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RE: Inspiring quotes - 4/1/2008 1:58:11 PM   
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RE: Inspiring quotes - 4/1/2008 3:25:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		Juliana, I'll willingly join you in the dance. I can see us now!

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RE: Inspiring quotes - 4/1/2008 3:30:48 PM   
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RE: Inspiring quotes - 4/2/2008 5:31:46 AM   
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Juliana and Jude

Here is another fine quote which is upbeat.


Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Continue to learn. Play with abandon. Choose with no regret. Laugh! Do what you love. Love as if this is all there is.
  ~ Mary Anne Radmacher-Hershey
 


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RE: Inspiring quotes - 4/2/2008 8:38:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		Alchemist, thank you for posting the Nietzche quote, truly one of my all time favorites. One can always tell if a particular story or book has been with "the author's own blood," rather than some "theory" the author feels is valuable.

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RE: Inspiring quotes - 4/2/2008 9:13:51 AM   
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I agree with you completely. In a different expression of a similar theme, here is another one to consider.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

~ Jorge Luis Borges


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RE: Inspiring quotes - 4/5/2008 11:55:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		Alchemist, so few words which speak volumes!! Thank you for posting this.

A blessed weekend to you and your family.

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RE: Inspiring quotes - 4/5/2008 12:35:10 PM   
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You are quite welcome. Here is another I like of a similar nature which is even shorter.
 
I wish you also a joyous and blessed weekend!
 


When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

  ~ Shunryu Suzuki
 

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RE: Inspiring quotes - 4/5/2008 3:15:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		Reading about short quotes reminds me of a German proverb. Juliana, you know this one! "In der Kuerze liegt die Wuerze." The Oxford Duden German Dictionary translates it as, "Brevity is the the soul of wit." I might come up with something like, "The zest lies in brevity."

Brevity takes time. Anyone who ever had to present several years of research in about ten minutes knows this!
Someone once remarked that he didn't have time to be brief!

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RE: Inspiring quotes - 4/6/2008 8:26:30 AM   
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The short quotes are also very good because they allow us to ponder them at leisure moments when we can recall them from memory. Wordiness is certainly not equivalent to wisdom.
 
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
   ~ Thomas Carlyle
 
 
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RE: Inspiring quotes - 4/6/2008 9:15:22 AM   
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Status: offline 		Alchemist, thank you for this quote which I like very much. Our words should come out of silence and the depth of our hearts. Mere head talk won't touch the heart of another.

Have a great Sunday,
Much love,
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RE: Inspiring quotes - 4/6/2008 9:43:34 AM   
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RE: Inspiring quotes - 4/6/2008 11:57:03 PM   
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To whom one may pour
Out all the contents
Of ones heart
Chaff and Grain together
Knowing that the
Gentlest of hands
Will take and sift it
Keep what is worth keeping
And with a breath of kindness
Blow the rest away.

George Elliot (Mary Ann Evans) 1819 - 1888
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RE: Inspiring quotes - 4/7/2008 2:04:24 PM   
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RE: Inspiring quotes - 4/8/2008 12:52:31 AM   
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Status: offline 		I don't know how inspiring the information below will be to some, but maybe it will inspire us Americans to do better and discuss this.

1.    40% of America’s children report being stressed most or all of the time.
2.    Childhood poverty level is second to last among developed countries (only Mexico is lower).
3.    U.S. is 41rst in the world in infant mortality.
4.    1/3 of U.S. children are born out of wedlock.
5.    ½ of U.S. children live in single parent homes.
6.    Nearly 1,000,000 U.S. children are seriously neglected or abused each year.
7.    Childhood obesity is shocking and soaring.
8.    25% of Americans do not have even one person they can confide in.
9.    26% or some 60,000,000 of them suffer from mental illness in any year.
10.  15,000,000 with clinical depression. This is 3x the number just a decade ago.
11.  There were 227,000,000 prescriptions written for antidepressants written in 2006.
12.  U.S. is ranked 37th in health performance.
13.  U.S. is ranked 54th in health fairness.
14.  Americans spend far more per capita on medical care than any other country.
15.  In 2002, 3,340,000,000 (billions) prescriptions were filled (that’s twelve per capita).
16.  The cost of prescriptions has doubled over the past five years.
17.  U.S. is ranked 49th in the world in literacy.
18.  U.S. is ranked 28th in math ability.
19.  1/3 of eligible voters do not vote.
20.  ¼ believe that using violence to get what you want is acceptable.
21.  The leading cause of death among pregnant women is murder.
22.  12,000,000 families are not even able to feed themselves adequately.
23.  The household credit debt was $36,910,000,000,000 (trillions - as in millions of millions).
24.  The household debt is up almost 300% since 1990.
25.  America is number one in consumer spending and debt.
26.  37,000,000 Americans live below the official poverty line of $17,170 for a family of four.
27.  The richest 1% of Americans own almost 40% of the wealth and that trend is continuing to accelerate.
28.  One chart of the nations of the world’s relative level of happiness puts the U.S. at 39th.

