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Terry Cozad Taylor

@interfaithpeace.bsky.social

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Director of the Interfaith Peacemaking Initiative at Louisville’s Drepung Gomang Center for Engaging Compassion. Also an artist, writer, and photographer.

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Terry Cozad Taylor @interfaithpeace.bsky.social · 25d

The very time I thought I was lost, the dungeon shook and my chains fell off.

—African American Spiritual

Terry Cozad Taylor @interfaithpeace.bsky.social · 27d

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

—His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Terry Cozad Taylor @interfaithpeace.bsky.social · 28d

I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my #anger with care, with #love, with #tenderness, with #nonviolence.

—Thich Nhat Hanh,

Terry Cozad Taylor @interfaithpeace.bsky.social · 29d

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

—Jeannette Rankin

Terry Cozad Taylor @interfaithpeace.bsky.social · Sep 26

#Nonviolence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak…Nonviolence is hard work. It is the willingness to #sacrifice. It is the #patience to win.

—Cesar Chavez

Terry Cozad Taylor @interfaithpeace.bsky.social · Sep 24

Keep the 3 most difficult tings for humans in front of you: returning love for hate, including the excluded, and admitting you were wrong.

—Anthony de Mello.

Terry Cozad Taylor @interfaithpeace.bsky.social · Sep 23

The greatest challenge of the day is: How to bring about a #revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us.

—Dorothy Day

Terry Cozad Taylor @interfaithpeace.bsky.social · Sep 22

That’s all #nonviolence is – organized #love.

—Joan Baez

Terry Cozad Taylor @interfaithpeace.bsky.social · Sep 21

#Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

— Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

Terry Cozad Taylor @interfaithpeace.bsky.social · Sep 20

Don’t wait for a #Guru. Your #life is your Guru.

— Krishna Das

Terry Cozad Taylor @interfaithpeace.bsky.social · Sep 19

#Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for #love and #wisdom.

— #Rumi

Terry Cozad Taylor @interfaithpeace.bsky.social · Sep 18

Before enlightenment
Chop wood
Carry water
After enlightenment

Terry Cozad Taylor @interfaithpeace.bsky.social · Sep 17

#Grace is like grits at a breakfast in a southern restaurant. You don’t have to ask for it; it just shows up.

—Br. Nagasaki Martyrs

Terry Cozad Taylor @interfaithpeace.bsky.social · Sep 15

Smile, breathe and go slowly.

—Thich Nhat Hanh

Terry Cozad Taylor @interfaithpeace.bsky.social · Sep 13

Does it trouble you that nowadays more cars than people have #auras?

—Br. Nagasaki Martyrs

Terry Cozad Taylor @interfaithpeace.bsky.social · Sep 12

The highest and most #beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, or read about, nor seen, but if one will, are to be lived.

—Soren Kierkegaard

Terry Cozad Taylor @interfaithpeace.bsky.social · Sep 10

Fallen petals rise
Back to the branch.
Ah, butterflies!

—Basho

Terry Cozad Taylor @interfaithpeace.bsky.social · Sep 9

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Terry Cozad Taylor @interfaithpeace.bsky.social · Sep 7

Find your major flaw. There lies your #glory.

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Terry Cozad Taylor @interfaithpeace.bsky.social · Sep 6

If you want the #truth,
I’ll tell you the truth:
Listen to the secret sound,
the real sound,
which is inside you.

— Kabir

Terry Cozad Taylor @interfaithpeace.bsky.social · Sep 5

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.

#Rumi

Terry Cozad Taylor @interfaithpeace.bsky.social · Sep 4

You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.

— Pema Chödrön

#Buddhism

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Terry Cozad Taylor @interfaithpeace.bsky.social · Sep 3

Life is like photography: you use the negative to develop.

—Swami Beyondananda

Terry Cozad Taylor @interfaithpeace.bsky.social · Aug 31

#Honor the sacred. Honor the #Earth, our Mother. Honor the Elders. Honor all with whom we share the Earth:-Four-leggeds, two-leggeds, winged ones, Swimmers, crawlers, plant and rock people. Walk in #balance and #beauty.

-- Native American Elder

Terry Cozad Taylor @interfaithpeace.bsky.social · Aug 30

#Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the #dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

—Anne Lamott