This Week…

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
–Plato

“Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?”
–Rumi

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
–Rumi

“The highest form of wisdom is kindness.”
–The Talmud

“Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else’s game.”
—Evita Ochel

“Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.”
–Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
—Rosa Luxemburg

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
–Confucius