… when a church goes south, it is usually because someone has led them, and that someone is usually the preacher.

Yesterday, I shared this quote on Twitter/FB, after reading Ed Smithson’s “My Personal Notes,” of Nov. 20th, I think, “Is There a Prophet Among Us?” Here it is for the FR.

… when a #church goes south, it is usually because someone has led them, and that someone is usually the preacher. -Ed Smithson

Yesterday, I shared this quote on Twitter/FB, after reading Ed Smithson’s “My Personal Notes,” of Nov. 20th, I think, “Is There a Prophet Among Us?” Here it is for the FR.

I think over again my small adventures, my fears, these small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing. The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns and the light that fills the world.

Old Inuit Saying

“This government is acknowledged by all, to be one of enumerated powers.”

– Justice John Marshall
(1755-1835) US Supreme Court Chief Justice
Source: McCulloch v. Maryland
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Marshall.Quote.A3D9

“If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation…
to a continuance in union… I have no hesitation in saying,
‘let us separate.’ “

– Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source: letter to W. Crawford, June 20, 1816
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.2551

“We start with first principles. The Constitution
creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.”

– William H. Rehnquist
Chief Justice, U. S. Supreme Court
Source: United States v. Lopez
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/William.Rehnquist.Quote.ECFF

“The regular distribution of power into distinct departments; the introduction of legislative balances and checks; the institution of courts composed of judges holding their offices during good behavior; the representation of the people in the legislature by deputies of their own election… They are means, and powerful means, by which the excellences of republican government may be retained and its imperfections lessened or avoided.”

–Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 9, 1787

Reread an old note book, some words I jotted down on my first visit to France. Franck and Gwen generously offered me a big room in a loft apartment in Paris, and endless books. I picked up an autobiography of a photographer, Eric Valli, on the bookshelf next to my futon and could not seem to be able to put it down. Here he recounts many assignments (given by National Geographic) and how he works with anxiety.

“I have lost count of times. I have felt horrendous anxiety at the start of an assignment or a big project…

I contemplated it as though hoping to find a revelation there and I suddenly said to myself that the capernaum, the imbroglio, all the unknowns and complexities I carried inside me that tortured me and of which the sky was only a reflection, harboured inside is the solution, the response that would enable me to reach my goal. I only had to look for it. In other words, I no longer had to fear or fight my anxieties but on the contrary use them. Plunge inside them. Invest them. Listen to, feel and sense what they had to say to me. Fear should not get in my way. It simply tells me that we are on the edge of an unknown territory. Do we want to explore it? If yes, how do we prepare ourselves to do so? Fear guides us and shows us just where to go, if we want to learn, understand and move forward. This is where creation lies, where life lies. It is as frightening as it is exciting. The main thing is to keep going forward and presevering. Gradually, a project, so shapeless at the outset, begins to take forms and comes to life. It is often that then carries us and supports us, that dictates our choices to us and gives us the answers. In this creative process is a real magic.”

“A hermit had said to me one day in Dolpo — the same words that features at the heart of the film: “what faced with two paths, always choose the most difficult, the one that will bring out the best of yourself. Jacques remained thoughtful for a moment than turned to me, a smile on his face: “In any case, we don’t have a choice.” For after all, what would be the sense of existence if we didn’t try to give the best of ourselves?”  — by Eric Valli

When the storm rages within, my anxiety cripples my soul, everything blurs and I find the world swirling round and round, I reread those words and can stay put a little bit. 

For what choice do we have indeed apart from giving the best of ourselves? Indeed.

Today’s quote comes from Charles Caleb Colton who said, “There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.”

I liked this one because as I seek wisdom I am continually reminded that I am not so wise, or that I have a continual path to follow on – my dad used to say to me, “The more I know the more I realize how much I don’t know.” It’s like that for me with wisdom. Yet seek it I do… so taking the advice from the above quote – I will be happy – by thinking it so, and I will seek wisdom knowing it’s a journey with great opportunity!

This is also something wonderful from Orrison Swett Marden, “Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of  one’s being.” Love that!

You create your day by the way you think! Be Present!
Go make it a magnificent day!

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Sometimes it’s hard for me to tell apart the boundaries of my emotions. So I prefer the vague discourse. I revel in a little ambiguity. As what it is ambiguous can be judged in many ways, I don’t risk so much getting it wrong.

Feeling good, feeling bad, feeling ok… These expressions don’t actually mean much, but they are comfortable. The precise naming of a feeling is a dangerous endeavor. What it is named tends to become reality, through the wonderful mechanism of self-fulfilling prophecy.

It was late before the two guests left and Russell was alone with Lady Ottoline. They sat talking over the fire until four in the morning. Russell, recording the event a few days later, wrote, “I did not know I loved you till I heard myself telling you so — for one instant I thought ‘Good God, what have I said?’ and then I knew it was the truth.” [Clark, 1975, p. 176]

(from Daniel Dennett’s “Consciousness Explained)

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Ninguém quer o socialismo, todos eles visam o capitalismo.

(Hóraeon-Sama)

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“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible…”

- George Bernard Shaw

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Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models, and here at the White House, we’re going to lead by example.

- Barack Obama