a quote from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s theory of relativity to serve. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Epictetus was an ancient Greek philosopher Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. – Epictetus AD 55 to AD 135 Such simple wisdom from 2,000 years ago. At Twelve Step meetings I express this same thought in the form of the Serenity Prayer. 500 years…
“Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Lao Tzu is considered the father of Taoism. Many of his quotes seem to be directed squarely at me. There is no absolute right and wrong. People judge as right what they personally consider pleasant, and judge as wrong what they personally consider unpleasant. Convincing others of what is right cannot be equated with…
a native American story An elder Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, ‘A fight is going on inside me . . . it is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies,…
A Sufi story… Past the seeker, as he prayed, came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them, the holy one went down into deep prayer and cried, “Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?” And out of the long…