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Author Archives: alohapromisesforever
Too Jung For the Good Life
Too Jung For the Good Lifeby Michael DoyleThe verbal coinage of modern-age complexityLays predominately bound to Jung’s dexterityIt’s something that happens in synchronicityOf the universe beaming out the need to be happyBut the journey of happiness, despite its fascinationCannot be … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Aesthetic Experience, Appreciation, Approach, Artistic Mood, Beam, Beauty, Bliss, Brilliance, Broken, Closest, Complexity, Contend, Cultivation, Define, Desintation, Dexterity, Drop, Fascination, Five Pillars, Form Experiences, Foster, Full Stop, Goal, Good Life, Good Purpose, Happy, Human Being, Ignore, In the End, INstrude, Isolation, Journey, Jung, Live Intentionally, Lives, Living End, Living Standards, Love, Meaning, Melancholy, Modern Age, Mortal, Nature's Beauty, Others, Paradox, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Position, Progress, Provide Service, Reasonable, Regress, Relationship, Resilience, Respective, Resplendence, Rest, Righteous Paths, Secret, Serve God, Soul, State, Substantial, Synchronicity, Test, Transscendence, Universe, Verbal Coinage, Ways, Whole
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First Principles: It Is Error Alone Which Needs the Support of Government. Truth Can Stand By Itself. Subject Opinion To Coercion: Whom Will You Make Your Inquisitors?
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Tagged Alone, Coercion, Error, First Principles, Government, Inquisitors, Itself, Make, Need, Opinino, Stand, Support, Thomas Jefferson, Truth, Whom
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Thought For the Day: A Cynical, Mercenary, Demagogic Press Will Produce In Time A People As Base As Itself. The Power To Mould the Future of the Republic Will Be In the Hands of the Journalists of Future Generations
“Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together. An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and … Continue reading
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Tagged Base, Cynical, Demagogic, Future, Future Generations, Hnads, Joseph Pulitzer, Journalists, Mockery, Our Republic, People, Popular Government, Power, Preserve, Press, Public Virtue, Public-Spirted, Rise or Fall, Sham, The Republic, Thought For the Day, Together
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Living Principled
Living Principled by Michael DoyleGoing to the cross, we give everythingYet, in giving our all, we lose nothingWe hold to the truth in this dark hourBlazing the light of Jesus as our powerWe must step boldly as we share the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Attitude, Belief, Bible, Bold, Burn, Christianity, Cross, Embers, Faith, Fire, God, Gratitude, Haen, Humility, Jesus, Light, Living, Living Principles, New Life, Night, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Principled, Truth, Wings of Angels
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First Principles: The Longer I Live, the More Convincing Proofs I See of This Truth, That God Governs In the Affairs of Men “The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this Truth, that God governs in … Continue reading
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Tagged Affairs, Aid, Benjamin Franklin, Empire, First Principles, God, Governs, Ground, Live, Longer, Men, Notice, Probable, Proof, Rise, Sparrow, Truth
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Thought For the Day: I Love You Without Knowing How, Or When, Or From Where. I Love You Simply, Without Problems Or Pride
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there … Continue reading
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Tagged 100 Love Sonnets, How, I, Know, Love, Pablo Neruda, Pride, Simply, Thought For the Day, Where, Without Problems, You
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Totality and Doom
Totality and Doomby Michael DoyleYesterday, the moon blotted out the sunIn the same way, it has frequently doneThe people traveled from miles aroundHoping they would see something to astoundTheir weary minds at least for a little whileSome came to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Apocalypse, Appear, Astound, Bits and Pieces, Blood Moon, Bloom, Blot, Certain, Change, Chaos, Clever, Close Lips, Comfort, Conspiracies, Corner, Crowd, Cultural, Dandeliions, Darkness, Days, Devil's Comet, Die, Doom, Doomsayer, End, Faith, Familiar, Fear, Forever, Happy, Internet, Lear, Lives, Magical, Miles, Moon, Odd, Panic, Path of Totality, Poetry and Poems, Prediction, Prophecies, Reality, Regret, Religious, Resilient, Signficant, Signs, Sky, Smile, So Much for, Speak, Startled, Strong, Sun, Taught, Thinker, Totality, Travel, Trouble, Vibe, View, Wait, Watch, Weary Minds, Whisper, Wrong, Years, Yesterday
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First Principles: From the Practice of the Purest Virtue, You May Be Assured You Will Derive the Most Sublime Comforts In Every Moment of Life, and In the Moment of Death
“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” ― Thomas Jefferson
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Tagged Assure, Comfort, Death, Derive, First Principles, Life, Moment, Practic, Pure, Sublime, Thomas Jefferson, Virtue
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Thought For the Day: Everything Considered, Work Is Less Boring Than Amusing Oneself
“Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. “– Charles Baudelaire, poet, critic, and translator (9 Apr 1821-1867)
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Tagged Amuse, Boring, Charles Baudelaire, Consider, Evertything, Self, Thought For the Day, Work
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My Daily Bread
My Daily Breadby Michael DoyleI find my daily breadIn all His words saidThankful that he paid the costWithout which, I would be lostFrom my cup of coffeeTo all that’s given meI find myself thankfulFor a life that is so wonderfulIt’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazed, Aspiration, Blessings, Ceaseless Dedication, Cost, Cup of Coffee, Daily Bread, Desperation, Feel, Filled, Given, Given Freely, God, Grace, Healing, Higher, His Word, Holy Power, Hour, Inspiration, Jesus, Life, Life Unfolds, Lost, Mind, Moments, Name, Paid, Poetry and Poems, Side, Soar, Soul, Source, Spread, Thankful, Told, Wildfire, Wonderful
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 