Inspirations

“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came of the Jews, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew.
And then they came for me, and there was no one to speak out for me.”

_{Martin Niemõller (1992-1984) was a Lutheran pastor in Germany. He sympathized with many Nazi and right wing ideas before Adolf Hitler came to power.  Once Hitler came to power, he became an outspoken critic, and from 1937 to 1945 he was imprisoned in Nazi prisons and concentration camps.  In his public speeches after the war, he often shared various versions of the above confession.}

“How good of you, God, to make truth a relationship instead of an idea.“

—Richard Rohr, Things Hidden

C. G. Jung, “A Psychological Approach to the Dogma of the Trinity,” in Psychology and Western Religion (Princeton University Press, 1984), 75.

“In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. It was like waking from a dream of separateness…. “

– Thomas Merton, 1958, Conjectures of Guilty Bystander