Visionary Society
Visionary Society
Make Your Life a Work of Art
What is Visionary Society?
Visionary Society means undertaking a deeper way of life — one that unites inner growth, caring relationships, and courageous action. Join us in creating a more beautiful world.
Free to join • Open to anyone anywhere in the world
 
Understand Deeply
Explore peace, culture, spirituality, society, and more through honest reflection.
Live Your Life Path
Clarify how you want to live in areas such as money, love, place, and work.
Help Someone
Support real people and projects that change lives and communities.
 
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Learning Journey
Deepen your understanding of life through focused circles on the questions that matter most. Each circle invites you to reflect, learn with others, and take gentle steps toward change.
 
Peace
Form a peace brigade for any conflict
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ENTER THE QUEST FOR Peace
Why do we fight our own brothers and sisters? Can conflict be resolved at the root?
Peace means living in a way that the other person is as important as you. It means putting an end to war in ourselves.
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J. Krishnamurti
"Success is mediocrity"

“Even when we do feel strongly, it’s generally about such petty things: about personal and family security, about the flag, about some religious or political leader. Our feeling is always for or against something; it isn’t like a fire that burns brightly, without smoke.”


 
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What do you care about most? Personal security Accumulate money Your own happiness Recognition, status, fame Social justice Being a decent person Bring good into the world
What do you find humorous? Do you derive pleasure from the suffering of others? Watch yourself and see if you have this feeling. It may not be obvious, but if it is there you will find that it expresses itself in the impulse to laugh when somebody falls. You want those who are high to be pulled down; you criticize and gossip thoughtlessly about others.
What is the condition of your psyche? Do you judge others by their age, gender, race, attractiveness? Are you quick to anger? Jealous and envious? Lazy and ignorant? Bigoted and self-righteous?
How do you react when someone attacks you? Do you fight back? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you seeking status, position, money, relationship?
What are the principles of modern society? Science and technology? Materialism, growth, market forces? Pleasure-seeking, lust, greed?
What are the biggest problems we face? Climate change, artificial intelligence, nuclear war? Inequality, injustice, poverty, disease? Loneliness, addiction, meaninglessness?
What is your experience of living in bureaucratic, centralized, organized, technological, materialistic society? Do you accept the ideologies of work, entertainment, politics? Do you accept your life with it and in it?
What problem are you unable to solve? What are the peripheral and core elements of the problem? Are your intentions genuine? What are your secret motives? What are you evading? Gently, patiently, humbly and courageously enter into the problem and locate its heart.
What do you know? Give an example of something obvious, undeniable, certain. Is it a fact, an idea, a feeling? How do you know it is true? What evidence do you have? Is it worth believing in?
Are you able to think? Are you able to listen to views you disagree with? Are you able to see the truths of those you oppose? Are you able to locate the heart of the issue?
How actively do you participate in culture? Are you looking for stimulation and pleasure? Do you try to understand the purpose and effect of what you see and hear? Do you seek the good, true and beautiful?
What is your culture IQ?
How much time do you spend watching television, on the Internet, on your phone, or listening to music? How much do you engage in creative work or challenging thought?
What is beautiful or ugly, moral or immoral, in your community? In public spaces? In politics and the media? Among strangers and friends?
Think of a song, film or work of art you hae enjoyed. How does it make you feel? Does it inflame your ego? Does it reinforce stereotypes? Does it make you compare yourself to others? Or did it recognize the part of you that you admire? Did it make you feel more human? Did it address what is best in you?
“I shall never stop practicing philosophy and exhorting you and elucidating the truth for everyone that I meet. I shall go on saying…Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and similarly with reputation and honor and give no attention to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul?
What kind of work do you do? – Dysfunctional work, such as military, advertising. – Work that limits choice, such as banking. – Areas of obscene profit, such as education and healthcare. – Work that compensates for dysfunction, such as police, therapy. – Creative functions, such as design, writing, art. – Service providers, such as teachers, health care. – Vital functions, such as food.
What danger does money have for you? "There are some callings where [the ambition to get rich] is a dangerous impediment; among these I would include ministers, teachers, lawyers and physicians." Abraham Heschel
What is the meaning of a product or service you have purchased? What is its true cost? "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." Henry David Thoreau
Think of any issue that you have a stake in, in which you are committed to one side. What is good or true about the side that you oppose? What are their grievances? How are they suffering?
Do you vote? Why or why not?
Repeat the pledge of allegiance:
"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
How does this make you feel?
What is the closest thing to love you have ever experienced? What was universal about that – not tied to the particular person or experience?
Give an example of illusory love. Have you fallen in love with or been infatuated with someone for reasons that you later realized were false?
What are you willing to do for a friend? What are willing to sacrifice? What would you never give or sacrifice?
How are you the same as others? What do you have in common with other human beings? With all of life, animals and plants? With inanimate things, like rocks and air?
How peaceful are you? How much peace is there in your life? And how much conflict? When you are in conflict, do you use force or love?
Are you at war with yourself? Do you sometimes act with cruelty or brutality? In what ways are you narrow, superficial, fragmented? In what ways? Are you responsible for wars? What share do you have in the world’s confusion and wickedness?’
How do you get along with your parents, siblings, partners? How do you feel waiting in a supermarket line when there is an unexp
How do you lead your life? Do you participate in violent cultural activities, use respectful language? What would it mean to lea
What was the most sacred experience in your life? “Was it a moment of love? A moment of beholding the awe of nature’s beauty or being moved by a stirring song, the birth of a child or being in the presence of a wise person?”
In what ways are you devoted to a false god?
Another person? A country, religion, race, idea? How do you identify with it? How have you made it sacred, holy? Is it through fear of being inadequate yourself?
What is sacred to you? The sacred is reality, purpose, being. What is most real to you? What lies in the secret chambers of your heart, in your unconscious? Money? Family? Success? Happiness?
Look for the good. Think of the worst person you know. Do you say bad things about them? Do you treat them with contempt? Can you say one good thing about them?
Without its working middle class (some still remain, but very few), Haiti has become a land of millions of the virtually homeless living in shantytowns built with their own hands,
In Haiti, the unrest continues unabated. Only this morning, Haitian street protesters planned to meet up in a vast group, and march on Toussaint L’ouverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince.
Excerpted from The Nation. See full article.
Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity.
It is right and it is duty.
– Oscar Romero
Goals of the Peace Brigade
Understand the grievances of the opposing side.
Understand the suffering of the opposing side.
Understand one's own role in aggression.
Look for the flaws, but focus on the good.
Active collaboration with any and all people and organizations.
Profound peace is resolving conflict before it arises. It is a direct, personal, collaborative response to personal and global conflict, with the goal of resolving conflict at the root level, through introspection and direct collaborative action.
“War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday life.”
What is thunderous, not lukewarm, peace? It is a transformative response to conflict, one which changes the conflict situation at the root. To find it we must raise ourselves to the highest possible pitch of our nature.
I’m fighting for my life against this mine. It is not just a mine. It’s going to destroy everything. It’s a death note, and it’s addressed directly to Bristol Bay. It’s disgusting that I have to live everyday with the constant that my forever home will be destroyed by Pebble Mine.
“Is it possible to totally end every form of violence in ourselves and still live in this monstrously brutal world?” J. Krishnamurti
Begin with the impossible question: Why do we fight our own brothers?
In a competitive society, is force necessary? Can we find what is good and true in our adversaries? Can we resolve conflict before it starts? Can we put an end to war in ourselves? Can we make war unnecessary?
Do you have your own ideas for dissolving conflict? Use Proposals to ask for support from your brothers and sisters.
Because of the coronavirus everything has become expensive and we don’t have food for them. The orphanage is going to have to stop operations unless we can find additional help.
In 2012, two years after the great earthquake, I met a lady from Cite Soleil, Yolande Depoorter, while researching her biological family. She had been adopted by a Belgian woman when she was 6 years old, and was then about 44 years old. She asked, “How can I help Haiti?” I suggested that she could help some of the street children in Haiti, those who lost their parents in the earthquake.
Look for Tysea Orphanage in Facebook to see more.
I would like to repair my house if I can find some help. That would be a dream come true. I don't see how I can do it with my poor salary, which I am not receiving since the virus arrived.
Life was already difficult because of various political crises in Haiti. But Coronavirus has made things much worse. People can't go out to take care of their business. School are closed.
1. Brothers and sisters know something about each other. They try to learn what the other really cares for and needs.
2. They express care toward each other. A sibling is someone you can count on.
Anyone can have a brother or sister!
It is a miracle enough when one human being reaches out to another. Can communities do the same, even though they are separated by nationality, language, culture and history? Can they break through provincialism and share what is essential? If so, they will have to become sisters.
Understanding is a beautiful mystery. It breaks down illusion. It resolves perplexities. It puts an end to the misery of isolation. It is the deepest prayer, the ultimate happiness.
Understanding is a miracle. In spite of all ignorance in the world it is still possible. But we need a little help. The purpose of Visionary Society Topics is to provide some of that help.
A unique Haitian feature is what we call the konbit. The konbit is a group of people coming together to carry out a project in their community.
Haiti has a variety of dance styles that enrich our culture. It includes a mix of African, European and Indian dance. Each dance is associated with a specific rhythm. But the real origin is from Benin.
We’d like to introduce another response, one founded on non-adversarial relationships: on actual concern for the well-being of each other. There are a number of step we can take to reduce aggressive narrow-mindedness. Give Back the Night is a forum to cultivate, support and publicize these steps.
In most American cities women are not free to walk alone at night. Liberty to walk at night is an essential part of freedom, needed for self-knowledge and personal development. Women should be free to jog in remote places, to let their children play in parks or on our streets. To deny this is a crime against the human spirit that’s almost as bad as the physical threat itself.
What can you do? Begin by entering your thoughts or steps you are taking in the comments below.
“In most of our lives there is a lack of sensitivity to beauty. You may see a beautiful face, a lovely painting, a marvelous temple and the sculptured hills, but never feel intensely or passionately the beauty of the earth and the sky. One wonders why.” J. Krishnamurti
The goal of Visionary Society is to envision new ways of thinking and acting. Topics is the first step. Topics is a process of uncovering the truth of perspectives we misunderstand.

 


Understanding puts an end to the misery of isolation. It is the deepest prayer, the ultimate happiness. A Topic is a way to resolve a problem by finding its origin in a worldview that has been misunderstood. Begin by voting on each point of view.

What is popular culture?
What is the purpose of art?
Customers like you are the lifeblood of the businesses they use. We have the power to bring a business to consciousness. A purpose of Visionary Society is to show how this is possible. Here are some suggestions about first steps businesses can take, and how you can encourage them to do so.
Like a person, a business is a world, not just a private entity with the right to do anything it likes. It has a life of its own and an ethical position. It is responsible for making the community in which it is based better.
We are all (even vast impersonal organizations) in this together , including owners, managers, staff and customers.
It is impossible to be happy without art. But art that you buy at a gallery does not qualify. Art that you see at a theater does not qualify. That is the disease of specialization, cleverness, fame and money, and it changes nothing. Art cannot be presented as an object to be consumed, something to be paid for and then enjoyed. You cannot charge a price for beauty.
“Prior to industrial civilization that made possible the mass production of goods, most things were made by hand and eye and were intrinsically beautiful as well as useful. Beauty was a fundamental and necessary ingredient of life that was considered essential by both rich and poor, craftsperson and artisan alike.” Resurgence Magazine
We don’t need to depend on artists and arts institutions. Every person is capable of creativity, practical creativity in their actual life. Art can recover the power to change society – to break the bonds of the static, to bring institutions to life.
“In most of our lives there is a lack of sensitivity to beauty. You may see a beautiful face, a lovely painting, a marvelous temple and the sculptured hills, but never feel intensely or passionately the beauty of the earth and the sky. One wonders why.” J. Krishnamurti
Can we combat the collective mind? Can we bring beauty and creativity to everyday life?
It’s a great resource to have a number of people to rely on if I’m not able to manage a number of things. It’s great to be able to stay in my own own and be in control of my own schedule.
We don’t need another marketplace of anonymous, impersonal, self-interested individuals. Instead, we can share what is important to us with each other. We can show that sensitivity is possible, that money and success are not everything.
Proposals is a new forum for personal community engagement, based on heart-centered care for making the world better.
Learn more about Proposals
What can Haiti do now? Nothing. There are many churches and NGOs in Haiti, but they know little or nothing about these problems. The only response I can think of is that the U.S.A. or Canada should occupy Haiti. The situation problem is a political one. There are too many armed bandits, killing people everyday, and there is no other solution.

The exchange rate with U.S. dollars has increased from day to day . We now need 115 gourdes for $1, up from 45 gourdes. And 80% people are out of work. Before we had about 60% unemployment. They could not eat and survive and what now? It is worse. People are living on $1 a day
Visionary Society is the idea that we can see beyond the hypnotic, conventional, ideological, political dogma that we have been raised in. That we can step aside from the rush of history. And that we can form our own lives and society through nothing other than insight and courage.
APPEAL: Help create a playlist of local artists. We will present this to local café managers.
REQUESTS FOR BANKS
— Fair treatment of poor people or those in trouble.
— Stop predatory practices such as excessive overdraft fees.
— Take into account where money is invested, social justice, and environmental effects.
We are not mere consumers in the miles of aisles. Explore and improve the practices of the big box stores your prosper from. Search for any store to begin.
Request: “Sell snacks and sandwiches made locally and fresh”
Buy locally whenever possible, purchasing from rural, inner-city, and other locally owned companies and producers, protecting local natural resources.
Request: “Sell snacks and sandwiches made locally and fresh”
Buy locally whenever possible, purchasing from rural, inner-city, and other locally owned companies and producers, protecting local natural resources.
We are simply offering basic principles of meaningful art – not providing a list of works that we condemn or commend. That will always be subjective, and should be entirely up to individuals. Our goal is simply to provide a public forum for the shared attempt at discovering meaningful art.
The purpose of Beautiful Books is to promote and celebrate beautiful art. We want to remind each other that culture can lift and inspire, inform and transform. Goodness, beauty and truth exist. Let’s join together to rediscover what this is.
“At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men’s sin, and asks oneself whether one should use force or love and humility. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that once and for all, you may subdue the whole world. Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all things, and there is nothing else like it.”
Feodor Dostoyevsky
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Politics
Turn a political issue into a Quest
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ENTER THE QUEST FOR Politics
Are you fed up with politics, but still want to be involved in the issues of the day? Is government that recognizes heart and soul possible? Can the citizen make a difference? Are you worthy of democracy? Does politics have to be adversarial? What does it mean to vote with your life?
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J. Krishnamurti
"Success is mediocrity"

“Even when we do feel strongly, it’s generally about such petty things: about personal and family security, about the flag, about some religious or political leader. Our feeling is always for or against something; it isn’t like a fire that burns brightly, without smoke.”


