Let us share joy and pain...
Let us dare everything...
What is to be avoided above all else is to say nothing,
And to want nothing, and to do nothing.
--Karl Marx, Feelings (translated by Bertell Ollman)

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening
our circle of compassion to embrace all living
creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
--Albert Einstein

Welcome to #callahans, where shared joy is increased, shared
sorrow is lessened and shared lunacy increases exponentially.
--Valkyrie

Compassion operates at the same level as celebration because what is of most
moment in compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness. It is
this awareness of togetherness that urges us to rejoice at another's joy (celebration)
and to grieve at another's sorrow. Both dimensions, celebration and sorrow, are
integral to true compassion. And this, above all, separates pity from compassion, for
it is seldom that we would invite someone we had pity on to a common celebration....
There can be no compassion without celebration and there will be no authentic
celebration that does not result in increased compassionate energies.
--Matthew Fox

I don't pretend to know what you want
But I offer love
--Crowded House, "Distant Sun"

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and
the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics
and to endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to
find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a
healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know
even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't ever pay anything Back...therefore, you pay it Forward.
--attributed, by multiple sources, to Robert A. Heinlein

I'm trying to say what I think brotherhood is.
It begins--it begins in shared pain.
...The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are
brothers in what we share.... We know that there is no help for us
but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach
out our hand.... All you have is what you are, and what you give.
--Ursula K. LeGuin, The Dispossessed

Ah, you see, that's the secret. Everyone thinks it's just a newsgroup but in reality we're saving the world.
--j.w., on alt.callahans