VOTE Today! Election Day 2022

 

If there is no election today where you live, call friends and family who live where there is an election today. Remember that ALL elections, from school board, to state legislator to Governor are IMPORTANT.

VOTE TODAY!!! (if you haven't already voted)
PLEASE remind your family and friends to vote!
Please offer to help others get to the polls today!

Voting is an expression of INTENT. Intent is a powerful energetic force.
Our INTENT for the future of our world is the greatest power we can ever control - use it wisely and fully.

CHOOSE your future, and take ACTION - be the hammer, not the nail. VOTE!!!
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
- William E. Simon

If humanity does not opt for integrity, we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Voting is an expression of three key life principles -
CHOICE, INTENT, and ACTION.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Further reading: You Are What You Do

Walk Your Path

Either Accept It, or Change It

True Measure of a Successful Life
    

VOTE Today! Election Day 2021

 

If there is no election today where you live, call friends and family who live where there is an election today. Remember that ALL elections, from school board, to state legislator to Governor are IMPORTANT.

VOTE TODAY!!! (if you haven't already voted)
PLEASE remind your family and friends to vote!
Please offer to help others get to the polls today!

Voting is an expression of INTENT. Intent is a powerful energetic force.
Our INTENT for the future of our world is the greatest power we can ever control - use it wisely and fully.

CHOOSE your future, and take ACTION - be the hammer, not the nail. VOTE!!!
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
- William E. Simon

If humanity does not opt for integrity, we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Voting is an expression of three key life principles -
CHOICE, INTENT, and ACTION.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Further reading: You Are What You Do

Walk Your Path

Either Accept It, or Change It

True Measure of a Successful Life
    

Be the First to Condemn Injustice

If you are neutral in situations of injustice,
you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
- Desmond Tutu

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

If everyone howled at every injustice,
every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness,
then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.
- Nelson DeMille

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to
agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
- Bryant H. McGill

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth
and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
- William Faulkner

When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.
-Steve Maraboli

Further reading: Do Right

Being Big - Standing Tall

A Single Step

Unconditional Love

Do What You Can Do

All Different - All One 
          

VOTE Today! Election Day 2020

VOTE TODAY!!! (if you haven't already voted)
PLEASE remind your family and friends to vote!
Please offer to help others get to the polls today!
Voting is an expression of INTENT. Intent is a powerful energetic force.
Our INTENT for the future of our world is the greatest power we can ever control - use it wisely and fully.

CHOOSE your future, and take ACTION - be the hammer, not the nail. VOTE!!!
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
- William E. Simon

If humanity does not opt for integrity, we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Voting is an expression of three key life principles -
CHOICE, INTENT, and ACTION.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Further reading: You Are What You Do

Walk Your Path

Either Accept It, or Change It

True Measure of a Successful Life
    

Proclaim the Truth

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others
and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us,
and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak,
the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it,
without asking who is for it or who is against it.
- Henry George

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts,
declare the truth thou hast, that all may share;
Be bold, proclaim it everywhere:
They only live who dare.
- Voltaire

The truth is always something that is told,
not something that is known.
If there were no speaking or writing,
there would be no truth about anything.
There would only be what is.
- Susan Sontag

Further reading: Take Action - Now

Speaking Your Word

Calling Out Injustice

To Live, Not Merely To Exist
     

Yes, Make the Effort -- Do Small Things with Great Love

We hear two voices calling us,
one saying, "Why not?"
and the other, "Why bother?"
- Sydney J. Harris

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing
because he could do only a little.
- Edmund Burke

Righteousness does not speak in the powerful voices blaring from your television.
Righteousness speaks in a small quiet voice from deep within your own soul.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: A Small Quiet Voice

Really Listen

Trust Your Own Advice

Is That All There Is - Peggy Lee
      

Do Not Walk In Fear

We will not walk in fear, one of another.
We are not descended from fearful men,
Not from men who feared to write, to speak,
To associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
This is no time... to keep silent.
- Edward R. Murrow
Listen here for Murrow's quote in the context of his 1954 denunciation of Sen Joseph McCarthy's "Commies in America" conspiracy theory.

Never be bullied into silence.
Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one's definition of your life;
define yourself.
- Harvey Fierstein

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind -
even if your voice shakes.
- Maggie Kuhn

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.
- Harvey Milk

Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom,
no longer lend your strength to that
which you wish to be free from.
Fill your life with love and bravery,
and you shall live a life uncommon.
- Jewel

Further reading: Have Confidence in Yourself

Take Action - Now
      

Your Vote is Your Voice, Let It Be Heard

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

VOTE Early! In most places, early voting is available. Vote NOW!