 
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What do you care about most? Personal security Accumulate money Your own happiness Recognition, status, fame Social justice Being a decent person Bring good into the world
What do you find humorous? Do you derive pleasure from the suffering of others? Watch yourself and see if you have this feeling. It may not be obvious, but if it is there you will find that it expresses itself in the impulse to laugh when somebody falls. You want those who are high to be pulled down; you criticize and gossip thoughtlessly about others.
What is the condition of your psyche? Do you judge others by their age, gender, race, attractiveness? Are you quick to anger? Jealous and envious? Lazy and ignorant? Bigoted and self-righteous?
How do you react when someone attacks you? Do you fight back? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you seeking status, position, money, relationship?
What are the principles of modern society? Science and technology? Materialism, growth, market forces? Pleasure-seeking, lust, greed?
What are the biggest problems we face? Climate change, artificial intelligence, nuclear war? Inequality, injustice, poverty, disease? Loneliness, addiction, meaninglessness?
What is your experience of living in bureaucratic, centralized, organized, technological, materialistic society? Do you accept the ideologies of work, entertainment, politics? Do you accept your life with it and in it?
What problem are you unable to solve? What are the peripheral and core elements of the problem? Are your intentions genuine? What are your secret motives? What are you evading? Gently, patiently, humbly and courageously enter into the problem and locate its heart.
What do you know? Give an example of something obvious, undeniable, certain. Is it a fact, an idea, a feeling? How do you know it is true? What evidence do you have? Is it worth believing in?
Are you able to think? Are you able to listen to views you disagree with? Are you able to see the truths of those you oppose? Are you able to locate the heart of the issue?
How actively do you participate in culture? Are you looking for stimulation and pleasure? Do you try to understand the purpose and effect of what you see and hear? Do you seek the good, true and beautiful?
What is your culture IQ?
How much time do you spend watching television, on the Internet, on your phone, or listening to music? How much do you engage in creative work or challenging thought?
What is beautiful or ugly, moral or immoral, in your community? In public spaces? In politics and the media? Among strangers and friends?
Think of a song, film or work of art you hae enjoyed. How does it make you feel? Does it inflame your ego? Does it reinforce stereotypes? Does it make you compare yourself to others? Or did it recognize the part of you that you admire? Did it make you feel more human? Did it address what is best in you?
“I shall never stop practicing philosophy and exhorting you and elucidating the truth for everyone that I meet. I shall go on saying…Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and similarly with reputation and honor and give no attention to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul?
What kind of work do you do? – Dysfunctional work, such as military, advertising. – Work that limits choice, such as banking. – Areas of obscene profit, such as education and healthcare. – Work that compensates for dysfunction, such as police, therapy. – Creative functions, such as design, writing, art. – Service providers, such as teachers, health care. – Vital functions, such as food.
What danger does money have for you? "There are some callings where [the ambition to get rich] is a dangerous impediment; among these I would include ministers, teachers, lawyers and physicians." Abraham Heschel
What is the meaning of a product or service you have purchased? What is its true cost? "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." Henry David Thoreau
Think of any issue that you have a stake in, in which you are committed to one side. What is good or true about the side that you oppose? What are their grievances? How are they suffering?
Do you vote? Why or why not?
Repeat the pledge of allegiance:
"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
How does this make you feel?
What is the closest thing to love you have ever experienced? What was universal about that – not tied to the particular person or experience?
Give an example of illusory love. Have you fallen in love with or been infatuated with someone for reasons that you later realized were false?
What are you willing to do for a friend? What are willing to sacrifice? What would you never give or sacrifice?
How are you the same as others? What do you have in common with other human beings? With all of life, animals and plants? With inanimate things, like rocks and air?
How peaceful are you? How much peace is there in your life? And how much conflict? When you are in conflict, do you use force or love?
Are you at war with yourself? Do you sometimes act with cruelty or brutality? In what ways are you narrow, superficial, fragmented? In what ways? Are you responsible for wars? What share do you have in the world’s confusion and wickedness?’
How do you get along with your parents, siblings, partners? How do you feel waiting in a supermarket line when there is an unexp
How do you lead your life? Do you participate in violent cultural activities, use respectful language? What would it mean to lea
What was the most sacred experience in your life? “Was it a moment of love? A moment of beholding the awe of nature’s beauty or being moved by a stirring song, the birth of a child or being in the presence of a wise person?”
In what ways are you devoted to a false god?
Another person? A country, religion, race, idea? How do you identify with it? How have you made it sacred, holy? Is it through fear of being inadequate yourself?
What is sacred to you? The sacred is reality, purpose, being. What is most real to you? What lies in the secret chambers of your heart, in your unconscious? Money? Family? Success? Happiness?
Look for the good. Think of the worst person you know. Do you say bad things about them? Do you treat them with contempt? Can you say one good thing about them?
Without its working middle class (some still remain, but very few), Haiti has become a land of millions of the virtually homeless living in shantytowns built with their own hands,
In Haiti, the unrest continues unabated. Only this morning, Haitian street protesters planned to meet up in a vast group, and march on Toussaint L’ouverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince.
Excerpted from The Nation. See full article.
Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity.
It is right and it is duty.
– Oscar Romero
Goals of the Peace Brigade
Understand the grievances of the opposing side.
Understand the suffering of the opposing side.
Understand one's own role in aggression.
Look for the flaws, but focus on the good.
Active collaboration with any and all people and organizations.
Profound peace is resolving conflict before it arises. It is a direct, personal, collaborative response to personal and global conflict, with the goal of resolving conflict at the root level, through introspection and direct collaborative action.
“War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday life.”
What is thunderous, not lukewarm, peace? It is a transformative response to conflict, one which changes the conflict situation at the root. To find it we must raise ourselves to the highest possible pitch of our nature.
I’m fighting for my life against this mine. It is not just a mine. It’s going to destroy everything. It’s a death note, and it’s addressed directly to Bristol Bay. It’s disgusting that I have to live everyday with the constant that my forever home will be destroyed by Pebble Mine.
“Is it possible to totally end every form of violence in ourselves and still live in this monstrously brutal world?” J. Krishnamurti
Begin with the impossible question: Why do we fight our own brothers?
In a competitive society, is force necessary? Can we find what is good and true in our adversaries? Can we resolve conflict before it starts? Can we put an end to war in ourselves? Can we make war unnecessary?
Do you have your own ideas for dissolving conflict? Use Proposals to ask for support from your brothers and sisters.
Because of the coronavirus everything has become expensive and we don’t have food for them. The orphanage is going to have to stop operations unless we can find additional help.
In 2012, two years after the great earthquake, I met a lady from Cite Soleil, Yolande Depoorter, while researching her biological family. She had been adopted by a Belgian woman when she was 6 years old, and was then about 44 years old. She asked, “How can I help Haiti?” I suggested that she could help some of the street children in Haiti, those who lost their parents in the earthquake.
Look for Tysea Orphanage in Facebook to see more.
I would like to repair my house if I can find some help. That would be a dream come true. I don't see how I can do it with my poor salary, which I am not receiving since the virus arrived.
Life was already difficult because of various political crises in Haiti. But Coronavirus has made things much worse. People can't go out to take care of their business. School are closed.
1. Brothers and sisters know something about each other. They try to learn what the other really cares for and needs.
2. They express care toward each other. A sibling is someone you can count on.
Anyone can have a brother or sister!
It is a miracle enough when one human being reaches out to another. Can communities do the same, even though they are separated by nationality, language, culture and history? Can they break through provincialism and share what is essential? If so, they will have to become sisters.
Understanding is a beautiful mystery. It breaks down illusion. It resolves perplexities. It puts an end to the misery of isolation. It is the deepest prayer, the ultimate happiness.
Understanding is a miracle. In spite of all ignorance in the world it is still possible. But we need a little help. The purpose of Visionary Society Topics is to provide some of that help.
A unique Haitian feature is what we call the konbit. The konbit is a group of people coming together to carry out a project in their community.
Haiti has a variety of dance styles that enrich our culture. It includes a mix of African, European and Indian dance. Each dance is associated with a specific rhythm. But the real origin is from Benin.
We’d like to introduce another response, one founded on non-adversarial relationships: on actual concern for the well-being of each other. There are a number of step we can take to reduce aggressive narrow-mindedness. Give Back the Night is a forum to cultivate, support and publicize these steps.
In most American cities women are not free to walk alone at night. Liberty to walk at night is an essential part of freedom, needed for self-knowledge and personal development. Women should be free to jog in remote places, to let their children play in parks or on our streets. To deny this is a crime against the human spirit that’s almost as bad as the physical threat itself.
What can you do? Begin by entering your thoughts or steps you are taking in the comments below.
“In most of our lives there is a lack of sensitivity to beauty. You may see a beautiful face, a lovely painting, a marvelous temple and the sculptured hills, but never feel intensely or passionately the beauty of the earth and the sky. One wonders why.” J. Krishnamurti
The goal of Visionary Society is to envision new ways of thinking and acting. Topics is the first step. Topics is a process of uncovering the truth of perspectives we misunderstand.

 


Understanding puts an end to the misery of isolation. It is the deepest prayer, the ultimate happiness. A Topic is a way to resolve a problem by finding its origin in a worldview that has been misunderstood. Begin by voting on each point of view.

What is popular culture?
What is the purpose of art?
Customers like you are the lifeblood of the businesses they use. We have the power to bring a business to consciousness. A purpose of Visionary Society is to show how this is possible. Here are some suggestions about first steps businesses can take, and how you can encourage them to do so.
Like a person, a business is a world, not just a private entity with the right to do anything it likes. It has a life of its own and an ethical position. It is responsible for making the community in which it is based better.
We are all (even vast impersonal organizations) in this together , including owners, managers, staff and customers.
It is impossible to be happy without art. But art that you buy at a gallery does not qualify. Art that you see at a theater does not qualify. That is the disease of specialization, cleverness, fame and money, and it changes nothing. Art cannot be presented as an object to be consumed, something to be paid for and then enjoyed. You cannot charge a price for beauty.
“Prior to industrial civilization that made possible the mass production of goods, most things were made by hand and eye and were intrinsically beautiful as well as useful. Beauty was a fundamental and necessary ingredient of life that was considered essential by both rich and poor, craftsperson and artisan alike.” Resurgence Magazine
We don’t need to depend on artists and arts institutions. Every person is capable of creativity, practical creativity in their actual life. Art can recover the power to change society – to break the bonds of the static, to bring institutions to life.
“In most of our lives there is a lack of sensitivity to beauty. You may see a beautiful face, a lovely painting, a marvelous temple and the sculptured hills, but never feel intensely or passionately the beauty of the earth and the sky. One wonders why.” J. Krishnamurti
Can we combat the collective mind? Can we bring beauty and creativity to everyday life?
It’s a great resource to have a number of people to rely on if I’m not able to manage a number of things. It’s great to be able to stay in my own own and be in control of my own schedule.
We don’t need another marketplace of anonymous, impersonal, self-interested individuals. Instead, we can share what is important to us with each other. We can show that sensitivity is possible, that money and success are not everything.
Proposals is a new forum for personal community engagement, based on heart-centered care for making the world better.
Learn more about Proposals
What can Haiti do now? Nothing. There are many churches and NGOs in Haiti, but they know little or nothing about these problems. The only response I can think of is that the U.S.A. or Canada should occupy Haiti. The situation problem is a political one. There are too many armed bandits, killing people everyday, and there is no other solution.

The exchange rate with U.S. dollars has increased from day to day . We now need 115 gourdes for $1, up from 45 gourdes. And 80% people are out of work. Before we had about 60% unemployment. They could not eat and survive and what now? It is worse. People are living on $1 a day
Visionary Society is the idea that we can see beyond the hypnotic, conventional, ideological, political dogma that we have been raised in. That we can step aside from the rush of history. And that we can form our own lives and society through nothing other than insight and courage.
APPEAL: Help create a playlist of local artists. We will present this to local café managers.
REQUESTS FOR BANKS
— Fair treatment of poor people or those in trouble.
— Stop predatory practices such as excessive overdraft fees.
— Take into account where money is invested, social justice, and environmental effects.
We are not mere consumers in the miles of aisles. Explore and improve the practices of the big box stores your prosper from. Search for any store to begin.
Request: “Sell snacks and sandwiches made locally and fresh”
Buy locally whenever possible, purchasing from rural, inner-city, and other locally owned companies and producers, protecting local natural resources.
Request: “Sell snacks and sandwiches made locally and fresh”
Buy locally whenever possible, purchasing from rural, inner-city, and other locally owned companies and producers, protecting local natural resources.
We are simply offering basic principles of meaningful art – not providing a list of works that we condemn or commend. That will always be subjective, and should be entirely up to individuals. Our goal is simply to provide a public forum for the shared attempt at discovering meaningful art.
The purpose of Beautiful Books is to promote and celebrate beautiful art. We want to remind each other that culture can lift and inspire, inform and transform. Goodness, beauty and truth exist. Let’s join together to rediscover what this is.
“At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men’s sin, and asks oneself whether one should use force or love and humility. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that once and for all, you may subdue the whole world. Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all things, and there is nothing else like it.”
Feodor Dostoyevsky
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J. Krishnamurti
"Success is mediocrity"

“Even when we do feel strongly, it’s generally about such petty things: about personal and family security, about the flag, about some religious or political leader. Our feeling is always for or against something; it isn’t like a fire that burns brightly, without smoke.”


 
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What do you care about most? Personal security Accumulate money Your own happiness Recognition, status, fame Social justice Being a decent person Bring good into the world
What do you find humorous? Do you derive pleasure from the suffering of others? Watch yourself and see if you have this feeling. It may not be obvious, but if it is there you will find that it expresses itself in the impulse to laugh when somebody falls. You want those who are high to be pulled down; you criticize and gossip thoughtlessly about others.
What is the condition of your psyche? Do you judge others by their age, gender, race, attractiveness? Are you quick to anger? Jealous and envious? Lazy and ignorant? Bigoted and self-righteous?
How do you react when someone attacks you? Do you fight back? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you seeking status, position, money, relationship?
What are the principles of modern society? Science and technology? Materialism, growth, market forces? Pleasure-seeking, lust, greed?
What are the biggest problems we face? Climate change, artificial intelligence, nuclear war? Inequality, injustice, poverty, disease? Loneliness, addiction, meaninglessness?
What is your experience of living in bureaucratic, centralized, organized, technological, materialistic society? Do you accept the ideologies of work, entertainment, politics? Do you accept your life with it and in it?
What problem are you unable to solve? What are the peripheral and core elements of the problem? Are your intentions genuine? What are your secret motives? What are you evading? Gently, patiently, humbly and courageously enter into the problem and locate its heart.
What do you know? Give an example of something obvious, undeniable, certain. Is it a fact, an idea, a feeling? How do you know it is true? What evidence do you have? Is it worth believing in?
Are you able to think? Are you able to listen to views you disagree with? Are you able to see the truths of those you oppose? Are you able to locate the heart of the issue?
How actively do you participate in culture? Are you looking for stimulation and pleasure? Do you try to understand the purpose and effect of what you see and hear? Do you seek the good, true and beautiful?
What is your culture IQ?
How much time do you spend watching television, on the Internet, on your phone, or listening to music? How much do you engage in creative work or challenging thought?
What is beautiful or ugly, moral or immoral, in your community? In public spaces? In politics and the media? Among strangers and friends?
Think of a song, film or work of art you hae enjoyed. How does it make you feel? Does it inflame your ego? Does it reinforce stereotypes? Does it make you compare yourself to others? Or did it recognize the part of you that you admire? Did it make you feel more human? Did it address what is best in you?
“I shall never stop practicing philosophy and exhorting you and elucidating the truth for everyone that I meet. I shall go on saying…Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and similarly with reputation and honor and give no attention to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul?
What kind of work do you do? – Dysfunctional work, such as military, advertising. – Work that limits choice, such as banking. – Areas of obscene profit, such as education and healthcare. – Work that compensates for dysfunction, such as police, therapy. – Creative functions, such as design, writing, art. – Service providers, such as teachers, health care. – Vital functions, such as food.
What danger does money have for you? "There are some callings where [the ambition to get rich] is a dangerous impediment; among these I would include ministers, teachers, lawyers and physicians." Abraham Heschel
What is the meaning of a product or service you have purchased? What is its true cost? "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." Henry David Thoreau
Think of any issue that you have a stake in, in which you are committed to one side. What is good or true about the side that you oppose? What are their grievances? How are they suffering?
Do you vote? Why or why not?
Repeat the pledge of allegiance:
"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
How does this make you feel?
What is the closest thing to love you have ever experienced? What was universal about that – not tied to the particular person or experience?
Give an example of illusory love. Have you fallen in love with or been infatuated with someone for reasons that you later realized were false?
What are you willing to do for a friend? What are willing to sacrifice? What would you never give or sacrifice?
How are you the same as others? What do you have in common with other human beings? With all of life, animals and plants? With inanimate things, like rocks and air?
How peaceful are you? How much peace is there in your life? And how much conflict? When you are in conflict, do you use force or love?
Are you at war with yourself? Do you sometimes act with cruelty or brutality? In what ways are you narrow, superficial, fragmented? In what ways? Are you responsible for wars? What share do you have in the world’s confusion and wickedness?’
How do you get along with your parents, siblings, partners? How do you feel waiting in a supermarket line when there is an unexp
How do you lead your life? Do you participate in violent cultural activities, use respectful language? What would it mean to lea
What was the most sacred experience in your life? “Was it a moment of love? A moment of beholding the awe of nature’s beauty or being moved by a stirring song, the birth of a child or being in the presence of a wise person?”
In what ways are you devoted to a false god?
Another person? A country, religion, race, idea? How do you identify with it? How have you made it sacred, holy? Is it through fear of being inadequate yourself?
What is sacred to you? The sacred is reality, purpose, being. What is most real to you? What lies in the secret chambers of your heart, in your unconscious? Money? Family? Success? Happiness?
Look for the good. Think of the worst person you know. Do you say bad things about them? Do you treat them with contempt? Can you say one good thing about them?
Without its working middle class (some still remain, but very few), Haiti has become a land of millions of the virtually homeless living in shantytowns built with their own hands,
In Haiti, the unrest continues unabated. Only this morning, Haitian street protesters planned to meet up in a vast group, and march on Toussaint L’ouverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince.
Excerpted from The Nation. See full article.
Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity.
It is right and it is duty.
– Oscar Romero
Goals of the Peace Brigade
Understand the grievances of the opposing side.
Understand the suffering of the opposing side.
Understand one's own role in aggression.
Look for the flaws, but focus on the good.
Active collaboration with any and all people and organizations.
Profound peace is resolving conflict before it arises. It is a direct, personal, collaborative response to personal and global conflict, with the goal of resolving conflict at the root level, through introspection and direct collaborative action.
“War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday life.”
What is thunderous, not lukewarm, peace? It is a transformative response to conflict, one which changes the conflict situation at the root. To find it we must raise ourselves to the highest possible pitch of our nature.
I’m fighting for my life against this mine. It is not just a mine. It’s going to destroy everything. It’s a death note, and it’s addressed directly to Bristol Bay. It’s disgusting that I have to live everyday with the constant that my forever home will be destroyed by Pebble Mine.
“Is it possible to totally end every form of violence in ourselves and still live in this monstrously brutal world?” J. Krishnamurti
Begin with the impossible question: Why do we fight our own brothers?
In a competitive society, is force necessary? Can we find what is good and true in our adversaries? Can we resolve conflict before it starts? Can we put an end to war in ourselves? Can we make war unnecessary?
Do you have your own ideas for dissolving conflict? Use Proposals to ask for support from your brothers and sisters.
Because of the coronavirus everything has become expensive and we don’t have food for them. The orphanage is going to have to stop operations unless we can find additional help.
In 2012, two years after the great earthquake, I met a lady from Cite Soleil, Yolande Depoorter, while researching her biological family. She had been adopted by a Belgian woman when she was 6 years old, and was then about 44 years old. She asked, “How can I help Haiti?” I suggested that she could help some of the street children in Haiti, those who lost their parents in the earthquake.
Look for Tysea Orphanage in Facebook to see more.
I would like to repair my house if I can find some help. That would be a dream come true. I don't see how I can do it with my poor salary, which I am not receiving since the virus arrived.
Life was already difficult because of various political crises in Haiti. But Coronavirus has made things much worse. People can't go out to take care of their business. School are closed.
1. Brothers and sisters know something about each other. They try to learn what the other really cares for and needs.
2. They express care toward each other. A sibling is someone you can count on.
Anyone can have a brother or sister!
It is a miracle enough when one human being reaches out to another. Can communities do the same, even though they are separated by nationality, language, culture and history? Can they break through provincialism and share what is essential? If so, they will have to become sisters.
Understanding is a beautiful mystery. It breaks down illusion. It resolves perplexities. It puts an end to the misery of isolation. It is the deepest prayer, the ultimate happiness.
Understanding is a miracle. In spite of all ignorance in the world it is still possible. But we need a little help. The purpose of Visionary Society Topics is to provide some of that help.
A unique Haitian feature is what we call the konbit. The konbit is a group of people coming together to carry out a project in their community.
Haiti has a variety of dance styles that enrich our culture. It includes a mix of African, European and Indian dance. Each dance is associated with a specific rhythm. But the real origin is from Benin.
We’d like to introduce another response, one founded on non-adversarial relationships: on actual concern for the well-being of each other. There are a number of step we can take to reduce aggressive narrow-mindedness. Give Back the Night is a forum to cultivate, support and publicize these steps.
In most American cities women are not free to walk alone at night. Liberty to walk at night is an essential part of freedom, needed for self-knowledge and personal development. Women should be free to jog in remote places, to let their children play in parks or on our streets. To deny this is a crime against the human spirit that’s almost as bad as the physical threat itself.
What can you do? Begin by entering your thoughts or steps you are taking in the comments below.
“In most of our lives there is a lack of sensitivity to beauty. You may see a beautiful face, a lovely painting, a marvelous temple and the sculptured hills, but never feel intensely or passionately the beauty of the earth and the sky. One wonders why.” J. Krishnamurti
The goal of Visionary Society is to envision new ways of thinking and acting. Topics is the first step. Topics is a process of uncovering the truth of perspectives we misunderstand.

 


Understanding puts an end to the misery of isolation. It is the deepest prayer, the ultimate happiness. A Topic is a way to resolve a problem by finding its origin in a worldview that has been misunderstood. Begin by voting on each point of view.

What is popular culture?
What is the purpose of art?
Customers like you are the lifeblood of the businesses they use. We have the power to bring a business to consciousness. A purpose of Visionary Society is to show how this is possible. Here are some suggestions about first steps businesses can take, and how you can encourage them to do so.
Like a person, a business is a world, not just a private entity with the right to do anything it likes. It has a life of its own and an ethical position. It is responsible for making the community in which it is based better.
We are all (even vast impersonal organizations) in this together , including owners, managers, staff and customers.
It is impossible to be happy without art. But art that you buy at a gallery does not qualify. Art that you see at a theater does not qualify. That is the disease of specialization, cleverness, fame and money, and it changes nothing. Art cannot be presented as an object to be consumed, something to be paid for and then enjoyed. You cannot charge a price for beauty.
“Prior to industrial civilization that made possible the mass production of goods, most things were made by hand and eye and were intrinsically beautiful as well as useful. Beauty was a fundamental and necessary ingredient of life that was considered essential by both rich and poor, craftsperson and artisan alike.” Resurgence Magazine
We don’t need to depend on artists and arts institutions. Every person is capable of creativity, practical creativity in their actual life. Art can recover the power to change society – to break the bonds of the static, to bring institutions to life.
“In most of our lives there is a lack of sensitivity to beauty. You may see a beautiful face, a lovely painting, a marvelous temple and the sculptured hills, but never feel intensely or passionately the beauty of the earth and the sky. One wonders why.” J. Krishnamurti
Can we combat the collective mind? Can we bring beauty and creativity to everyday life?
It’s a great resource to have a number of people to rely on if I’m not able to manage a number of things. It’s great to be able to stay in my own own and be in control of my own schedule.
We don’t need another marketplace of anonymous, impersonal, self-interested individuals. Instead, we can share what is important to us with each other. We can show that sensitivity is possible, that money and success are not everything.
Proposals is a new forum for personal community engagement, based on heart-centered care for making the world better.
Learn more about Proposals
What can Haiti do now? Nothing. There are many churches and NGOs in Haiti, but they know little or nothing about these problems. The only response I can think of is that the U.S.A. or Canada should occupy Haiti. The situation problem is a political one. There are too many armed bandits, killing people everyday, and there is no other solution.

The exchange rate with U.S. dollars has increased from day to day . We now need 115 gourdes for $1, up from 45 gourdes. And 80% people are out of work. Before we had about 60% unemployment. They could not eat and survive and what now? It is worse. People are living on $1 a day
Visionary Society is the idea that we can see beyond the hypnotic, conventional, ideological, political dogma that we have been raised in. That we can step aside from the rush of history. And that we can form our own lives and society through nothing other than insight and courage.
APPEAL: Help create a playlist of local artists. We will present this to local café managers.
REQUESTS FOR BANKS
— Fair treatment of poor people or those in trouble.
— Stop predatory practices such as excessive overdraft fees.
— Take into account where money is invested, social justice, and environmental effects.
We are not mere consumers in the miles of aisles. Explore and improve the practices of the big box stores your prosper from. Search for any store to begin.
Request: “Sell snacks and sandwiches made locally and fresh”
Buy locally whenever possible, purchasing from rural, inner-city, and other locally owned companies and producers, protecting local natural resources.
Request: “Sell snacks and sandwiches made locally and fresh”
Buy locally whenever possible, purchasing from rural, inner-city, and other locally owned companies and producers, protecting local natural resources.
We are simply offering basic principles of meaningful art – not providing a list of works that we condemn or commend. That will always be subjective, and should be entirely up to individuals. Our goal is simply to provide a public forum for the shared attempt at discovering meaningful art.
The purpose of Beautiful Books is to promote and celebrate beautiful art. We want to remind each other that culture can lift and inspire, inform and transform. Goodness, beauty and truth exist. Let’s join together to rediscover what this is.
“At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men’s sin, and asks oneself whether one should use force or love and humility. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that once and for all, you may subdue the whole world. Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all things, and there is nothing else like it.”
Feodor Dostoyevsky
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Money is the life-blood of society. But it suppresses us. It keeps us working at jobs we don’t care about. It stops us from having time to achieve our dreams. We can do better. We can use money to create a more beautiful society.
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J. Krishnamurti
"Success is mediocrity"

“Even when we do feel strongly, it’s generally about such petty things: about personal and family security, about the flag, about some religious or political leader. Our feeling is always for or against something; it isn’t like a fire that burns brightly, without smoke.”


 
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What do you care about most? Personal security Accumulate money Your own happiness Recognition, status, fame Social justice Being a decent person Bring good into the world
What do you find humorous? Do you derive pleasure from the suffering of others? Watch yourself and see if you have this feeling. It may not be obvious, but if it is there you will find that it expresses itself in the impulse to laugh when somebody falls. You want those who are high to be pulled down; you criticize and gossip thoughtlessly about others.
What is the condition of your psyche? Do you judge others by their age, gender, race, attractiveness? Are you quick to anger? Jealous and envious? Lazy and ignorant? Bigoted and self-righteous?
How do you react when someone attacks you? Do you fight back? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you seeking status, position, money, relationship?
What are the principles of modern society? Science and technology? Materialism, growth, market forces? Pleasure-seeking, lust, greed?
What are the biggest problems we face? Climate change, artificial intelligence, nuclear war? Inequality, injustice, poverty, disease? Loneliness, addiction, meaninglessness?
What is your experience of living in bureaucratic, centralized, organized, technological, materialistic society? Do you accept the ideologies of work, entertainment, politics? Do you accept your life with it and in it?
What problem are you unable to solve? What are the peripheral and core elements of the problem? Are your intentions genuine? What are your secret motives? What are you evading? Gently, patiently, humbly and courageously enter into the problem and locate its heart.
What do you know? Give an example of something obvious, undeniable, certain. Is it a fact, an idea, a feeling? How do you know it is true? What evidence do you have? Is it worth believing in?
Are you able to think? Are you able to listen to views you disagree with? Are you able to see the truths of those you oppose? Are you able to locate the heart of the issue?
How actively do you participate in culture? Are you looking for stimulation and pleasure? Do you try to understand the purpose and effect of what you see and hear? Do you seek the good, true and beautiful?
What is your culture IQ?
How much time do you spend watching television, on the Internet, on your phone, or listening to music? How much do you engage in creative work or challenging thought?
What is beautiful or ugly, moral or immoral, in your community? In public spaces? In politics and the media? Among strangers and friends?
Think of a song, film or work of art you hae enjoyed. How does it make you feel? Does it inflame your ego? Does it reinforce stereotypes? Does it make you compare yourself to others? Or did it recognize the part of you that you admire? Did it make you feel more human? Did it address what is best in you?
“I shall never stop practicing philosophy and exhorting you and elucidating the truth for everyone that I meet. I shall go on saying…Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and similarly with reputation and honor and give no attention to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul?
What kind of work do you do? – Dysfunctional work, such as military, advertising. – Work that limits choice, such as banking. – Areas of obscene profit, such as education and healthcare. – Work that compensates for dysfunction, such as police, therapy. – Creative functions, such as design, writing, art. – Service providers, such as teachers, health care. – Vital functions, such as food.
What danger does money have for you? "There are some callings where [the ambition to get rich] is a dangerous impediment; among these I would include ministers, teachers, lawyers and physicians." Abraham Heschel
What is the meaning of a product or service you have purchased? What is its true cost? "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." Henry David Thoreau
Think of any issue that you have a stake in, in which you are committed to one side. What is good or true about the side that you oppose? What are their grievances? How are they suffering?
Do you vote? Why or why not?
Repeat the pledge of allegiance:
"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
How does this make you feel?
What is the closest thing to love you have ever experienced? What was universal about that – not tied to the particular person or experience?
Give an example of illusory love. Have you fallen in love with or been infatuated with someone for reasons that you later realized were false?
What are you willing to do for a friend? What are willing to sacrifice? What would you never give or sacrifice?
How are you the same as others? What do you have in common with other human beings? With all of life, animals and plants? With inanimate things, like rocks and air?
How peaceful are you? How much peace is there in your life? And how much conflict? When you are in conflict, do you use force or love?
Are you at war with yourself? Do you sometimes act with cruelty or brutality? In what ways are you narrow, superficial, fragmented? In what ways? Are you responsible for wars? What share do you have in the world’s confusion and wickedness?’
How do you get along with your parents, siblings, partners? How do you feel waiting in a supermarket line when there is an unexp
How do you lead your life? Do you participate in violent cultural activities, use respectful language? What would it mean to lea
What was the most sacred experience in your life? “Was it a moment of love? A moment of beholding the awe of nature’s beauty or being moved by a stirring song, the birth of a child or being in the presence of a wise person?”
In what ways are you devoted to a false god?
Another person? A country, religion, race, idea? How do you identify with it? How have you made it sacred, holy? Is it through fear of being inadequate yourself?
What is sacred to you? The sacred is reality, purpose, being. What is most real to you? What lies in the secret chambers of your heart, in your unconscious? Money? Family? Success? Happiness?
Look for the good. Think of the worst person you know. Do you say bad things about them? Do you treat them with contempt? Can you say one good thing about them?
Without its working middle class (some still remain, but very few), Haiti has become a land of millions of the virtually homeless living in shantytowns built with their own hands,
In Haiti, the unrest continues unabated. Only this morning, Haitian street protesters planned to meet up in a vast group, and march on Toussaint L’ouverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince.
Excerpted from The Nation. See full article.
Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity.
It is right and it is duty.
– Oscar Romero
Goals of the Peace Brigade
Understand the grievances of the opposing side.
Understand the suffering of the opposing side.
Understand one's own role in aggression.
Look for the flaws, but focus on the good.
Active collaboration with any and all people and organizations.
Profound peace is resolving conflict before it arises. It is a direct, personal, collaborative response to personal and global conflict, with the goal of resolving conflict at the root level, through introspection and direct collaborative action.
“War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday life.”
What is thunderous, not lukewarm, peace? It is a transformative response to conflict, one which changes the conflict situation at the root. To find it we must raise ourselves to the highest possible pitch of our nature.
I’m fighting for my life against this mine. It is not just a mine. It’s going to destroy everything. It’s a death note, and it’s addressed directly to Bristol Bay. It’s disgusting that I have to live everyday with the constant that my forever home will be destroyed by Pebble Mine.
“Is it possible to totally end every form of violence in ourselves and still live in this monstrously brutal world?” J. Krishnamurti
Begin with the impossible question: Why do we fight our own brothers?
In a competitive society, is force necessary? Can we find what is good and true in our adversaries? Can we resolve conflict before it starts? Can we put an end to war in ourselves? Can we make war unnecessary?
Do you have your own ideas for dissolving conflict? Use Proposals to ask for support from your brothers and sisters.
Because of the coronavirus everything has become expensive and we don’t have food for them. The orphanage is going to have to stop operations unless we can find additional help.
In 2012, two years after the great earthquake, I met a lady from Cite Soleil, Yolande Depoorter, while researching her biological family. She had been adopted by a Belgian woman when she was 6 years old, and was then about 44 years old. She asked, “How can I help Haiti?” I suggested that she could help some of the street children in Haiti, those who lost their parents in the earthquake.
Look for Tysea Orphanage in Facebook to see more.
I would like to repair my house if I can find some help. That would be a dream come true. I don't see how I can do it with my poor salary, which I am not receiving since the virus arrived.
Life was already difficult because of various political crises in Haiti. But Coronavirus has made things much worse. People can't go out to take care of their business. School are closed.
1. Brothers and sisters know something about each other. They try to learn what the other really cares for and needs.
2. They express care toward each other. A sibling is someone you can count on.
Anyone can have a brother or sister!
It is a miracle enough when one human being reaches out to another. Can communities do the same, even though they are separated by nationality, language, culture and history? Can they break through provincialism and share what is essential? If so, they will have to become sisters.
Understanding is a beautiful mystery. It breaks down illusion. It resolves perplexities. It puts an end to the misery of isolation. It is the deepest prayer, the ultimate happiness.
Understanding is a miracle. In spite of all ignorance in the world it is still possible. But we need a little help. The purpose of Visionary Society Topics is to provide some of that help.
A unique Haitian feature is what we call the konbit. The konbit is a group of people coming together to carry out a project in their community.
Haiti has a variety of dance styles that enrich our culture. It includes a mix of African, European and Indian dance. Each dance is associated with a specific rhythm. But the real origin is from Benin.
We’d like to introduce another response, one founded on non-adversarial relationships: on actual concern for the well-being of each other. There are a number of step we can take to reduce aggressive narrow-mindedness. Give Back the Night is a forum to cultivate, support and publicize these steps.
In most American cities women are not free to walk alone at night. Liberty to walk at night is an essential part of freedom, needed for self-knowledge and personal development. Women should be free to jog in remote places, to let their children play in parks or on our streets. To deny this is a crime against the human spirit that’s almost as bad as the physical threat itself.
What can you do? Begin by entering your thoughts or steps you are taking in the comments below.
“In most of our lives there is a lack of sensitivity to beauty. You may see a beautiful face, a lovely painting, a marvelous temple and the sculptured hills, but never feel intensely or passionately the beauty of the earth and the sky. One wonders why.” J. Krishnamurti
The goal of Visionary Society is to envision new ways of thinking and acting. Topics is the first step. Topics is a process of uncovering the truth of perspectives we misunderstand.

 


Understanding puts an end to the misery of isolation. It is the deepest prayer, the ultimate happiness. A Topic is a way to resolve a problem by finding its origin in a worldview that has been misunderstood. Begin by voting on each point of view.

What is popular culture?
What is the purpose of art?
Customers like you are the lifeblood of the businesses they use. We have the power to bring a business to consciousness. A purpose of Visionary Society is to show how this is possible. Here are some suggestions about first steps businesses can take, and how you can encourage them to do so.
Like a person, a business is a world, not just a private entity with the right to do anything it likes. It has a life of its own and an ethical position. It is responsible for making the community in which it is based better.
We are all (even vast impersonal organizations) in this together , including owners, managers, staff and customers.
It is impossible to be happy without art. But art that you buy at a gallery does not qualify. Art that you see at a theater does not qualify. That is the disease of specialization, cleverness, fame and money, and it changes nothing. Art cannot be presented as an object to be consumed, something to be paid for and then enjoyed. You cannot charge a price for beauty.
“Prior to industrial civilization that made possible the mass production of goods, most things were made by hand and eye and were intrinsically beautiful as well as useful. Beauty was a fundamental and necessary ingredient of life that was considered essential by both rich and poor, craftsperson and artisan alike.” Resurgence Magazine
We don’t need to depend on artists and arts institutions. Every person is capable of creativity, practical creativity in their actual life. Art can recover the power to change society – to break the bonds of the static, to bring institutions to life.
“In most of our lives there is a lack of sensitivity to beauty. You may see a beautiful face, a lovely painting, a marvelous temple and the sculptured hills, but never feel intensely or passionately the beauty of the earth and the sky. One wonders why.” J. Krishnamurti
Can we combat the collective mind? Can we bring beauty and creativity to everyday life?
It’s a great resource to have a number of people to rely on if I’m not able to manage a number of things. It’s great to be able to stay in my own own and be in control of my own schedule.
We don’t need another marketplace of anonymous, impersonal, self-interested individuals. Instead, we can share what is important to us with each other. We can show that sensitivity is possible, that money and success are not everything.
Proposals is a new forum for personal community engagement, based on heart-centered care for making the world better.
Learn more about Proposals
What can Haiti do now? Nothing. There are many churches and NGOs in Haiti, but they know little or nothing about these problems. The only response I can think of is that the U.S.A. or Canada should occupy Haiti. The situation problem is a political one. There are too many armed bandits, killing people everyday, and there is no other solution.

The exchange rate with U.S. dollars has increased from day to day . We now need 115 gourdes for $1, up from 45 gourdes. And 80% people are out of work. Before we had about 60% unemployment. They could not eat and survive and what now? It is worse. People are living on $1 a day
Visionary Society is the idea that we can see beyond the hypnotic, conventional, ideological, political dogma that we have been raised in. That we can step aside from the rush of history. And that we can form our own lives and society through nothing other than insight and courage.
APPEAL: Help create a playlist of local artists. We will present this to local café managers.
REQUESTS FOR BANKS
— Fair treatment of poor people or those in trouble.
— Stop predatory practices such as excessive overdraft fees.
— Take into account where money is invested, social justice, and environmental effects.
We are not mere consumers in the miles of aisles. Explore and improve the practices of the big box stores your prosper from. Search for any store to begin.
Request: “Sell snacks and sandwiches made locally and fresh”
Buy locally whenever possible, purchasing from rural, inner-city, and other locally owned companies and producers, protecting local natural resources.
Request: “Sell snacks and sandwiches made locally and fresh”
Buy locally whenever possible, purchasing from rural, inner-city, and other locally owned companies and producers, protecting local natural resources.
We are simply offering basic principles of meaningful art – not providing a list of works that we condemn or commend. That will always be subjective, and should be entirely up to individuals. Our goal is simply to provide a public forum for the shared attempt at discovering meaningful art.
The purpose of Beautiful Books is to promote and celebrate beautiful art. We want to remind each other that culture can lift and inspire, inform and transform. Goodness, beauty and truth exist. Let’s join together to rediscover what this is.
“At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men’s sin, and asks oneself whether one should use force or love and humility. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that once and for all, you may subdue the whole world. Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all things, and there is nothing else like it.”
Feodor Dostoyevsky
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Is there something greater than we ourselves? Does truth, good and beauty exist?
Can spirituality reform the acquisitive spirit? Can it exist without dogma, authority or belief? Is anything sacred anymore?
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"Success is mediocrity"

“Even when we do feel strongly, it’s generally about such petty things: about personal and family security, about the flag, about some religious or political leader. Our feeling is always for or against something; it isn’t like a fire that burns brightly, without smoke.”


