Power Corrupts

“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”

 Aung San Suu Kyi

1945+

The Beginning of Love

“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”

Mother Teresa

1910-97

Death is Smaller than I Thought

My Mother and Father died some years ago

I loved them very much.

When they died my love for them

Did not vanish or fade away.

It stayed just about the same,

Only a sadder colour.

And I can feel their love for me,

Same as it ever was.

Nowadays, in good times or bad,

I sometimes ask my Mother and Father

To walk beside me or to sit with me

So we can talk together

Or be silent.

They always come to me.

I talk to them and listen to them

And think I hear them talk to me.

It’s very simple –

Nothing to do with spiritualism

Or religion or mumbo jumbo.

It is imaginary.

It is real.

It is love.

Adrian Mitchell

1932-2008

Terrorism

“Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism, well there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it!”

 Noam Chomsky

1928+

Oslo Accords in 1993

“The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.  Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.”

Noam Chomsky

1928+

Intimations of Immortality

“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: the Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and cometh from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.”

 William Wordsworth

1770-1850

If You Don't Know Where You are Going

“If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there,” paraphrase of the Cheshire Cat, in Alice in Wonderland.

 Lewis Carroll

1832-1898