nyangolo churchil

Protect your inner peace.
Because a candle that burns itself out cannot give light to anyone.
A peaceful heart is not escaping the world.

[nyangolo churchil @Churchil_5TH]

“Some are born to enjoy illusions, others are cursed to see the truth.”

[Kateri Seraphina @KateriSeraphina]

Lorsqu'on a demandé à Tchekhov quelle était la nature des sociétés défaillantes, il a répondu :
"Dans les sociétés défaillantes, il y a mille sots pour chaque esprit éclairé, et mille paroles grossières pour chaque mot conscient. La majorité reste toujours ignorante, et l'homme raisonnable est constamment vaincu. Si vous voyez des sujets futiles dominer les discussions dans une société, et les sots occuper le devant de la scène, alors vous êtes en présence d'une société très défaillante.
Par exemple, les chansons et les paroles vides de sens trouvent des millions de gens pour danser et les répéter, et le chanteur devient célèbre, connu et aimé. Au point que les gens prennent son avis sur les questions de la société et de la vie.
Quant aux écrivains et aux auteurs, personne ne les connaît et personne ne leur accorde de valeur ou de poids. La plupart des gens aiment la futilité et l'anesthésie. Quelqu'un qui nous anesthésie pour nous éloigner de nos pensées, et quelqu'un qui nous fait rire avec des futilités, est meilleur que quelqu'un qui nous réveille à la réalité et nous fait mal en disant la vérité. C'est pourquoi la démocratie ne convient pas aux sociétés ignorantes, car c'est la majorité ignorante qui décidera de votre destin." Le monde littéraire.

[Kekius Maximus @Kekius_Sage]

If money wasn’t a problem, I’d probably spend my whole life studying.

A master’s in philosophy, then astrophysics, physics, ancient history, psychology… Whatever makes me understand this weird existence a little better.

Not for a career, not for a degree.

Just because there’s so much to know and one lifetime already feels too short.

[Africa Rebirth @africa_rebirth]

Scientists treated cassava as the crop you ate when everything else failed. A Sierra Leonean breeder named Alfred Dixon spent his career making it the crop you planned for.

Cassava already fed hundreds of millions of Africans. It grew on poor soils and survived drought. What it could not survive was mosaic virus, bacterial blight, and yields too low to carry a growing city. The first high-yielding, mosaic-resistant Tropical Manioc Selection lines had been released at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Ibadan in 1977, under S. K. Hahn. The plant was fixed in the plot. It still had to be fixed for the farm.

Dixon took over the cassava programme in 1994. Colleagues started calling him Dr. Cassava. He coordinated improvement across West, East, Central, and Southern Africa and is credited with more than 400 varieties bred for different soils, seasons, and cropping systems. Nigeria later renamed one of its top releases, formerly TMS 980581, Dixon. He also pushed the unglamorous half of the work: seed systems, so farmers received clean stems instead of a research paper.

He did not replace the staple Africa was already growing. He bred the one in the field until it could carry the harvest.

[𝔊𝔯á𝔦𝔫𝔫𝔢 🕊️☘️ @GrainneMcD92925]

Blessed feast Oct 4th of St. Francis of Assisi 🕊️

[nyangolo churchil @Churchil_5TH]

Let history judge the powerful who fed on Africa while Africa's children went hungry. 🙏🙏🙏

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

The Pope’s Prayer intention for the month of October is to pray for those who suffer with mental illness:

“God of life, you know, the innermost depths of our hearts, the light and shadows within us, the silent wounds that sometimes no one sees.

Today we bring before you, our brothers and sisters, who struggle with challenges to their mental health, who suffer in solitude with anxiety, depression, or any other mental illness. You call them by name with tenderness, and in you, they find dignity and hope.

Forgive us for the times we have looked the other way, feeding the stigma and discrimination of persons with mental illnesses.

May your church be an open house, a safe space, where everyone has a place, a community that accompanies and never excludes, that listens without judging, and draws near without fear.

We pray to you, Lord, for those who care, professionals, family members, volunteers, men and women who, with patience and love, build bridges of understanding and comfort. Give them strength and compassion to sustain others.

