Browse this website for nuggets of ancient and contemporary wisdom to draw upon for our future-in-the-making.
We’ve entered a new era of our existence in which our biosphere’s continued ability to sustain life is no longer assured, but must be worked for. This will be a work-in-progress for the rest of our lives.
We each have a role to play in this essential, sacred mission of our time. What’s yours?
“In a dark time the eye begins to see.” (Theodore Roethke)
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“We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.”
—Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
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Browse wisdom quotes at SoulandMeaning.com:
SOCIAL CHANGE
Gandhi • Peace Pilgrim • Grace Lee Boggs
Charles Eisenstein • More Charles Eisenstein
SPIRITED SINGING
Sacred Song Delights • Familiar Comforting Hymns
Earth Songs and Chants • Crooner Tunes and Musicals
Dad’s Classical Music Favorites • Quotes on the Soul of Music
HINDUISM
Upanishads • Vedanta • Bhagavad Gita
Hindu Song-Poems • Swami Kripalu
BUDDHISM
Dhammapada – Sayings of Buddha
Shantideva’s Bodhicaryavatara
The Songs of Milarepa • Zen Quotes
JUDEO-CHRISTIAN
The Christian Bible • Mechthild of Magdeburg
Comforting Psalms • Quaker Quotes
Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
ISLAM & SUFISM
Hazrat Inayat Khan • Mystics of Islam
The Qur’an
SIKHISM
Guru Granth Sahib