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Thought For the Day: Familiarity With Other Countries Teaches Us We May Be Friends
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou, poet (4 … Continue reading
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Tagged Bigotry, Countries, Familiarity, Friendship, Maya Angelou, Similar, Thought For the Day, Travel, Understanding
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First Principles: An Objective Standard of Right and Wrong Morality Is Best Applied To the Affairs of Mankind
“If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Application, Comprehension, Constitution, First Principles, Government, John Adams, Mankind, Morality, Objective, Understanding
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Thought For the Day: To Understand Is Not To Condone
“Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.” – Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst and author (23 Mar 1900-1980)
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Tagged Accept, Accusation, Condone, Discernment, Erich Fromm, Judgment, Others, Thought For the Day, Understanding
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No Substitutions Acceptable
No Substitutions Acceptable by Michael Romani Substituted something instead of Christ Faithless cults to say that to be precise Never quiet knowing or ever really getting That Christ is our indwelling never regretting His is the truth and His is … Continue reading
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Tagged Atonement, Bible, Christ, Commandment, Compassion, Cults, Eternal, Faithless, Grace, Holy Word, Indwelling, Light, Love, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reflection, Simple Lesson, Substitutions, Talk, Traces, Truth, Understanding, Walk
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Thought For the Day: Hire and Friend Those Who Are Different Than You
“If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don’t particularly like..” -Soichiro Honda, industrialist (17 Nov 1906-1991) … Continue reading
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Tagged Admiration, Best Practices, Differences, Diversity, Hire, Skill Sets, Soichiro Honda, Thought For the Day, Understanding
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Seven Points of Beatitude (Sapientia)
Seven Points of Beatitude by Michael Romani As the ghosts of one year floated by to be received In a clarity of slumber of one refusing to be self-deceived I had turned on the television intending to rest a moment … Continue reading
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Tagged Awe, Beatitudes, Counsel, Courage, Endurance, Enlightenment, Family of God, Fortitude, Gifts of the Holy Spirit, Humility, Kingdom, Knowledge, Photograph, Piety, Pleasures, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Reverence, Sacrament, Self Deception, Seven Swans A Swimming, Tolerance, Treasures, Understanding, Wisdom
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A Suffering of Purpose
A Suffering of Purpose by Michael Romani Suffering and injustice, as we live this Teach us empathy and forgiveness Acceptance, even when not sedate Is the path of living under divine fate All of us in our startling humanity Face … Continue reading
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Tagged God, God's Will, Holding On, Hope, Justice, Morality, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Understanding
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Relate
She whispers, “(Y)ou know, I really hesitate To admit this, but, I can completely relate To that artist’s sense in what he displayed” I looked at the piece, and admit, I was afraid The look on my face must have … Continue reading
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Tagged Daily Prompt, Elastic, Fantastic, Openness, Perception, Relate, Temerity, Understanding, Whisper, Wordpress
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