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Thought For the Day: You Cannot Hope To Build A Better World Without Improving the Individuals
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being … Continue reading
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First Principles: When Planning For Posterity, Remember That Virtue Is Not Hereditary
“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.” – Thomas Paine (1776)
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Twelve Hands of Humility
In a spirit of gratitude toward all the good that surrounds my life with grace, poem #8 for this season: Twelve Hands of Humility by Michael Romani There are 12 hands on the clock of humility Each having its own … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Authenticity, Being, Bliss, Child, Clear, Clock, Creative, Cultivate, Curiosity, Demand, Detachment, Discern, Distance, Door, Ego, Family, Find, First Step, Flow, God, Good, Grace, Gratitude, Grow, Hands, Heart, Humility, Infinite, Innocence, Integrity, Invite, Journey, Know, Lesson, Letting Go, Love, Meaning, Moment, Necessity, Openness, Pain, Patience, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Resistance, Self, Spirit, Spirituality, Spontaneity, Tolerance, Truth, Twelve
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Thought For the Day: The Reading of All Good Books Is Like A Conversation With the Finest Minds of Past Centuries
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” – Rene Descartes
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Tagged All, Centuries, Conversation, Fine, Good Books, Mind, Past, Read, Rene Descartes, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: History Is A Book With Many Pages Filled With Acts of Hopefulness and Meaning
“But I see history as a book with many pages–and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning.” – George H. W. Bush
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From the Canyon’s Heart
A poem of gratitude #7. This one is from a sense of gratitude toward the music that came to life from the Laurel Canyon scene. I think that though I leaned toward progressive hard rock in my music, my lyrical … Continue reading
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Tagged Back Pages, Bob Dylan, Canyon, Craft, Echo, Feelings, Folk Rock, Generation, Gratitude, Harmony, Heart, Hollywood, Inspire, Joy, Laurel Canyon, Lyre, Melody, Microphone, Music, Orpheum, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Progressive Hard Rock, Reverberation, Rhyme, Rickenbacker, Santa Monica Mountains, Shift, Song, Sorrow, Soul, Speakeasy, Summer, Sunset, The Byrds, Three Part Harmony, Time, Tomorrow, Tone, Wade, Waft
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Thought For the Day: Beauty Is Not In the Face; Beauty Is A Light In the Heart
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.” – Khalil Gibran
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First Principles: Either We Control the Government, Or, the Government Controls Us
“Either you will control your government, or government will control you.” – Ronald Reagan
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Standard of Gold
There are a lot of reasons to have gratitude toward things learned and passed on through the generations and a lot to be learned and then go on to grow into our own future. This is a sixth poem in … Continue reading
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Tagged Address, Bless, Blows, Bluster, Build, Complex, Considerate, Dare, Decent Man, Dedicate, Difference, Discern, Dream, Faith, Find, Firm, Future, Gain, Generation, Gold, Good, Good Father, Gratitude, Ground, Grow, Harmony, Hour, Humble, Indicate, Insecurity, Learn, Lessons, Mission, Necessity, Pass On, Path, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Preference, Question, Quiet, Reach, Restrain, Road, Said, Selfish, Standard, Stars, Strong, Talk, the Word, Understood, Walk, Young
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Thought For the Day: Achieve Goals You’ve Never Achieved Before By Doing Things You’ve Never Done Before
“To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.” – Stephen Covey
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