"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Corrections and contradiction come from a variety of sources. You may, for example be "told about yourself" by someone who knows you well or you may receive corrective information from something like a …
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Personal Progress
Personal progress is a common side-effect of doing something for others. When you feel like you're getting nowhere, whether it is writer's block or a general pattern of frustration about your life at the moment, the best remedy just might be serving another in some unexpected and impromptu way. Such frustrations in life have a …
Fulfillment
Fulfillment is not found in the attainment of personal desires, but in the enactment of love's will.
Experience
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit …
The Right Question
The wrong answers are more easily detected than the wrong questions. In my estimation, far too much time is spent debating the answers to incorrectly formed questions and far too little time is spent considering the fundamental question: "Are we asking the right question here?"
Loyalty
Loyalty bought with fear or greed is purchased at the expense of integrity. Those who submit their agency on this basis yield not to truth but to the hope for some gain, be it security, comfort, belonging or self-worth. Without integrity, such winnings are devoid of true and lasting fulfillment.
Love’s Dominion
Man ought never to withdraw his love; he is designed for one purpose: to establish love's dominion in the earth. Love should not be withheld in order to punish another, neither should it ever be withdrawn out of spite. Withdrawing love leaves only a void in which all manner of ill spirits thrive. Love's nature …
Intolerance
Of all the things that man has at his disposal, none dispels intolerance better than education.
Breath of Morning
Breath of morning brings The sweet scent of renewal Newness rushes forth and sings As dawn is lit by the heavenly jewel Rise up! and greet this day Not in some old and tired way But with a heart inclined to light And a mind conscious of right
Watch your Words
If you were to spend an entire day without saying anything unnecessary, unhelpful, unkind, or untrue, would you speak more or less than normal? The world is what it is largely because of the vibrational nature of the words released into its atmosphere. Spirits give rise to feelings, feelings in turn arouse thoughts, thoughts shape …
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