 
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What do you care about most? Personal security Accumulate money Your own happiness Recognition, status, fame Social justice Being a decent person Bring good into the world
What do you find humorous? Do you derive pleasure from the suffering of others? Watch yourself and see if you have this feeling. It may not be obvious, but if it is there you will find that it expresses itself in the impulse to laugh when somebody falls. You want those who are high to be pulled down; you criticize and gossip thoughtlessly about others.
What is the condition of your psyche? Do you judge others by their age, gender, race, attractiveness? Are you quick to anger? Jealous and envious? Lazy and ignorant? Bigoted and self-righteous?
How do you react when someone attacks you? Do you fight back? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you seeking status, position, money, relationship?
What are the principles of modern society? Science and technology? Materialism, growth, market forces? Pleasure-seeking, lust, greed?
What are the biggest problems we face? Climate change, artificial intelligence, nuclear war? Inequality, injustice, poverty, disease? Loneliness, addiction, meaninglessness?
What is your experience of living in bureaucratic, centralized, organized, technological, materialistic society? Do you accept the ideologies of work, entertainment, politics? Do you accept your life with it and in it?
What problem are you unable to solve? What are the peripheral and core elements of the problem? Are your intentions genuine? What are your secret motives? What are you evading? Gently, patiently, humbly and courageously enter into the problem and locate its heart.
What do you know? Give an example of something obvious, undeniable, certain. Is it a fact, an idea, a feeling? How do you know it is true? What evidence do you have? Is it worth believing in?
Are you able to think? Are you able to listen to views you disagree with? Are you able to see the truths of those you oppose? Are you able to locate the heart of the issue?
How actively do you participate in culture? Are you looking for stimulation and pleasure? Do you try to understand the purpose and effect of what you see and hear? Do you seek the good, true and beautiful?
What is your culture IQ?
How much time do you spend watching television, on the Internet, on your phone, or listening to music? How much do you engage in creative work or challenging thought?
What is beautiful or ugly, moral or immoral, in your community? In public spaces? In politics and the media? Among strangers and friends?
Think of a song, film or work of art you hae enjoyed. How does it make you feel? Does it inflame your ego? Does it reinforce stereotypes? Does it make you compare yourself to others? Or did it recognize the part of you that you admire? Did it make you feel more human? Did it address what is best in you?
“I shall never stop practicing philosophy and exhorting you and elucidating the truth for everyone that I meet. I shall go on saying…Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and similarly with reputation and honor and give no attention to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul?
What kind of work do you do? – Dysfunctional work, such as military, advertising. – Work that limits choice, such as banking. – Areas of obscene profit, such as education and healthcare. – Work that compensates for dysfunction, such as police, therapy. – Creative functions, such as design, writing, art. – Service providers, such as teachers, health care. – Vital functions, such as food.
What danger does money have for you? "There are some callings where [the ambition to get rich] is a dangerous impediment; among these I would include ministers, teachers, lawyers and physicians." Abraham Heschel
What is the meaning of a product or service you have purchased? What is its true cost? "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." Henry David Thoreau
Think of any issue that you have a stake in, in which you are committed to one side. What is good or true about the side that you oppose? What are their grievances? How are they suffering?
Do you vote? Why or why not?
Repeat the pledge of allegiance:
"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
How does this make you feel?
What is the closest thing to love you have ever experienced? What was universal about that – not tied to the particular person or experience?
Give an example of illusory love. Have you fallen in love with or been infatuated with someone for reasons that you later realized were false?
What are you willing to do for a friend? What are willing to sacrifice? What would you never give or sacrifice?
How are you the same as others? What do you have in common with other human beings? With all of life, animals and plants? With inanimate things, like rocks and air?
How peaceful are you? How much peace is there in your life? And how much conflict? When you are in conflict, do you use force or love?
Are you at war with yourself? Do you sometimes act with cruelty or brutality? In what ways are you narrow, superficial, fragmented? In what ways? Are you responsible for wars? What share do you have in the world’s confusion and wickedness?’
How do you get along with your parents, siblings, partners? How do you feel waiting in a supermarket line when there is an unexp
How do you lead your life? Do you participate in violent cultural activities, use respectful language? What would it mean to lea
What was the most sacred experience in your life? “Was it a moment of love? A moment of beholding the awe of nature’s beauty or being moved by a stirring song, the birth of a child or being in the presence of a wise person?”
In what ways are you devoted to a false god?
Another person? A country, religion, race, idea? How do you identify with it? How have you made it sacred, holy? Is it through fear of being inadequate yourself?
What is sacred to you? The sacred is reality, purpose, being. What is most real to you? What lies in the secret chambers of your heart, in your unconscious? Money? Family? Success? Happiness?
Look for the good. Think of the worst person you know. Do you say bad things about them? Do you treat them with contempt? Can you say one good thing about them?
Without its working middle class (some still remain, but very few), Haiti has become a land of millions of the virtually homeless living in shantytowns built with their own hands,
In Haiti, the unrest continues unabated. Only this morning, Haitian street protesters planned to meet up in a vast group, and march on Toussaint L’ouverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince.
Excerpted from The Nation. See full article.
Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity.
It is right and it is duty.
– Oscar Romero
Goals of the Peace Brigade
Understand the grievances of the opposing side.
Understand the suffering of the opposing side.
Understand one's own role in aggression.
Look for the flaws, but focus on the good.
Active collaboration with any and all people and organizations.
Profound peace is resolving conflict before it arises. It is a direct, personal, collaborative response to personal and global conflict, with the goal of resolving conflict at the root level, through introspection and direct collaborative action.
“War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday life.”
What is thunderous, not lukewarm, peace? It is a transformative response to conflict, one which changes the conflict situation at the root. To find it we must raise ourselves to the highest possible pitch of our nature.
I’m fighting for my life against this mine. It is not just a mine. It’s going to destroy everything. It’s a death note, and it’s addressed directly to Bristol Bay. It’s disgusting that I have to live everyday with the constant that my forever home will be destroyed by Pebble Mine.
“Is it possible to totally end every form of violence in ourselves and still live in this monstrously brutal world?” J. Krishnamurti
Begin with the impossible question: Why do we fight our own brothers?
In a competitive society, is force necessary? Can we find what is good and true in our adversaries? Can we resolve conflict before it starts? Can we put an end to war in ourselves? Can we make war unnecessary?
Do you have your own ideas for dissolving conflict? Use Proposals to ask for support from your brothers and sisters.
Because of the coronavirus everything has become expensive and we don’t have food for them. The orphanage is going to have to stop operations unless we can find additional help.
In 2012, two years after the great earthquake, I met a lady from Cite Soleil, Yolande Depoorter, while researching her biological family. She had been adopted by a Belgian woman when she was 6 years old, and was then about 44 years old. She asked, “How can I help Haiti?” I suggested that she could help some of the street children in Haiti, those who lost their parents in the earthquake.
Look for Tysea Orphanage in Facebook to see more.
I would like to repair my house if I can find some help. That would be a dream come true. I don't see how I can do it with my poor salary, which I am not receiving since the virus arrived.
Life was already difficult because of various political crises in Haiti. But Coronavirus has made things much worse. People can't go out to take care of their business. School are closed.
1. Brothers and sisters know something about each other. They try to learn what the other really cares for and needs.
2. They express care toward each other. A sibling is someone you can count on.
Anyone can have a brother or sister!
It is a miracle enough when one human being reaches out to another. Can communities do the same, even though they are separated by nationality, language, culture and history? Can they break through provincialism and share what is essential? If so, they will have to become sisters.
Understanding is a beautiful mystery. It breaks down illusion. It resolves perplexities. It puts an end to the misery of isolation. It is the deepest prayer, the ultimate happiness.
Understanding is a miracle. In spite of all ignorance in the world it is still possible. But we need a little help. The purpose of Visionary Society Topics is to provide some of that help.
A unique Haitian feature is what we call the konbit. The konbit is a group of people coming together to carry out a project in their community.
Haiti has a variety of dance styles that enrich our culture. It includes a mix of African, European and Indian dance. Each dance is associated with a specific rhythm. But the real origin is from Benin.
We’d like to introduce another response, one founded on non-adversarial relationships: on actual concern for the well-being of each other. There are a number of step we can take to reduce aggressive narrow-mindedness. Give Back the Night is a forum to cultivate, support and publicize these steps.
In most American cities women are not free to walk alone at night. Liberty to walk at night is an essential part of freedom, needed for self-knowledge and personal development. Women should be free to jog in remote places, to let their children play in parks or on our streets. To deny this is a crime against the human spirit that’s almost as bad as the physical threat itself.
What can you do? Begin by entering your thoughts or steps you are taking in the comments below.
“In most of our lives there is a lack of sensitivity to beauty. You may see a beautiful face, a lovely painting, a marvelous temple and the sculptured hills, but never feel intensely or passionately the beauty of the earth and the sky. One wonders why.” J. Krishnamurti
The goal of Visionary Society is to envision new ways of thinking and acting. Topics is the first step. Topics is a process of uncovering the truth of perspectives we misunderstand.

 


Understanding puts an end to the misery of isolation. It is the deepest prayer, the ultimate happiness. A Topic is a way to resolve a problem by finding its origin in a worldview that has been misunderstood. Begin by voting on each point of view.

What is popular culture?
What is the purpose of art?
Customers like you are the lifeblood of the businesses they use. We have the power to bring a business to consciousness. A purpose of Visionary Society is to show how this is possible. Here are some suggestions about first steps businesses can take, and how you can encourage them to do so.
Like a person, a business is a world, not just a private entity with the right to do anything it likes. It has a life of its own and an ethical position. It is responsible for making the community in which it is based better.
We are all (even vast impersonal organizations) in this together , including owners, managers, staff and customers.
It is impossible to be happy without art. But art that you buy at a gallery does not qualify. Art that you see at a theater does not qualify. That is the disease of specialization, cleverness, fame and money, and it changes nothing. Art cannot be presented as an object to be consumed, something to be paid for and then enjoyed. You cannot charge a price for beauty.
“Prior to industrial civilization that made possible the mass production of goods, most things were made by hand and eye and were intrinsically beautiful as well as useful. Beauty was a fundamental and necessary ingredient of life that was considered essential by both rich and poor, craftsperson and artisan alike.” Resurgence Magazine
We don’t need to depend on artists and arts institutions. Every person is capable of creativity, practical creativity in their actual life. Art can recover the power to change society – to break the bonds of the static, to bring institutions to life.
“In most of our lives there is a lack of sensitivity to beauty. You may see a beautiful face, a lovely painting, a marvelous temple and the sculptured hills, but never feel intensely or passionately the beauty of the earth and the sky. One wonders why.” J. Krishnamurti
Can we combat the collective mind? Can we bring beauty and creativity to everyday life?
It’s a great resource to have a number of people to rely on if I’m not able to manage a number of things. It’s great to be able to stay in my own own and be in control of my own schedule.
We don’t need another marketplace of anonymous, impersonal, self-interested individuals. Instead, we can share what is important to us with each other. We can show that sensitivity is possible, that money and success are not everything.
Proposals is a new forum for personal community engagement, based on heart-centered care for making the world better.
Learn more about Proposals
What can Haiti do now? Nothing. There are many churches and NGOs in Haiti, but they know little or nothing about these problems. The only response I can think of is that the U.S.A. or Canada should occupy Haiti. The situation problem is a political one. There are too many armed bandits, killing people everyday, and there is no other solution.

The exchange rate with U.S. dollars has increased from day to day . We now need 115 gourdes for $1, up from 45 gourdes. And 80% people are out of work. Before we had about 60% unemployment. They could not eat and survive and what now? It is worse. People are living on $1 a day
Visionary Society is the idea that we can see beyond the hypnotic, conventional, ideological, political dogma that we have been raised in. That we can step aside from the rush of history. And that we can form our own lives and society through nothing other than insight and courage.
APPEAL: Help create a playlist of local artists. We will present this to local café managers.
REQUESTS FOR BANKS
— Fair treatment of poor people or those in trouble.
— Stop predatory practices such as excessive overdraft fees.
— Take into account where money is invested, social justice, and environmental effects.
We are not mere consumers in the miles of aisles. Explore and improve the practices of the big box stores your prosper from. Search for any store to begin.
Request: “Sell snacks and sandwiches made locally and fresh”
Buy locally whenever possible, purchasing from rural, inner-city, and other locally owned companies and producers, protecting local natural resources.
Request: “Sell snacks and sandwiches made locally and fresh”
Buy locally whenever possible, purchasing from rural, inner-city, and other locally owned companies and producers, protecting local natural resources.
We are simply offering basic principles of meaningful art – not providing a list of works that we condemn or commend. That will always be subjective, and should be entirely up to individuals. Our goal is simply to provide a public forum for the shared attempt at discovering meaningful art.
The purpose of Beautiful Books is to promote and celebrate beautiful art. We want to remind each other that culture can lift and inspire, inform and transform. Goodness, beauty and truth exist. Let’s join together to rediscover what this is.
“At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men’s sin, and asks oneself whether one should use force or love and humility. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that once and for all, you may subdue the whole world. Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all things, and there is nothing else like it.”
Feodor Dostoyevsky
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We flounder in a sea of superficiality. Our passivity binds us to the existing order. We sought happiness, but received vacuity. An insight became a policy. A position was assumed, a relationship was defined. A dream turned into a bureaucracy.
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J. Krishnamurti
"Success is mediocrity"

“Even when we do feel strongly, it’s generally about such petty things: about personal and family security, about the flag, about some religious or political leader. Our feeling is always for or against something; it isn’t like a fire that burns brightly, without smoke.”


 
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What do you care about most? Personal security Accumulate money Your own happiness Recognition, status, fame Social justice Being a decent person Bring good into the world
What do you find humorous? Do you derive pleasure from the suffering of others? Watch yourself and see if you have this feeling. It may not be obvious, but if it is there you will find that it expresses itself in the impulse to laugh when somebody falls. You want those who are high to be pulled down; you criticize and gossip thoughtlessly about others.
What is the condition of your psyche? Do you judge others by their age, gender, race, attractiveness? Are you quick to anger? Jealous and envious? Lazy and ignorant? Bigoted and self-righteous?
How do you react when someone attacks you? Do you fight back? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you seeking status, position, money, relationship?
What are the principles of modern society? Science and technology? Materialism, growth, market forces? Pleasure-seeking, lust, greed?
What are the biggest problems we face? Climate change, artificial intelligence, nuclear war? Inequality, injustice, poverty, disease? Loneliness, addiction, meaninglessness?
What is your experience of living in bureaucratic, centralized, organized, technological, materialistic society? Do you accept the ideologies of work, entertainment, politics? Do you accept your life with it and in it?
What problem are you unable to solve? What are the peripheral and core elements of the problem? Are your intentions genuine? What are your secret motives? What are you evading? Gently, patiently, humbly and courageously enter into the problem and locate its heart.
What do you know? Give an example of something obvious, undeniable, certain. Is it a fact, an idea, a feeling? How do you know it is true? What evidence do you have? Is it worth believing in?
Are you able to think? Are you able to listen to views you disagree with? Are you able to see the truths of those you oppose? Are you able to locate the heart of the issue?
How actively do you participate in culture? Are you looking for stimulation and pleasure? Do you try to understand the purpose and effect of what you see and hear? Do you seek the good, true and beautiful?
What is your culture IQ?
How much time do you spend watching television, on the Internet, on your phone, or listening to music? How much do you engage in creative work or challenging thought?
What is beautiful or ugly, moral or immoral, in your community? In public spaces? In politics and the media? Among strangers and friends?
Think of a song, film or work of art you hae enjoyed. How does it make you feel? Does it inflame your ego? Does it reinforce stereotypes? Does it make you compare yourself to others? Or did it recognize the part of you that you admire? Did it make you feel more human? Did it address what is best in you?
“I shall never stop practicing philosophy and exhorting you and elucidating the truth for everyone that I meet. I shall go on saying…Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and similarly with reputation and honor and give no attention to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul?
What kind of work do you do? – Dysfunctional work, such as military, advertising. – Work that limits choice, such as banking. – Areas of obscene profit, such as education and healthcare. – Work that compensates for dysfunction, such as police, therapy. – Creative functions, such as design, writing, art. – Service providers, such as teachers, health care. – Vital functions, such as food.
What danger does money have for you? "There are some callings where [the ambition to get rich] is a dangerous impediment; among these I would include ministers, teachers, lawyers and physicians." Abraham Heschel
What is the meaning of a product or service you have purchased? What is its true cost? "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." Henry David Thoreau
Think of any issue that you have a stake in, in which you are committed to one side. What is good or true about the side that you oppose? What are their grievances? How are they suffering?
Do you vote? Why or why not?
Repeat the pledge of allegiance:
"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
How does this make you feel?
What is the closest thing to love you have ever experienced? What was universal about that – not tied to the particular person or experience?
Give an example of illusory love. Have you fallen in love with or been infatuated with someone for reasons that you later realized were false?
What are you willing to do for a friend? What are willing to sacrifice? What would you never give or sacrifice?
How are you the same as others? What do you have in common with other human beings? With all of life, animals and plants? With inanimate things, like rocks and air?
How peaceful are you? How much peace is there in your life? And how much conflict? When you are in conflict, do you use force or love?
Are you at war with yourself? Do you sometimes act with cruelty or brutality? In what ways are you narrow, superficial, fragmented? In what ways? Are you responsible for wars? What share do you have in the world’s confusion and wickedness?’
How do you get along with your parents, siblings, partners? How do you feel waiting in a supermarket line when there is an unexp
How do you lead your life? Do you participate in violent cultural activities, use respectful language? What would it mean to lea
What was the most sacred experience in your life? “Was it a moment of love? A moment of beholding the awe of nature’s beauty or being moved by a stirring song, the birth of a child or being in the presence of a wise person?”
In what ways are you devoted to a false god?
Another person? A country, religion, race, idea? How do you identify with it? How have you made it sacred, holy? Is it through fear of being inadequate yourself?
What is sacred to you? The sacred is reality, purpose, being. What is most real to you? What lies in the secret chambers of your heart, in your unconscious? Money? Family? Success? Happiness?
Look for the good. Think of the worst person you know. Do you say bad things about them? Do you treat them with contempt? Can you say one good thing about them?
Without its working middle class (some still remain, but very few), Haiti has become a land of millions of the virtually homeless living in shantytowns built with their own hands,
In Haiti, the unrest continues unabated. Only this morning, Haitian street protesters planned to meet up in a vast group, and march on Toussaint L’ouverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince.
Excerpted from The Nation. See full article.
Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity.
It is right and it is duty.
– Oscar Romero
Goals of the Peace Brigade
Understand the grievances of the opposing side.
Understand the suffering of the opposing side.
Understand one's own role in aggression.
Look for the flaws, but focus on the good.
Active collaboration with any and all people and organizations.
Profound peace is resolving conflict before it arises. It is a direct, personal, collaborative response to personal and global conflict, with the goal of resolving conflict at the root level, through introspection and direct collaborative action.
“War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday life.”
What is thunderous, not lukewarm, peace? It is a transformative response to conflict, one which changes the conflict situation at the root. To find it we must raise ourselves to the highest possible pitch of our nature.
I’m fighting for my life against this mine. It is not just a mine. It’s going to destroy everything. It’s a death note, and it’s addressed directly to Bristol Bay. It’s disgusting that I have to live everyday with the constant that my forever home will be destroyed by Pebble Mine.
“Is it possible to totally end every form of violence in ourselves and still live in this monstrously brutal world?” J. Krishnamurti
Begin with the impossible question: Why do we fight our own brothers?
In a competitive society, is force necessary? Can we find what is good and true in our adversaries? Can we resolve conflict before it starts? Can we put an end to war in ourselves? Can we make war unnecessary?
Do you have your own ideas for dissolving conflict? Use Proposals to ask for support from your brothers and sisters.
Because of the coronavirus everything has become expensive and we don’t have food for them. The orphanage is going to have to stop operations unless we can find additional help.
In 2012, two years after the great earthquake, I met a lady from Cite Soleil, Yolande Depoorter, while researching her biological family. She had been adopted by a Belgian woman when she was 6 years old, and was then about 44 years old. She asked, “How can I help Haiti?” I suggested that she could help some of the street children in Haiti, those who lost their parents in the earthquake.
Look for Tysea Orphanage in Facebook to see more.
I would like to repair my house if I can find some help. That would be a dream come true. I don't see how I can do it with my poor salary, which I am not receiving since the virus arrived.
Life was already difficult because of various political crises in Haiti. But Coronavirus has made things much worse. People can't go out to take care of their business. School are closed.
1. Brothers and sisters know something about each other. They try to learn what the other really cares for and needs.
2. They express care toward each other. A sibling is someone you can count on.
Anyone can have a brother or sister!
It is a miracle enough when one human being reaches out to another. Can communities do the same, even though they are separated by nationality, language, culture and history? Can they break through provincialism and share what is essential? If so, they will have to become sisters.
Understanding is a beautiful mystery. It breaks down illusion. It resolves perplexities. It puts an end to the misery of isolation. It is the deepest prayer, the ultimate happiness.
Understanding is a miracle. In spite of all ignorance in the world it is still possible. But we need a little help. The purpose of Visionary Society Topics is to provide some of that help.
A unique Haitian feature is what we call the konbit. The konbit is a group of people coming together to carry out a project in their community.
Haiti has a variety of dance styles that enrich our culture. It includes a mix of African, European and Indian dance. Each dance is associated with a specific rhythm. But the real origin is from Benin.
We’d like to introduce another response, one founded on non-adversarial relationships: on actual concern for the well-being of each other. There are a number of step we can take to reduce aggressive narrow-mindedness. Give Back the Night is a forum to cultivate, support and publicize these steps.
In most American cities women are not free to walk alone at night. Liberty to walk at night is an essential part of freedom, needed for self-knowledge and personal development. Women should be free to jog in remote places, to let their children play in parks or on our streets. To deny this is a crime against the human spirit that’s almost as bad as the physical threat itself.
What can you do? Begin by entering your thoughts or steps you are taking in the comments below.
“In most of our lives there is a lack of sensitivity to beauty. You may see a beautiful face, a lovely painting, a marvelous temple and the sculptured hills, but never feel intensely or passionately the beauty of the earth and the sky. One wonders why.” J. Krishnamurti
The goal of Visionary Society is to envision new ways of thinking and acting. Topics is the first step. Topics is a process of uncovering the truth of perspectives we misunderstand.

