Tag: humility
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February 23, 2007 11:17 AM EST --
"Take this cup away from me Father,"
Thrice he'd cried with moving anguish,
Pleas failed, budging portals of heaven,
In agony, heartbroken he'd wept.
His cup was brimming with bitterness, . . . more
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April 20, 2007 08:11 PM EDT --
I have always admired the honesty and humility in this quote:
"Look at my present life and then at my former life, and you will see that I do attempt to carry them (christian ideals) out. . . . more
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November 26, 2006 07:08 PM EST --
Fine root vegetables
among them humility
all for Thanksgiving
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August 15, 2008 09:55 AM EDT --
But for the grace of God, there go I.....
If you think you are having a hard time?
If you think your salary . . . more
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April 19, 2007 08:32 AM EDT --
I cannot take credit for this, as it arrived in my e-mail this morning, but was so funny I thought I'd share with my Gather friends.
JUST A FUNNY TO START THE DAY.
A big shot attorney had . . . more
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May 14, 2007 10:47 AM EDT --
I heard a story the other day of how Mahatma Ghandi picked up a toilet brush and started into scrubbing a bowl after hearing his wife say that she wouldn't do it because it was beneath her caste.
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November 15, 2006 08:52 PM EST --
There he sits alone in a box. Do you see him? Everyday he watches you as you pass him by and don't even realize he's there. He was there when you parked your car to buy some milk at . . . more
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January 03, 2008 05:23 PM EST --
Sometimes, I think (or attempt to think) entirely too much. I remember from class Aristotle's Golden Mean, from which it is taught that the ethical life is lived by attempting to reach a median . . . more
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April 03, 2008 10:21 AM EDT --
Here is a short haiku for your cynical pleasure on this lovely April day!
Lawn
one blade amidst green
rises high above others—
False Prophet! blades slice.
I wrote this . . . more
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January 02, 2007 05:04 AM EST --
Here I sit with a thought in my head
wondering where I should be instead
snow outside and quiet streets
perhaps tomorrow someone I'll meet
The holidays are over for this year
we'll wait again . . . more
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May 12, 2007 12:14 PM EDT --
Mother,
Teacher teach me
The language of your heart
Tongue of sweet sage
Tastes the bitter truth
Teacher teach me
The strength of your soul
Fortune grounded . . . more
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November 29, 2007 10:11 PM EST --
When a humble person forgets himself, he is united with God.
People who try to force circumstances become their slaves. Those who use them become their masters. --The Talmud
There is nothing in . . . more
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March 05, 2007 05:22 PM EST --
Someday I'll write, nonchalant,
Songs for posterity,
With indelible inks soaking the quill,
Precursor of destiny.
Legends with gold of sunbeams,
Verse fringed with dazzling light,
Intensely brilliant . . . more
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March 13, 2007 05:05 AM EDT --
Scorched by the gilded sun
Stealing stars
Drunk on golden moonshine
I stumble onto dawn’s moisture
Bare feet drenched with dew
A sobering salve
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January 02, 2007 12:02 AM EST --
A newly discovered chapter in the Book of Genesis has provided the answer to 'Where do pets come from?'
Adam said, 'Lord, when I was in the garden, you walked with me every day. Now I do not . . . more
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February 04, 2007 11:12 AM EST --
She offers flowers from the field,
And a smile of humility
To the soldiers who mourn her loss.
The clothes on her back
And the shoes on her feet,
Are all she has left
From the ravages of . . . more
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March 30, 2007 01:47 PM EDT --
The creamy colored coffee from the porcelain cup had added little to her morning. As dainty as it was, the cup seemed to be far too delicate for the duty of serving. She with the dainty fingers, . . . more
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June 30, 2007 11:09 AM EDT --
By Jen Donier, @ October, 17, 1983
The rich man rose in the late morn;
To take his breakfast all alone.
He donned his clothes of scarlet and silk.
Setting forth; the world to milk.
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July 25, 2007 01:16 PM EDT --
Would I walk Via Dolorosa unshod feet?
Pebbles bruise my tender soles,
Wear crown of thorns in willing humility,
While minor wounds, for attention howl?
Glamorous idols adorn study walls,
Curvaceous . . . more
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January 13, 2008 10:42 AM EST --
This is one way to stop people from critcizing you. If you buy the newspaper that they work for, that would tend to shut them up. Either they will tone it down to keep their job, or they might quit and . . . more
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