Category Archives for "Core Circle"

​Core Circle WSL – SimplicityOpening Reading:  “The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to.It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao.In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple.In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try […]

​Core Circle WSL – InsightOpening Reading: Do not ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go and do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Rev. Dr. Howard Thurman   Check In/Sharing   Topic: Insight; n. 1. The capacity to discern the true nature of a situation; penetration. 2. The act […]

​Core Circle WSL – FreedomOpening Words: “Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.” – Martin Luther King, Jr  Check In/Sharing  Topic:  Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, political, economic, […]

​Core Circle – WSL – EconomyOpening Reading: “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim, Because […]

​Core Circle WSL – DivinityOpening Words: “A fire-mist and a planet, a crystal and a cell, a jelly-fish and a saurian, and caves where cave-men dwell; then a sense of law and beauty, and a face turned from the sod, — some call it Evolution, and others call it God.” – William H. Carruth  Check in/Sharing  Topic:  “There is […]

​Core Circle WSL – Common GroundOpening Words:  “We do not have to think alike, to love alike.” – From the Unitarian Francis David, 1510-1579 (Suggest following with a moment of silence.)  Check In/Sharing  Introduction of Topic: There is a certain privacy to a thought. We all have places within where no one else can ever be wholly admitted, where the […]