Ms. Freud Tackles Peace

Simpatico Quotations

2011-06-25T13:54:53-04:00

Be the change you want to see in the world. Mahatma Ghandi

The most important thing is to remember the most important

thing. Tara Brach

The unexamined life is not worth living. William James

Either you're part of the solution, or you're part of the problem. Eldridge Cleaver

It is good to be what one is. In fact, the more I'm me, the better I would paint as then it can only be mine as no one else is me....I still agonize about my painting but at least now the agony is in and about work. And if I work that will probably change into another kind of feeling. And if it remains it is better placed there than back into myself. Eva Hesse

Well-behaved women seldom make history. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate. Larry David

It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. Old Chinese Proverb

To err is human, to forgive is divine. Alexander Pope

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. John Lennon

If there's a difference between the field guide and the birds, believe the birds. Buddhist saying, as told to me by Tara Brach

Write like you’re drunk, and edit like you’re sober. Ernest Hemingway

B.K.S. Iyengar on "the path to health"

2011-06-16T13:08:27-04:00

The signs of progress on the path of Yoga are health, a sense of physical lightness, steadiness, clearness of countenance and a beautiful voice, sweetness of odour of the body and freedom from craving. He has a balanced, serene and a tranquil mind. He is the very symbol of humility. Passage selected by Amy Jung, RYT

imagine if all children, in all the world, learned a version of this song in every language...

2011-06-03T17:13:56-04:00

THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
words and music by Woody Guthrie

Chorus:
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me

As I was walking a ribbon of highway
I saw above me an endless skyway
I saw below me a golden valley
This land was made for you and me

Chorus

I've roamed and rambled and I've followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
And all around me a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me

Chorus

The sun comes shining as I was strolling
The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
The fog was lifting a voice come chanting
This land was made for you and me

Chorus

As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there
And that sign said - no tress passin'
But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!

Chorus

In the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple
Near the relief office - I see my people
And some are grumblin' and some are wonderin'
If this land's still made for you and me.