Today, my friends, we each have one day less, every one of us.
And joy is the only thing that slows the clock.
John D. McDonald, The Scarlet Ruse, a Travis McGee novel.
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Thomas Paine
And however our eyes may be dazzled, or our ears deceived by sound;
however prejudice may warp our wills, or interest darken our understanding,
the simple voice of nature and of reason will say, it is right.
Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
Mahatma Gandhi
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Mahatma Gandhi
Abraham Lincoln
I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln
Chuck Britt
...vulnerable with God... the risk is infinite, though I have never been hurt.
...vulnerable with my child... it can not actually be avoided.
...vulnerable with regular humans... the risk is always real and often foolish.
...vulnerable with my Beloved... I am the
most fragile organism.
I am the bravest adventurer.
I am the astonished discoverer of myself.
I am the bravest adventurer.
I am the astonished discoverer of myself.
Emily Dickinson
XXIII
I had no time to hate, because
The grave would hinder me,
And life was not so ample I
Could finish enmity
Nor had I time to love: but since
Some industry must be,
The little toil of love, I thought,
Was large enough for me.
Pablo Piccaso
Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.
Pablo Piccaso
Sitting Bull (Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake)
Let us put our minds together and see what kind of life we can make for our children.
Sitting Bull (Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake)
Helen Keller
The million little things that drop into our hands
The small opportunities each day brings
He leaves us free to use or abuse
And goes unchanging along his silent way
Helen Keller
Laura Zirbes
... children come with especially sensitive detectors
for the beings around them: they need to know the persons on whom they
can depend for their nourishment and care. They automatically appraise
their teachers, not as teachers, but as persons on whom they can depend
for their nourishment and care.
Laura Zirbes
Laura Zirbes
The aim of education is vitalization, not
socialization. Socialization can be valuable only when it is also
vitalization. Otherwise the social order dies. America dies.
Laura Zirbes
(She was the Mentor of Ross L. Mooney at Ohio State University.)
Lone Man (Isna-la-wica)
... I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself.
Lone Man (Isna-la-wica)
Teton Sioux
Martin Luther King Jr.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Mr. Rodgers
There's no "should" or "should not" when it comes to
having feelings. They're part of who we are and their origins are beyond
our control. When we can believe that, we may find it easier to make
constructive choices about what to do with those feelings.
Mr. Rodgers
Chuck Britt
I can not control my feelings like driving them around like so many little cars with tiny steering wheels.
But... I can change my self-care in this moment and feel different in the next moment.
When I call myself names to push myself around,
I feel increasing self doubt, frustration, and bitterness. The people
around me feel an increasing need to defend themselves and keep their
distance as I continue treating myself that way. Few of my plans seem
to work out.
But then, when I notice I am calling myself
names and interrupt myself... and then replace the self abuse with
simple true statements like: ("I can choose to keep trying to be less
impulsive. " Or, "I can choose to treat myself with self respect." Or,
"I can choose to notice, interrupt and replace my self abuse.") I will
feel increasingly calm, better about myself, and less impulsive. As I
continue remembering to notice self abuse, interrupt self abuse and
then replace it with affirmation over months and years, my self image
will be stronger, my plans will begin to work better and people will
feel safer around me.
Chuck Britt
Morning Dove (Christine Quintasket)
...... everything on the earth has a purpose, every
disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the
Indian theory of existence.
Morning Dove (Christine Quintasket)
Salish
Lawrence Durrell
...let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself."
Lawrence Durrell
Ross L. Mooney
Where mental health exists, it arises from an
expression of one's own being. The healthy individual possesses a sense
of personal security and recognizes the value of self-respect and
self-confidence. Both creativity and mental health involve mutual
respect, confidence, and deep contentment.
Ross L. Mooney
Ross L. Mooney
The function of perceiving is therefore to establish
relationships with what extends beyond man's skin, and to allow these
relationships to be fitted into the relationships that are forming
within his specific energy system.
