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First Principles: The Great Principles of Right and Wrong Are Knowable By All Persons

Posted on March 7, 2019 by

“The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.” – Thomas Jefferson (1775)    

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Thought For the Day: Counseling Is Best Approached As Reminding the Person of Things Forgotten, Not Unable To Be Seen

Posted on February 9, 2019 by

“When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.”  – Baltasar Gracian, writer and philosopher (8 Jan 1601-1658)      

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Thought For the Day: A Mother Is the Truest Friend We’ll Ever Have

Posted on May 14, 2018 by

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still … Continue reading →

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Seven Points of Beatitude (Sapientia)

Posted on January 1, 2018 by

Seven Points of Beatitude by Michael Romani As the ghosts of one year floated by to be received In a clarity of slumber of one refusing to be self-deceived I had turned on the television intending to rest a moment … Continue reading →

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