Terry Cozad Taylor
interfaithpeace.bsky.social
Terry Cozad Taylor
@interfaithpeace.bsky.social
Director of the Interfaith Peacemaking Initiative at Louisville’s Drepung Gomang Center for Engaging Compassion. Also an artist, writer, and photographer.
The very time I thought I was lost, the dungeon shook and my chains fell off.

—African American Spiritual
October 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

—His Holiness the Dalai Lama
September 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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,
September 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

—Jeannette Rankin
September 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
#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
September 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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.
September 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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
September 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
That’s all #nonviolence is – organized #love.

—Joan Baez
September 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
#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
September 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Don’t wait for a #Guru. Your #life is your Guru.

— Krishna Das
September 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
#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
September 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Before enlightenment
Chop wood
Carry water
After enlightenment
September 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM
#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
September 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Smile, breathe and go slowly.

—Thich Nhat Hanh
September 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Does it trouble you that nowadays more cars than people have #auras?

—Br. Nagasaki Martyrs
September 13, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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
September 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Fallen petals rise
Back to the branch.
Ah, butterflies!

—Basho
September 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn
September 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Find your major flaw. There lies your #glory.

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
September 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM
If you want the #truth,
I’ll tell you the truth:
Listen to the secret sound,
the real sound,
which is inside you.

— Kabir
September 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.

#Rumi
September 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.

— Pema Chödrön

#Buddhism
September 4, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Life is like photography: you use the negative to develop.

—Swami Beyondananda
September 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
#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
August 31, 2025 at 2:34 PM
#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
August 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM