“Deciding to live life on life’s terms is an endearing soul task. The immanent endearment reflects our acceptance of who we are while honoring the immensity of fate.” Paul Dunion, Huff Post Contributor Author and Psychological Healer
“The ‘hidden tzaddikim’ were a group of unusually gifted and devoted Jews who, disguised as simple people, dedicated their lives to improving the plight of their Jewish brethren both spiritually and materially.” Herschel Goat
From the writings & talks of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch (on the “gift from within”)
” … So I have been using a tool counting back from 5 to 1 in situations where it seems as though I’m afraid or being worrisome. … I find that when I focus on me in each situation I find so much love and light at the end of each day.” – Jacqueline Habhab
“Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.” (Zonr excerpt from the poem on injustice by Langston Hughes)
From The Projector – “I have always had resistance to the old school system of reward and punishment, for example : if you do good you get nice recognition but uf you do wrong you get the wag of the finger and shame in public.” (On false pride)
“I loved you, and I probably still do, And for a while, the feeling may remain … ” excerpt from Pushkin poem on the Zonr post.
From The Projector – “I spoke with my sponsor and a therapist. I had to speak about how ashamed of going back to my social circle.. it is so embarrassing at this point because im new again.” (On being ashamed)
“You ‘ll be wonderin’ whut ‘s de reason I ‘s a grinnin’ all de time,
An’ I guess you t’ink my sperits Mus’ be feelin’ mighty prime.
Well, I ‘fess up, I is tickled As a puppy at his paws.” (The full Expectation poem
by Paul Laurence Dunbar below on the Zonr post.)
“A name
represents
identity, a deep
feeling and holds
tremendous sig-
nificance to its
owner.”
– Rachel Ingber (U.S. author / economist)
“The Fifth Step is
the key to freedom.
It allows us to live clean
in the present. Sharing
the exact nature of our
wrongs sets us free
to live.” (The Basic
Text, p. 31, on freeing our thoughts)