Changing Sadness into Joy

Each of us can change…

Even with difficulty, pain, insanity, war, injustice and tyranny…
we can refuse to surrender.

https://thepeaceresource.com/2015/01/30/courage/

In America today, federal, state and local governments are dysfunctional. Too many members of the executive branch, congress, the judiciary and local police are racists, bigots, brutes, and criminals who serve themselves at public expense

Quotes-On-Courage

Yet in spite of racism, poverty, confusion, oppression, hate and sadness… we each have something to share. Even when life is infected with visceral sadness… courage and commitment provide sustaining calm.

Faith, Life, Blessings, and Joy

Some look beyond themselves for a better vision or dream…
but each day begins with joy. To life!

We must become, as Camus said, so absolutely free that “existence is an act of rebellion.” Those who do not rebel in our age of totalitarian capitalism and neo-fascism … , must convince themselves there is no alternative to collaboration.

But this complicity is spiritual suicide.

https://revolutionresource.org/2015/12/15/the-revolution-solution/

“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”

~Emma Goldman

https://revolutionresource.org/2015/11/02/conspiracy-theory-101-some-claims-are-nutty-and-some-true/

Arundhati-Roy

We can choose courage, make no compromise and refuse to surrender. Finding a place we fit, we can do the best we can to endure, survive and prevail.

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.”

― Arundhati Roy

https://thepeaceresource.com/2015/01/24/dreams-dreamers-and-dreaming/

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.”

― Henry David Thoreau