters to a Young Poet.