Have a Happy Passover

"Passover affirms the great truth that liberty is the inalienable right of every human being." Morris Joseph

Arthur Miller

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Arthur Miller

Happy Pussy Willow Sunday!

From wikipedia: "In Latvia, Palm Sunday is called "Pussy Willow Sunday", and pussy willows - symbolizing new life - are blessed and distributed to the faithful. Children are often woken that morning with ritualistic swats of a willow branch. People also catch each other and spank each other with the branches."

Blessed Palm Sunday

John Calvin

“There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice”
John Calvin

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
Sri Ramana Maharshi

Mother Night

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Happy Birthday, Thomas Jefferson

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other. Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth. Let us reflect that it is inhabited by a thousand millions of people. That these profess probably a thousand different systems of religion. That ours is but one of that thousand. That if there be but one right, and ours that one, we should wish to see the 999 wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth. But against such a majority we cannot effect this by force. Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free enquiry must be indulged; and how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse it ourselves?

Benjamin Franklin

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.
Benjamin Franklin

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