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First Principles: It Is One of My Sources of Happiness Never To Desire A Knowledge of Other People’s Business
“It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people’s business.” – Dolly Madison Maybe we’d all be best advised to live more this way than to seek to undermine each other all the … Continue reading
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Tagged Desire, Dolly Madison, First Principles, Happness, Knowledge, Other People's Business, Source
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The Shaman’s Missing Chord
The Shaman’s Missing Chordby Michael DoyleThe struggle for life’s force,The mystery in seeking its source,Blazed as Morrison’s eyes glow.On what side would we learn to know.It’s easier to scare an audience,Portraying the figure of scorn and diffidence.Twirling into a dance … Continue reading
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Tagged Ascent, Audience, Blaze, Boots, Born, Breaking Waves, Celebration, Character, Colonnade, Describe, Diffidence, Distance, Endless Passages, Energy, Eyes, Half-Alert, Hurt, Imagery, Jim Morrison, Know, Life's Force, Lizard King, Miss, Missing Chord, Muddy Canals, Mystery, Pattern, Poet and Madman, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Puzzle, Quest, Scare, Scorn, Secret Graves, Sentiment, Shaman, Sing, Source, Stars, Struggle, Surrealistic Images, Sword, The Doors, Treasures, Twirl, Unresolved, Vision, Writing
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No Victim of My Circumstances
No Victim of My Circumstancesby Michael DoyleOn the mountains, in the sun raysIt’s your name that I praiseIn the green valley far belowIt is all your creation, and I knowSharing what I know of your graceThese are you living ways … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessings, Blood of Jesus Christ, Born, Cheer, Circumstances, Clear, Creation, Darkness, Days, Deeds, Embrace, Fear, Flow, Follow, Grace, Green Valley, Heart, Know, Lead, Light, Living Ways, Lord of My Life, Mountains, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Reins, Share, Source, Sun Rays, The God of Second Chances, Veins, Victim, Victory, World, Your Love, Your Name
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Shape Shifting Ideologies
Shape Shifting Ideologiesby Michael DoyleIn this age of putrid and flaccid philosophy We have turned our faith away from mankindSome feel AI is a better path than ideologiesIn which undefined concepts are a forced bindWe bid the surface farewell and … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, AI, AI's Capability, Answers, Asunder, Aware, Better Path, Beware, Binary, Blunder, Burden, Button, Children, Complexity, Conception, Cosmic Hijinks, Decision, Dream, Emperor's New Clothes, Faith, Farewell, Fever Pitch, Forced Bind, Forgotten, Formation, Freedom, Glory, Hail, Humanity, Ideology, Impartial Information, Itch, Kingdom, Know, Launch Date, Life's Serendipity, Mankind, Matter, Miracles, Need, Nerds and Geeks, Ones and Zero, Perfection, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Power, Read, Real, Reject, Satisfied, Scratch, Shadows, Shape Shifting, Shatter, Simplest Machine, Simplicity, Source, Surface, System, The End, Thinking, Told, Tossed, Trust, Undefined Concepts, Vaporware, Wall, Yet To Come
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Putting the Good In the Goodness
Putting the Good in the Goodnessby Michael DoyleIn the days of my life, I seek every day to learnKnowing full well that there is much to discernSeeking only to do my best to live the good lifeI seek earnestly to … Continue reading
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Tagged All Ways, Aspiration, Best, Chances, Circumstances, Comfort, Consistency, Constanct, Counsel, Days, Discern, Divinity, Earnest, Everyday, Expectation, Faith, Fear, God, God's Path, God's Plan, Good, Good Life, Goodness, Grace, Heed, His Holy Name, Holy Word, Hope and Purpose, Inspiration, Jesus, Joy, Know, Learn, Life, Lord's Plans, My Life, Pass, Path, Peace, Pillow, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Pure Goodness, Reason, Reassure, Reliance, Rest, Seek, Sorrow, Soul, Source, Sovereignity, Strife, Tests, Today, Tomorrow, Transform, True Dignity, Trust, Uncertainty, Wish, Wonders, Works
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My Daily Bread
My Daily Breadby Michael DoyleI find my daily breadIn all His words saidThankful that he paid the costWithout which, I would be lostFrom my cup of coffeeTo all that’s given meI find myself thankfulFor a life that is so wonderfulIt’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazed, Aspiration, Blessings, Ceaseless Dedication, Cost, Cup of Coffee, Daily Bread, Desperation, Feel, Filled, Given, Given Freely, God, Grace, Healing, Higher, His Word, Holy Power, Hour, Inspiration, Jesus, Life, Life Unfolds, Lost, Mind, Moments, Name, Paid, Poetry and Poems, Side, Soar, Soul, Source, Spread, Thankful, Told, Wildfire, Wonderful
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First Principles: It Has Been A Source of Great Pain To Me To Have Met With So Many Among My Opponents Who Had Not the Liberality To Distinguish Between Political and Social Opposition
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred … Continue reading
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Tagged Distinguish, First Principles, Great Pain, Hatred, Liberality, Met, Opponents, Person, Political, Political Opinion, Social Oppoition, Source, Thomas Jefferson, Transfer
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First Principles: A Sacred Respect For the Constitutional Law Is the Vital Principle, the Sustaining Energy of A Free Government
“If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws — the first growing out of the last. … Continue reading
The Eye of the Storm
The Eye of the Stormby Michael DoyleTo find the eye of the passing storm in life’s wildernessIs to find quiet hope in the chaos approached in the stillnessWhere the arts find our attention despite all life’s distractionsThe place where somehow … Continue reading
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Tagged Approve, Articulate, Attention, Attraction, Blind, Blossom, Bold, Burial, Chaos, Character, Civilization, Classic Construct, Complexity, Conformed Silence, Contrary, Cruel, Dead, Dignity, Distraction, Duality, Exceed, Eye, Focal Point, Form, Grow, Head, Institutions, Intellect's Community, Intuition, Intuitively, Jedi Masters, Know, Law, Literary, Literature, Long Ago, Mind, Missed Point, Mummy, Mystery, Notions, Obsolete, Plead, Poetry and Poems, Prioirty, Pseudo-Intellectuals, Question, Quiet Hope, Reader, Remember, Respectable Leaders, Right Words, Seeds, Seeker's Soul, Sin, Soft, Sought, Soul, Source, Stillness, Stopped Thinking, Storm, Tapestry, Technicalities, The Arts, Thinking, Thought, Threads, True Impressions, Truth, Tyranny, Unblinking, Unfilled Page, Unkind, Villiany, Warning Signs, Whitness, Wildnerness
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