A competent horseman will tell you that most supposedly "sour" horses are deemed (and usually made) so by inexperienced, insensitive or uneducated riders. An experienced pilot will tell you that most airplanes deemed dangerous due to poor safety records are typically classified as such because of the pilots who flew them, not as a result …
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True Purpose in Us
Patience Taught by Nature - Elizabeth Barrett Browning “O dreary life,” we cry, “O dreary life!” And still the generations of the birds Sing through our sighing, and the flocks and herds Serenely live while we are keeping strife With Heaven’s true purpose in us, as a knife Against which we may struggle! Ocean girds …
I’m a Believer!
It is no wonder that children often confuse Jesus with the more corpulent and rosy-cheeked confrère, Santa Claus. Children are taught that both will bring them good things if they behave and that both will exact some form of punishment (though in Jesus' case it is more often assumed that His Father who doles out …
Reputation Management
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." - Henry Ford Anyone who decides to improve upon his present reputation must first face the harvest of his past actions. The seeds sown in the past will continue to sprout in the field of his responsibility for some time, so initially he …
Free Inquiry
I'd like to believe that men of science seek only truth and do not discriminate, that they base their conclusions on hard evidence and that they pursue knowledge without bias or prejudice, but scientists do not live in a social vacuum. Scientists are ordinary people who work for a living and compete with uncommonly intelligent …
Ordinary Courage
Everyone is capable of ordinary courage. Ordinary courage is not a matter of fighting, struggling or sacrificing; it is revealed wherever someone is willing to make him or herself vulnerable. If you've spent your life fortifying yourself against the world, you may have realized that walls keep things from coming in, but they also stop …
Mechanistic Science
As a manager in two life science companies, I am the first to admit that I did not receive a scientific education during my schooling. In fact, much of what I've learned has come from on-the-job experience: my interactions with medical, research and quality professionals who have dedicated their lives to the science of healing …
Death by Futility
Some people die of natural causes; others have an accidental death. I've even heard tell of people dying of a broken heart. What I will eventually die of I cannot be sure, but I can assure you that I will not suffer death by futility. Death by futility comes whenever life purpose is not clearly …
Forgiveness
A simple thought for you today: Forgiveness releases you from the tyranny of petty things.
The Market Mind-Set
It wasn't long ago that capitalism morphed from an intriguing, external theory to a pervasive, internalized mind-set in the West and now, increasingly beyond. It is an efficient means of organizing labor and resources and by all appearances, it has succeeded in lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty worldwide. Its tenets have …
Gregory Hake 