In honor of the holidays and the good people on the board, here is a short meditation written by Reinhold Niebuhr, former head of the Yale Divinity School. I feel it's quite profound and rather non-secular. (Your milage might vary.) Please also post any other good quotes you might have. Happy Holidays all and enjoy... Matt ---------------------------------------- “Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true, or beautiful, or good, makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, could be accomplished alone; therefore, we must be saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our own standpoint; therefore, we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness." - Reinhold Niebuhr
...More Wise Words People who are afraid of Santa Claus are definitely Claustrophobic. When Catholics go to church on a bus or train, they call it mass transit --Robert Tanner Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. --Will Rogers I was so poor growing up ... if I wasn't a boy ...I'd have nothing to play with. --Rodney Dangerfield You can't have everything. Where would you put it? --Steven Wright We know the speed of light..., so what's the speed of dark ? --Steven Wright Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence. --King Vidor I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. --Rita Rudner One reason the dog has so many friends: He wags his tail instead of his tongue. --Unknown If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man --Mark Twain Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. --Buddha Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten. --Buddha AND ONE QUOTE THAT AFFECTS ALL WHO POST: Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world. --Buddha We live here through our words. If you're angry or mad, take your fingers off the keyboard and let it pass. Let the new year find many positive posts on MAP. Happy new year to all.
I like to read nice things, thanks for sharing them. Let me contribute with this nice Zen poem: Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken. Although its light is wide and great, The moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide. The whole moon and the entire sky Are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~ Dogen
"One "oh crap" wipes out ten "attaboys" (One negative comment erases 10 good ones)" - One of my old Army Drill Sergeants
People are people everywhere you go even when the people concerned are people who, the people who made up the phrase people are people everywhere you go didn't actually think off as people --Tery Pratchett
"Buy her a big house, fill it with furniture and then . . . leave. You'll be better off in the long run." Senior Chief Frederick Larson, United States Navy.