Send your spirit upon us, that we may learn to welcome and integrate, care for mental health, into the life and ministry of our communities and of the whole church, and thus become a living sign of your mercy. Which never abandons and always restores.

Amen.”

[Libertario 🟨⬛ @QuotesforGoal]

"La soledad es para mí una fuente de sanación que hace que mi vida valga la pena vivirla. Hablar es a menudo un tormento para mí, y necesito muchos días de silencio para recuperarme de la futilidad de las palabras"

Carl Gustav Jung

[Primus 🇻🇦 ✝️ @judeokeyvlogs]

You may not understand this joke if you don't know the story behind the CONCLAVE as we know it today.

So, when Pope Clement IV died in 1268, the 19 cardinals met in Viterbo to elect his successor. After 2 years and 9 months of arguments, they were unable to elect a Pope. The people of Viterbo got fed up and they first locked the cardinals in the Palace. Then, they took the roof off the building so they were exposed to rain and sun. Furthermore, they cut their rations to bread and water.

Finally, after 1,000 days, they elected Gregory X in 1271. In 1274, Gregory X makes it a law: Because of his own painful election, he issued UBI PERICULUM at the Second Council of Lyon. Rule: Cardinals must be locked in, isolated from the world, with progressively less food until they elect a Pope.

That lock-in became the Conclave (With a key - cum clave)

[Libertario 🟨⬛ @QuotesforGoal]

"No le devolverías el mordisco a un perro, simplemente sigues adelante y dices: bueno, eso es lo que hacen los perros"

Séneca

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

This line by Thomas à Kempis permanently changed how I move through the world

[Catholic Life @prayandfast2]

"Blessed is the crisis that made you grow, the fall that made you look to heaven, and the problem that made you look for God."

- St. Padre Pio

[Africa Rebirth @africa_rebirth]

European physics departments treated African students as visitors. A Ghanaian mathematician finished his doctorate at Princeton, published a theory that explained how soft X-rays leave certain metals, then went home and built the institutions so the next generation would not have to leave.

Francis Allotey developed what colleagues later called the Allotey Formalism while working on electron-hole scattering and soft X-ray spectroscopy. The work earned him the Prince Philip Gold Medal in 1973 and is used in studies of matter in space, fibre optics, and lasers. In 1966 he returned to Ghana instead of staying in the United States. He became the first Ghanaian full professor of mathematics, created the first dedicated computer-science department in sub-Saharan Africa at KNUST, helped found the African Physical Society, and later helped establish the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Ghana.

He sat on the UN expert group on nuclear issues, chaired Ghana’s Atomic Energy Commission multiple times, and spent decades arguing that Africa needed its own physicists, not just scholarships abroad.

He did not treat African science as a branch campus of someone else’s lab. He wrote the equation, then built the rooms where Africans could keep writing the next ones.

[Giorgio @perennialmystic]

“Five minutes after birth, they decide your name, religion, nationality and sect. And you spend the rest of your life defending what you did not choose.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

[段闲云 @interestxy]

诺贝尔文学奖得主加缪曾说：“人生实际上没有任何价值，无论你是30岁还是70岁离开这个世界，其实都一样。因为不管怎样，人类总会存续下去，时间总是滚滚向前。过去、现在、未来，其实都是同一个自己。”

人生不过是一个体验。不必把自己想得那么高尚。所有的意义和价值，都是我们自己造出来的。宇宙只是无尽的飘渺和虚无，也不会承认人类所谓价值。人活一辈子，不过是一种感受。多感受一些快乐和幸福，人生就足够了。

[Ari🦋✨ @Ariszn12]

The older I get, the more I understand why people disappear into little towns, buy an old house, grow tomatoes, bake bread, and mind their own damn business..

[feyisayo 💸 @feyiszn]

Also pray for the ability to see your own faults, your own sins, your own hypocrisy, & ur own shortcomings. You should never get so carried away pointing fingers that you forget you, too, fall short.

[Gbogbonietzsche @dayveibeh]

African leaders go to UNGA and go on about Gaza.

They don’t talk about the killings in Nigeria, Congo and how sub-Saharan African is being ravaged by Islamic terrorists.

Such a useless bunch.

[Dr Mirr @tanukeeey]

Investors speak: Ruto, you can't rig reality.