 


Understanding puts an end to the misery of isolation. It is the deepest prayer, the ultimate happiness. A Topic is a way to resolve a problem by finding its origin in a worldview that has been misunderstood. Begin by voting on each point of view.

What is popular culture?
What is the purpose of art?
Customers like you are the lifeblood of the businesses they use. We have the power to bring a business to consciousness. A purpose of Visionary Society is to show how this is possible. Here are some suggestions about first steps businesses can take, and how you can encourage them to do so.
Like a person, a business is a world, not just a private entity with the right to do anything it likes. It has a life of its own and an ethical position. It is responsible for making the community in which it is based better.
We are all (even vast impersonal organizations) in this together , including owners, managers, staff and customers.
It is impossible to be happy without art. But art that you buy at a gallery does not qualify. Art that you see at a theater does not qualify. That is the disease of specialization, cleverness, fame and money, and it changes nothing. Art cannot be presented as an object to be consumed, something to be paid for and then enjoyed. You cannot charge a price for beauty.
“Prior to industrial civilization that made possible the mass production of goods, most things were made by hand and eye and were intrinsically beautiful as well as useful. Beauty was a fundamental and necessary ingredient of life that was considered essential by both rich and poor, craftsperson and artisan alike.” Resurgence Magazine
We don’t need to depend on artists and arts institutions. Every person is capable of creativity, practical creativity in their actual life. Art can recover the power to change society – to break the bonds of the static, to bring institutions to life.
“In most of our lives there is a lack of sensitivity to beauty. You may see a beautiful face, a lovely painting, a marvelous temple and the sculptured hills, but never feel intensely or passionately the beauty of the earth and the sky. One wonders why.” J. Krishnamurti
Can we combat the collective mind? Can we bring beauty and creativity to everyday life?
It’s a great resource to have a number of people to rely on if I’m not able to manage a number of things. It’s great to be able to stay in my own own and be in control of my own schedule.
We don’t need another marketplace of anonymous, impersonal, self-interested individuals. Instead, we can share what is important to us with each other. We can show that sensitivity is possible, that money and success are not everything.
Proposals is a new forum for personal community engagement, based on heart-centered care for making the world better.
Learn more about Proposals
What can Haiti do now? Nothing. There are many churches and NGOs in Haiti, but they know little or nothing about these problems. The only response I can think of is that the U.S.A. or Canada should occupy Haiti. The situation problem is a political one. There are too many armed bandits, killing people everyday, and there is no other solution.

The exchange rate with U.S. dollars has increased from day to day . We now need 115 gourdes for $1, up from 45 gourdes. And 80% people are out of work. Before we had about 60% unemployment. They could not eat and survive and what now? It is worse. People are living on $1 a day
Visionary Society is the idea that we can see beyond the hypnotic, conventional, ideological, political dogma that we have been raised in. That we can step aside from the rush of history. And that we can form our own lives and society through nothing other than insight and courage.
APPEAL: Help create a playlist of local artists. We will present this to local café managers.
REQUESTS FOR BANKS
— Fair treatment of poor people or those in trouble.
— Stop predatory practices such as excessive overdraft fees.
— Take into account where money is invested, social justice, and environmental effects.
We are not mere consumers in the miles of aisles. Explore and improve the practices of the big box stores your prosper from. Search for any store to begin.
Request: “Sell snacks and sandwiches made locally and fresh”
Buy locally whenever possible, purchasing from rural, inner-city, and other locally owned companies and producers, protecting local natural resources.
Request: “Sell snacks and sandwiches made locally and fresh”
Buy locally whenever possible, purchasing from rural, inner-city, and other locally owned companies and producers, protecting local natural resources.
We are simply offering basic principles of meaningful art – not providing a list of works that we condemn or commend. That will always be subjective, and should be entirely up to individuals. Our goal is simply to provide a public forum for the shared attempt at discovering meaningful art.
The purpose of Beautiful Books is to promote and celebrate beautiful art. We want to remind each other that culture can lift and inspire, inform and transform. Goodness, beauty and truth exist. Let’s join together to rediscover what this is.
“At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men’s sin, and asks oneself whether one should use force or love and humility. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that once and for all, you may subdue the whole world. Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all things, and there is nothing else like it.”
Feodor Dostoyevsky
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Is relationship without betrayal, misunderstanding and forgetfulness possible? Is true friendship possible? Is love in society possible?
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"Success is mediocrity"

“Even when we do feel strongly, it’s generally about such petty things: about personal and family security, about the flag, about some religious or political leader. Our feeling is always for or against something; it isn’t like a fire that burns brightly, without smoke.”


 
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What do you care about most? Personal security Accumulate money Your own happiness Recognition, status, fame Social justice Being a decent person Bring good into the world
What do you find humorous? Do you derive pleasure from the suffering of others? Watch yourself and see if you have this feeling. It may not be obvious, but if it is there you will find that it expresses itself in the impulse to laugh when somebody falls. You want those who are high to be pulled down; you criticize and gossip thoughtlessly about others.
What is the condition of your psyche? Do you judge others by their age, gender, race, attractiveness? Are you quick to anger? Jealous and envious? Lazy and ignorant? Bigoted and self-righteous?
How do you react when someone attacks you? Do you fight back? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you seeking status, position, money, relationship?
What are the principles of modern society? Science and technology? Materialism, growth, market forces? Pleasure-seeking, lust, greed?
What are the biggest problems we face? Climate change, artificial intelligence, nuclear war? Inequality, injustice, poverty, disease? Loneliness, addiction, meaninglessness?
What is your experience of living in bureaucratic, centralized, organized, technological, materialistic society? Do you accept the ideologies of work, entertainment, politics? Do you accept your life with it and in it?
What problem are you unable to solve? What are the peripheral and core elements of the problem? Are your intentions genuine? What are your secret motives? What are you evading? Gently, patiently, humbly and courageously enter into the problem and locate its heart.
What do you know? Give an example of something obvious, undeniable, certain. Is it a fact, an idea, a feeling? How do you know it is true? What evidence do you have? Is it worth believing in?
Are you able to think? Are you able to listen to views you disagree with? Are you able to see the truths of those you oppose? Are you able to locate the heart of the issue?
How actively do you participate in culture? Are you looking for stimulation and pleasure? Do you try to understand the purpose and effect of what you see and hear? Do you seek the good, true and beautiful?
What is your culture IQ?
How much time do you spend watching television, on the Internet, on your phone, or listening to music? How much do you engage in creative work or challenging thought?
What is beautiful or ugly, moral or immoral, in your community? In public spaces? In politics and the media? Among strangers and friends?
Think of a song, film or work of art you hae enjoyed. How does it make you feel? Does it inflame your ego? Does it reinforce stereotypes? Does it make you compare yourself to others? Or did it recognize the part of you that you admire? Did it make you feel more human? Did it address what is best in you?
“I shall never stop practicing philosophy and exhorting you and elucidating the truth for everyone that I meet. I shall go on saying…Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and similarly with reputation and honor and give no attention to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul?
What kind of work do you do? – Dysfunctional work, such as military, advertising. – Work that limits choice, such as banking. – Areas of obscene profit, such as education and healthcare. – Work that compensates for dysfunction, such as police, therapy. – Creative functions, such as design, writing, art. – Service providers, such as teachers, health care. – Vital functions, such as food.
What danger does money have for you? "There are some callings where [the ambition to get rich] is a dangerous impediment; among these I would include ministers, teachers, lawyers and physicians." Abraham Heschel
What is the meaning of a product or service you have purchased? What is its true cost? "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." Henry David Thoreau
Think of any issue that you have a stake in, in which you are committed to one side. What is good or true about the side that you oppose? What are their grievances? How are they suffering?
Do you vote? Why or why not?
Repeat the pledge of allegiance:
"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
How does this make you feel?
What is the closest thing to love you have ever experienced? What was universal about that – not tied to the particular person or experience?
Give an example of illusory love. Have you fallen in love with or been infatuated with someone for reasons that you later realized were false?
What are you willing to do for a friend? What are willing to sacrifice? What would you never give or sacrifice?
How are you the same as others? What do you have in common with other human beings? With all of life, animals and plants? With inanimate things, like rocks and air?
How peaceful are you? How much peace is there in your life? And how much conflict? When you are in conflict, do you use force or love?
Are you at war with yourself? Do you sometimes act with cruelty or brutality? In what ways are you narrow, superficial, fragmented? In what ways? Are you responsible for wars? What share do you have in the world’s confusion and wickedness?’
How do you get along with your parents, siblings, partners? How do you feel waiting in a supermarket line when there is an unexp
How do you lead your life? Do you participate in violent cultural activities, use respectful language? What would it mean to lea
What was the most sacred experience in your life? “Was it a moment of love? A moment of beholding the awe of nature’s beauty or being moved by a stirring song, the birth of a child or being in the presence of a wise person?”
In what ways are you devoted to a false god?
Another person? A country, religion, race, idea? How do you identify with it? How have you made it sacred, holy? Is it through fear of being inadequate yourself?
What is sacred to you? The sacred is reality, purpose, being. What is most real to you? What lies in the secret chambers of your heart, in your unconscious? Money? Family? Success? Happiness?
Look for the good. Think of the worst person you know. Do you say bad things about them? Do you treat them with contempt? Can you say one good thing about them?
Without its working middle class (some still remain, but very few), Haiti has become a land of millions of the virtually homeless living in shantytowns built with their own hands,
In Haiti, the unrest continues unabated. Only this morning, Haitian street protesters planned to meet up in a vast group, and march on Toussaint L’ouverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince.
Excerpted from The Nation. See full article.
Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity.
It is right and it is duty.
– Oscar Romero
Goals of the Peace Brigade
Understand the grievances of the opposing side.
Understand the suffering of the opposing side.
Understand one's own role in aggression.
Look for the flaws, but focus on the good.
Active collaboration with any and all people and organizations.
Profound peace is resolving conflict before it arises. It is a direct, personal, collaborative response to personal and global conflict, with the goal of resolving conflict at the root level, through introspection and direct collaborative action.
“War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday life.”
What is thunderous, not lukewarm, peace? It is a transformative response to conflict, one which changes the conflict situation at the root. To find it we must raise ourselves to the highest possible pitch of our nature.
I’m fighting for my life against this mine. It is not just a mine. It’s going to destroy everything. It’s a death note, and it’s addressed directly to Bristol Bay. It’s disgusting that I have to live everyday with the constant that my forever home will be destroyed by Pebble Mine.
“Is it possible to totally end every form of violence in ourselves and still live in this monstrously brutal world?” J. Krishnamurti
Begin with the impossible question: Why do we fight our own brothers?
In a competitive society, is force necessary? Can we find what is good and true in our adversaries? Can we resolve conflict before it starts? Can we put an end to war in ourselves? Can we make war unnecessary?
Do you have your own ideas for dissolving conflict? Use Proposals to ask for support from your brothers and sisters.
Because of the coronavirus everything has become expensive and we don’t have food for them. The orphanage is going to have to stop operations unless we can find additional help.
In 2012, two years after the great earthquake, I met a lady from Cite Soleil, Yolande Depoorter, while researching her biological family. She had been adopted by a Belgian woman when she was 6 years old, and was then about 44 years old. She asked, “How can I help Haiti?” I suggested that she could help some of the street children in Haiti, those who lost their parents in the earthquake.
Look for Tysea Orphanage in Facebook to see more.
I would like to repair my house if I can find some help. That would be a dream come true. I don't see how I can do it with my poor salary, which I am not receiving since the virus arrived.
Life was already difficult because of various political crises in Haiti. But Coronavirus has made things much worse. People can't go out to take care of their business. School are closed.
1. Brothers and sisters know something about each other. They try to learn what the other really cares for and needs.
2. They express care toward each other. A sibling is someone you can count on.
Anyone can have a brother or sister!
It is a miracle enough when one human being reaches out to another. Can communities do the same, even though they are separated by nationality, language, culture and history? Can they break through provincialism and share what is essential? If so, they will have to become sisters.
Understanding is a beautiful mystery. It breaks down illusion. It resolves perplexities. It puts an end to the misery of isolation. It is the deepest prayer, the ultimate happiness.
Understanding is a miracle. In spite of all ignorance in the world it is still possible. But we need a little help. The purpose of Visionary Society Topics is to provide some of that help.
A unique Haitian feature is what we call the konbit. The konbit is a group of people coming together to carry out a project in their community.
Haiti has a variety of dance styles that enrich our culture. It includes a mix of African, European and Indian dance. Each dance is associated with a specific rhythm. But the real origin is from Benin.
We’d like to introduce another response, one founded on non-adversarial relationships: on actual concern for the well-being of each other. There are a number of step we can take to reduce aggressive narrow-mindedness. Give Back the Night is a forum to cultivate, support and publicize these steps.
In most American cities women are not free to walk alone at night. Liberty to walk at night is an essential part of freedom, needed for self-knowledge and personal development. Women should be free to jog in remote places, to let their children play in parks or on our streets. To deny this is a crime against the human spirit that’s almost as bad as the physical threat itself.
What can you do? Begin by entering your thoughts or steps you are taking in the comments below.
“In most of our lives there is a lack of sensitivity to beauty. You may see a beautiful face, a lovely painting, a marvelous temple and the sculptured hills, but never feel intensely or passionately the beauty of the earth and the sky. One wonders why.” J. Krishnamurti
The goal of Visionary Society is to envision new ways of thinking and acting. Topics is the first step. Topics is a process of uncovering the truth of perspectives we misunderstand.

 


Understanding puts an end to the misery of isolation. It is the deepest prayer, the ultimate happiness. A Topic is a way to resolve a problem by finding its origin in a worldview that has been misunderstood. Begin by voting on each point of view.

What is popular culture?
What is the purpose of art?
Customers like you are the lifeblood of the businesses they use. We have the power to bring a business to consciousness. A purpose of Visionary Society is to show how this is possible. Here are some suggestions about first steps businesses can take, and how you can encourage them to do so.
Like a person, a business is a world, not just a private entity with the right to do anything it likes. It has a life of its own and an ethical position. It is responsible for making the community in which it is based better.
We are all (even vast impersonal organizations) in this together , including owners, managers, staff and customers.
It is impossible to be happy without art. But art that you buy at a gallery does not qualify. Art that you see at a theater does not qualify. That is the disease of specialization, cleverness, fame and money, and it changes nothing. Art cannot be presented as an object to be consumed, something to be paid for and then enjoyed. You cannot charge a price for beauty.
“Prior to industrial civilization that made possible the mass production of goods, most things were made by hand and eye and were intrinsically beautiful as well as useful. Beauty was a fundamental and necessary ingredient of life that was considered essential by both rich and poor, craftsperson and artisan alike.” Resurgence Magazine
We don’t need to depend on artists and arts institutions. Every person is capable of creativity, practical creativity in their actual life. Art can recover the power to change society – to break the bonds of the static, to bring institutions to life.
“In most of our lives there is a lack of sensitivity to beauty. You may see a beautiful face, a lovely painting, a marvelous temple and the sculptured hills, but never feel intensely or passionately the beauty of the earth and the sky. One wonders why.” J. Krishnamurti
Can we combat the collective mind? Can we bring beauty and creativity to everyday life?
It’s a great resource to have a number of people to rely on if I’m not able to manage a number of things. It’s great to be able to stay in my own own and be in control of my own schedule.
We don’t need another marketplace of anonymous, impersonal, self-interested individuals. Instead, we can share what is important to us with each other. We can show that sensitivity is possible, that money and success are not everything.
Proposals is a new forum for personal community engagement, based on heart-centered care for making the world better.
Learn more about Proposals
What can Haiti do now? Nothing. There are many churches and NGOs in Haiti, but they know little or nothing about these problems. The only response I can think of is that the U.S.A. or Canada should occupy Haiti. The situation problem is a political one. There are too many armed bandits, killing people everyday, and there is no other solution.

