When is a box a gift? When is a gift a box? As man, let us acknowledge what blessings we have been given.
“Small children open big gifts, tear away the wrapping paper,
and find a choo-choo train or a red wagon,
and then play in the empty box.
Adults receive a small box, and carefully unwrap the gift
to find an expensive watch or necklace,
and then toss the fancy box away and coo and moan about the jewelry.
Who received more joy and excitement?
I’d rather be playing in the big empty box
even when I’m 80!”
~~ME
“Transforming the mind is a slow and gradual process.
It is a matter of ridding ourselves, bit by bit,
of instinctual harmful habit patterns
and becoming familiar with habits that necessarily bring positive results–
to ourselves and others.”
~~Kathleen McDonald
“The spirit of a man is an inward flame,
a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.”
~~Margot Asquith
“By helping yourself, you are helping mankind.
By helping mankind, you are helping yourself.
That’s the law of spiritual progress.”
~~Christopher Isherwood
“Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God,
and some defects to show that she is only in His image.”
~~Blaise Pascal
“To–morrow, and to–morrow,
creeps in this petty pace from day to day
to the last syllable of recorded time,
and all our yesterdays have lighted fools
the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player.
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
and then is heard no more, it is a tale
told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing.”
~~William Shakespeare
(Macbeth Act V Scene V)
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
~~Martin Luther King, Jr.
