“Life is short, and we do not have much
time to gladden the hearts of those who journey the way with
us. So be swift to love, and make haste to be kind.”
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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Quote of the Day As Plato put it, the written word is a pharmakon (drug, medicine, poison), it cannot speak authentically of love. This is the philosophical point of Works of Love. In it, Kierkegaard attempts to speak authentically of love. “reality is an acquired taste” (Robert Fritz)
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listening to the
cacophony of people claiming to be correct, I find them mostly to be a
negative, albeit an apparently necessary one given how humans seem to be
built. Being correct without the power or ability to
transform the world is just an ego trip. It may not even do much good for
the one who is correct, as the contrast being correctness and inability to
convince others can be depressing (as can be the disillusionment when people
conclude that what they used to strongly believe as correct is incorrect).
My conclusion is
that, in general (there are of course exceptions), being happy beats being
correct. It’s not even close.
'True' history
can only start w/ me and what we experience in this lifetime!
"Your calling in life is where your greatest passion meets the world's
greatest need." -Henri Nouwen
On Women -
http://www.globalrichlist.com/
An enemy is one whose
story we have not heard.
–
Gene Knudsen-Hoffman
Importance of face to face communication.
When the dawn of Intelligence shall have spread its wings over the eastern
horizon of progress, and Ignorance and Superstition shall have left their
last footprints on the sands of Time, it will be recorded in the book of
mans crimes and mistakes that his most grievous sin was that of Intolerance!
The bitterest Intolerance grows out of racial and religious differences of
opinion, as the result of early childhood training. How long, 0 Master of
Human Destinies, until we poor mortals will understand the folly of trying
to destroy one another because of dogmas and creeds and other superficial
matters over which we do not agree? Our allotted time on this earth is but a
fleeting moment, at most! Like a candle, we are lighted, shine for a moment
and flicker out! Why can we not so live during this short earthly sojourn
that when the Great Caravan called Death draws up and announces this visit
about finished we will be ready to fold our tents, and, like the Arabs of
the Desert, silently follow the Caravan out into the Darkness of the Unknown
without fear and trembling? I am hoping that I will find no Jews or
Gentiles, Catholics or Protestants, Germans or Englishmen, Frenchmen or
Russians, Blacks or Whites, Reds or Yellows, when 1 shall have crossed the
Bar to the Other Side. I am hoping I will find there only human Souls,
Brothers and Sisters all, unmarked by race, creed or color, far I shall want
to be done with Intolerance so I may lie down and rest an ~on or two,
undisturbed by the strife, ignorance, superstition and petty
misunderstandings which mark with chaos and grief this earthly existence. IF
a man has built a sound character it makes but little difference what people
say about him, because, he will win in the end. |
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