21st Century Courage

"Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying" – Iain Banks

“You can do it like it’s a great weight, or you can do it like it’s part of the dance.”

– Ram Dass

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or... See more

"but we also have the advantage of … we don’t have to be full of shit. We’re not actually a surveillance company. I’m not trying to pretend Facebook is good. I don’t have to toe a party line that is divorced from reality. And we aren’t Big Tech." (Andrew Deck, Signal President Meredith Whittaker on Resisting Government Threats to Privacy)

I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!

Ram Dass

“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.” - Rumi

More and more it seems to me that about the best thing in life is to have a piece of work worth doing and then to do it well.

Everyone and anyone can dance, because dancing is not only about performing. Dance is not even about being together, you can dance alone. Dance is not about dancing to music, you can dance in silence. So of course everybody can dance — and not only can, should .