America is clearly not only not the best country but isn’t even a particularly good country in the status of its health, education, governance, economics, or general level of public happiness.
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RE: Inspiring quotes - 4/8/2008 2:58:12 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thank you, Thankful One, for making these statistical facts available to us. (Where did you find them?) This is a kind of statistics which deserves attention - and action - of each one of us. The trends are similar in all parts of the Western World, even if the ranking may slightly differ.

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RE: Inspiring quotes - 4/8/2008 3:07:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yes, Thankful one, this is a very important list. Apart from the obvious ones, the ones which sprang out at me were the ones about prescriptions, especially for Antidepressants. It seems to sum up our general attitude to the human condition. 'Shove a pill down your throat and shut up.' A bit brutal maybe, but really it's saying that none of us has time for anyone else. An issue close to home, as it was raised in tonight's counselling session. How do you get the chance to talk to someone who is too busy all the time?

Makes you think.

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RE: Inspiring quotes - 4/8/2008 10:15:36 PM   
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This list was gleaned from web research by me and some friends.

It's scary really. The world is popping pills at an alarming rate and we are to believe that this is the way to handle most everything.

Jude,
I do not know how to talk to someone who is busy all the time. I know that the people I know are all busier than they used to be. It used to be that physicians and a few other professions were busy. Now the whole world is busy. I know very few people who are not busy from morning to night.

As a kid I had time to ride my bike leisurely. Now even children have lives crammed full of this and that activity.

I have made a conscious effort to try and slow down and look at beauty as part of a plan to be a human "being" instead of a human "doing". Thank you to all who permit me to share this "beauty" habit here.

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RE: Inspiring quotes - 4/10/2008 12:49:54 AM   
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Status: offline 		Here is an inspiring little story!  

On a cold day in December, some years ago: A little boy,
about 10-years-old, was standing before a shoe store on the
roadway, barefooted, peering through the window, and shivering
with cold.
                         A lady approached the young boy and said,
 'My, but you're in such deep thought staring in that window!'
 'I was asking God to give me a pair of
 shoes,'was the boy's reply.
 The lady took him by the hand, went into
 the store, and asked the clerk to get half a dozen pairs of socks
 for the boy. She then asked if he could give her a basin of water
 and a towel. He quickly brought them to her.
She took the little fellow to the back
part of the store and, removing her gloves, knelt down, washed
his little feet, and dried them with the towel.
By this time, the clerk had returned with
the socks. Placing a pair upon the boy's feet, she purchased him
a pair of shoes.
She tied up the remaining pairs of socks
and gave them to him.. She patted him on the head and said, 'No
doubt, you will be more comfortable now.'
As she turned to go, the astonished kid
caught her by the hand, and looking up into her face, with tears
in his eyes, asked her.
 'Are you God's wife?'
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RE: Inspiring quotes - 4/10/2008 3:41:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		I do not want to keep Richard Rohr´s meditation for today to myself. Let me share it:

                                               Let us be present to the now.
It's all we have
and it's where God will always speak to us.
The now holds everything, rejects nothing and,
therefore, can receive God, too.
Help us be present to the place
we're most afraid of,
because it always feels empty,
it always feels boring,
it always feels like it's not enough.
Help us find some space within
that we don't try to fill with ideas or opinions.
Help us find space so you, loving God,
can show yourself in that place
where we are hungry and empty.
Keep us out of the way,
so there is always room enough for you.
Amen.
Current mantra:
This moment is as perfect as it gets


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