Inspiration

Our distinguishing tune, our hallmark, our trace, our touch one to another -- our voice is our liaison to life, our wellspring of wisdom, kindness, courage and humor. Be it spoken, written, whispered, implied or sung; be it gestured, danced or played; be it offered on still wings of silence or in the intimacy of eyes alone, it is our human touchstone. In these reckoning years, facing multiple planet-wide crises, we offer this aspirational oasis as an enlightenment of voices known and unknown, encouraging us to act on the understanding that we are profoundly, inescapably in these Earthly struggles together.

Inspiration

Sudan marks grim anniversary of civil war

Vesper Flights (2020)

The Raft of the Medusa (painting, 1819)

Life is meaningless and absurd

Robinson projection

The private sector gets it right

No one is above the law.

Ashoka changemaker investigates why we teach children about kindness.

Learn how Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) must adapt to dozens of environments.

Join "The Spring" at charity: water.

We the people! Not I the dictator.

Help Parvati Foundation create a marine sanctuary in the Arctic Ocean.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF): ten monumental moments

The Story of Ferdinand (1936)

We all wish Venezuela to become a democracy

Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition (1970)

Without accusations, boasts, hedges, obfuscations, or apocalytic metaphors....she did what a leader is supposed to do: explain the gravity of the situation…”

The Imitator Dooms Himself with Hopeless Mediocrity

Which country does the most good for the world?

"War is only a..."

Farmer in Zanscar Valley, Ladakh, India

Literate tales of passion

Prayer beads, Western Tibet

How great leaders inspire action.

Near Luxor, Egypt

How Democracies Die (2015)

"I am not an Athenian.."

"The strongest governments..."

The 3rd of May, (painting) 1808

"...that even man, the fighter, will be appalled..."

Peace Direct launches "Peace Starts Here," a global movement for peace builders.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF): "We dread nightfall."

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth and Indifference

"What really matters..."

Tango dancers, Buenos Aires

No man is an Iland, intire of itselfe (1624)

Afghan money changers 1980's

The case for making war obsolete

Pre-historic cave painting from 32,000 years ago.

Reforest with TreeSisters’ Restoration Strategy

Freedom (2024)

That's Not a Cause. That's an Emergency.

Mandela's speech after his release from prison

"... humanity becomes the joy and the emancipation...

Radical Renewal of Human Responsibility

Olive trees, Palestine, 1980's

We hold these truths to be self evident..."

If your dreams do not scare you...

The amazing story of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”

"Everybody counts..."

"Give me a place to stand..."

The Solace of Open Spaces (1976)

"Democracy doesn't recognize..."

Do you think this is just another day in your life?

Athens at night

"Man's capacity..."

"We are investing in people we've come to know. We do not call them 'beneficiaries'"

Support Human Rights Watch in protecting students from online surveillance.

The Effect You Have On Others

Invictus (1975)

Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words (2014)

We are all time travellers jouneying together

Letter From a Birmingham Jail

Human violence dramatically increases carbon

European Union's plan for defending democracy

"...unless the people themselves refuse..."

"My country is the world..."

"Someday they'll give a war..."

Desiderata

Help Rotary International advance world understanding through community action.

"...not while finite humans in the flux of time make decisions of infinite damage."

How to translate apocalyptic fatigue into action

Homeward bound, Zanzibar

World Wildlife Fund sponsors "Earth Hour" every spring

Without facts, you can't have truth.

Horizon (2019)

Conversations With History: Linus Pauling on peace

"War is not an adventure..."