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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

maturity

We graduate to maturity when we go from being mastered by the past to masters of the moment.

Monday, October 30, 2006

benefits of quick judgment

I have observed since my youth that those overtly or covertly quick to exercise judgment seek for themselves or those they love gain and status at the expense of those they judge.

Sunday, October 29, 2006

our local world

The subtleties of life and what we take for granted are one and the same. We are masters in the subtleties within our own environment and our powers reside in what we take for granted.

Saturday, October 28, 2006

need in love

Need in love is deficiency sometimes demanding, sometimes commanding, attention. To true love's sorrow, it seeks for itself, when love's premise is to mutually gain, give and share.

Friday, October 27, 2006

being true

A rose doesn't cheat the sun for moonlight.

Thursday, October 26, 2006

loves's utensil

Some love to be better, some to be complete.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

get out

If remaining in unhappiness to receive an answer that never comes to 'Why?', grasp the beginning of your quest as the only answer that matters: 'It's not right'.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

from a place within

Our purpose in life is to find our own voice, to speak our own words, from a place within we discover is our own.

Monday, October 23, 2006

advice on life

The old man said, 'You wrote the drama you're in. If you don't like it, exit stage right and rewrite your script.'

Sunday, October 22, 2006

expectations' force

People's expectations have a greater force in their lives than the power to choose. Choice tends to be exclusively contingent on expectation.

Saturday, October 21, 2006

slipping into trouble

Tinkering trifles
Travailing trites
Trafficking troubles
Then tragedy strikes

Friday, October 20, 2006

words

The young woman suddenly said in a tone of emphatic disgust, 'Words mean nothing.' The old gentleman looked across her face, then into her eyes compassionately, and replied with calm certainty, 'Words are deeds that dismay or inspire. Words are acts that kindly touch or rudely slap.'
. . . . .

Thursday, October 19, 2006

belief is not a truth

Belief is not a truth.

Belief is the commitment to and investment in a proposition that may or may not be true.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

one's own visitor

Many people are a walled city living outside its gate.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

glory found

Our glory is found in our trials ~ God's glory is found there, too.

Monday, October 16, 2006

the whole is in the parts

She looked me studiously in the eyes and asked, "Is the sum greater than the whole?" Caught off guard by the sudden turn in our conversation, I replied with a question. "What flies, the feathers or the bird?" She mused for a second, faintly laughed, then leaned forward and said with a smile, "The feathers are only one portion of all that makes a bird." Smiling back, I asked, "What flies, all that makes a bird or the bird?"
. . . . .

Sunday, October 15, 2006

disappearing ink

whatever good you are or do for some
it is all written like disappearing ink on their hearts

Saturday, October 14, 2006

our lease on life

We are all tenants with a lease. Some of us, however, behave like we are the landlord, others like there is no lease at all.

Friday, October 13, 2006

what satisfies

There are those that wealth satisfies in a way God does not.

Thursday, October 12, 2006

an avenue

Respect is an avenue not a one way street.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

associates and well-wishers

Lies have many more associates in this world than truth. Truth, however, has many more well-wishers.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

a choice before you go

An angel suddenly appeared to a man in the middle of the night and declared, "Death is immanent. Choose now before you die: repent or forgive." Gripped with astonishment then slowly resigned to an inevitable fate, the man considered his common humanity and replied to the angel, "I forgive all who sinned against me." "Well chosen," replied the angel, "for there is repentance in it."

Monday, October 9, 2006

we cup what we choose

We are each a chalice of life choosing the drink we cup.

Sunday, October 8, 2006

truth

Truth is a discreet, differentiated recognition of reality which is validated by the retention of its identity in spit of perspectives. Truth is predicateless, yet all things and their predicates can be identified with truth.

Saturday, October 7, 2006

leaving the rude in its own company

The rude will press till you break with frustration or anger; let them fail and see the power you have in the best you are without them. Know your memories, and remember someone or something that is worthy of your attention for the moment. With equinimity, smile pleasantly - and, if necessary, seize or make an opportunity - and take your leave. Note the best of what may be bad and move on to other company.

Friday, October 6, 2006

becoming

something is nothing unless it embraces what embraces it and becomes.

what remains

Pity and purge desires that turn into frustrated needs, and be content with what gives, sustains, and maintains life from a decree that cannot be altered by reason, wish, magic, delusion or rebellion. Look! See! What remains will be recognized as blessing's source and its continual endowment upon you now.

Thursday, October 5, 2006

dignity and nobleness

Being near dignity and nobleness is not the same as possessing them. Proximity and frequency of contact alone do not acquire their attributes. Whatever continual contact the King's chamber-pot has to the King, it remains a chamber-pot.

Tuesday, October 3, 2006

advice

Be sparse with advice; too freely given, it's seen as opinion's counterfeit. The foolish are often advised best by their own misfortune and the intelligent will prudently seek it out for sound planning or when pressed by exigency.

Monday, October 2, 2006

unconditional love

Unconditional love is absence of self and self's advantages, yet always virtue's illumination.

Sunday, October 1, 2006

structured idiocy

Deductive logic is structured idiocy if its product is not a hypothesis for verification.