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Peace can only be found through Love. A smile can change the World.
Photographs by Dina Scoppettone
Grave New World: Both Rob Brezsny and George W. Bush share the same astrological signs—Cancer with Libra moon—yet only Brezsny adheres to the ancient Spider-Man koan: 'With great power comes great responsibility.'
Grave Encounter
In which we bury a symbol of paranoia in an effort to break on through to the other side with astrologer Rob Brezsny
By Sarah Phelan
In the Santa Cruz MetroActive
THE
VISION THING
by Allen Cohen
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Are we at the beginning of the turning,
of the yearning for the dream of unity,
of the dawning sun of true justice,
of the rising direct vision of beauty and equality
in each other, in each race, country, religion,
of healing the wounded earth?
Is it coming in the manger, in the compassion
for the poorest, for the children, for the homeless?
Is it coming through forgiveness,
through knowledge applied,
through action that lifts us all on a wave?
Yes, a wave of love for the children
through the millennium
with war denied, with hunger overcome,.
Are we at the beginning of the turning,
of the yearning for the dream of unity?
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©Drawings by Ann Cohen
© Copyright by Allen Cohen. All rights reserved.
S.F.Heart's Allen Cohen Poetry
"I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the
poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away." |
- One of the last notes left behind by Gandhi in 1948, expressing his deepest social thought.
Source: Mahatma Gandhi [Last Phase, Vol. II (1958), P. 65].
From The Ghandi Website |
