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Thought For the Day: When You Are Offended At Any Man’s Fault, Turn To Yourself and Study Your Own Failings. Then You Will Forget Your Anger
“When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.” – Epictetus
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Tagged Anger, Epitectus, Failngs, Fault, Mankn, Offense, Self Observation, Study, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: Don’t Find Fault With Each Other, But Accept Each Other As You Are, and Forgive Each Other Every Day From the Bottoms of Your Hearts
“In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least of all a marriage, can survive. Don’t insist on your rights, don’t blame each other, don’t judge or condemn each other, don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Aceept, As You Are, Blame, Condemn, Diettrich Bonhoeffer, Every Day, Fault, Forgiveness, Heart, Human Fellowship, Judge, Marriage, Riights, Sins, Surviive, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: We Are Not To Reflect On the Wickedness of Men But To Look To the Image of God In Them
“We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to … Continue reading
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Tagged Allure, Beauty, Cover, Dignity, Embrace, Fault, Image of God, Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin, Love, Men, Obliterate, Reflect, Thought For the Day, Wickedness
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The Wonderous California Coast
The Wonderous California Coastby Michael DoyleWe are escorted by dolphin laughterComing from guardians who are afterThe company that they find in playAlong the bow of our boat, much like yesterdayWhen mighty Calypso sailed the coastal deepsAlong the coral reefs to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alto, Aquarium, Baja, Battle, Beauty, biodiversity, Blind, Blue Planet, Blue Skies, Cacti, California Coast, Calypso, Capacity, Chart, Coastal Deep, Company, Coral Reef, Distinction, Divers, Dolphin, Drops of Water, Efficient, Escort, Existence, Extinction, Fault, Feed, Find, Forest, George Waashington, Guardians, Heart Break, Imperil, Jouney, Kelp Bed, Knowledge, Laughter, Live, Love, Mankind, Mexico, Nature, Noses, Notion, Oblivious, Ocean World, One Water System, Play, Poetry and Poems, Point, Pretense, Protection, San Jose Island, Scarcity, Sea of Cortez, Sequoia, Squid, Sun, Survival, Sustainability, Time, Water, Wonderous, World Apart, Wounded Heart
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First Principles: When Men Are Employ’d They Are Best Contented
“When Men are employ’d they are best contented. For on the Days they work’d they were good-natur’d and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Bread, Cheerful, Conscousness, Content, Days, Employed, Evenings, Fault, First Principles, Good Nature, Idle Days, Ill-Humor, Mankind, Mutinous, Pork, Quarrelsome, Worked
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The Knife Slipped In
The Knife Slipped In by Michael DoyleWith the surrender of human freedomThe therapeutic class becomes a fiefdomEach criminal a victim of circumstanceSimply put they have become marionettes of happenstanceThose meant to help come to equally defendWith the incomes and career … Continue reading
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Tagged Academic Elite, Arguments, Asian-American Achievement, Bereavement, Blame, Blind Eye, Bureaucratic Price, Citizens, Civil Society Understood, Colorless Technocrats, Conditions, Constantly Forgiving, Criminal, Daily Stresses of Living, Defend, Depend, Endless Cycle, Fate, Fault, Fiefdom, Government, Happenstance, Help, Human Freedom, Incomes and Career, Justification, Knife, Lawless Conensus, Marionettes, Mask, Mentality, Mother, Partisan, Pass, Passivity, Permanent Wards, Pessimism, Philosophical Decomposition, Poetry and Poems, Politicians, Reactivsm, Receptivity, Reduced to Subjets, Removed, Responsibility, Risk and Liberty, Role, Self-Confessed, Self-Interest, Self-Serving, Serfs, Simple Advice, Slipped, Speech and Freedom, Spooned Out Good, Surrender, Therapeutic Class, Towards, Underclass, Vapid Rationalization, Victim of Circumstance, Victimhood, View, Virtual Cuckoo's Nest, Virtue, Virtue Signaling, Welfare State, Will
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A Dance of Fate
A Dance of Fateby Michael DoyleLife is more than merely fateIt is never really too lateTo realize that we have choicesLifted up in our true voicesIf only we might chooseNo longer allowing life to abuseExamining what we might refuseAnd refusing … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, Blame, Blindness, Chance, Choices, Choose, Choosing, Churn, Circumstance, Collide, Confuse, Dance, Decisions, Depth, Destinies, Discern, Examine, Fate, Fault, Frame, Glance, Happenstance, Hard To Realize, Late, Life, Make, Mere, Ocean, Paths, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Refuse, Ride, Rush, Shoulder, Subtle, Take, The Past, Troubled, True Voices
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A Visit To An Exotic Feline Rescue
A Visit To An Exotic Feline Rescueby Michael DoyleI visited a feline rescueWith my daughters to take a viewThoughts given to the depravedAnd the gracious souls who’ve savedThese big cats, who were once littleDrawn towards the drama’s middleOf how humans … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Abused, Big Cats, Brutes, Clever, Daughters, Did Not Know, Drama, Drawn, Egotists, Engulfed, Exotic Feline Rescue, Fault, Fill With Tears, Gives Me Hope, Gracious Souls, Grow, Habit, Humans, Kittens, Lovingly Care for Them, Madness, My Eyes, Nothing Else, Poetry and Poems, Reasonability, Revolt, Sadness, Saved, Sense of Love, Stars, Sweet and Cute, Thought Very Little, Tragic, Vanity, View, Visit, Wantonly Defiled, Wish
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