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Think On These Things
Keeping your mind on the positive and away from the negative is trick of life well worth the learning. It is so easy, too easy, for my mind to turn toward the negative. But when I keep my mind and … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: To Understand A Person’s Heart and Mind Look For Their Aspirations and Not What They’ve Done
“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.” – Khalil Gibran
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Tagged Achieve, Aspire, Heart, Khalil Gibran, Mind, Person, Thought For the Day, Understand
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What Is Art?
I was sitting on a swing in a virtual world and thinking on how beautiful the build was that had been designed to evoke and memorialize my dead family members and close friends who had died before their time and … Continue reading
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Tagged Ars, Art, Axiology, Balance, Beauty, Build, Circumstance, Comfort, Concept, Craft, Define, Deny, Determination, Dread, Dream, Effort, Era, Escape, Evidence, Evoke, Expression, Eyes, Fail, Fear, Form, Formal Quality, Hang, Harmony, Heart, Hue, Imiate, Know, Meaning, Memorial, Mimesis, Mind, Organic, Origin, Originality, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Providence, Rendition, Representation, Response, Rhythm, Show, Skill, Soul, Spill, Truth, Ugly, Unity, Value, Views, Virtual, Wall, Way, World
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First Principles: Failing To Pay Attention To the World’s Details Prevents All But A Few From Seeing and Discovering God
“That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the reason of so very few, is a sad instance of the stupidity and inattention of men, who, though … Continue reading
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Tagged Blind, Deity, Discover, Evidence, Excess, First Principles, George Berkeley, Great Truth, Inattention, Light, Mankind, Mind, Reason, Surround
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Walking Talk of Talking Walk
Some say that a nice walk is the best time and way to observe, think and observe. I see the point of this. For me, it use to be to go on a nice 10-15 mile run. Those days … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Be Strong In Mind and Spirit And Have Power Over These
“Whoever is strong in mind and spirit will have power over them.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Tagged Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mind, Power, Spirit, Strong, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Americans Combine Christianity and Liberty So Intimately That It Is Impossible to Conceive One Without the Other
“The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.” – Alexis de Tocqueville
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Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, Americans, Christianity, Conceive, First Principles, Fith, Ideas, Impossible, Intimate, Liberty, Mind, Morality
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What of the Children?
Sins of the fathers? Matter of karma or fate? A lost sense of ethical balance? Children come into this world as blessings and deal with the corruptive influences that are out of their control. Don’t we owe them so … Continue reading
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Tagged Bills, Bless, Body, Born, Children, Contribution, Corruption, Disease, Disruption, Ethical Balance, Fate, Father, Guide, Heart, Karma, Love, Mind, Pharmacology, Pills, Poem, Poetry, Profit, Sin, Sold, Soul, Spill, Spirit, Star, Toxic, World
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