The exchange rate with U.S. dollars has increased from day to day . We now need 115 gourdes for $1, up from 45 gourdes. And 80% people are out of work. Before we had about 60% unemployment. They could not eat and survive and what now? It is worse. People are living on $1 a day
Visionary Society is the idea that we can see beyond the hypnotic, conventional, ideological, political dogma that we have been raised in. That we can step aside from the rush of history. And that we can form our own lives and society through nothing other than insight and courage.
APPEAL: Help create a playlist of local artists. We will present this to local café managers.
REQUESTS FOR BANKS
— Fair treatment of poor people or those in trouble.
— Stop predatory practices such as excessive overdraft fees.
— Take into account where money is invested, social justice, and environmental effects.
We are not mere consumers in the miles of aisles. Explore and improve the practices of the big box stores your prosper from. Search for any store to begin.
Request: “Sell snacks and sandwiches made locally and fresh”
Buy locally whenever possible, purchasing from rural, inner-city, and other locally owned companies and producers, protecting local natural resources.
Request: “Sell snacks and sandwiches made locally and fresh”
Buy locally whenever possible, purchasing from rural, inner-city, and other locally owned companies and producers, protecting local natural resources.
We are simply offering basic principles of meaningful art – not providing a list of works that we condemn or commend. That will always be subjective, and should be entirely up to individuals. Our goal is simply to provide a public forum for the shared attempt at discovering meaningful art.
The purpose of Beautiful Books is to promote and celebrate beautiful art. We want to remind each other that culture can lift and inspire, inform and transform. Goodness, beauty and truth exist. Let’s join together to rediscover what this is.
“At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men’s sin, and asks oneself whether one should use force or love and humility. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that once and for all, you may subdue the whole world. Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all things, and there is nothing else like it.”
Feodor Dostoyevsky
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J. Krishnamurti
"Success is mediocrity"

“Even when we do feel strongly, it’s generally about such petty things: about personal and family security, about the flag, about some religious or political leader. Our feeling is always for or against something; it isn’t like a fire that burns brightly, without smoke.”


 
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What do you care about most? Personal security Accumulate money Your own happiness Recognition, status, fame Social justice Being a decent person Bring good into the world
What do you find humorous? Do you derive pleasure from the suffering of others? Watch yourself and see if you have this feeling. It may not be obvious, but if it is there you will find that it expresses itself in the impulse to laugh when somebody falls. You want those who are high to be pulled down; you criticize and gossip thoughtlessly about others.
What is the condition of your psyche? Do you judge others by their age, gender, race, attractiveness? Are you quick to anger? Jealous and envious? Lazy and ignorant? Bigoted and self-righteous?
How do you react when someone attacks you? Do you fight back? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you seeking status, position, money, relationship?
What are the principles of modern society? Science and technology? Materialism, growth, market forces? Pleasure-seeking, lust, greed?
What are the biggest problems we face? Climate change, artificial intelligence, nuclear war? Inequality, injustice, poverty, disease? Loneliness, addiction, meaninglessness?
What is your experience of living in bureaucratic, centralized, organized, technological, materialistic society? Do you accept the ideologies of work, entertainment, politics? Do you accept your life with it and in it?
What problem are you unable to solve? What are the peripheral and core elements of the problem? Are your intentions genuine? What are your secret motives? What are you evading? Gently, patiently, humbly and courageously enter into the problem and locate its heart.
What do you know? Give an example of something obvious, undeniable, certain. Is it a fact, an idea, a feeling? How do you know it is true? What evidence do you have? Is it worth believing in?
Are you able to think? Are you able to listen to views you disagree with? Are you able to see the truths of those you oppose? Are you able to locate the heart of the issue?
How actively do you participate in culture? Are you looking for stimulation and pleasure? Do you try to understand the purpose and effect of what you see and hear? Do you seek the good, true and beautiful?
What is your culture IQ?
How much time do you spend watching television, on the Internet, on your phone, or listening to music? How much do you engage in creative work or challenging thought?
What is beautiful or ugly, moral or immoral, in your community? In public spaces? In politics and the media? Among strangers and friends?
Think of a song, film or work of art you hae enjoyed. How does it make you feel? Does it inflame your ego? Does it reinforce stereotypes? Does it make you compare yourself to others? Or did it recognize the part of you that you admire? Did it make you feel more human? Did it address what is best in you?
“I shall never stop practicing philosophy and exhorting you and elucidating the truth for everyone that I meet. I shall go on saying…Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and similarly with reputation and honor and give no attention to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul?
What kind of work do you do? – Dysfunctional work, such as military, advertising. – Work that limits choice, such as banking. – Areas of obscene profit, such as education and healthcare. – Work that compensates for dysfunction, such as police, therapy. – Creative functions, such as design, writing, art. – Service providers, such as teachers, health care. – Vital functions, such as food.
What danger does money have for you? "There are some callings where [the ambition to get rich] is a dangerous impediment; among these I would include ministers, teachers, lawyers and physicians." Abraham Heschel
What is the meaning of a product or service you have purchased? What is its true cost? "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." Henry David Thoreau
Think of any issue that you have a stake in, in which you are committed to one side. What is good or true about the side that you oppose? What are their grievances? How are they suffering?
Do you vote? Why or why not?
Repeat the pledge of allegiance:
"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
How does this make you feel?
What is the closest thing to love you have ever experienced? What was universal about that – not tied to the particular person or experience?
Give an example of illusory love. Have you fallen in love with or been infatuated with someone for reasons that you later realized were false?
What are you willing to do for a friend? What are willing to sacrifice? What would you never give or sacrifice?
How are you the same as others? What do you have in common with other human beings? With all of life, animals and plants? With inanimate things, like rocks and air?
How peaceful are you? How much peace is there in your life? And how much conflict? When you are in conflict, do you use force or love?
Are you at war with yourself? Do you sometimes act with cruelty or brutality? In what ways are you narrow, superficial, fragmented? In what ways? Are you responsible for wars? What share do you have in the world’s confusion and wickedness?’
How do you get along with your parents, siblings, partners? How do you feel waiting in a supermarket line when there is an unexp
How do you lead your life? Do you participate in violent cultural activities, use respectful language? What would it mean to lea
What was the most sacred experience in your life? “Was it a moment of love? A moment of beholding the awe of nature’s beauty or being moved by a stirring song, the birth of a child or being in the presence of a wise person?”
In what ways are you devoted to a false god?
Another person? A country, religion, race, idea? How do you identify with it? How have you made it sacred, holy? Is it through fear of being inadequate yourself?
What is sacred to you? The sacred is reality, purpose, being. What is most real to you? What lies in the secret chambers of your heart, in your unconscious? Money? Family? Success? Happiness?
Look for the good. Think of the worst person you know. Do you say bad things about them? Do you treat them with contempt? Can you say one good thing about them?
Without its working middle class (some still remain, but very few), Haiti has become a land of millions of the virtually homeless living in shantytowns built with their own hands,
In Haiti, the unrest continues unabated. Only this morning, Haitian street protesters planned to meet up in a vast group, and march on Toussaint L’ouverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince.
Excerpted from The Nation. See full article.
Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity.
It is right and it is duty.
– Oscar Romero
Goals of the Peace Brigade
Understand the grievances of the opposing side.
Understand the suffering of the opposing side.
Understand one's own role in aggression.
Look for the flaws, but focus on the good.
Active collaboration with any and all people and organizations.
Profound peace is resolving conflict before it arises. It is a direct, personal, collaborative response to personal and global conflict, with the goal of resolving conflict at the root level, through introspection and direct collaborative action.
“War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday life.”
What is thunderous, not lukewarm, peace? It is a transformative response to conflict, one which changes the conflict situation at the root. To find it we must raise ourselves to the highest possible pitch of our nature.
I’m fighting for my life against this mine. It is not just a mine. It’s going to destroy everything. It’s a death note, and it’s addressed directly to Bristol Bay. It’s disgusting that I have to live everyday with the constant that my forever home will be destroyed by Pebble Mine.
“Is it possible to totally end every form of violence in ourselves and still live in this monstrously brutal world?” J. Krishnamurti
Begin with the impossible question: Why do we fight our own brothers?
In a competitive society, is force necessary? Can we find what is good and true in our adversaries? Can we resolve conflict before it starts? Can we put an end to war in ourselves? Can we make war unnecessary?
Do you have your own ideas for dissolving conflict? Use Proposals to ask for support from your brothers and sisters.
Because of the coronavirus everything has become expensive and we don’t have food for them. The orphanage is going to have to stop operations unless we can find additional help.
In 2012, two years after the great earthquake, I met a lady from Cite Soleil, Yolande Depoorter, while researching her biological family. She had been adopted by a Belgian woman when she was 6 years old, and was then about 44 years old. She asked, “How can I help Haiti?” I suggested that she could help some of the street children in Haiti, those who lost their parents in the earthquake.
Look for Tysea Orphanage in Facebook to see more.
I would like to repair my house if I can find some help. That would be a dream come true. I don't see how I can do it with my poor salary, which I am not receiving since the virus arrived.
Life was already difficult because of various political crises in Haiti. But Coronavirus has made things much worse. People can't go out to take care of their business. School are closed.
1. Brothers and sisters know something about each other. They try to learn what the other really cares for and needs.
2. They express care toward each other. A sibling is someone you can count on.
Anyone can have a brother or sister!
It is a miracle enough when one human being reaches out to another. Can communities do the same, even though they are separated by nationality, language, culture and history? Can they break through provincialism and share what is essential? If so, they will have to become sisters.
Understanding is a beautiful mystery. It breaks down illusion. It resolves perplexities. It puts an end to the misery of isolation. It is the deepest prayer, the ultimate happiness.
Understanding is a miracle. In spite of all ignorance in the world it is still possible. But we need a little help. The purpose of Visionary Society Topics is to provide some of that help.
A unique Haitian feature is what we call the konbit. The konbit is a group of people coming together to carry out a project in their community.
Haiti has a variety of dance styles that enrich our culture. It includes a mix of African, European and Indian dance. Each dance is associated with a specific rhythm. But the real origin is from Benin.
We’d like to introduce another response, one founded on non-adversarial relationships: on actual concern for the well-being of each other. There are a number of step we can take to reduce aggressive narrow-mindedness. Give Back the Night is a forum to cultivate, support and publicize these steps.
In most American cities women are not free to walk alone at night. Liberty to walk at night is an essential part of freedom, needed for self-knowledge and personal development. Women should be free to jog in remote places, to let their children play in parks or on our streets. To deny this is a crime against the human spirit that’s almost as bad as the physical threat itself.
What can you do? Begin by entering your thoughts or steps you are taking in the comments below.
“In most of our lives there is a lack of sensitivity to beauty. You may see a beautiful face, a lovely painting, a marvelous temple and the sculptured hills, but never feel intensely or passionately the beauty of the earth and the sky. One wonders why.” J. Krishnamurti
The goal of Visionary Society is to envision new ways of thinking and acting. Topics is the first step. Topics is a process of uncovering the truth of perspectives we misunderstand.

 


Understanding puts an end to the misery of isolation. It is the deepest prayer, the ultimate happiness. A Topic is a way to resolve a problem by finding its origin in a worldview that has been misunderstood. Begin by voting on each point of view.

What is popular culture?
What is the purpose of art?
Customers like you are the lifeblood of the businesses they use. We have the power to bring a business to consciousness. A purpose of Visionary Society is to show how this is possible. Here are some suggestions about first steps businesses can take, and how you can encourage them to do so.
Like a person, a business is a world, not just a private entity with the right to do anything it likes. It has a life of its own and an ethical position. It is responsible for making the community in which it is based better.
We are all (even vast impersonal organizations) in this together , including owners, managers, staff and customers.
It is impossible to be happy without art. But art that you buy at a gallery does not qualify. Art that you see at a theater does not qualify. That is the disease of specialization, cleverness, fame and money, and it changes nothing. Art cannot be presented as an object to be consumed, something to be paid for and then enjoyed. You cannot charge a price for beauty.
“Prior to industrial civilization that made possible the mass production of goods, most things were made by hand and eye and were intrinsically beautiful as well as useful. Beauty was a fundamental and necessary ingredient of life that was considered essential by both rich and poor, craftsperson and artisan alike.” Resurgence Magazine
We don’t need to depend on artists and arts institutions. Every person is capable of creativity, practical creativity in their actual life. Art can recover the power to change society – to break the bonds of the static, to bring institutions to life.
“In most of our lives there is a lack of sensitivity to beauty. You may see a beautiful face, a lovely painting, a marvelous temple and the sculptured hills, but never feel intensely or passionately the beauty of the earth and the sky. One wonders why.” J. Krishnamurti
Can we combat the collective mind? Can we bring beauty and creativity to everyday life?
It’s a great resource to have a number of people to rely on if I’m not able to manage a number of things. It’s great to be able to stay in my own own and be in control of my own schedule.
We don’t need another marketplace of anonymous, impersonal, self-interested individuals. Instead, we can share what is important to us with each other. We can show that sensitivity is possible, that money and success are not everything.
Proposals is a new forum for personal community engagement, based on heart-centered care for making the world better.
Learn more about Proposals
What can Haiti do now? Nothing. There are many churches and NGOs in Haiti, but they know little or nothing about these problems. The only response I can think of is that the U.S.A. or Canada should occupy Haiti. The situation problem is a political one. There are too many armed bandits, killing people everyday, and there is no other solution.

The exchange rate with U.S. dollars has increased from day to day . We now need 115 gourdes for $1, up from 45 gourdes. And 80% people are out of work. Before we had about 60% unemployment. They could not eat and survive and what now? It is worse. People are living on $1 a day
Visionary Society is the idea that we can see beyond the hypnotic, conventional, ideological, political dogma that we have been raised in. That we can step aside from the rush of history. And that we can form our own lives and society through nothing other than insight and courage.
APPEAL: Help create a playlist of local artists. We will present this to local café managers.
REQUESTS FOR BANKS
— Fair treatment of poor people or those in trouble.
— Stop predatory practices such as excessive overdraft fees.
— Take into account where money is invested, social justice, and environmental effects.
We are not mere consumers in the miles of aisles. Explore and improve the practices of the big box stores your prosper from. Search for any store to begin.
Request: “Sell snacks and sandwiches made locally and fresh”
Buy locally whenever possible, purchasing from rural, inner-city, and other locally owned companies and producers, protecting local natural resources.
Request: “Sell snacks and sandwiches made locally and fresh”
Buy locally whenever possible, purchasing from rural, inner-city, and other locally owned companies and producers, protecting local natural resources.
We are simply offering basic principles of meaningful art – not providing a list of works that we condemn or commend. That will always be subjective, and should be entirely up to individuals. Our goal is simply to provide a public forum for the shared attempt at discovering meaningful art.
The purpose of Beautiful Books is to promote and celebrate beautiful art. We want to remind each other that culture can lift and inspire, inform and transform. Goodness, beauty and truth exist. Let’s join together to rediscover what this is.
“At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men’s sin, and asks oneself whether one should use force or love and humility. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that once and for all, you may subdue the whole world. Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all things, and there is nothing else like it.”
Feodor Dostoyevsky
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What do you care about most? Personal security Accumulate money Your own happiness Recognition, status, fame Social justice Being a decent person Bring good into the world
What do you find humorous? Do you derive pleasure from the suffering of others? Watch yourself and see if you have this feeling. It may not be obvious, but if it is there you will find that it expresses itself in the impulse to laugh when somebody falls. You want those who are high to be pulled down; you criticize and gossip thoughtlessly about others.
What is the condition of your psyche? Do you judge others by their age, gender, race, attractiveness? Are you quick to anger? Jealous and envious? Lazy and ignorant? Bigoted and self-righteous?
How do you react when someone attacks you? Do you fight back? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you seeking status, position, money, relationship?
What are the principles of modern society? Science and technology? Materialism, growth, market forces? Pleasure-seeking, lust, greed?
What are the biggest problems we face? Climate change, artificial intelligence, nuclear war? Inequality, injustice, poverty, disease? Loneliness, addiction, meaninglessness?
What is your experience of living in bureaucratic, centralized, organized, technological, materialistic society? Do you accept the ideologies of work, entertainment, politics? Do you accept your life with it and in it?
What problem are you unable to solve? What are the peripheral and core elements of the problem? Are your intentions genuine? What are your secret motives? What are you evading? Gently, patiently, humbly and courageously enter into the problem and locate its heart.
What do you know? Give an example of something obvious, undeniable, certain. Is it a fact, an idea, a feeling? How do you know it is true? What evidence do you have? Is it worth believing in?
Are you able to think? Are you able to listen to views you disagree with? Are you able to see the truths of those you oppose? Are you able to locate the heart of the issue?
How actively do you participate in culture? Are you looking for stimulation and pleasure? Do you try to understand the purpose and effect of what you see and hear? Do you seek the good, true and beautiful?
What is your culture IQ?
How much time do you spend watching television, on the Internet, on your phone, or listening to music? How much do you engage in creative work or challenging thought?
What is beautiful or ugly, moral or immoral, in your community? In public spaces? In politics and the media? Among strangers and friends?
Think of a song, film or work of art you hae enjoyed. How does it make you feel? Does it inflame your ego? Does it reinforce stereotypes? Does it make you compare yourself to others? Or did it recognize the part of you that you admire? Did it make you feel more human? Did it address what is best in you?
“I shall never stop practicing philosophy and exhorting you and elucidating the truth for everyone that I meet. I shall go on saying…Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and similarly with reputation and honor and give no attention to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul?
What kind of work do you do? – Dysfunctional work, such as military, advertising. – Work that limits choice, such as banking. – Areas of obscene profit, such as education and healthcare. – Work that compensates for dysfunction, such as police, therapy. – Creative functions, such as design, writing, art. – Service providers, such as teachers, health care. – Vital functions, such as food.
What danger does money have for you? "There are some callings where [the ambition to get rich] is a dangerous impediment; among these I would include ministers, teachers, lawyers and physicians." Abraham Heschel
What is the meaning of a product or service you have purchased? What is its true cost? "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." Henry David Thoreau
Think of any issue that you have a stake in, in which you are committed to one side. What is good or true about the side that you oppose? What are their grievances? How are they suffering?
Do you vote? Why or why not?
Repeat the pledge of allegiance:
"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
How does this make you feel?
What is the closest thing to love you have ever experienced? What was universal about that – not tied to the particular person or experience?
Give an example of illusory love. Have you fallen in love with or been infatuated with someone for reasons that you later realized were false?
What are you willing to do for a friend? What are willing to sacrifice? What would you never give or sacrifice?
How are you the same as others? What do you have in common with other human beings? With all of life, animals and plants? With inanimate things, like rocks and air?
How peaceful are you? How much peace is there in your life? And how much conflict? When you are in conflict, do you use force or love?
Are you at war with yourself? Do you sometimes act with cruelty or brutality? In what ways are you narrow, superficial, fragmented? In what ways? Are you responsible for wars? What share do you have in the world’s confusion and wickedness?’
How do you get along with your parents, siblings, partners? How do you feel waiting in a supermarket line when there is an unexp
How do you lead your life? Do you participate in violent cultural activities, use respectful language? What would it mean to lea
What was the most sacred experience in your life? “Was it a moment of love? A moment of beholding the awe of nature’s beauty or being moved by a stirring song, the birth of a child or being in the presence of a wise person?”
In what ways are you devoted to a false god?
Another person? A country, religion, race, idea? How do you identify with it? How have you made it sacred, holy? Is it through fear of being inadequate yourself?
What is sacred to you? The sacred is reality, purpose, being. What is most real to you? What lies in the secret chambers of your heart, in your unconscious? Money? Family? Success? Happiness?
Look for the good. Think of the worst person you know. Do you say bad things about them? Do you treat them with contempt? Can you say one good thing about them?
Without its working middle class (some still remain, but very few), Haiti has become a land of millions of the virtually homeless living in shantytowns built with their own hands,
In Haiti, the unrest continues unabated. Only this morning, Haitian street protesters planned to meet up in a vast group, and march on Toussaint L’ouverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince.
Excerpted from The Nation. See full article.
Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity.
It is right and it is duty.
– Oscar Romero
Goals of the Peace Brigade
Understand the grievances of the opposing side.
Understand the suffering of the opposing side.
Understand one's own role in aggression.
Look for the flaws, but focus on the good.
Active collaboration with any and all people and organizations.
Profound peace is resolving conflict before it arises. It is a direct, personal, collaborative response to personal and global conflict, with the goal of resolving conflict at the root level, through introspection and direct collaborative action.
“War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday life.”
What is thunderous, not lukewarm, peace? It is a transformative response to conflict, one which changes the conflict situation at the root. To find it we must raise ourselves to the highest possible pitch of our nature.
I’m fighting for my life against this mine. It is not just a mine. It’s going to destroy everything. It’s a death note, and it’s addressed directly to Bristol Bay. It’s disgusting that I have to live everyday with the constant that my forever home will be destroyed by Pebble Mine.
“Is it possible to totally end every form of violence in ourselves and still live in this monstrously brutal world?” J. Krishnamurti
Begin with the impossible question: Why do we fight our own brothers?
In a competitive society, is force necessary? Can we find what is good and true in our adversaries? Can we resolve conflict before it starts? Can we put an end to war in ourselves? Can we make war unnecessary?
Do you have your own ideas for dissolving conflict? Use Proposals to ask for support from your brothers and sisters.
Because of the coronavirus everything has become expensive and we don’t have food for them. The orphanage is going to have to stop operations unless we can find additional help.
In 2012, two years after the great earthquake, I met a lady from Cite Soleil, Yolande Depoorter, while researching her biological family. She had been adopted by a Belgian woman when she was 6 years old, and was then about 44 years old. She asked, “How can I help Haiti?” I suggested that she could help some of the street children in Haiti, those who lost their parents in the earthquake.
Look for Tysea Orphanage in Facebook to see more.
I would like to repair my house if I can find some help. That would be a dream come true. I don't see how I can do it with my poor salary, which I am not receiving since the virus arrived.
Life was already difficult because of various political crises in Haiti. But Coronavirus has made things much worse. People can't go out to take care of their business. School are closed.
1. Brothers and sisters know something about each other. They try to learn what the other really cares for and needs.
2. They express care toward each other. A sibling is someone you can count on.
Anyone can have a brother or sister!
It is a miracle enough when one human being reaches out to another. Can communities do the same, even though they are separated by nationality, language, culture and history? Can they break through provincialism and share what is essential? If so, they will have to become sisters.
Understanding is a beautiful mystery. It breaks down illusion. It resolves perplexities. It puts an end to the misery of isolation. It is the deepest prayer, the ultimate happiness.
Understanding is a miracle. In spite of all ignorance in the world it is still possible. But we need a little help. The purpose of Visionary Society Topics is to provide some of that help.
A unique Haitian feature is what we call the konbit. The konbit is a group of people coming together to carry out a project in their community.
Haiti has a variety of dance styles that enrich our culture. It includes a mix of African, European and Indian dance. Each dance is associated with a specific rhythm. But the real origin is from Benin.
We’d like to introduce another response, one founded on non-adversarial relationships: on actual concern for the well-being of each other. There are a number of step we can take to reduce aggressive narrow-mindedness. Give Back the Night is a forum to cultivate, support and publicize these steps.
In most American cities women are not free to walk alone at night. Liberty to walk at night is an essential part of freedom, needed for self-knowledge and personal development. Women should be free to jog in remote places, to let their children play in parks or on our streets. To deny this is a crime against the human spirit that’s almost as bad as the physical threat itself.
What can you do? Begin by entering your thoughts or steps you are taking in the comments below.
“In most of our lives there is a lack of sensitivity to beauty. You may see a beautiful face, a lovely painting, a marvelous temple and the sculptured hills, but never feel intensely or passionately the beauty of the earth and the sky. One wonders why.” J. Krishnamurti
The goal of Visionary Society is to envision new ways of thinking and acting. Topics is the first step. Topics is a process of uncovering the truth of perspectives we misunderstand.

