No, I'm not talking about the ball of fire that greets us at the beginning of each new day. I'm talking about the July issue of The Sun magazine. If you're not fimiliar with Sy Syfransky's labor of love, I highly recommend it--for the photos, the poems, the interviews (last month with Thom Hartmann, this month Patti Smith) and the stories. In fact, I'd buy it just for the Sunbeams section, a page full of provocative quotes at the end of every issue. A few of this month's offerings:

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment--the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
--Jorge Luis Borges

Einstein discovered a law of physical change: the way to convert a single particle of matter into enormous physical energy. Might there not also be, as Gandhi suggested, an equally incredible and (as yet) undiscovered law of spiritual change, whereby a single person or small community of persons could be converted into an enormous spiritual energy capable of transforming a society and a world? I believe that there is, that there must be, a spiritual reality corresponding to E=mc2, because . . . from the standpoint of moral freedom, humankind is sentenced to extinction without it.
--James W. Douglass