Chaplain on Signal Mountain
Ethical Principles
- ALTERNATE GOLDEN RULE
- "don't do to another what you don't want done to you." [The Chaplain]
- AHIMSA
- "Not to hurt any living thing is no doubt a part of ahimsa. But there is more.The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody." ["Mahatma" Mohamadas K Gandhi, from Satyagraha ]
PORTSource Foundation USA proudly supports activities and initiatives that promote an ethic of right-relations which encourage the human spirit. To contact the Chaplain, use this link.
Mountain Signals
- Mountain Signals 2013
- Chasing Empty White Balloons
- Building Homesteads
- Mr. West Meets the Satori
- Wash Your Rice
- The True Cost of Humanity"
- Walk the Winds
- Mountain Signals 2012
- Moral Essence
- What Labels Do You Wear?
- Honor-Shame, Harmony-Harm
- Where Does the Universe End?
The Chaplain and PORTSource Foundation proudly support International Women's Day.
Artwork: "Women of Color in Color," by Cheryl and Don Olney, 2002.
The Chaplain Strongly Supports:
Nuggets of Universal Wisdom
- “The upward is more honorable than the downward; the before than behind.”
[Aristotle. De Incessu Animalium,
Book 5.] - “ … the sense of the right and wrong belongs to the domain of the spirit, for it is a realization, however obscure, of an order of things, of something that is 'right,' that ought to be, that must not be violated.” [Emil Brunner, Justice and the Social Order, 1943.]
- “Despise no man and consider nothing impossible. For there is no man who does not have his hour, and there is nothing that does not have its place.” [Simeon ben Azzai, Ethics of the Fathers, Mishnah, ˜ 215 CE.]
- “Those who are always ready to assail others with their tongue are sure to make themselves disliked.” [Confucius (K'ung Fu Tzu), Analects, Confucius' Estimate of Others, ˜ 490 BCE.]
- “Do not treat men with scorn, nor walk proudly on the earth;
Rather let your stride be modest and your voice low;
the most hideous of voices is the braying of the ass.”
[Luqman
( 31 : 18 ) Koran.] - “Pilgrim, in your journey you may travel far, for pilgrim it's a long way to find out who you are.” [Enya, "Pilgrim", 2000.]