What is necessary is a pure heart, sincerity (as opposed to seriousness), dedication to truth, open heartedness; a willingness to search which includes a joy in discarding pretense, falsehood, beliefs, ideology, and the other neurotic acquired armoring of pride and false conditioned identifications. In short we must surrender ignorance and illusion in order to find wisdom and Reality.
What Gives Me Hope
Only hope it self
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by
What/who changed my life and why
So I will continue to stand for what I believe in, and I will continue to refuse to back down and go away. No person, no business, and no government has the right to destroy the gift of life. No one has the right to steal from the future in order to make a quick buck today. Enough is enough. It's time we as humans return to living only off the Earth's interest instead of drawing from the principal. And it's time we restored some of the capital investment that we've already stolen."
-Julia Butterfly Hill
"This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
-Chief Seattle