Month: June 2013
“Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually! Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come. Fair nature’s eye, rise, rise, again, and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but Ayear, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul! O lente, lente currite, noctis equi: The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. Oh, I’ll leap up to my God!Who pulls me down? See, see, where Christ’s blood streams in the firmament! One drop would save my soul, half a drop, ah, my Christ.”
— Christopher Marlowe (c.1592 Doctor Faustus, act 5, sc.2.)
If we are to have peace on earth… we must develop a world perspective…. Yes, as nations and individuals, we are interdependent…. It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. We are made to live together because of the interrelated structure of reality…. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality. We aren’t going to have peace on earth until we recognize this basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality
Martin Luther King Jr., “A Christmas Eve Sermon on Peace,” Dec. 24, 1967. (via courtofsatyrs)