Charity is suspect if it falls short of power-sharing. Such gifts appropriate demands for justice. They smack more of guilt-offerings than love.
Alistair McIntosh
"To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places...To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away and never, never, to forget." ~ Arundhati Roy
It was not reason but a man-made instrument, the telescope, which actually changed the physical world view; it was not contemplation, observ...
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