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May 27, 2012
Music I heard with you was more than music.
And bread I broke with you was more than bread.
Now than I am without you, all is desolate;
all that was once so beautiful is dead
Conrad Aiken (Unitarian Universalist, poet, novelist)
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May 26, 2012
Let my love, like sunlight, surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.
Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies (Brahmo Samaj, reformer, author)
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May 25, 2012
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Unitarian, poet)
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May 23, 2012
Belief is many things and so is disbelief. But religion is something that happens to you when you open your mind to truth, your conscience to justice, and your heart to love
A. Powell Davies (Unitarian, minister)
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May 18, 2012
Ah, Love, the earth is woe’s
And sadly helpers needs:
And, till its burden goes,
Our work is — where it bleeds.
Bernard O’Dowd, “Love and Sacrifice” (Rationalist, Free Religious Fellowship, Theosophist, activist, educator, poet, journalist, anarchist)
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May 16, 2012
When I forgive, I go out to another and invite that one to walk with me into new life. I forgive only when I am able to love and to be loved.
Raymond John Baughan, The Breaking of Bread: Lenten Meditations 1951. Universalist Publishing House (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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Hosea Ballou (Universalist, minister)
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E. H. Chapin (Universalist, minister)
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Unitarian, poet)
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April 27, 2012
Don’t introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can’t hate a man whom I know.
Charles Lamb (Unitarian, critic, author, editor)
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