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First Principles: Gratitude Bestows Reverence, Allowing Us To Encounter Everyday Epiphanies…That Change Forever How We Experience Life and the World
“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.” – John Milton
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Tagged Awe, Change, Encounter, Epiphany, Experiece, First Principles, Gratitude, John Milton, Life, Reverence, The World, Transcendent Moments
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In the Shadows
In the Shadowsby Michael DoyleThe beginning was an image of allA modern miracle held in mystified aweUntil life’s illusion lost its intensityAnd the desire for death grew in complexityThe face of horror pulls at mankindAs though in this darkness we … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged All, Angst, Audience, Awe, Beginning, Big Bang, Blood, Book of Satan, Charmingly Perverse, Children of the Night, Claw, Complexity, Creation and Destruction, Damnation, Darkness, Death, Desires, Diabolical Forces, Eternal Punishment, Face of Horror, Fear, Gasp, Good and Evil, Halloween, Image, Imagination, Immorality, Intensity, Joined, Leaves, Life's Illusion, Mankind, Mephisto, Metropolis, Mirrored Twin, Modern Miracle, Need, Night, Persevere, Plays For Laughs, Poetry and Poems, Power of Light, Protection, Proximity, Read, Rise, Rotting Glory, Salvation, Shadow, Shadows, Spirit of Darkness, Story, Substance, Talisman, Tears, The Crucifix, Together, Tread, Universe
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Mountain of Consequence
Mountain of Consequenceby Michael DoyleThere are legends of lost treasureThat goes deep and beyond known measureThe locks that must be brokenAs the stories are told, quietly spokenMankind’s greed leads to deathAn old man mumbles under breathWhile the bringer of life … Continue reading
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Tagged Age Old Story, Ansswer, Arrogance, Awe, Beg, Beyond, Bleed, Breath, Bringer of Lifee, Broken, Bury, Calculated Science, Call, Castle, Consequence, Control, Cres, Darkness, Date, Day, Death, Death and Misery, Deep, Dies, Disenchanted, Echo, Embrace, Everything and Everyone, Face to Face, Fairytales, Fate, Forgive, Fractured Soul, Fragile, Free, Frozen Prayer, Greed, Harshness, Heart, Heartbreak, Heresy, Horror, Intolerance, Know, Left, Legends, Length, Live, Lock, Lost Treasure, Love, Mankind, Measure, Meet, Mercy, Mountain, Mumble, Need, New Strength, Old man, Pines, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Promise, Search, See, Seeking Glory, Snow, Sorrows, Spoken, Street, Survive, Tears, The End, Tomorrow, Tortured Souls, Trace, True Secret, Universe, Unknown God, Valley of Sorrow, Verse, Wish
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Thought For the Day: The Important Thing Is Not To Stop Questioning. Curiosity Has Its Own Reason For Existing
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Many Problems That Our Nation Faces Begin With the Absence of Awe For the Miracle of Life
“In 2020, 39.2% of abortions were on Black women, who represent just 14% of the childbearing population. The data also shows that 86% of abortions are done on unmarried women, which points to the critical link between this destructive behavior … Continue reading
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Tagged Abortion, Awe, Black Women, Childbearing, Collapse of Marriage and Family, Destructive Behavior, Freedom, Miracle of Life, Nation, Pillars of a Healthy Society, Problems, Protect Life, Responsibility, Reverence, Right To Life, Star Parker, Thought For the Day, Unmarried Women
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Schweitzer’s Legacy
Schweitzer’s Legacyby Michael DoyleWhat if it wasThat we’re not meant for strifeBut rather, insteadTo live in reverence for life?Would we really needTo argue the unnecessary whyOf who decidedThe creation of the hippopotami?Or, is it quite enoughTo know that we’ve a … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Schweitzer, Amoral Drive, Approached, Argue, As If We Have never Discerned, Awe, Biggest Lesson, Blown Free, Caging In, Cheap Attempts, Cherish Life, Considered, Creation, Creativity, Deny Humanity, Dicing Atoms, Divinity, Dug Out Canoe, Echo, Enfeebled Terror, Ethically Needed, Ever Outward, Failing, Forgotten, Forms, Free Spirits, Good and Evil, Goodness, Hatefilled, Hippopotami, Inattention, Innocents Die, Instruction, Inward, Its Own Debate, Keep, Last Remaining Tear, Late Great, Learn From History, Legacy, Lessons Unlearned, Life, Mediocrity, Mindless, Modern History, More Deliberate, Moving and Reaching, Need, Never Be Allowed, Not Be Mastered By Techno;logy, Not By Thoughtfulness, Not Meant For Strife, Our Destruction, Our Own Gods, Our Own Mass Destruction, Paint of Error, Persist, Perversity, Poetry and Poems, Pretending At Wisdom, Principled, Probably Someone Else, Quest To Become, Quite Enough, Reactivity, Recall, Remembering Reverence, Retain Our Control, Right To Exist, Schweitzer, Someone Say, Spawned, Splashed, Stand In the Way, Story Played, Strength, Taught, Technology, There's No Way Out of Here, Thought I Heard, Truth of All, Vacuous Chat, We, What If It was, Who Decided, Why, Wiped Away, Wiser
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Thought For the Day: Since When Have We Americans Been Expected To Bow Submissively To Authority and Speak With Awe and Reverence To Those Who Represent Us
“Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?” – Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980)
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Tagged Americans, Authority, Awe, Bow, Expected, Justice William O. Douglas, Represent Us, Reverence, Since, Speak, Submissively, Those, Thought For the Day
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In Reverence For Life
In Reverence For Lifeby Michael DoyleFrom out of his humble life and thoughtA reverence for all life was truly soughtDoing his duty to a higher authoritySeeking the best for all of sacred humanityThe human spirit displayed at its bestWhen it … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Adversity, Albert Schweitzer, All of Life, All Things Have A Purpose, Approach, Awe, Bach, Betrayal, Big Business, Church, Civilization, Complete Obedience, Cultivation, Death, Deference, Devastation, Discern, Distinct, Divine, Duty, End of Days, Eschatology, Fails, Familiar, Free Conscience, French, Future, Gentleman, German, Global Security, Golden Rule, Heed, Higher Authority, History, Human Spirit, Humanity, Humble, International Friendship Day, Jesus, Life, Love, Mankind, Material Prosperity, Medical Missionary, Music, Need, Nuclear Blast, Nuclear Bomb, Overpowering, Peace, Photograph, Pity, Poem, Poetry, Pretense, Promises of Prosperity, Recall, Respect, Reverence, Right, Right Intention, Sacred, Savage War, Scholar, Seek, Tears, Technology, Test, Theology, Thought, Tremble, True Divinity, Vanity, War's End, World War I, World War Two
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