motherofearth
Bluelighter
It is easy to quit something when you are satisfied.
-D Draper
It is easy to quit something when you are satisfied.
If you spend your life trying to make other people happy, you spend your life
-- ???Strength is what's left when you run out of weakness
Our memories, our choices, and our experiences are all we have left in the end.
At the end of the game, the queen and the pawn go back into the same box.
Government cannot be done away with instantaneously,
but progress will come, as it has in the past by
lessening the number of laws. We want less governing,
and the Ideal Government will arrive when there is no
government at all.
So long as governments set the example of killing their
enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill
theirs. So long as men are clubbed, robbed,
imprisoned, disgraced, hanged by the governing class, just
so long will the idea of violence and brutality be born in
the souls of men.
Governments imprison men, and then hound them when
they are released.
Hate springs eternal in the human breast.
And hate will never die so long as men are taken from useful
production on the specious plea of patriotism, and
bayonets gleam in God's pure sunshine.
And the worst part about making a soldier of a man is,
not that the soldier kills brown men or black men or
white men, but it is that the soldier loses his own soul.
I am an Anarchist.
I do not believe in bolts or bars or brutality. I make
my appeal to the Divinity in men, and they, in some
mysterious way, feeling this, do not fail me. I send
valuable books without question, on a postal card
request, to every part of the Earth where the mail can carry
them, and my confidence is never abused. The Roycroft
Shop is never locked, employees and visitors come and go at
pleasure, and nothing is molested. My library is for
anyone who cares to use it.
Out in the great world women occasionally walk off the dock in
the darkness, and then struggle for life in the deep waters.
Society jigs and ambles by, with a coil of rope, but
before throwing it demands of the drowning one a
certificate of character from her Pastor, or a letter of
recommendation from her Sunday School
Superintendent, or a testimonial from a School
Principal. Not being able to produce the document the
struggler is left to go down to her death in the darkness.
A so-called "bad woman" is usually one whose soul is
being rent in an awful travail of prayer to God that she may
get back upon solid footing and lead an honest life. Believing
this, the Roycroft principle is to never ask for such a
preposterous thing as a letter of recommendation from
anyone. We have a hundred helpers, and while it must
not be imagined by any means that we operate a
reform school or a charitable institution, I wish to say that I
distinctly and positively refuse to discriminate between "good"
and "bad" people. I will not condemn, nor for an
instant imagine that it is my duty to resolve myself into a
section of the Day of Judgement.
I fix my thought on the good that is in every soul and
make my appeal to that. And the plan is a wise one,
judged by results. It secures you loyal helpers, worthy
friends, gets the work done, aids digestion and tends to
sleep o'nights. And I say to you, that if you have never
known the love, loyalty and integrity of a proscribed
person, you have never known what love, loyalty and
integrity are.
I do not believe in governing by force, or threat, or any
other form of coercion. I would not arouse in the heart of
any of God's creatures a thought of fear, or discord, or
hate or revenge. I will influence men, if I can, but it shall
be only by aiding them to think for themselves; and so
mayhap, they, of their own accord choose the better
part — the ways that lead to life and light.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them
Albert Einstein
Sorry for making the other thread (I think neversick moved my post/combined it into here). It was my fault for not looking harder. I saw the others in archives and I assumed nothing was made since then, excuse me for my ignorance.
"For the love of a tree, she went out on a limb.
For the love of the sea, she rocked the boat.
For the love of the earth, she dug deeper.
For the love of community, she mended fences.
For the love of the Stars, she let her light shine.
For the love of spirit, she nurtured her soul.
For the love of a good time, she sowed seeds of happiness.
For the love of the Goddess, she drew down the moon.
For the love of nature, she made compost.
For the love of a good meal, she gave thanks.
For the love of family, she reconciled differences.
For the love of creativity, she entertained new possibilities.
For the love of her enemies, she suspended judgement.
For the love of herself, she acknowledged her worth.
And the world was richer for her. "
-Charlotte Tall Mountain.
This was a bookmark given to me by Herbavore...this is who I've been reminding myself I want to be.![]()
^ i say increase the number of laws until they have no chance of enforcing any, but the golden rule.. the combining of acceptance and responsibility are the first keys imo...