 


Understanding puts an end to the misery of isolation. It is the deepest prayer, the ultimate happiness. A Topic is a way to resolve a problem by finding its origin in a worldview that has been misunderstood. Begin by voting on each point of view.

What is popular culture?
What is the purpose of art?
Customers like you are the lifeblood of the businesses they use. We have the power to bring a business to consciousness. A purpose of Visionary Society is to show how this is possible. Here are some suggestions about first steps businesses can take, and how you can encourage them to do so.
Like a person, a business is a world, not just a private entity with the right to do anything it likes. It has a life of its own and an ethical position. It is responsible for making the community in which it is based better.
We are all (even vast impersonal organizations) in this together , including owners, managers, staff and customers.
It is impossible to be happy without art. But art that you buy at a gallery does not qualify. Art that you see at a theater does not qualify. That is the disease of specialization, cleverness, fame and money, and it changes nothing. Art cannot be presented as an object to be consumed, something to be paid for and then enjoyed. You cannot charge a price for beauty.
“Prior to industrial civilization that made possible the mass production of goods, most things were made by hand and eye and were intrinsically beautiful as well as useful. Beauty was a fundamental and necessary ingredient of life that was considered essential by both rich and poor, craftsperson and artisan alike.” Resurgence Magazine
We don’t need to depend on artists and arts institutions. Every person is capable of creativity, practical creativity in their actual life. Art can recover the power to change society – to break the bonds of the static, to bring institutions to life.
“In most of our lives there is a lack of sensitivity to beauty. You may see a beautiful face, a lovely painting, a marvelous temple and the sculptured hills, but never feel intensely or passionately the beauty of the earth and the sky. One wonders why.” J. Krishnamurti
Can we combat the collective mind? Can we bring beauty and creativity to everyday life?
It’s a great resource to have a number of people to rely on if I’m not able to manage a number of things. It’s great to be able to stay in my own own and be in control of my own schedule.
We don’t need another marketplace of anonymous, impersonal, self-interested individuals. Instead, we can share what is important to us with each other. We can show that sensitivity is possible, that money and success are not everything.
Proposals is a new forum for personal community engagement, based on heart-centered care for making the world better.
Learn more about Proposals
What can Haiti do now? Nothing. There are many churches and NGOs in Haiti, but they know little or nothing about these problems. The only response I can think of is that the U.S.A. or Canada should occupy Haiti. The situation problem is a political one. There are too many armed bandits, killing people everyday, and there is no other solution.

The exchange rate with U.S. dollars has increased from day to day . We now need 115 gourdes for $1, up from 45 gourdes. And 80% people are out of work. Before we had about 60% unemployment. They could not eat and survive and what now? It is worse. People are living on $1 a day
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We are simply offering basic principles of meaningful art – not providing a list of works that we condemn or commend. That will always be subjective, and should be entirely up to individuals. Our goal is simply to provide a public forum for the shared attempt at discovering meaningful art.
The purpose of Beautiful Books is to promote and celebrate beautiful art. We want to remind each other that culture can lift and inspire, inform and transform. Goodness, beauty and truth exist. Let’s join together to rediscover what this is.
“At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men’s sin, and asks oneself whether one should use force or love and humility. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that once and for all, you may subdue the whole world. Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all things, and there is nothing else like it.”
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How peaceful are you? How much peace is there in your life? And how much conflict? When you are in conflict, do you use force or love?
Are you at war with yourself? Do you sometimes act with cruelty or brutality? In what ways are you narrow, superficial, fragmented? In what ways? Are you responsible for wars? What share do you have in the world’s confusion and wickedness?’
How do you get along with your parents, siblings, partners? How do you feel waiting in a supermarket line when there is an unexp
How do you lead your life? Do you participate in violent cultural activities, use respectful language? What would it mean to lea
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Think of any issue that you have a stake in, in which you are committed to one side. What is good or true about the side that you oppose? What are their grievances? How are they suffering?
Do you vote? Why or why not?
Repeat the pledge of allegiance:
"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
How does this make you feel?
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How actively do you participate in culture? Are you looking for stimulation and pleasure? Do you try to understand the purpose and effect of what you see and hear? Do you seek the good, true and beautiful?
What is your culture IQ?
How much time do you spend watching television, on the Internet, on your phone, or listening to music? How much do you engage in creative work or challenging thought?
What is beautiful or ugly, moral or immoral, in your community? In public spaces? In politics and the media? Among strangers and friends?
Think of a song, film or work of art you hae enjoyed. How does it make you feel? Does it inflame your ego? Does it reinforce stereotypes? Does it make you compare yourself to others? Or did it recognize the part of you that you admire? Did it make you feel more human? Did it address what is best in you?
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“I shall never stop practicing philosophy and exhorting you and elucidating the truth for everyone that I meet. I shall go on saying…Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and similarly with reputation and honor and give no attention to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul?
What kind of work do you do? – Dysfunctional work, such as military, advertising. – Work that limits choice, such as banking. – Areas of obscene profit, such as education and healthcare. – Work that compensates for dysfunction, such as police, therapy. – Creative functions, such as design, writing, art. – Service providers, such as teachers, health care. – Vital functions, such as food.
What danger does money have for you? "There are some callings where [the ambition to get rich] is a dangerous impediment; among these I would include ministers, teachers, lawyers and physicians." Abraham Heschel
What is the meaning of a product or service you have purchased? What is its true cost? "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." Henry David Thoreau
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What was the most sacred experience in your life? “Was it a moment of love? A moment of beholding the awe of nature’s beauty or being moved by a stirring song, the birth of a child or being in the presence of a wise person?”
In what ways are you devoted to a false god?
Another person? A country, religion, race, idea? How do you identify with it? How have you made it sacred, holy? Is it through fear of being inadequate yourself?
What is sacred to you? The sacred is reality, purpose, being. What is most real to you? What lies in the secret chambers of your heart, in your unconscious? Money? Family? Success? Happiness?
Look for the good. Think of the worst person you know. Do you say bad things about them? Do you treat them with contempt? Can you say one good thing about them?
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What are the principles of modern society? Science and technology? Materialism, growth, market forces? Pleasure-seeking, lust, greed?
What are the biggest problems we face? Climate change, artificial intelligence, nuclear war? Inequality, injustice, poverty, disease? Loneliness, addiction, meaninglessness?
What is your experience of living in bureaucratic, centralized, organized, technological, materialistic society? Do you accept the ideologies of work, entertainment, politics? Do you accept your life with it and in it?
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What is the closest thing to love you have ever experienced? What was universal about that – not tied to the particular person or experience?
Give an example of illusory love. Have you fallen in love with or been infatuated with someone for reasons that you later realized were false?
What are you willing to do for a friend? What are willing to sacrifice? What would you never give or sacrifice?
How are you the same as others? What do you have in common with other human beings? With all of life, animals and plants? With inanimate things, like rocks and air?
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What problem are you unable to solve? What are the peripheral and core elements of the problem? Are your intentions genuine? What are your secret motives? What are you evading? Gently, patiently, humbly and courageously enter into the problem and locate its heart.
What do you know? Give an example of something obvious, undeniable, certain. Is it a fact, an idea, a feeling? How do you know it is true? What evidence do you have? Is it worth believing in?
Are you able to think? Are you able to listen to views you disagree with? Are you able to see the truths of those you oppose? Are you able to locate the heart of the issue?
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What do you care about most? Personal security Accumulate money Your own happiness Recognition, status, fame Social justice Being a decent person Bring good into the world
What do you find humorous? Do you derive pleasure from the suffering of others? Watch yourself and see if you have this feeling. It may not be obvious, but if it is there you will find that it expresses itself in the impulse to laugh when somebody falls. You want those who are high to be pulled down; you criticize and gossip thoughtlessly about others.
What is the condition of your psyche? Do you judge others by their age, gender, race, attractiveness? Are you quick to anger? Jealous and envious? Lazy and ignorant? Bigoted and self-righteous?
How do you react when someone attacks you? Do you fight back? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you seeking status, position, money, relationship?
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J. Krishnamurti
"Success is mediocrity"

“Even when we do feel strongly, it’s generally about such petty things: about personal and family security, about the flag, about some religious or political leader. Our feeling is always for or against something; it isn’t like a fire that burns brightly, without smoke.”


Ralph Nader, March 19, 2021
Ralph Nader, March 19,...
"Democrats Ushered in an Era of Corporate Fascism"



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Ralph Nader
"Democrats are on an infinite journey towards cowardliness"

We are at a stage that I would call a corporate state, that is exactly the definition of fascism conveyed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a 1938 message to the U.S. Congress. He said when private power takes over government, that is fascism. And it keeps getting deeper and more dominant with every four years of presidential election, and every two years of Congressional election…


Chris Hedges
"Staggering concentration of wealth and obscene avarice of the very rich"

The staggering concentration of wealth and obscene avarice of the very rich now dwarfs the hedonism and excesses of the world’s most heinous despots and wealthiest capitalists of the past…The longer wealth is funneled upwards into the hands of a tiny, oligarchic cabal, who put Biden into office and whose interests he assiduously serves, we are doomed.


Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of Understanding
Thich Nhat Hanh, The...
"I am this, because you are that"



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Neil Postman, Lewis Mumford, Erich Fromm
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"Mechanical Man and Organization Man"



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By Nicholas Casey and Jenny Carolina González, Feb 20, 2019, NYT
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"Venezuelans Fleeing Crisis Face Desperate Hike to 12,000 Feet"



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Lee Camp, Truthdig, Feb 19 2019
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"Everyone Has Fallen for the Lies About Venezuela"



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Washington Post
Washington Post
"The U.S. is watching from the sidelines as Venezuela destabilizes the region"



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Mohandas Gandhi
"Qualifications for a Peace Brigade"

"This messenger of peace must have equal regard for all the principal religions of the earth. Thus, if he is a Hindu, he will respect the other faiths current in India. He must, therefore, possess a knowledge of the general principles of the different faiths professed in the country." Gandhi is speaking about the qualifications for the 'peace brigade' he envisioned. The Gandhi Reader, page 342, from Harijan, 1938. Qualifications for a Peace Brigade (1) He...


Benjamin Netanyahu
"Netanyahu to Macron: Your shame will reverberate long after"

Netanyahu to Macron: Israel will win with you or without you, your shame will reverberate long after. As Israel fights the forces of barbarism led by Iran, all civilized countries should be standing firmly by Israel's side. Yet President Macron and some other Western leaders are now calling for an arms embargo against Israel.


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Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Can you be sensitively be aware of conflict?"

“When you give your attention completely, that is, with your mind, with your eyes, with your heart, with your nerves – when you give complete attention, you will find there is no center at all, there is no observer and therefore there is no division between the observed and the observer, and you eradicate conflict totally, this conflict brought about by separation, by division.”


Jiddu Krishnamurti
"If you are greedy and envious you will create hate"

“If you are greedy for power, if you are envious, you are bound to produce a society which will result in destruction. So again it depends upon you and not on the leaders – not on so-called politicians and all the rest of them.”


Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A sublime hope that souls exist which we can love"

“I saw a gracious gentleman who adapts his conversation to the form of the head of the man he talks with! I had fancied that the value of life lay in its inscrutable possibilities; in the fact that I never know, in addressing myself to a new individual, what may befall me. I carry the keys of my castle in my hand, ready to throw them at the feet of my lord, whenever and in what disguise soever he shall appear. I know he is in the neighborhood, hidden...


Jiddu Krishnamurti
"There will be real cooperation on the part of each one"

“Those who really desire to understand, who are looking to find that which is eternal, without beginning and without an end, will walk together with a greater intensity, will be a danger to everything that is unessential, to unrealities, to shadows. And they will concentrate, they will become the flame, because they understand. Such a body we must create, and that is my purpose. Because of that real understanding there will be true friendship. Because...


Feodor Dostoyevsky
"Love all people, love everything"

“Brothers, have no fear of men’s sin. Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth. Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything.”


Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Put an end to war in yourself"

“Obviously what causes war is the desire for power, position, prestige, money; also the disease called nationalism, the worship of a flag; and the disease of organized religion, the worship of a dogma. All these are the causes of war; if you as an individual belong to any of the organized religions, if you are greedy for power, if you are envious, you are bound to produce a society which will result in destruction. So again it depends upon you and not...


Andy Warwick
"Alaska is dying a slow death. Here’s how we can change course."

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Abraham Heschel
"Ask the most urgent questions. Yearn for the ultimate."

“Ask the most crying, urgent question: What is the secret of existence? Wherefore and for whose sake do we live? Only those who have not tasted the terror of life, only those who claim that it is a pleasure to live and that more and only pleasure is in store for the generations to come, can deny the essential necessity of asking: Wherefore? For whose sake?”


Plato
"It doesn’t matter if that city exists now, or every will exist"

“It doesn’t matter if that city exists now, or ever will exist. The important thing is to always hold the image of it up before oneself, and, thus beholding it, constitute oneself its citizen.”


William James
"A new ardor consume pettiness and hardness"

“The new ardor which burns in his breast consumes in its glow the lower ‘noes’ which formerly beset him, and keeps him immune against infection from the entire groveling portion of his nature. Magnanimities once impossible are now easy; paltry conventionalities and mean incentives once tyrannical hold no sway. The stone wall inside of him has fallen, the hardness in his heart has broken down.” 267 (See pages 265-267)


John Ruskin
"Find the spiritual meaning of what you do"

“Though you are for the most part unconscious of the spiritual meaning of what you say, the instinctive satisfaction you have in saying it is as much a real movement of the spirit within you, as the beating of your heart is a real movement of the body, though you are unconscious of that also, till you put your hand on it. Put your hand also, so to speak, upon the source of the satisfaction with which you use this curse; and ascertain the law of it.”...


Walt Whitman
"Dismiss whatever insults your own soul"

Compassionaters, perceivers, rapport of menTo Him that was Crucified MY spirit to yours, dear brother;Do not mind because many, sounding your name, do not understand you;I do not sound your name, but I understand you, (there are others also;)I specify you with joy, O my comrade, to salute you, and to salute those who are with you, before and since—and those to come also,That we all labor together, transmitting the same charge and succession;We few,...


Feodor Dostoyevsky
"The roots of our feelings and thoughts are in a higher, heavenly world"

“Of the pride of Satan I think this: it is hard for us on earth to comprehend it, and therefore it is so easy to fall into error and to share it, even imagining that we are doing something grand and fine. Indeed on earth, we cannot comprehend many of the strongest feelings and movements of our nature. Let not that be a stumbling block, and think not that it may serve as a justification to you for anything…Much on earth is hidden from us, but to make...


Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Offer yourself as a candidate for that covenant"

“He who offers himself a candidate for that covenant, comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first-born of the world are the competitors. He proposes himself for contests where Time, Want, Danger are in the lists.”


