“There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.” ~ Frank A Clark One of my greatest daily pleasures is driving my eldest son to school. Like every five year old he is full of questions, some mundane, but others spring quite obviously from his …
Tag: Uncommon Life
The Slide and the Quicksand
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." ~ Epictetus No matter how much you accumulate in life, you will always have less than what you don't have. Whether you long for material possessions, power, influence or insider status, at …
The least in your world
"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." ~ Galileo Galilei I sat on the beach today thinking about my mentors over the years and the thought came to mind that each …
There is no substitute for wisdom
There is absolutely no substitute for wisdom. Wisdom, the sense of the fitness of things, is what allows you to say the right thing at the right time, to do the right thing at the right time or to refrain from speaking or acting when the time is right. The alternatives to wisdom, namely, the …
Gregory Hake 