Ross L. Mooney
Ross L. Mooney
Keeping the goings-on going on inside the system of a
man depends upon the synchronous relations with the goings-on outside
the system.
Ross L. Mooney
Ross L. Mooney
A man
(person) perceives the universe, acts in it, organizes it, comprehends
it, all from the locus of his being, his time-space location. To exist
is to have this being, this unique organizing spot which is one's own
and. no other. Other beings occupy their respective spots. Each being,
in turn, composes the universe from its particular location.
Ross L. Mooney
(His work on perception, relationships,
creativity and education at Ohio State University helped me decide what
to do with my life. I met him briefly in 1970. CMB)
Crowfoot
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the
night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little
shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Crowfoot
Blackfoot warrior and orator
Jesus
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn: for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness: for they will be satisfied.
Blessed are the merciful: for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called children of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Jesus
Sermon on the Mount
Matthew 5:3–12
Jesus
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Jesus
New Testament, Matthew 10:16, King James Bible
Miles Davis
I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light.
Miles Davis
Baruch Spinoza
Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue
itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our
lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are
able to restrain them.
Baruch Spinoza
God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
Baruch Spinoza
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature
either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our
imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or
confused.
Baruch Spinoza
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to
you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not
accepted by many.
Baruch Spinoza
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
Baruch Spinoza
John Dewey
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
John Dewey
Anon
I used to think a good parent was one who had well
behaved children. Now I know a good parent is one who is well behaved
when the children are not.
Mount Vernon Parent’ s Night Parent
Mr. Rodgers
I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.
Mr. Rodgers
Joanne Greenberg
You will have to trust me enough to take on faith that the new food, when it comes, will be richer.
Dr. Fried to Deborah
In the novel I Never Promised You A Rose Garden.
Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That
quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have
compassion.
Dr. Fried to Deborah
In the novel I Never Promised You A Rose Garden.
And what does that signify to you?' he said, perhaps
forgetting that if she could speak truly to the world, she would not be a
mental patient.
Dr. Fried to Deborah
In the novel I Never Promised You A Rose Garden.
Mr. Rodgers
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the
news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always
find people who are helping."
Mr. Rodgers
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Too bad! What? Isn't he going back?"
"Yes, But you understand him badly when you complain. He is going back like anybody who wants to attempt a big jumb."
Friedrich Nietzsche
I say unto you: One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I say unto you: you still have chaos in yourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The soul that has the longest ladder and reaches down
deepest... the most comprehensive soul, which can run and stray and roam
farthest within itself; the most necessary soul that plunges joyously
into chance; the soul that, having being, dives into becoming; the soul
that has, but wants to want and will; the soul
that flees itself and catches up with itself in the widest circles; the
wisest soul that folly exhorts most sweetly; the soul that loves itself
most, in which all things have their sweep and countersweep and ebband
flood...
Friedrich Nietzsche
- Note: My reading of FN notices that he does not see those of us who have, "the longest ladder and reaches down deepest..." as a nationality or a racial group but as a random sprinkling of individuals across the world who refuse to believe that what they have become so far is all that they are, and who feel compelled to find out. CMB
The man who would not belong in the
mass needs only cease being comfortable with himself; he should follow
his conscience which shouts at him: "Be yourslef! You are not really
all that which you do. think and desire now.
Friedrich Nietzsche
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from
being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often,
and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the
privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The spirit of the poet craves spectators...
even if only buffaloes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mahatma Gandhi
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
Chuck Britt
I can choose to remember...
development needs a model not a push.
When I admit to myself that I may very well have any of the possible consequences from every choice I make... positive, negative and indifferent... intended or un... then (and only then) will I have a chance to choose the consequences I intend.
Chaim Potok
...the eye that blinks, that is
something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that life,
he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its
quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant., A
man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given
to life. It is hard work to fill one's life with meaning.
Chaim Potok
Dwight Eisenhower
Every gun that is made, every
warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a
theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are
not clothed.
Dwight Eisenhower
War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
Dwight Eisenhower
