TEACH TO RECONCIL

actress Amanda Righetti known for her work in the CBS series THE MENTALIST posed for
"Men's Health" in  April of 2010.

Today's Daily Looker Is The Stunning Amanda Righetti.


Force always thinks itself indomitable  But in fact it is a very precarious sort of power because to expend force requires the use of resources, energy, human lives. Force is extremely expensive to use. Force works 90% through intimidation. We obey not because of what they actually have done to us, but because we fear what they will do and can do.

But no system of domination can survive if it is actually required to use force every time it wants to be obeyed. If we refuse to obey, if we do no portion of their work for them, they must fail. - Star Hawk, p. 441 "The Fifth Sacred Thing"

DECLARATION OF THE FOUR SACRED THINGS

"The Earth is a living, conscious being. In company with cultures of many different times and places, we name these things as sacred:


Air, Fire, Water, and Earth.

Whether we see them as the breath, energy, blood, and body of the Mother, or as the blessed gifts of a Creator, or as symbols of the interconnected systems that sustain life, we know that nothing can live without them.

To call these things sacred is to say that they have a value beyond their usefulness for human ends, that they themselves become the standards by which our acts, our economics, our laws, and our purposes must be judged. No one has the right to appropriate them or profit from them at the expense of others. Any government that fails to protect them forfeits its legitimacy.

All people, all living things, are part of the earth life, and so are sacred. No one of us stands higher or lower than any other. Only justice can assure balance: only ecological balance can sustain freedom. Only in freedom can that fifth sacred thing we call spirit flourish in its full diversity.

To honor the sacred is to create conditions in which nourishment, sustenance, habitat, knowledge, freedom, and beauty can thrive. To honor the sacred is to make love possible.

To this we dedicate our curiosity, our will, our courage, our silences, and our voices. To this we dedicate our lives."

StarHawk
"The Fifth Sacred Thing"
copyright 1993