Sally(sarah)Mathews the life

sarah — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:37:17 -0400

Sally(sarah)Mathews
the life that speaks is the life, lived with the reality, that we are the source of judgment and value, we do not make the value, we are not in charge, power changes it face, in and out of time and generation and a person's place, they know there is something amazing past the human ego. but we do have all the resources to live a human beyound our imagination, if only we just didn't have to be someone, with power and judgment, if only, we realize we didn't think want to make everyone less, so we could be more, if only we would do our work. If only we knew how important life is, if only we knew, that there something amazing and differnt that human ego, and stop comparing a person who walks up hill with one who rides and helicopter, as though the first to the horizon is the best. i like you blog

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Jason White — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:02:30 -0500

The following excerpt was the reading at the Harvard/Cambridge Peace Walk last week. It's from "The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace", by John Paul Lederach (Oxford University Press, 2005), pp 167-68. We often seek our sense of place by what we do professionally. This is where the confusion comes that links vocation with work, jobs, and titles. But vocation is not a profession. It is definitely not "work," and even less a "job." Vocation is knowing and staying true to the deep voice. Vocation stirs inside, calls out to be heard, to be followed. It beckons us home. When we live in a way that keeps vocation within eyesight and earshot, like the needle of a compass, vocation provides a sense of location, place, and direction. This is why we may say to friends as a deep compliment of appreciation for their genuine acceptance, "I feel comfortable here with you. I can just be myself. I feel at home."

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