Last night, as I was sleeping
I dreamt--marvelous illusion!--that I had a beehive inside my heart.
And golden bees
were making white combs and sweet honey.
From my old failures.
--Antonio Machado

The question is: Who can best help us to the realization of the real American Dream?

The Republicans only offer consumerism as a debased sort of "freedom."

This is the freedom of "me" and "I."

This is the freedom of pigs rooting at a trough.

Frank Schaeffer
On Why as a Pro Life Movement Leader, He Supports Barack Obama

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take care that when hunting monsters you do not become a monster

Church Wall, Austin, TX

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

Erich Fromm

If the people speak and the king doesn't listen, there is something wrong with
the king.
If the king acts precipitously and the people say nothing, something is wrong with
the people.

Joan Chittister,OSB
National Catholic Reporter 05-27-03

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."

Thomas Jefferson

"If you can walk, you can dance
If you can talk, you can sing."

Zimbabwe proverb

"We are not the doctors. We are the disease."

Alexander Herzen

If homosexuality is a disease,
let's all call in queer to work:
"Hello, can't work today, still queer."

Robin Tyler

"Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to be in an institution"

Mae West

"Perhaps the best god would be like a woman, because only women really knew how to forgive"

Rudolfo Anaya
Bless Me Ultima

"Popular opposition in the US
is the world's only hope."

Noam Chomsky

"Right is right, even if no one is right. Wrong is wrong,
even if everyone is wrong."

Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Rochester, NY

God turned me black to save my soul.

Kingsblood Royal,
by Sinclair Lewis

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Ben Franklin, 1755.

"We are taught to differentiate between our wants
(which are never satisfied)
and our needs
(which are always provided for)."

The Big Book, Page 560

Friends that judge don't matter
and friends that matter don't judge.

Don't force the innocent to bear the price of your pain.

- Ellis Cose
NPR Morning Edition-Sunday

"It may be that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition is not the glaring noisiness of the so-called bad people, but the appalling silence of the so-called good people."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I neither want to know the future, nor to live in it before it arrives

For Today, December 14th

We are born to make manifest the glory of
God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others

-Nelson Mandella, 1994

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog.
You are his life, his love, his leader.
He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last
beat of his heart.
You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.

--Unknown

The true source of serentiy, of good feelings, is not getting what I want, but wanting what I've got.

For Today...April 3rd.

Every day, I think to myself, I can't prevent the terror, but I sure wish I knew when it was going to happen so I could at least plan. If I'm going to die within the week, I need to spend all my money and get really fat and
at least die happy."

-- Lesbian network news producer Barbara Raab in an Oct. 14 interview with this Planet Out.

Recovery means regaining the freedom to love without condidtions and without expectations of return.
As a speaker once put it, "I love you; I don't care
whether or not you love me!"

For Today, OA, December 6th