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Gabby Giffords: cheerfulness in the face of adversity

 

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have
also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon
our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Martha Washington (1732 - 1802)

 

Man himself is the lost word in one concept. He is the mysterious link between heaven and earth. He is by nature empowered to speak the creative words which would insure peace and harmony and happiness in the world, but he does not speak it because he has lost its meaning. He does not know how to articulate the word which is the end of strife. In the soul systems of most ancient peoples, therefore, something had to take the place of the lost word, and what in our thinking could take the place of truth, that which is the eternal fact of all things? Knowledge is no substitute because knowledge is forever changing. Wisdom is inadequate because wisdom is based upon the uncertain foundation of a lost word. We have probably only one term that is appropriate to our needs, the one most transforming word in the experience of the human soul, and that is love. What cannot be known can be accepted, and love is founded in perfect faith. Faith, therefore, must take the place of fact. Love of God must take the place of the knowledge of God, and through a deep and spiritualized devotion the soul is lifted up into the proximity of Deity through the mystery of illumination.

-Manly P. Hall, Lecture #239
The Mystery of the Creative Word
As Revealed Through World Religions

 

 

Mark Twain statue at Finney County Public Library in Garden City, Kansas

Say now!   time has been kind to you........ so,
what should we talk about?

 

Thank you to source: Billy Hathorn, File:Mark Twain statue, Garden City, KS IMG 5875.JPG @ Wikipedia

 

INFR ASTR UCTU RE

n. infrastructure

1. An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
2. The basic facilities, services, and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society, such as transportation and communications systems, water and power lines, and public institutions including schools, post offices, and prisons.
Source: The Free Dictionary

Soul of The City

Liberation theology says to me, “You must do justice.” It says, “Empower people so that they can fulfill the destiny of their lives.”

-Reverend Cecil Williams
The Glide

Colour Us Cornucopia Inn

 

 

When the power radiates in all directions and permeates the whole body and its auric atmosphere, and we become a living stone, whose lustre surpasses that of the diamond or the ruby, each one of us is then The Philosopher's Stone.

consider this, from I Ching:

In the royal hunts of ancient China it was customary to drive up the game from three sides, but on the fourth the animals had a chance to run off. If they failed to do this they had to pass through a gate behind which the king stood ready to shoot. Only animals that entered here were shot; those that ran off in front were permitted to escape. This custom accorded, with a kingly attitude; the royal hunter did not wish to turn the chase into a slaughter, but held that the kill should consist only of those animals which had so to speak voluntarily exposed themselves.

There is depicted here a ruler, or influential man, to whom people are attracted. Those who come to him he accepts, those who do not come are allowed to go their own way. He invites none, flatters none—all come of their own free will. In this way there develops a voluntary dependence among those who hold to him. They do not have to be constantly on their guard but may express their opinions openly. Police measures are not necessary, and they cleave to their ruler of their own volition. This same principle of freedom is valid for life in general. We should not woo favor from people. If a man cultivates within himself the purity and the strength that are necessary for one who is the center of a fellowship, those who are meant for him come of their own accord.

 

 

 

“Of all the forms of inequality,
Injustice in health care
Is the most shocking
And inhumane.”

-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

 

 

 

 

        

 

The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain; and it was placed in the Declaration, not for that, but for future use. Its authors meant it to be, thank God, it is now proving itself, a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism. They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear in this fair land and commence their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack.

Abraham Lincoln, speech on the Dred Scott Decision, June 26, 1857

 

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