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Still the Monkey Grins
The world has a monkey on its back. It’s the darkness inside us all. https://flic.kr/p/q4tKWX Still the Monkey Grins by Michael Romani Born innocent Victims to the sins The sins of the father Eden’s fall set the precedent Banished, cast … Continue reading
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First Principles: Think and Act For Yourself and Our Nation In the Pursuit of Right Over Wrong
“It behooves you, therefore, to think and act for yourself and your people. The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors.” – Thomas Jefferson (1775) … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, First Principles, Learn, Nation, Pursuit of Knowledge, Read, Reason, Right and Wrong, Self, Think, Thomas Jefferson, Truth, Wisdom
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Thought For the Day: Wisdom Is the Product of Lifetime Not Schooling
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but the product of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” – Albert Einstein
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Tagged Acquire, Albert Einstein, Effort, Lifelong, Product, Schooling, Thought For the Day, Wisdom
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First Principles: The Aim of Every Constitution Should Be To Obtain Governance By the Wise and Virtuous
“The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society.” – James Madison (1788) … Continue reading
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Tagged Aim, Common Good, Constitution, Discern, First Principles, Governance, James Madison, Pursuit, Society, Virtue, Wisdom
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Thought For the Day: Aphorisms Only Briefly Disturb the Wisdom of Silence
“Aphorisms respect the wisdom of silence by disturbing it, but briefly.” – Yahia Lababidi, aphorist (b. 25 Sep 1973)
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Tagged Aphorism, Brief, Disturb, Respect, Silence, Thought For the Day, Wisdom, Yahia Lababidi
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In Spiritual Growth
Based in part on: Galatians 5:22-23 New International Version (NIV) 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. In Spiritual Growth by Michael Romani … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Believe, Choice, Cultivate, Encourage, Faithfulness, Focus, Forbearance, Forgive, Fruit of the Spirit, Galatians, Gentleness, God's Family, Goodness, Joy, Kindness, Language, Light, Live, Love, Maturity, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pratice, Praxis, Prayer, Preparation, Prune, Read, Self Control, Sin, Sincerity, Spiritual Growth, the Word, Transformation, Treatment, Wisdom
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First Principles: Absent Freedom of Thought and Speech There Is No Wisdom or Public Liberty
“Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.” – Benjamin Franklin (1722)
Daily Prompt – Mass
In our daily prayer for the living We find ourselves quickly forgiving All that happens as it must and might The little things meant taken as slight Wisdom in our souls come to prevail To go on living rightly as … Continue reading
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Tagged Contrary, Daily Prayer, Daily Prompt, Devine, Fear, Forgive, Forgiving, Happenstance, Humanity, Little Things, Live Right, Living, Love, Mass, Persevere, Prevail, Slights, Stained Glass, Tiffany, Wisdom
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