‘…a hidden wholeness.’
October 14, 2015
On Being and Parker Palmer
“There is in all visible things…a hidden wholeness.”
-Thomas Merton
‘In retrospect, I can see in my own life what I could not see at the time: how the job I lost helped me find work I needed to do, how the “road closed” sign turned me toward terrain I needed to travel, how losses that felt irredeemable forced me to discern meanings I needed to know. On the surface it seemed that life was lessening, but silently and lavishly the seeds of new life were always being sown.”
http://onbeing.org/blog/parker-palmer-autumn-to-cohere-in-mysterious-unity/8046
Political history.
The cover of “Presidential Campaign Posters” from the Library of Congress (Quirk Books, $40). (MCT)
Maria Papova/brainpickings
‘The intersection of propaganda and creative culture has always been a centerpiece of political communication…’