#merge

Your darkness is not the enemy. It is the rich soil you must dig into and sometimes be planted in before something new can break through the surface; and those parts of you that seem wounded or lacking don’t need to be healed or improved, per say, but rather loved and accepted. ↗

— Derek Rydall

#emergence #law-of-emergence #selfhelp #spirituality #love

There’s a reason why one master teacher said, “Love your enemies.” He wasn’t preaching some touchy-feely mumbo jumbo. He was talking about a cosmic law. He knew there was only One of us here. That means that anything you withhold from another you’re withholding from yourself. But it also means that anything you give to another, you’re giving to yourself. ↗

— Derek Rydall

#emergence #law-of-emergence #selfhelp #spirituality #love

Love is a spiritual practice that matures us as we try and try again to leave behind our isolation, expose our vulnerabilities, and make commitments to care truly for one another. ↗

— Nanette Sawyer

#love #love

This is a uni-verse (”one song’). There’s one song playing everywhere and we are all notes in it. There are no “special” or “better” notes.Every note is necessary and contains the whole essence of the music. All the power and substance of the universe is seeking to sing its song through you as magnificently as it has ever been sung before. ↗

— Derek Rydall

#emergence #law-of-emergence #selfhelp #spirituality #music

Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#bodies #cannot #coercion #emerge #enlightened

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere. ↗

— Beck

#beck #emerges #enough #everywhere #formally

I am certain more emergency supplemental bills will be needed before this process is concluded. In fact, there is a point I have repeated several times recently which keeps the enormity of this situation in perspective. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#before #bills #certain #concluded #emergency

Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency. ↗

— Bono

#angry #christians #conservative #emergency #i

The border sheriffs are locally elected. They're accountable. They know the territory and the people. And they can respond the most quickly to what is a real national security emergency, because the border is unprotected. ↗

— John Culberson

#because #border #elected #emergency #know

The backbone of our nation's domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#attacks #backbone #continue #defense #domestic