Dave Andreychuk hoists the Stanley Cup from the Hockey Hall of Fame Here it is…this must surely be the final nail in the coffin for our national airline. Air Canada lost the Stanley Cup and the Cup’s handler blew a gasket: “He told them specifically it was the Stanley Cup,” Goertzen said. “He is just so distraught.” Fitness gym owner Brent Lock, who had planned to view the Cup Sunday, said he doesn’t understand how Air Canada could have left it behind. “It’s not like it’s a brown paper bag; it’s the holy grail,” he said. Here in Canada there …
The Dalai Lama doesn’t have a blog, but luckily we have the daily mailings from Beliefnet. The one that came today reads simply: The threshold between right and wrong is pain. -His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Imagine All the People We create suffering for ourselves in the space we create when we take on the world and lose. When I am working with groups I usually make some comment at some point about the use of the word “should.” Any time we use that word we are arguing with reality and when we do that, as Byron Katie says, “we …
I’ve just discovered Miroslav Holub! Here is a quote from his essay “Slavery and worse“: Not many victories grow out of moral indignation. The only thing that all ecology, including the remarkably clear and evident ecology of human despair, can rely upon is slow, tedious and lasting economic and civic improvement, an improvement known even to Diocletian and Marcus Aurelius, that great stoic example to civic and ecologic radicals who think they can fight slaveries by becoming slaves to their own neuroses. More Holub resources: Holub at The Complete Review On writing and repressive political systems
It never ceases to amaze me how we imprison ourselves. One of the most insidious forms of colonization is the deference to external authority for self-esteem, confidence and knowledge. We are not aware of our own inner resources when we have been colonized. Our volition is stolen from us and we wander around aimlessly until someone comes to save us. Piers Young posted this poem: “The young lieutenant of a small Hungarian detachment in the Alps sent a reconnaissance unit out onto the icy wasteland. It began to snow immediately, snowed for two days and the unit did not return. …
From an essay by Jose Saramago called Reinventing democracy: True democracy should begin with what is immediately to hand – the country of our birth, the society we work in, the street we live on. Without that, all the underlying reasoning, the theoretical foundation and practical operation of the system will be vitiated. It is no use purifying the water in the taps if the reservoir is contaminated. Good essay…have a read of the rest. Thanks to wood s lot for the find.