Changing Sadness into Joy

Each one of us can

make that change.

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

Life is difficult. Some have been in constant pain for numberless years and myriad reasons, but refuse to surrender.

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.

Yet in spite of pain, racism, poverty, confusion, oppression, hate and sadness… we each have something to contribute. 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 life. But our days can begin with joy.

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, must convince themselves there is no alternative to collaboration. 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 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