Don Quixote
"Dream the impossible dream"

To dream the impossible dreamTo fight the unbeatable foeTo bear with unbearable sorrowTo run where the brave dare not goTo right the unrightable wrongTo love pure and chaste from afarTo try when your arms are too wearyTo reach the unreachable starThis is my quest, to follow that starNo matter how hopeless, no matter how farTo fight for the rightWithout question or pauseTo be willing to marchInto hell for a heavenly causeAnd I know if I'll only be trueTo...


Jalalludin Rumi
"Cure your own blindness"

"There is one thing in this world you must never forget to do. If you forget everything else and not this, there's nothing to worry about, but if you remember everything else and forget this, then you will have done nothing in your life."


Mohandas Gandhi
"“If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use and keep"

I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. I venture to suggest that it is the fundamental law of Nature, without exception, that Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only everybody took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But...


Satish Kumar
"Take less from the poor"

“The urgent challenge facing the world is not to give more to the poor, but to take less from the poor; the rich have to get off the backs of the poor and get out of their way so that they can look after themselves…Poverty will never be eliminated unless we eliminate injustice…Poverty is not the problem: injustice is the problem. We need to make a fundamental shift, a paradigm shift, a shift from ownership to relationship…Nature is a gift to...


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Exhibit in Kochi,...
"My Kochi"

Let’s create a vision for the city together. Do you want to be part of it?Can you imagine the future of this city?The future is approaching fast and we need to be ready for it!The way we live will change. The way we work will change. The way we move will change. And: the way we treat the environment has to change. But: Change has to happen in a local way – maintaining the cities unique identity. There are a lot of different choices to be made....


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Man of La Mancha
"Man of La Mancha"

To dream the impossible dreamTo fight the unbeatable foeTo bear with unbearable sorrowTo run where the brave dare not go


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Josef Schuster
"The Barbarians are among us, celebrating murder"

Hatred of Jews has become mainstream among youths and young adults in some Arab communities.


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Bay Area ABC
"Pro-Palestine protests"

Hundreds gather in SF to rally for freedom for Palestine in wake of Middle East conflict


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Chris Hedges
"Israel’s Culture of Deceit"

Israel, which always seeks to blame Palestinians for the atrocities it carries out, is the least trustworthy source about the bombing of the hospital in Gaza.


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Jon Voight
"Jon Voight slams daughter Angelina Jolie’s stance on Israel-Hamas war"

Jon Voight has shared a video criticising his daughter Angelina Jolie's stance on the Israel-Hamas war. The actor, stood in front of an American flag, called Jolie's views and those who share them 'lies'. Jolie had shared a post on Instagram which criticised Israel's actions in the war in Gaza.


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Charlie Change
"How to Use Chat GPT For Beginners 2023"

In this video, I'm going to give you a complete course on how to use the AI tool ChatGPT, and I guarantee that you'll become an expert user of the platform by the end of this video. We'll be diving deep into 15 really powerful command prompts that you can use to maximize the output of artificial intelligence. If you watch this short 27 minute course, you will leave extremely comfortable with using Chat GPT and how you can weave it into your personal and...


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"The machine is an empty vessel"

“A.I. will never be able to do what I can do because A.I. has never felt what I’ve felt. It will never move through the emotional matrix of living a singular, individual life.”


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The Epoch Times,...
"If We Go Ahead on This Everyone Will Die"

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Thomas Friedman
"This is going to change everything about how we do everything."

This is going to change everything about how we do everything. I think that it represents mankind’s greatest invention to date. It is qualitatively different — and it will be transformational.


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David Means
"A.I. can’t write my cat story because it hasn’t felt what I feel"

A.I. will never feel the sense of mortality that forms around…the illogic and contradictions of the human condition, and the cosmic unification of pain and joy.


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Shunryu Suzuki
"Remember without pride"

“Often we think what we have done is good, but it may not actually be so. When we become old, we are often very proud of what we have done. When others listen to someone proudly telling something which he has done, they will feel funny, because they know his recollection is one-sided. They know that what he has told them is not exactly what he did. Moreover, if he is proud of what he did, that pride will create some problem for him. Repeating his...


Thich Nhat Hanh
"How old are you?"

Child's Question: How old are you?Thay: Well, how old are you first?Child: I am six, almost seven.Thay: Listen, I am going to give you a good answer. I am the continuation of the Buddha, so I am 2,600 years old.Child: Oh!Thay: I am also the continuation of my father, so I am 110 years young. I know that you are my continuation and I feel that I am in you, so at the time I am six years old also. That is true, because I have been reborn in that child. He...


Dylan Thomas
"Do not go gentle into that good night"

Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Though wise men at their end know dark is right,Because their words had forked no lightning theyDo not go gentle into that good night.Good men, the last wave by, crying how brightTheir frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,And learn, too...


Buddha, The Dhammapada
"When this world is ever ablaze, why this laughter, why this jubilation?"

Those who have not practiced spiritual disciplines in their youth pine away like old cranes in a lake without fish. Like worn-out bows they lie in old age, sighing over the past.


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J. Krishnamurti
"There’s no essential difference between the old and the young"

Age is the accumulation of memory"What is age? Is it the number of years you have lived? That is part of age; you were born in such and such a year, and now you are fifteen, forty or sixty years old. Your body grows old and so does your mind when it is burdened with all the experiences, miseries and weariness of life; and such a mind can never discover what is truth. The mind can discover only when it is young, fresh, innocent; but innocence is not a...


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Dr. Evelin Lindner
"The soldier’s sense of humanity has to be erased"

What had to happen to us before we "good guys" could accept to become killers of fellow humans? What force or rationale could transform our very nature from benevolence to malevolence?It is crystal clear to me now at age 88. We first have to be systematically and brutally humiliated.


The Christmas Truce
"Soldiers in different armies meet with each other"

“As the first year of the First World War neared its end, British and German soldiers faced one another along twenty-seven miles of trenches, at some places with only thirty yards of open ground between them. As Christmas drew near, the deadly absurdity of the situation became increasingly clear to many.On Christmas Eve, German soldiers sent a chocolate cake across ‘No-Man’s Land’ to their British opposite, with a message announcing a concert of...


John Ruskin
"The soldier’s trade is not slaying, but being slain"

“I have already alluded to the difference hitherto existing between regiments of men associated for purposes of violence, and for purposes of manufacture; in that the former appear capable of self-sacrifice – the latter, not; which singular fact is the real reason of the general lowness of estimate in which the profession of commerce is held, as compared with that of arms. Philosophically, it does not, at first sight, appear reasonable…that a...


Erich Fromm, The...
"War is the only adventure the average person may expect to have in his life"

“Another important factor for the possibility of war is the deeply ingrained feeling of respect for and awe of authority. The soldier had traditionally been made to feel that to obey his leaders was a moral and religious obligation for the fulfillment of which he should be ready to pay with his life. It took about three to four years of the horror of life in the trenches and growing insight into the fact that they were being used by their leaders for...


Erich Fromm, The...
"War is the only adventure the average person may expect to have"

“Another important factor for the possibility of war is the deeply ingrained feeling of respect for and awe of authority. The soldier had traditionally been made to feel that to obey his leaders was a moral and religious obligation for the fulfillment of which he should be ready to pay with his life. It took about three to four years of the horror of life in the trenches and growing insight into the fact that they were being used by their leaders for...


"The danger of violent, commercial, savage art"

There must be a lot of resources on this elsewhere“Watching a bad TV program, we the TV program. We are what we feel and perceive. If we are angry, we are the anger. If we are in love, we are love. If we look at a snow-covered mountain peak, we are the mountain. We can be anything we want, so why do we open our windows to bad TV programs made by sensationalist producers in search of easy money, programs that make our hearts pound, our fists tighten,...


Thich Nhat Hanh, The...
"I am this because you are that"

No one of us can claim it is not our responsibility. The girl in Manila is that way because of the way we are. Looking into the life of that young prostitute, we see the non-prostitute people. And looking at the non-prostitute people, and at the way we live our lives, we see the prostitute. This helps to create that, and that helps to create this.


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Kylyssa Shay shares her first hand account of the barriers people experiencing homelessness face in the employment market.
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"Why don’t homeless people just get jobs?"



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Tucker Carlson
"We’re watching civilization collapse in real time"



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"Police officer rapes and murders woman"



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J. Krishnamurti
"One has to understand what it is to be alone, for beauty is aloneness."

To be alone means you can get to know yourself and that you are not under the influence of anybody. Or rather, you are trying to understand the influence of propaganda, newspapers, magazines, television, teachers, your mother and father, or the group around you. You begin to learn. You are independent, and you are free. From this comes the peculiar quality of inner discipline.


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Thomas Moore
"Silence"

“It is a sign of the love of God that a mystery is always separated from man by a layer of silence. And that is a reminder that man should also keep a silence in which to approach the mystery. Today, when there is only noise in and around man, it is difficult to approach the mystery.” The Quaker Reader, 527


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Sufism
"Do you know what help is?"

Superficial: ‘In the afflictions, misfortunes and tribulations of life, only he who actively helps us is our friend.’ Deep: ‘Study whether you know what help is. Enlightenment is necessary before the wild one knows it.’ Idries Shah, The Sufis, 406-407The virtuous man may be compared to a large leafy tree which, while it is itself exposed to the heat of the sun, gives coolness to others by covering them with its shade. (Superficial view). The...


Jalalludin Rumi
"There’s a strange frenzy in my head"

There's a strange frenzy in my head, of birds flying, each particle circulating on its own. Is the one I love everywhere?


J. Krishnamurti
"Indifference to health, wealth and the self"

“One has to be indifferent to health, to loneliness, to what people say or do not say, indifferent to whether one succeeds or does not succeed, indifferent to authority. Indifference comes into being when you listen to that noise, ride on that noise infinitely. Then that noise does not affect you, does not pervert you. You listen to it completely with indifference and therefore with understanding.” J. KrishnamurtiSuccess is mediocrity“My whole...


Leo Tolstoy
"A man is free in proportion to his non-possession of power"

But, insists Tolstoy, a man is free in proportion to his non-possession of power. And the most powerful are the most unfree. "The strongest, most indissoluble, most burdensome, and constant bond with other men, is what is called power over others, which in its real meaning is only the greatest dependence on them." “History is made by men of power, so historians write of the activities of statesmen, generals, kings and diplomatists, men who are visibly...


Simone Weil
"Find in what sense the contrary is true"

Find in what sense the contrary is true (Simone Weil)"Best of all exercises for the finding of truth is the confrontation of statements that seem absolutely to contradict each other. 'Method of investigation –' Simone Weil once jotted down in a note to herself, 'as soon as one has arrived at any position, try to find in what sense the contrary is true.' …Her deliberate strategic emphases, her desire to 'throw the counterweight' on the side of a...


Idries Shah
"Sufism is the ‘secret doctrine’ of essential unity."

When apparent opposites are reconciled, the individuality is not only complete, it also transcends the bounds of ordinary humanity as we understand them.


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J. Krishnamurti
"The desire for sensation makes us cling to music and possess beauty"

Dependence on outward line and form only indicates the emptiness of our own being, which we fill with music, with art, with deliberate silence. Does not music offer us, in a very subtle way, a happy release from what is? Good music takes us away from ourselves, from our daily sorrows, pettiness and anxieties, it makes us forget; or it gives us strength to face life, it inspires, invigorates and pacifies us. It becomes a necessity in either case, whether...


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John Ruskin
"The arts must have a noble motive"

Sir, you have this gift, and a mighty one; see that you serve your nation faithfully with it. It is a greater trust than ships and armies: you might cast THEM away, if you were their captain, with less treason to your people than in casting your own glorious power away, and serving the devil with it instead of men. Ships and armies you may replace if they are lost, but a great intellect, once abused, is a curse to the earth for ever.


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Abraham Heschel
"Creativity comes from responsive merging with the eternal in reality, not from an ambition to say something"

“The pattern of life of a people is more significant than the pattern of its art. What counts most is not expression, but existence itself. The key to the source of creativity lies in the will to cling to spirituality, to be close to the inexpressible, and not merely in the ability of expression. What is creative comes from responsive merging with the eternal in reality, not from an ambition to say something.” Abraham Heschel, The Earth is the Lord's,...


Denis Dutton
"Creativity is virtuoso display in the arts"

For us moderns, virtuoso technique is used to create imaginary worlds, in fiction and in movies, to express intense emotions, with music, painting and dance. But still, one fundamental trait of the ancestral personality persists in our aesthetic cravings: the beauty we find in skilled performances. From Lascaux to the Louvre to Carnegie Hall, human beings have a permanent innate taste for virtuouso displays in the arts.We find beauty in something done...


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Allan Bloom
"Creativity is an opiate of the masses"

The vocabulary of self, culture, and creativity pretty much sums up the effects of what Rousseau began. It expresses the dissatisfactions with the scientific and political solutions of the Enlightenment…" Creativity and personality "have no specific content, are a kind of opiate of the masses…Creativity and personality take the place of older words like virtue, industry, rationality and character, affect our judgments, provide us with educational...


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Thomas a Kempis
"Our sensual desires promise us a promenade, but deliver us only a dragon"

“Our sensual desires promise us a promenade, but deliver us only a dragonnade. A sprightly step in the forenoon turns into a draggled tail in the afternoon. All-nighters of roister-doistery lead only to mornings of huggermuggery; that is to say, of sickness and sadness. Need I speak of it? Every carnal joy begins with a caress, but in the end curls up into a ball and dies. I ask the question again. What can you see outside the monastery walls that you...


J. Krishnamurti
"Only the mind that is free can be creative"

"So, to find out what is true, the mind must first be free, and to be free is extraordinarily hard work, harder than all the practices of yoga. Such practices merely condition your mind, and it is only the free mind that can be creative. A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan a new society, and all the rest of it; but that is not creativity. Creativity is something much more than...


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Abraham Heschel
"Spirituality is an explosive state of creation"

"The religious mind does not function from a center of authority, whether it is accumulated knowledge as tradition, or it is experience which is really the continuation of tradition, the continuation of conditioning. The religious spirit does not think in terms of time, the immediate results, the immediate reformation within the pattern of society. We said the religious mind is not a ritualistic mind; it does not belong to any church, to any group, to any...


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Abraham Heschel
"Spirituality is the transcendent in our own existence"

“Nothing exists for its own sake, nothing is valid by its own right. What seems to be a purpose is but a station on the road. All is set in the dimension of the holy. All is endowed with bearing on God…This is what we mean by the term ‘spiritual’: It is the reference to the transcendent in our own existence, the direction of the Here toward the Beyond…It is impossible to grasp spirit in itself. Spirit is a direction, the turning of all beings to...


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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Destructive and irresponsible freedom is boundless"

Destructive and irresponsible freedom has been granted boundless space. Society appears to have little defense against the abyss of human decadence, such as, for example, misuse of liberty for moral violence against young people, motion pictures full of pornography, crime and horror. It is considered to be part of freedom and theoretically counter-balanced by the young people's right not to look or not to accept. Life organized legalistically has thus...


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Chris Hedges
"We live in a security and surveillance state"

The machinery of the security and surveillance state, the use of special terrorism laws and the stripping of civil liberties become ubiquitous. The lofty rhetoric of liberty and the reality of the chains readied for the public creates magic realism. Reality and the language describing reality are soon antipodal. The pseudo-democracy is populated with pseudo-legislators, pseudo-courts, pseudo-journalists, pseudo-intellectuals and pseudo-citizens. Nothing...


Bernice Johnson Reagon
"We who believe in freedom"

We who believe in freedom cannot restWe who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes Until the killing of black men, black mothers’ sonsIs as important as the killing of white men, white mothers’ sons That which touches me most is that I had a chance to work with peoplePassing on to others that which was passed on to me To me young people come first, they have the courage where we failAnd if I can but shed some light as they carry us through the...


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Dalai Lama
"We need to develop a sense of the oneness of humanity"

We need to develop a sense of the oneness of humanity by considering other human beings as brothers and sistersI have been deeply saddened by the conflict in Ukraine.Our world has become so interdependent that violent conflict between two countries inevitably impacts the rest of the world. War is out-dated – non-violence is the only way. We need to develop a sense of the oneness of humanity by considering other human beings as brothers and sisters. This...


"The purpose of the Ukraine crisis is to herd sheeple back into line"

“Unfortunately, World War 3 has already begun, almost exactly two years ago when the world was locked down in a state of siege to a false flag flu engineering populations into the new 9/11 war of bioterror, necessitating techno-tyranny for our safety and general welfare by the state-of-emergency war powers and health of the state. And conveniently, for our rulers of course, especially as rising resistance to that war was unfolding across nations, our...


Pound Paws
"Cat and dog fight"



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"Putin’s original statement"



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"Chris Hedges, Chronicle of a war fortold"



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"We must stand up for truths Putin disdains"



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Many predicted Nato...
"Many predicted Nato expansion would lead to war."



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Putin is trying to...
"‘Yes, He Would’: Fiona Hill on Putin and Nukes"



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"We Are All Living in Vladimir Putin’s World Now"



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"Man of La Mancha - This is My Quest"

To dream the impossible dreamTo fight the unbeatable foeTo bear with unbearable sorrowTo run where the brave dare not go


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"Sacris Solemis"



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Very cute kitten
Very cute kitten
"Very cute kitten"



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Love Meow
Love Meow
"Sweet kitten"



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View of the East River
"Magnificent cloud"



National Endowment for the Humanities
National Endowment for...
"The Complicated Role of the Modern Public Library"



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"What libraries do"



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Lynzy Lab
"A Scary Time"

Overview here


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Human Rights Careers
"10 Common Root Causes of Poverty"

Poverty is a global problem. According to the World Bank in 2015, over 700 million people were living on less than $1.90 a day. While that represents a milestone (in 1990, it was over one billion) that’s still way too many people. That number also includes extreme poverty that is defined by the UN as “a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter,...


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Abraham Heschel
Abraham Heschel
"Beauty which is acquired at the cost of justice is an abomination"



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Feodor Dostoyevsky
Feodor Dostoyevsky
"Beauty is where God and the devil join battle"



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Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Aldous Huxley, Brave...
"Resource in ‘What is freedom?’"



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David Frum, The...
"Vaccinated America Has Had Enough"



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Jamelle Bouie
"Not wearing masks is a failure of our social obligation"

In the context of a deadly and often debilitating contagion, where the unchecked spread of infection has consequences for the entire society, vaccination is not a personal decision. And inasmuch as the United States has struggled to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19 through vaccination, it is because we refuse to treat the pandemic for what it is: a social problem to solve through collection action.


Alaska Watchman
Alaska Watchman
"Never in the history of man have we quarantined and isolated the healthy for the sake of the vulnerable"



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"Is a glorious culture possible? The purpose of Beautiful Books is to promote and celebrate beautiful art. We want to remind each other that culture can lift...
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