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Tag Archives: Strife
Eudaimonia
Eudaimoniaby Michael DoyleAs a matter of virtue and philosophical inquiryAristotle unveiled many a treasured mysterySetting eudaimonia as the telos of human lifeTranslated toward peace and against strifeInvestigations into the dream of pure reasonTurning the colors of each passing seasonThe functionality … Continue reading
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Tagged Active Life, Aristotle, Believe, Busily Being, Colors, Complicated, Conceive, Conscience, Dealt, Dedicated, Deep Meaning, Detail, Discern, Dream, Dreams, End In Itself, Ethical Aims, Eudaimonia, Felt, Fleeting, Flourishing, Four Causes, Functionality, Gist, Grace, Greeting, Grown, Happiness, Honor, Human Bengs, Human Life, Investigation, Knowledge, Learn, Least Regret, Life Well Lived, Live Well, Lyceum, Means To the Ends, Measured In Moments, Measured In Reasons, Momentary Joy, Museum, Mystery, Nourish, Pass, Passing of Years, Passing Season, Path Forward, Peace, Philosophical Inquiry, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Processes, Pure Reason, Right Conditions, Science, Self-Contained, Shelf, Spirtuality, Streets, Strife, Student, Tears, Telos, Temporary, Translated, Treasure, Truth, Veracity, Virtue, Walking Lectures, Window's Ledge, Wisdom
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Together We Praise
Together We Praiseby Michael DoyleWe look together toward the futureThinking on those things to nurtureLike spending time in full devotionWe live lives deeper than the oceanWalking together as our tribe of lifeWalking together toward peace, away from strifeHand in gentled … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Blessing, Confide, Creation, Days, Devotion, Embracing, Facing, Faith, Future, Glory, Goodness and Love, Heaven, Jesus, Nurture, Ocean, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Salvation, Shine, Side By Side, Song, Steps, Strife, Together, Tribe of Life, Walking Together
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A Twist of Darkness
A Twist of Darknessby Michael DoyleA twist of darkness enters Elven leavesAs evil descends beyond edged beliefsSeeping into the crevices of lifeReceding with peace gradually into strifeIt is that begins the origin of the ringsDeemed upon us as all dreamers … Continue reading
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Tagged Beliefs, Blood of My Blood, Cervices, Childhood's Dream, Darkness, Daughters, Dreamers, Evil, Hobbits, Mid-Earth, Peace, Rings, Scenes, Scribbled Notes, Story, Strife, Tale, Twist
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Holistic Commitment
Holistic Commitmentby Michael DoyleThere is no real culture of lifeWithout the culture of married familyHere in this world filled with strifeThis is not just an empty homilyBut a call for holistic commitmentTo which there should be no resentmentBut a desire … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Abuse, All Life Is Sacred, Baseless Fears, Better Place, Blessing, Brutality, Call, Candles Lit, Child Born, Cloud of Darkness, Commitment, Conversation, Culture of Life, Darkness, Death of Innocence, Desire, Earth, End, Every Child's Life, Experience, Fully Capable, Good Difference, Good Principles, Holistic, Hope, Intend, Irresponsibility, Kill, Love, Loveless World, Married Family, Miracle, Moment of Birth, Others, Poetry and Poems, Pregnancy Care, Refuse, Rejection, Replace, Resentment, Righteous, Silence, Spoken, Strife, Support, Treat, Unfold, Violence, Vulnerable, Walking Away, World
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A Desecration
A Desecrationby Michael DoylePolitics take a backseat to the ConstitutionYet some do not like this resolutionBut that doesn’t make it a wrongIt’s the restoration of where law belongsThere is a value that matters to all of lifeWhere we save the … Continue reading
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Tagged 62 Million Deaths, A Desecration, Agree, All Life Is Sacred, Altar, America, Bad Law, Better, Constitution, Decision, Deny, Ethical, Falter, Foundation, Guiding Light, House, Human Dignity, Law, Life, Life's Sanctity, Matters, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Protect, Reason, Recreational Choice, Republican Nation, Resolution, Respect, Restoration, Right, Right To Life, Sacrfice, Simply Put, Strife, Three Percent, Value, Whale, Wrong
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A Life Lived Publicly
A Life Lived Publiclyby Michael DoyleWe walk through life brisklyThinking thoughts ironicallyAbout a life lived publiclyWhen it cannot be lived privatelyThere are eyes most everywhereAs the cameras blink and others stareIt only works if we live comfortablyWith the feeling we’re … Continue reading
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Tagged Alright, Asterisk, Authentic Profession, Blend, Breaking Down Walls, Breakthrough, Briskly, Brood, Calls, Cameras, Comfortable, Comically, Concession, Confession, Confrontation, Connects, Deflection, Despite, Done, Echoed Chambers, Everywhere, Eyes, Failed Sentences, Family, Feeling, Forget, Foundation, Group Therapy, Honesty, Hugs, Imperfect, Incomplete, Ironic, Kindness, Laws, Learn, Life, Means, Minds, Moments, Need To Hide, No Time For Regrets, Other Side, Pause, Peace, Perfect Ones, Poetry and Poems, Pray It All Away, Pride, Private, Process, Public, Punchlines, Reflection, Regrets, Routine, Say, Secrets, Session, Shroud, Silent, Sincere, Somewhere, Stare, Still Here, Strife, Surrender, Tears, Tender, Tenderness, The Divine Comedy, The Thinker, Think, Times, Truth, Vulnerable, Wait, Walk, Whispers, Works, Wrongs, Youth
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Life For Dummies
Life For Dummiesby Michael DoyleLife for dummiesWould be a fine dealOn in any studyThere are skills to revealBuilding blocks of lifeThat take us from here to thereLessons needed to move past strifeAre to be heeded without fearLiving by the Gospel … Continue reading
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Tagged Affirm, Building Blocks, Darkness, Deal, Discern, Dummies, Embrace, Faith, Favor, Fear, Forgiven, Gift, Given, God, Gospel, Grace, Head, Heart, Heed, Here To There, Kinship, Lessons, Lessons Learned, Lessons Live, Life, Light, Poetry and Poems, Reject, Rejoice, Reveal, Right, Righteousness, Royal, Said, Skills, Step-By-Step, Strife, Study, Through, Voice, Wisdom, Worship
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