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Thought For the Day: Your Eyes Saw My Substance, Being Yet Unformed. And In Your Book They All Are Written, the Days Fashioned For Me
“Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.” – Psalm 139:16
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Tagged Days, None, Psalm 139:16, Substance, Thought For the Day, Unformed, Written, Your Eyes
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Thought For the Day: Beware Lest You Lose the Substance By Grasping At the Shadow
“Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.” – Aesop (c. 550 B.C.)
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Tagged Aesop, Beware, Grasp, Lest You Lose, Shadow, Substance, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: Freedom To Differ Is Not Limited To Things That Do Not Matter Much. That Would Be A Mere Shadow of Freedom.
“Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Differ, Freedom, Justice Robert H. Jackson, Limited, Matter, Right, Shadow, Substance, Test, Thought For the Day, Touch the Heart
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Breath Walks Through The Back Door
Breath Walks Through The Back Doorby Michael DoyleMusic is the magic of the tones we findIn leaving our troubled world far behindFeeding our core once and againCan be the breath of the violinAs breath walks through the back doorOpening the … Continue reading
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Tagged Back Door, Best, Best of Life, Breath, Breathing, Chant, Chart, Course, Dark and Deep, Employ, Escape, Expediency, Familiarity, Far Behind, Feeding Our Core, Find, Humor, Internal connection, Leaving, Life Comes At us, Live, Love and Explore, Magic, Meditation, Moment to Moment, Multiverse Lines, Music, Opening the Heart, Poetry and Poems, Resiliency, Reveals Our Joy, Secret Spaces, Smiles and Torment, Substance, Technique, That We Keep, Tones, Troubled World, True, Violin, Vulgarities, Walk, Walking Our Path, We Make Connection, With Our Source
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Don Quixote Reexamined
A hidalgo or minor nobleman gets so lost in his reading that he mistakes folklore regarding chivalry as the path of history that will lead him and through him the world to greater nobility. The intention being good. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Account, Admonishment, Beautiful, Borrowed Time, Cervantes, Chivalry, Comic, Complexity, Correct, Don Quixote, Embrace, Examine, Excess, Fantasies, Fiction, Folklore, Folly, Good Magic, Hidalgo, History, Human Mind, Intention, Journey, Knight Errant, Lady, Laughter, Lent, Life, Literary, Mad, Man, Moments, Musical, Name, Nobility, Nobleman, Pages, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practicalities, Practice, Preach, Railing, Reach, Read, Reading, Real, Reveal, Sad, Sally, Sights, Simplicity, Spent, Substance, Tales, Tear, Tragic, Understand, Unique, Utterances, Wrong Conclusions
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Thought For the Day: Beware Lest You Lose the Substance By Grasping At the Shadow
“Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.” – Aesop (c. 620–564 BC)
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Tagged Aesop, Beware, Grasp, Lose, Shadow, Substance, Thought For the Day, You
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First Principles: A Corrupt Press Deceives, Inflames, Dishonors Virtue, Stokes the Flames of Faction and Ends Its Own Enemy
“We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press. It is however, the prostituted companion of liberty, and somehow or other, we know not how, its efficient auxiliary. It follows the substance like its shade; but while … Continue reading
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Tagged Companion, Corrupt, Deceive, Dirt, Dishonor, Enemy, Faction, First Principles, Fisher Ames, For Sale, Freedom of the Press, Inflame, Liberty, Man, Shade, Shadow, Substance, Usurper, Virtue
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Na/GloPoWriMo Day 20: Petri Dish
The challenge for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 20 is to write a poem pertinent to rebellion. Rebellion against tyranny being my second nature I have had to contend with the notion that perhaps I should just write a poem contending that we should … Continue reading
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Tagged Agitation, America's Tale, Appearance, Division, Evidence, Experts, Fascism, Fear, Finger Pointing, Illusions, Masses, Modern World, Na/GloPoWriMo, Partisan Hacks, Pessimism, Petri Dish, Photography, Poem, Poetry, Rebellion, Rectify, Sophistry, Substance, Totalitarianism, Vilify, Word Games
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