"Habari Gani!" “Heri za Kwanzaa!” ❤️🖤💚 January 1st Imani is the seventh and final principle of Kwanzaa and it emphasizes the meaning of and the importance of faith in oneself, in others, and in the struggle for a better world. #Kwanzaa #imani #faith #faithwithoutworks #faithisaverb

"Habari Gani!" “Heri za Kwanzaa!” ❤️🖤💚 December 31st Kuumba, "creativity," is a day to celebrate and nurture creativity and community betterment, and to use creative energy to build and preserve a strong community, building legacy to leave the community more beautiful and beneficial than inherited.

The Month Unfolds as ... AWE! “What an astonishment to breathe on this breathing planet. What a blessing to be Earth loving Earth.” ~John Green Today, I breathe, and I live with and as the earth itself. I embody the Oneness of Life, i.e., the Oneness of God!

The furor over the detailed misrepresentation of black people in Birth of a Nation is one example that fueled Murray’s belief that politics and aesthetics were irrevocably fused on the racialized grounds of the United States. The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America ~Sarah Lewis

This Year - LIVE! Let’s stop “trying” to be better and simply BE… The better will occur naturally. If we spent time on ourselves like we spend money, scrolling on social media, channel surfing, and judging, we would BE so much happier, healthier, and humane. #livingmybestlife #investinginmywellbeing

"Habari Gani!" “Heri za Kwanzaa!” ❤️🖤💚 December 30th: Nia, which is Swahili for "purpose," is the principle that inspires us to make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.

The Month Unfolds as ... AWE! “Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.” ~Neil deGrasse Tyson Today, I live as if my life is a poem in motion. I embody life’s poetry and the appreciation that arises!

Signs indicating segregation in government buildings were rare; many were removed as part of the “token efforts” to reduce the appearance of Jim Crow in the capital. Such measures kept the system in the shadows-present, but undeclared. The Unseen Truth:When Race Changed Sight in America Sarah Lewis

"Habari Gani!" “Heri za Kwanzaa!” ❤️🖤💚 December 29th: Ujamaa is the fourth principle of Kwanzaa and means "cooperative economics" as a commitment to the idea of sharing social wealth and the work needed to achieve it. "Ubuntu!" ✊🏾 #Kwanzaa #HabariGani #herizakwanzaa #ujamaa

"It's about the collective trauma people around this world experience... It's about the collective responsibility we have to do something about it." ~Tarana Burke #BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory #blackhistoryiseveryday #celebrate #educate #emancipate #liberate #notamonolith #community #Ubuntu

“...As the oppressors dehumanize others and violate their rights, they themselves also become dehumanized. ...” ― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed #civilrights #humanrights #justice #artisresistance #spiritualpractice #liberationtheology #newthought #oneforallallforone

As I release, I receive, and by receiving, I am refreshed and renewed, and this is revealed and repeated in the way I live my life! ~Rev. Dr. Ray #spirituality #metaphysics #mysticism #newthought #spirituallyintegratedarts #scienceofmindandspirit #raymontanderson #scienceofmind #LiberationTheology

The Month Unfolds as ... AWE! “Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.” ~Betty Smith Today, I look at the word with appreciation and wonder. I embody the glory and awe of life and earth!

“Art by the right artist is transcendent and mystical and causes Frisson. Art awakens us to the beauty not just before us, around us, but within us, and the beauty that we are!” ~Rev. Dr. Raymont Anderson #artist #spiritualpractice #spirituality #metaphysics #mysticism #spirituallyintegratedarts

“The Science of Mind and Spirit 4.0 gives us the means to... to sustain our lives. Just like breathing.” ~Rev. Dr. Ray #spirituality #metaphysics #mysticism #newthought #spirituallyintegratedarts #scienceofmindandspirit #raymontanderson #scienceofmind #LiberationTheology

You are never limited by the Principle of your being. Limitation is a result of a limited use of this Principle. ... there is something which honors your belief, not in a big way in one place and in a little way in another; rather, it honors your belief as you believe it. ~Dr. Ernest Holmes

We live with the legible practice of racial profiling – assessment filtered through brutal stereotypes and narratives – but what preceded it was racial detailing. ..., and both have legacies in our current social and political worlds… The Unseen Truth ~Sarah Lewis

"Habari Gani!" “Heri za Kwanzaa!” ❤️🖤💚 December 28th: Ujima, the third principle of Kwanzaa means "collective work and responsibility" and emphasizes the importance of working together to solve problems and improve conditions for everyone in the community. "Ubuntu!"

The Month Unfolds as ... AWE! “I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones... The more I wonder, the more I love.” ~Alice Walker, The Color Purple

The legislation (in more than forty-two states) has resulted in bans that PEN America has argued amount to “educational gag orders” targeting the First Amendment. The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America ~Sarah Lewis #race #racism #racialdominance #biasedcognition

"Habari Gani!" “Heri za Kwanzaa!”❤️🖤💚 December 27th: Kujichagulia is the second principle of Kwanzaa (self-determination), the right & responsibility to: Define who we are. Create for oneself the path, direction, and purpose we have chosen. Speak for oneself with authority and sovereignty.