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone,
and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
- John Quincy Adams

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike

Create the legacy of a better world.
Leave this world a better place than you found it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Create Light for Others

True Measure of a Successful Life

We Belong to Each Other

A Truly Successful Life
    

Fill Your Life With Love And Bravery

We will not walk in fear, one of another.
We are not descended from fearful men,
Not from men who feared to write, to speak,
To associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
This is no time... to keep silent.
- Edward R. Murrow

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.
- Harvey Milk

Never be bullied into silence.
Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one's definition of your life;
define yourself.
- Harvey Fierstein

Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom,
no longer lend your strength to that
which you wish to be free from.
Fill your life with love and bravery,
and you shall live a life uncommon.
- Jewel

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind -
even if your voice shakes.
- Maggie Kuhn

Further reading: Take Action - Now

Have Confidence in Yourself
      

Never Fear the Opinions of Others

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others
and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us,
and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak,
the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it,
without asking who is for it or who is against it.
- Henry George

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts,
declare the truth thou hast, that all may share;
Be bold, proclaim it everywhere:
They only live who dare.
- Voltaire

The truth is always something that is told,
not something that is known.
If there were no speaking or writing,
there would be no truth about anything.
There would only be what is.
- Susan Sontag

Further reading: Take Action - Now

Speaking Your Word

Calling Out Injustice

To Live, Not Merely To Exist
     

Yes, It's Worth the Bother

We hear two voices calling us,
one saying, "Why not?"
and the other, "Why bother?"
- Sydney J. Harris

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing
because he could do only a little.
- Edmund Burke

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa 

Righteousness does not speak in the powerful voices blaring from your television.
Righteousness speaks in a small quiet voice from deep within your own soul.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: A Small Quiet Voice

Trust Your Own Advice

Really Listen

Is That All There Is - Peggy Lee
      

Abraham Lincoln Birthday 2018

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln (16th United States President)

If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln

The probability that we may fail
in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln

Further reading: Power Tests Integrity

Plant Flowers

How To Know What To Do
     
 

No Time to Keep Silent

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.
- Harvey Milk

Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom,
no longer lend your strength to that
which you wish to be free from.
Fill your life with love and bravery,
and you shall live a life uncommon.
- Jewel

Never be bullied into silence.
Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one's definition of your life;
define yourself.
- Harvey Fierstein

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind -
even if your voice shakes.
- Maggie Kuhn

We will not walk in fear, one of another.
We are not descended from fearful men,
Not from men who feared to write, to speak,
To associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
This is no time... to keep silent.
- Edward R. Murrow

Further reading: Take Action - Now

Speaking while Angry

Have Confidence in Yourself
      

Your Vote is Your Voice

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

VOTE Early! In most places, early voting is available. Vote NOW!

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone,
and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
- John Quincy Adams

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Create the legacy of a better world.
Leave this world a better place than you found it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: True Measure of a Successful Life

A Truly Successful Life

Create Light for Others

We Belong to Each Other
    

Proclaiming Truth

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it,
without asking who is for it or who is against it.
- Henry George

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts,
declare the truth thou hast, that all may share;
Be bold, proclaim it everywhere:
They only live who dare.
- Voltaire

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others
and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us,
and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak,
the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The truth is always something that is told,
not something that is known.
If there were no speaking or writing,
there would be no truth about anything.
There would only be what is.
- Susan Sontag

Further reading: Calling Out Injustice

Speaking Your Word

Take Action - Now

To Live, Not Merely To Exist
    

Choose Your Candidate

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson

All elections are important. While is is vitally important to choose between the final two candidates in November, it is at least equally important to select those two candidates. Primary elections get much less turnout, but they are the time we Americans truly define the kind of country in which we, and our children, and our children's children will live.

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
- William E. Simon

Today, "Super Tuesday," is the day primary elections are held in many states. Whenever your primary election is being held, PLEASE VOTE!

If humanity does not opt for integrity, we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Voting is an expression of INTENT. Intent is a powerful energetic force.
Our INTENT for the future of our world is the greatest power we can ever control - use it wisely and fully.

CHOOSE your future, and take ACTION - be the hammer, not the nail. VOTE!!!

Voting is an expression of three key life principles -
CHOICE, INTENT, and ACTION.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: You Are What You Do

Either Accept It, or Change It

Walk Your Path

True Measure of a Successful Life
    

Injustice

There may be times when we are powerless
to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel

If everyone howled at every injustice,
every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness,
then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.
- Nelson DeMille

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to
agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
- Bryant H. McGill

If you are neutral in situations of injustice,
you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
- Desmond Tutu

When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.
-Steve Maraboli

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth
and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
- William Faulkner

Further reading:  Being Big - Standing Tall

Doing Right

A Single Step

Do What You Can Do

Unconditional Love

All Different - All One

Justice