photo courtesy Parks & People Foundation

In honor of Martin Luther King Day and the upcoming Inauguration , the Baltimore Shambhala Center sent out some quotes as a contemplative conversation. I have chosen my five favorites and offer them to visitors of GOforChange. Each one reflects themes we have presented here and will continue to bring to you.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Van Jones takes up this theme so eloquently.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but uplifting them.

-Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

Musicians celebrate the power of music to uplift us.

So peace and war start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart is closed has global implications.

-Pema Ch