“...look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up.” ~Stephen Hawking

Even the debates over teaching critical race theory that came to a head in 2020 offer a reminder of how negation, excision, and negative assembly have constructed history in the United States. By 2022, legislation in seventeen states had blocked the teaching of … The Unseen Truth ~Sarah Lewis

"Habari Gani!" “Heri za Kwanzaa!” December 26th: Umoja is the first principle of Kwanzaa, and is rooted in the African philosophy of collectivism, which prioritizes the well-being of the group. Taking responsibility for families and neighbors, and helping someone in need... #herizakwanzaa #Umoja

The Month Unfolds as ... AWE! “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” ~W.B. Yeats Today, I engage my senses, and they grow stronger. I embody life’s magic! www.raymontanderson.com #quotes #inspiration #motivation #meditation #contemplation

Du Bois would argue that “all art is propaganda and ever must be.” He offered little room for equivocation . . . The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America ~Sarah Lewis #race #racism #racialdominance #biasedcognition

The Month Unfolds as ... AWE! “Breathtaking, splendid, wondrous, sublime, all those words describe you, exactly as you are. You are a work of art! Enjoy your beauty!” ~Amy Leigh Mercree Today, I am in awe of my majestic being. I embody myself exactly as I am! #contemplation

Du Bois’s sense of the urgent imperative to counter myths of inferiority, racial caricatures, and the political realities of racial oppression and domination that had hardened into perceived facts about black life led him to want more than artistic flowering alone. The Unseen Truth ~Sarah Lewis

The Month Unfolds as... AWE! If every moment is sacred, and If you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility. ~Bernice Johnson Reagon Today, I rest in the sacredness of every moment.

Du Bois would later develop ideas about the importance of aesthetics for challenging racist propaganda being pumped into the media landscape through white supremacist rule. The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America ~Sarah Lewis #race #racism #racialdominance #biasedcognition

The Month Unfolds as ... AWE! The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark. ~Rajneesh Today, I know when to live with a question mark and when to live with an exclamation point. I embody knowledge, wonder, and awe!

This is a “silence,” Douglass argued, “that speaks louder than words.” Negative assembly, he maintained, was on the world stage. The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America ~Sarah Lewis #race #racism #racialdominance #biasedcognition

“I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.” ~Bessie Coleman #BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory #blackhistory365 #BlackHistoryIsGlobal #celebrate #educate #emancipate #liberate #community #Ubuntu

“It is easy for most of us to look back in time and praise those who fought for the right of others. The protests of history are much easier to accept than protests of the present.” ― Dave Connis, Suggested Reading #civilrights #humanrights #justice #artisresistance #liberationtheology #newthought

Daily, I come out of the chrysalis as an ever-evolving, ever-awakening Being, and I am coming into myself as the living, loving, healing embodiment of God! ~Rev. Dr. Ray #spirituality #metaphysics #mysticism #newthought #scienceofmindandspirit #raymontanderson #scienceofmind #LiberationTheology

The Month Unfolds as ... AWE! "If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you." ~Alex Trebek, Bucket List Journey Today, as I breathe, I am awestruck by Mother Nature. I embody Mother Nature’s blessings! www.raymontanderson.com #contemplation

“Art very easily can be and is meditation, so long as the mind and being merge into one present activity. When the artist and the art are one, is that not meditation?” ~Rev. Dr. Raymont Anderson #thatartlife #artist #spiritualpractice #spirituality #metaphysics #mysticism #spirituallyintegratedarts

“...the means to actively KNOW, PRACTICE, and LIVE in ways that make our lives sublime. BUT, like a potter, we must get messy and covered in clay! We must put the teaching to use in real, relevant, relatable, and revolutionary ways if we are to create a world that works for ALL. ...” ~Rev. Ray

Life flows into everything, through everything; it passes into every human event and translates itself through every human act. ... the things you give your attention to are quickened with new energy, for you are breathing the very essence of Being into them. ~Dr. Ernest Holmes

As Elson notes, racial ideology was “latent in all the schoolbooks, in stories, descriptions, even arithmetic problems, and most important of all in the Geographies.” The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America ~Sarah Lewis #race #racism #racialdominance #biasedcognition

The Month Unfolds as ... AWE! “We can find awe, then, in eight wonders of life: moral beauty, collective effervescence, nature, music, visual design, spirituality and religion, life and death, and epiphany.” ― Dacher Keltner Today, I explore the eight wonders of life. #contemplation

The script then states that the teacher should tell students, “The first race is Caucasian. The Caucasian people are spread over a large portion of the Earth.” … Co-opting the logic of colonist language… The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America ~Sarah Lewis #racism #racialdominance

It should not surprise that people who feel even five minutes a day of everyday awe are more curious about art, music, poetry, new scientific discoveries, philosophy, and questions about life and death. They feel more comfortable with mysteries, with that which cannot be explained.” ― Dacher Keltner

The teacher is instructed to tell students: “They are the most handsome, active, wise and powerful people in the world. Their color is white, the shape of their head round or oval; hair soft and of various colors.” The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America ~Sarah Lewis #race #racism

“We need mystery. Creator in her wisdom knew this. Mystery fills us with awe and wonder. They are the foundations of humility, and humility is the foundation of all learning. So we do not seek to unravel this. We honor it by letting it be that way forever.” ― Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse

Aesthetic judgement took on the character of authority in upholding the racial discourses of domination in American life, then became divorced from it. The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America ~Sarah Lewis #race #racism #racialdominance #biasedcognition

The Month Unfolds as ... AWE! “What makes awe such a powerful call to love is that it’s disruptive. It sneaks up on us. It doesn’t ask our permission to wow us; it just does. Awe can arise from a single glance, a sound, a gesture.” ~Sharon Salzberg I embody awe’s disruptive power!

Aesthetics were marshaled to create, solidify, and naturalize the structure of racial hierarchies that we still live with today. The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America ~Sarah Lewis #race #racism #racialdominance #biasedcognition

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