Quotes of the week
Those who labor with their minds govern others; those who labor with their strength are governed by others.
Mencius
Mencius
About 30,000 people showed up at the White House for the annual Easter egg roll. Or as Fox News called it, a “socialist free food giveaway.” My brudder
This is always true of those men who have surrendered themselves to an overruling purpose. It does not so much impel them from without, nor even operate as a motive power within, but grows incorporate with all that they think and feel, and finally converts them into little else save that one principle.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
There seemed to be endless obstacles preventing me from living with my eyes open, but as I gradually followed up clue after clue it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.Nathaniel Hawthorne
--Joanna Field
"You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." Anne Lamott
Meditation of the week
Talk doesn't cook rice.
--Chinese proverb
Some of us are crazy about self-help books, inspirational tapes, and personal improvement seminars. We'll buy or sign up for anything, whatever the price, if it promises revolutionary insights or a foolproof new system. We want relief in a day and deliverance in a weekend. And we want the expert of the hour to do it for us.
There's nothing wrong with wishing, of course. But there's a lot wrong with kidding ourselves as a way of life. Think about it: If progress could be bought, we wouldn't need to be meditating. If personal transformation resulted from collecting new ideas, we'd have been transformed long ago. Exploring is great. And looking for all the inspiration and wisdom we can find is necessary for growth. But changing is doing. All the plans and schemes for improvement put together won't change a thing if we don't put the principles into daily practice. Even catchy words are just words.
Today, I will take the best plan I have and put it into action. Today, I will say less and do more.
--Chinese proverb
Some of us are crazy about self-help books, inspirational tapes, and personal improvement seminars. We'll buy or sign up for anything, whatever the price, if it promises revolutionary insights or a foolproof new system. We want relief in a day and deliverance in a weekend. And we want the expert of the hour to do it for us.
There's nothing wrong with wishing, of course. But there's a lot wrong with kidding ourselves as a way of life. Think about it: If progress could be bought, we wouldn't need to be meditating. If personal transformation resulted from collecting new ideas, we'd have been transformed long ago. Exploring is great. And looking for all the inspiration and wisdom we can find is necessary for growth. But changing is doing. All the plans and schemes for improvement put together won't change a thing if we don't put the principles into daily practice. Even catchy words are just words.
Today, I will take the best plan I have and put it into action. Today, I will say less and do more.
Poem of the Week
I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who
Rudyard Kipling
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who
Rudyard Kipling
Socialism of the Week
by Alan Greenblatt
