On this Valentine’s Day–a day celebrating love and caring–it occurred to me that, if natural enemies can overcome their fear, distrust, and unloving attitudes toward each other, why can’t humans?
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Turtle Day? Really?!
Believe it or not, today is World Turtle Day. In honor of turtles everywhere, today’s Thursday Thought comes from “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.” It’s good for all of us who sometimes have a hard shell…
Splinter: You will listen now. My Master Yoshi’s first rule was ‘Possess the right thinking’, only then can one receive the gifts of strength, knowledge, and peace. I have tried to channel your anger, Raphael, but more remains. Anger clouds the mind. Turned inward it is an unconquerable enemy.
No Enemy?
Today’s Thursday Thought quote is a lesson from a very peaceful, loving group of people. If we all adopted this…what a world!
“I see no enemy, I see no stranger.” — Sikh Scripture
The Enemy
Today’s Thursday Thought quote calls into question who “the enemy” really is…or isn’t.
“We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation, for those it calls ‘enemy,’ for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers. I think of them, too, because it is clear to me that there will be no meaningful solution until some attempt is made to know them and hear their broken cries.” Martin Luther King, Jr. (From his speech “When Silence Is Betrayal,” given at Riverside Church, New York, April 4, 1967.)