“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.” – George Eliot The whole point of developing character, developing skills and gaining competency in the affairs of the world is to allow for the unveiling of your soul. Your soul longs for expression, not for selfish purposes, but to extend its influence …
“Certainly it is heaven upon earth, to have a man’s mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.” ~ Francis Bacon Whether or not a fiery hell awaits those who fail to meet the criteria of the various religions on earth in the afterlife I cannot be sure, but …
“We speak of the sun’s light as “pouring down on us,” as “pouring over us” in all directions. Yet it’s never poured out. Because it doesn’t really pour; it extends. Its beams (“aktai”) get their name from their extension (“ekteinesthei”). To see the nature of a sunbeam, look at light as it falls through a …
“You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher Office dynamics are fascinating. Put a bunch of unrelated people together in a pressure cooker environment and you have a recipe for a complex blend of interpersonal relationships. …
Plura sunt quæ nos terrent, quam quæ premunt; et sæpius opinione quam re laboramus — “There are more things to alarm than to harm us, and we suffer much oftener in apprehension than reality.” – Horace Leadership requires a steadiness in the face of alarm, the ability to reassure in times of uncertainty and the …
Dignity is a product of internal choices. It is not conferred or situationally-dependent and no one one, no matter how cruel or heartless he or she may be, can strip you of your dignity. Dignity is the reward of righteousness. You can wear the crown of your soul no matter how much you are mocked, …
“Encouragement” by Mrs. Elizabeth Clementine Kinney When first peeps out from earth the modest vine,Asking but little space to live and grow,How easily some step, without design,May crush the being from a thing so low!But let the hand that doth delight to showSupport to feebleness the tendril twineAround some lattice-work, and ’t will bestowIts thanks …
“Failure does not necessarily imply a mistake. If we have held our standard high, bravely fought a good fight for the right, held our part courageously against heavy opposition and have finally seen the citadel of our great hope taken by superior force, by overwhelming conditions, or sapped and undermined by jealousy, envy or treachery …
In a world gone mad, measuring our sanity by how well we conform to what the world expects is madness. The world we've created for ourselves has long been plagued by wars and rumors of wars, misery, and suffering. Tribal identities wax and wane, empires rise and fall, novel ideas come and go, all of …
Seven years from now you’ll be more disappointed by those things that you didn’t do than those you did. Your life, you see, is not linear; it is cyclical. There is some truth to the song: “The Circle of Life.” Life is not meant to be an endless round, but an ascending spiral, so that …
Gregory Hake 