Delete Me First for March 15th 2009

Quotes of the week

Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts. Pull yourself out of bad ways as an elephant raises itself out of the mud.
~Eknath Easwaran

Do not die of another's misery. Beware of him who is stuck in the mud, and note that he calls to you, to be comforted by your mutual unhappiness. These men are on the hunt for those who will help them carry their misfortune: and of those to whom in their prosperity they gave the cold shoulder, they today ask the hand. Great coolness is necessary with the drowning, if you would bring them help without peril to yourself. (For counselors everywhere)

Baltasar Gracian 

I know the difference between right and wrong, and I can tell good from bad. But I also know that the more difficult decisions come when we have to choose between good and better. The toughest calls of all are those we have to make between bad and worse.

Oliver North

No man is a hero to his valet.

Mme Cornuel

Eulogy of the Week

"Fear no more the heat o' the sun."

William Shakespeare

"Fear no more the heat o' the sun, nor the furious winter's rages;
Thou, thy worldly task hast done,
home art gone, and ta'en thy wages:
Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
Fear no more the frown o' the great;
Thou art past the tyrant's stroke:
Care no more to clothe and eat;
to thee, the reed is as the oak.
The scepter, learning, physic,
must all follow this,
and come to dust.

Fear no more the lightning-flash, nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone;
fear not slander,
censure rash;
Thou hast finish'd,
joy and moan:
All lovers young, all lovers must
consign to thee, and come to dust.
No exerciser harm thee!
Nor no witchcraft charm thee!
Ghost unlaid forbear thee!
Nothing ill come near thee!
Quiet consummation have;
and renowned it be thy grave."

And finally, the culmination of millennia of scientific endeavor

Finding Freedom in Forgiveness