Ruhegeist

“Now from science we have a new creation story, which is very alluring and very exciting. It's not about deposing all the other wisdom stories about creation that humanity has gathered, but it certainly supplements it. It offers a real universal view because it's beyond any particular religion, ethnicity, nation and so forth. As we're struggling as a species to come together as a tribe, it provides us our basic framework, because it's from creation stories that ethics derive. Today's creation story from science is that we come from 14 billion years of an organic unfolding of the universe and are connected physiologically with every being in the universe. We all share the same atoms and the same molecules. That's truly significant and important at this time in history. We're all kin, we're all interdependent. And that's the basis of compassion, which was Jesus's ultimate teaching.”
― David Felten, Living the Questions: The Wisdom of Progressive Christianity

“It wasn't as if the flowers themselves held within them the ability to bring an abstract definition into physical reality. Instead, it seemed that...expecting change, and the very belief in the possibility instigated a transformation.”
― Vanessa Diffenbaugh, The Language of Flowers

“If you stopped yourself every single time you were about to say, "I have to" and changed it to "I get to," it might change your entire experience.”
― Kristin Armstrong, Mile Markers: The 26.2 Most Important Reasons Why Women Run

“It's not what your reproductive organs do that counts, it's what your mind intends before that moment.”
― Sheri S. Tepper, Gibbon's Decline and Fall