More Saturday Mornings Brunch:
Most people can only respond to what they can see.
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“Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.”
-- John 12:24
I must believe this more and more...even as it relates to some of my own vision for things. This is simply how life works; it works right through death. There is something about this that I can get more comfortable with and, as many of the wisdom traditions have pointed out, there is a wonderful beauty to this kind of understanding of seeds (perhaps this is part of why I love flowers so much).
...so, because of this, I really enjoyed a line from this particular rendition of the idea from this week's Michiana Chronicles:
“They tried to bury us, but then they discovered we are seeds.”
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Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
-- Benjamin Franklin
While it may be true that he really wasn't the one who said this, there is a tidiness to it that makes a rather searing point.
For those interested in true sources, some think the idea above is really a modification of this...in response to a question about how wrong-doing can be avoided by a State.:
If those who are not wronged feel the same indignation at it as those who are.
-- Iohannis Stobaei Florilegium
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