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Thought For the Day: Labels Are For Things Men Make, Not For Men. The Most Primitive Man Is Too Complex To Be Labeled
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A Passion For Listening
A Passion For Listening
by Michael Doyle
In the set of all possible worlds,
I pause
Thinking of the multiverses behind
The first cause
And I realize that the chasm between
Finite and infinite
Is something that, at this time, we find
Cannot be definitive
But one thing that is defined
Is that to me, it has occurred
And that is the need for all human beings
To feel as though they've been heard
And with a shrug of history, it seems
There seems nothing to this mystery
In the beginning, before the big bang,
There was the Word of deity
Truth told is that without having felt heard as needed
Our desired prayers will not be heeded
And that war will continue between nations
And peoples however much we have pleaded
Even though the truth is
We are all relations
The passion to listen
Must be cultivated
Carefully weeding out mindless vanity
And be nurtured as if fated
It is a wave function that
Shapes our sense of reality
As together, we all dance the dance
That is a dance of living variability
Life is rarely one lived with
Absolute certainty
But instead, life is a matter of
Unfixed probability
It is only when we truly begin to listen
With a passion that gives dignity
That we will rise above the passive skill
Giving the other side our empathy
That we will find the utility of giving
Respect and curiosity
With this passion of listening well
We will reach deeper understanding
Ourselves and all others will begin
Healing as God has been commanding
To love one another is the second
Greatest command in true worship
The secret that has been missed yet told is we cannot
Love God without right relationship
(c) November 30, 2023 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: If We Only Listened With the Same Passion That We Feel About Being Heard
“If we only listened with the same passion that we feel about being heard.” – Harriet Lerner, Author and Psychologist
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First Principles: The Natural Progress of Things Is For Liberty To Yield and Government To Gain Ground
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” – Thomas Jefferson (1788)
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On Foundations Known
On Foundations Known
by Michael Doyle
Revolutions come from old foundations known
And the principles of justice clearly shown
This then is society's first sense of duty
Part and parcel to the truth of American beauty
And equally distributed across humanity
When philosophers talk about bravery
There is the physical sense and morality
The part is deeper tackles the sense of immortality
Trampling it underfoot to be replaced by the good
That somehow we, the People, have known and understood
Down through the centuries of English Common Law
And merely waits for our souls to valiantly recall
The heritage of the past is something we must nurture
So that these seedlings can prosper into our future
This is the eternal vigilance that is the price of liberty
It serves to prevent the few from stealing from the many
It's surely a theft that takes this world's freedom
And seeks to move a republic into a corporate fiefdom
We must fight against that which reeks of fascism
And confront our self-rule with a renewed sense of optimism
Truth is the one honest commodity, forever absolute
It is the greatest of the cardinal attributes
That set the wheels of the universe in their motion
It is this sense of virtue that educates with its devotion
(c) November 29, 2023 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: What A Man Does For Others, Not What They Do For Him, Gives Him Immortality
“What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.” – Daniel Webster
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Thought For the Day: The Best Use of Good Laws Is To Teach Men To Trample Bad Laws Under Their Feet
“Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back. The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.” – Wendell Phillips, human rights activist and attorney (29 Nov 1811-1884)
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Path of Humility
Path of Humility
by Michael Doyle
Like a vagabond in the night
I was just hoping to find the light
Growing tired of relying on my own sight
I was determined to get it right
Turning my habits to be set free
As God came to save me
I found my path in Gideon's Bible as I read
From the nightstand by my bed
Thanking God for all he has done
I turned from Satan to follow the Son
I no longer need any hiding places
As His joy is resplendent on my face
I put all my faith in His name
Jesus has taken my shame
Lifting my eyes to find that I'm on God's side
And I no longer hide behind my walled-up pride
True courage has been found as a new man
And I am determined to do what I can
To live my life true and openly
And walked in a path of humility
(c) November 28, 2023 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: One Law For the Lion, and Ox Is Oppression
“One law for the lion and ox is oppression.” – William Blake, poet, engraver, and painter (28 Nov 1757-1827)
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First Principles: The Cunning of the Fox Is As Murderous As the Violence of the Wolf
“It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.” – Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 1, 1776
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