Never miss a good chance to shut up

• Never miss a good chance to shut up.


• Always drink upstream from the herd.


• If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.


• There are three kinds of men:


• The ones that learns by reading.


• The few who learn by observation.


• The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.


• Letting the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than putting it back.

~ Will Rogers

surprise them with restraint and generosity

What Nelson Mandela’s character said about South African whites in the movie “Invictus”:
“We have to surprise them with restraint and generosity.”

It Was Perfect

“A man who was completely innocent,
offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others,
including his enemies,
and became the ransom of the world.
It was a perfect act.”

~ Mahatma Gandhi
(Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest influenced by Jesus Christ, 1869-1948)

"We want revenge, and we want blood."

"We want revenge, and we want blood."

ABU MOHAMED, a protester in Azra, Syria, a southern town that witnessed the highest death toll Friday.
New York Times, 4/23/11
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/23/world/middleeast/
23syria.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha3

the truth of the thing signified is surely present there

The Lord's Supper
John Calvin "can be regarded as occupying a position roughly midway between" (McGrath) the doctrines developed by Martin Luther on the one hand and Huldrych Zwingli, on the other:
"Believers ought always to live by this rule: whenever they see symbols appointed by the Lord, to think and be convinced that the truth of the thing signified is surely present there. For why should the Lord put in your hand the symbol of his body, unless it was to assure you that you really participate in it? And if it is true that a visible sign is given to us to seal the gift of an invisible thing, when we have received the symbol of the body, let us rest assured that the body itself is also given to us." (Calvin); that is, "the thing that is signified is effected by its sign" (McGrath).[65]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transubstantiation

65.^ McGrath, A. 1998. Historical Theology, An Introduction to the History of Christian Thought. Blackwell Publishers: Oxford, p.199.

Love Rules Without Rules

Love Rules Without Rules

~ Italian proverb

Relax!

quotes from Martha Beck:
March 2008 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Life-Coach-Martha-Becks-5-New-Best-Pieces-of-Advice/

One day—a day that has lingered in my memory despite countless attempts to repress it—I went skiing with a group of expert athletes in blizzard conditions. My friends wanted to ski runs with names like Panic Attack and Months in Traction, while I preferred Pokey Li'l Pony and Easy Does It. At first, my friends ribbed me good-naturedly. Then they realized I was serious, and became silently ashamed for me. Of course, I tensed up. After my third face-plant, the best skier in the group told me gently, "Martha, every scary obstacle is just an invitation to relax."

One of my favorite fictional characters is a parrot from Tom Robbins's Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates. The parrot speaks words only once in a great while, and he says just one thing: "People of the world: Relax!"

"You could hit a hole in one and still lose a golf tournament, and you could win without ever hitting a hole in one. A great golfer is someone who usually gets the ball somewhat closer to the hole than most other people. Almost everything in life functions this way. No break is big enough to end all your problems, but consistently getting reasonably close to your objective, task after task, will put you far ahead of most other people. So dream of the hole in one, but know you can be a champion just by getting it on the green."

~ Martha Beck

Resentment

A poison one swallows with the expectation the other person will die,
welling up from lack of forgiveness.