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  Volume 16, # 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February, 2001

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Plant these "seeds" well and water often. Enjoy!

Hopes and Dreams  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Diane Roger

    "Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the storms, above the clouds—if you will only let them."

True Friend  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arnold H. Glasow

"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."

Value of Education  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thomas Huxley

    "Perhaps the most valuable result of education is the ability to make yourself do the things you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not."

Live Nobly  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joseph Conrad

    "What one lives for may be uncertain, how one lives is not. Man should live nobly though he does not see any practical reason for it, simply because in the mysterious, inexplicable mixture of beauty and ugliness, virtue and baseness in which he finds himself. He must want to be on the side of the virtuous and beautiful."

Ongoing Education  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Earl Nightingale

    "I remember reading about what an ongoing education will do for us. It will teach us to love what doesn’t cost too much—to love the sunrise and the sunset; the beating of rain on the roof and windows; the gentle fall of snow on a winter day. The item I read went on to say that a good education teaches us to love life for its own sake!"

Your Vocation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  M. Scott Peck, A World Waiting to be Born, p. 61

    "The word vocation literally means ‘calling.’ It is derived from the Latin verb vocare, ‘to call’—the same verb that is the root of the adjective vocal. The religious meaning of vocation, therefore, is what one is called to do, which may or may not coincide with one’s occupation, with what one is actually doing."

On Anger  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bits & Pieces, March ‘85

"The person who loses his head is usually the last to miss it."

Pick Up…Get Over  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rabbi Harold Kushner, 
                                                                               When Bad Things Happen to Good People

    "If we want to be able to pick up the pieces of our lives and go on living, we have to get over the irrational feeling that every misfortune is our fault, the direct result of our mistakes or misbehavior. We are really not that powerful. Not everything that happens in the world is our doing."

Daily Prayer  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter Marshall

    "Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change. And when we are right, make us easy to live with."

Doing, Acting, Loving  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Carmody, The Progressive Pilgrim

    "Only in doing, acting, loving do we fully engage reality. Only on the lines does justice pass from mentality to embodied, social truth."

Religious Imagination  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FAITH TODAY, May ‘85

    "The value of the religious imagination in prayer could be measured by its impact on Christian living. As the religious imagination is transformed, people are enabled to situate themselves differently in the world, to challenge their values. This is a transformation that brings them to question their accepted patterns of behavior."

Conflict: Good…Bad  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christophers News Notes, Sept. ‘85

    "Conflict! While most of us would rather avoid it, the fact is that we are surrounded by conflict. Conflict is universal, inevitable—and as old as humankind. It begins when your needs, wants, values and ideas clash with the needs and values of others.
    In and of itself, conflict is not the problem. It becomes a problem when it is rooted in selfishness rather than in an effort to find ways of working out differences together."

Genius of Life  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aldous Huxley

"The genius of life is to carry the spirit of childhood into old age."

Wisdom Seeds  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anonymous

"Even though you may fail to attain—
you must never fail to aspire."

Public Speaking Tips  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sandy Linover,
                                                                                  Communication Briefings, Vol. 6, # 11

    "Looking for ways to be a more powerful speaker?

On Character  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wit & Wisdom

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacturer of daily duty."

Going for the Gold  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Denis Waitley, PRIORITES, Vol. 3, # 4, www.waitley.com

    "Self-esteem is a combination of self-worth and self-trust. Self-worth is being glad you are you, with your genes, your body, your background and your potential. Self-trust is the functional belief in your own ability positively and effectively to control what happens to you in a world of uncertainty. The first gives you a feeling of optimism. The second gives you empowerment."

Work at Your Game  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deacon "Easy Ed" Macauley,
                                                                                                        former NBA basketball player

    "Just remember, that if you’re not working at your game to the utmost of your ability, there will be someone out there somewhere with equal ability who will be working to the utmost of his ability. And one day you’ll play each other, and he will have the advantage."

On Achievement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jim Rohn

"Do not mistake movement for achievement."

Choose One Chair  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Luciano Pavarotti

    The world-renowned opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti recalls, "When I was a boy, my father, a baker, introduced me to the wonders of song. He urged me to work very hard to develop my voice. Arrigo Pola, a professional tenor in my hometown, took me on as a student. I also enrolled in a teacher’s college. As graduation was nearing I asked my father, ‘Shall I be a teacher or a singer?’
    "‘Luciano,’ my father replied, ‘if you try to sit on two chairs, you will fall between them. For life, you must choose, you can only sit in one chair.’"
    Pavarotti continues, "I chose one. It took seven years of study and frustration before I made my first professional appearance. It took another seven years to reach the Metropolitan Opera. And now I think, whether it’s laying bricks, writing a book—whatever we choose—we should give ourselves completely to it. Commitment that’s the key. Choose one chair."

True Charity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . Anonymous

    China was in the lethal grip of a famine—a more severe one than customarily hit the nation.
    Won Chang and his wife, poor even in good times, were in desperate straits, with hardly more than a handful of rice left. At that moment a neighbor came and appealed to them for help. He was starving.
    Won’s wife argued, "If we give this neighbor from our mere handful of food we will surely die."
    "But," replied Won, "if we don’t give him some food it will only postpone our deaths one day; perhaps we will die tomorrow. But, our neighbor will die today."

 

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