+ updated at 4:36pm EST on Monday, January 20, 2014
+ Daily Kos offers "Most of You Have No Idea of What Martin Luther King Actually Did" by Hamden Rice. Excerpt:
He ended the terror of living as a black person, especially in the south.
+ The Theological Wanderings of a Street Pastor offers "Pregnant with God." Here it is:
+ Daily Kos offers "Most of You Have No Idea of What Martin Luther King Actually Did" by Hamden Rice. Excerpt:
He ended the terror of living as a black person, especially in the south.
I'm guessing that most of you, especially those having come fresh from seeing The Help, may not understand what this was all about. But living in the south (and in parts of the midwest and in many ghettos of the north) was living under terrorism.
It wasn't that black people had to use a separate drinking fountain or couldn't sit at lunch counters, or had to sit in the back of the bus.
You really must disabuse yourself of this idea. Lunch counters and buses were crucial symbolic planes of struggle that the civil rights movement used to dramatize the issue, but the main suffering in the south did not come from our inability to drink from the same fountain, ride in the front of the bus or eat lunch at Woolworth's.
It was that white people, mostly white men, occasionally went berserk, and grabbed random black people, usually men, and lynched them. You all know about lynching. But you may forget or not know that white people also randomly beat black people, and the black people could not fight back, for fear of even worse punishment.
This constant low level dread of atavistic violence is what kept the system running. It made life miserable, stressful and terrifying for black people.
White people also occasionally tried black people, esp + The Theological Wanderings of a Street Pastor offers "Pregnant with God." Here it is:
I beheld the fullness of God in which I beheld and comprehended the whole of creation, that is, what is on this side and what is beyond the sea, the abyss, the sea itself, and everything else. And in everything that I saw, I could perceive nothing except the presence of the power of God, and in a manner totally indescribable. And my soul in an excess of wonder cried out: “This world is pregnant with God!” Wherefore I understood how small is the whole of creation – that is, what is on this side and what is beyond the sea, the abyss, the sea itself, and everything else – but the power of God fills it all to overflowing.
-St. Angela of Foligno (1248-1309)
+ Here is today's Daily Zen:
During the moment of illumination,
When I see the original face of mind,
A limitless compassion arises.
The greater the illumination,
The greater is the compassion.
The greater my compassion,
The deeper is the wisdom I feel.
- Garmaba
+ Here is today's Gratefulness Word for the Day: "If you have a strong mind and plant in it a
firm resolve, you can change your destiny." -- Paramahansa Yogananda
+ Today's S&P poverty month resource is an excerpt from Meal
by Meal: 365 Daily Meditations for Finding Balance through Mindful Eating by Donald Altman > The excerpt
begins: “"For some, leftovers are associated with
poverty. For others, they signify a treasure that is not to be wasted. It seems
that people either love leftovers or hate them.” Read the entire excerpt
+ Today's S&P
spiritual reading is an excerpt from What You Will
See Inside a Hindu Temple by Dr. Mahendra Jani and Dr. Vandana Jani
> Dr. Mahendra Jani and Dr. Vendana Jani provide a succinct overview
of what goes on in a Hindu temple. | Read an excerpt on devotion in Hindu homes.
+ Inner Frontier is beginning a new Inner Work series on MIND AND THOUGHT. Here is an excerpt from the introduction: “Because of their range and flexibility, our thoughts give us the illusion of freedom. But the truth is that our thoughts are bound by their patterns and by memory. Their central pattern is that they refer to a non-existent self, our ego, that we believe we are. Our thoughts create our ego in the same way that a novelist creates a character.” | Read the Introduction
+ Inner Frontier is beginning a new Inner Work series on MIND AND THOUGHT. Here is an excerpt from the introduction: “Because of their range and flexibility, our thoughts give us the illusion of freedom. But the truth is that our thoughts are bound by their patterns and by memory. Their central pattern is that they refer to a non-existent self, our ego, that we believe we are. Our thoughts create our ego in the same way that a novelist creates a character.” | Read the Introduction
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