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Thought For the Day: It’s Not About Standing Still and Becoming Safe. If Anybody Wants To Keep Creating They Have To Be About Change
“It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.” – Miles Davis
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Tagged Change, Creation, Creative, Miles Davis, Safe, Standing Stilll, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: The Constitutions of Most of Our States Assert That All Power Is Inherent In the People; That…It Is Their Right and Duty To Be At All Times Armed
“The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.“– Thomas Jefferson
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Tagged Armed, Assertin, Constitution, Duty, First Prnciples, Inherent, Power, Right, States, The People, Thomas Jefferson
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Back-Up Plans Never Made
Back-Up Plans Never Madeby Michael DoyleAll of a god’s children agreed and said,Except for those who were swept dead,That the god must somehow start again,Hoping this time to avoid a pattern of sin.Seeking a clean, pure planet to own,One that … Continue reading
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Tagged Back-Up Plans, Control, Dead, Evil, Faith, Flow, God, God's Children, Heart, Home, Human Doing, Humanity, Last Hope, Mistake, Planet, Poetry and Poems, Ruin, Sin, Soul, Vanity
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Thought For the Day: The Purpose of Life Is Not To Be Happy. It Is To Be Useful, To Be Honorable, To Be Compassionate, To Have It Make Some Difference That You Have Lived and Lived Well
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Tagged Compassionate, Difference, Happy, Honorable, Lfe, Live Well, Purpose, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thought For the Day, Useful
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First Principles: The Freedom For Which They Died, Must Endure and Prosper…Freedom Is Not Bought Cheaply. It Has A Cost
“The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost; it imposes a burden. And just … Continue reading
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Tagged Burden, Cheaply, Commenraate, Cost, Death, Endure, First Principles, Freedom, Give, Lives, Prosper, Ronald Reagan, Sacrifice, United States
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Gideon Answers the Call
Gideon Answers the Callby Michael DoyleThere’s no greater love than to be willing to dieFor the protection of others and our nation.There is no need to stumble asking why,Love is the best and truly only explanation.We think about how God … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Book of Judges, Extraordinary, Faith, Gideon, God, Israell, Judges, Love, No Greater Love, Ordinary, Poetry and Poems, The Lord's Call
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Thought For the Day: Do You Wish To Rise? Begin By Descending. You Plan A Tower That Will Pierce the Clouds? Lay First the Foundation of Humility
“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. – Saint Augustine Continue reading
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Tagged Foundation, Thought For the Day, Clouds, Plan, Tower, Rise, First, Descend, Humilty
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First Principles: But Gideon Said To Them, “I Will Not Rule Over You, Nor Shall My Son Rule Over You; the Lord Shall Rule Over You
“But Gideon said to them, ‘I will not rule over you, nor shall my son rule over you; the Lord shall rule over you.’”– Judges 8:23
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Distraction
Distractionby Michael DoyleI don’t mean this as a distraction.But for mostly open space, I feel attraction.Every time that you stand near,I hold your body, hoping it won’t disappear.I hold your body as something tangible,And kindness sometimes seems all we’re capable.Besides, … Continue reading
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Tagged Argument, Attraction, Believe, Body, Capable, Dissapear, Distraction, Eyes, Feel, Heaven, Kindness, Lament, lllusion, Meaning, Open Space, Poetry and Poems, Porous, Quantum Physics, Real, Reallty, Tangible, Time, Touch
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Thought For the Day: Love Is the Will To Extend One’s Self For the Purpose of Nurturing One’s Own Or Another’s Spiritual Growth… Love Is Love Does
“Love is the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth… Love is as love does. Love is an act of will — namely, both an intention and an action. Will also … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Choice, Extension, Intentionn, Love, M. Scott Peck, Nuture, Purpose, Self, Spiritual Growth, Thought For the Day, Will
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 