Tools exist to give the developing world the capacity to build its own technology, to its own needs, and grow richer and more sustainable in the process. Those tools are the tools of collaboration. Open the source code of innovation, and we'll change the planet.
Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.
~Teilhard de Chardin
Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are ~Houssaye We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. ~ Kahlil Gibran
How To Make Love Endure according to children: Don't forget your wife's name...That will mess up the love. --Erin, age 8.
Be a good kisser. It might make your wife forget that you never take out the trash. --Dave, age 8.
Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A
happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and color the world with imagination.
"Our universe is that portion of existence which is characterized by ... space, time and causation. Law is possible only within this conditioned universe. Beyond it there cannot be any law."
Class on Karma Yoga. New York, January 10, 1896. Complete Works, 1.95.
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