Quote of the Week

by Paulo Coelho on January 11, 2010

In a time of lies, truth becomes a revolutionary act.

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Davis Bear January 17, 2010 at 9:56 pm

Hih! Paulo becomes revolutionary now! Thank you for that also.

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Tania January 17, 2010 at 10:14 am

As Christ says – “Truth will lead the way ”
You are just burying yourself deeper and deeper until there is no light when it comes to living lies ..and of course the more that you bury yourself in your own dirt -the more difficult it is to breath ..most lies are masked under ego ..and its even ego which cant stand to hurt someones feelings because you cant look at what your lie has created .A lie is like the seed of a tree -the longer it grows the bigger the tree gets the more things dwell in that tree ..the more devasting when that tree has to come down ..much better to pull it out as a weed than as a oak tree ..its energy out of harmony ..things like this can affect and perpetuate the whole of humanity ..it all makes cosmic common sense ..and also very liberating ..people need to be able to hear the truth ..your own truth ..Most people love the illusion – when u do hear the real truth – out of your own mouth in reguards to anything ..although it may not be liked at the time – u will be respected and remebered – there the real salt of the earth – make earth sacred ..and truthfull -The only way to live in love is to love everything around and we all love something diffirent – and then when your truthful in that – then your love expands ..to others and back to you – your soul gets bigger threw this ..others will show you love …when u are in your truth ..and your space is in truth ..then you will atttract the same truth .Love Tania

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Melyssab79 January 17, 2010 at 3:40 am

This quote has been with me all week since I read it here a few days ago…and it hit me that it coincided with a poem I was teaching with in My English classes about the power of poetry as a source of human truth over thousands of years…and that it may not be high-tech or turn much profit, but that it’s value is in the truth behind the words…that poets leave us all pieces of themselves, their hearts, for us to find and strive to understand and that this conversation between the poet and the reader continues as long as the words survive to be read again and as long as our breath survives to lend them sound and as long as we’re willing to hear that human truth in times of lies…so I wanted to share this.

Salvage This
by Jerry Martien

This poem needs to be
saved from itself.
It is way over the hill.
Words on dead wood.
Long ago it
ceased to be profitable.
You would be
keeping it
from being taken
by its own
dark and useless powers.

There are words in here
over a thousand years old.

They have conspired
with other creatures
and been spoken
with air
that has been inside
the leaves of trees.

These words
when spoken
are an ancient forest.

Some of the words
they say
are no longer productive.
Truth. Love.
Compassion for all beings.
Hey–
call the operators.
Haul them away to the mill.

But say–
isnt that a trace of
human wisdom
in among those words?
And down there isnt that a
vole digging for buried
meaning in the
decay and duff of a
culture that long ago
knew how to say, Enough–
dont be taking
what you havent created
and cant pay back.

There is blood here.
An owl is eating the vole.
There is life here.
These words are
inside the trees again.

What happens
to our words
happens to the forest.

What happens to the forest
happens
to us.

We should be cutting
lies instead of trees.

~Melyssa

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marie-christine January 18, 2010 at 6:09 am

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Omatecayas
Papa D
Deep Forest
Hear the cry

farzaneh January 16, 2010 at 7:32 pm

amazing blog u have here Paulo… when i see the comments and how people put time for one another i feel amazed… if i didnt have tests and quizzes and assignments i would join all the conversations and commenting and interacting, learnings and so on..:D
I am looking for some good changes in me… and also i need to see the world in other ways… and also I believe interacting with different good people is one way… and also:D i believe that whatever change i have to make, i better make it fast, and while i am young, cause if my way of seeing life and thinking doesnt change now… then it wont change forever…

anyhow… I hope to find some free times to read books, to make friends and to learn and teach…

now i feel free and relaxed after writing this comment… cause its a guarantee that i would follow my willings some day… in very very near future I hope…

perfect…:)

with love,
Farzaneh…

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THELMA January 17, 2010 at 8:17 am

Welcome dear Farzaneh!!
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Naveli January 16, 2010 at 6:01 am

If today lie didn’t exist then we all would have never given so much importance to truth..when there is a lie there is a truth, where there is bad there is good, where there is devil there is god…humans always need something to compare in order to understand the value of a thing.its like we say that the given line is longer or smaller only when another line is drawn by its side.(plz don’t mind my English, i am pretty bad at grammar and making sentences)
with love,
Naveli

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