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Sources of Wisdom

 

Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds.

 

– Rumi,13th century Sunni Muslim & Sufi poet

UU Words

 

Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?

 

– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Transcendentalist & Unitarian minister,  Divinity School Address, 1838

UU Words

 

Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but … read more.

Sources of Wisdom

Home is Where…

وطن المرء ليس مكان ولادته و لكنه المكان الذي تنتهي فيه كل محاولاته للهروب

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
– Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer & 1988 Nobel Prize winner … read more.

UU Words

 

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

 

– Ray Bradbury, American author & Unitarian

UU Words

 

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

 

– William Ellery Channing,
19th century Unitarian preacher