Monday Quote
“To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do, therefore, is to strive, and persevere, and never give up.”
- His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
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Kate Morgan Reade: The Focus of His Holiness is on compassion for all creatures capable of thought ("All sentient Beings"), and to contribute towards their individual and common good, whether the good can be attained by one Person, by a Community, now, or, indeed, If collectively we can contribute only components that will come together only after many years or even through a long Epoch.
The John Roberts Court has done worse damage than Trump himself, because this Court has craystallized the Presidential plenary powers of the "Unitary Executive Theory," which will cause severe harm by means of a succession of power-hungry Executives.
It may require several generations of high diligence and strategic planning and Action to restore the Vision of James Madison for separation and balance of powers coupled with due process of law and the rule of law.
So we are mindful of the counsel of His Holiness to fight for our Republic, though we won't live to see the fruits of freedom, because, as Dr Martin Luther King pointed out, "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."