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Sweeter than the perfume of roses
is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish
nature; a ready disposition to do to others any
good turn in your power.
Orison
Swett Marden
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Few
people are willing just to be themselves anymore.
Few people realize that God made them just
the way they are for a reason, and they spend so
much time trying to become something else that
they ignore the beautiful selves they are.
tom
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Cherish
your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the
music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that
forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes
your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow
all delightful conditions, all, heavenly
environment; of these, if you but remain true to
them, your world will at last be built.
James
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From
The Wayfarer on the Open Road
Ralph Waldo Trine
12.
To know that it is the middle ground that brings
pleasure and satisfaction, and that excesses have to be
paid for ofttimes with heavy and sometimes with frightful
costs.
ALL
things, good in themselves, are for use and enjoyment; but
all things must be rightly used in order that there may be
full and lasting enjoyment.
A law written into the very fibre of human life, so
to speak, is to the effect that excesses, the abuse of
anything good in itself, will end disastrously, so that
one's pleasures and enjoyments will have to be gathered up
for repairs, or perchance his shattered mind or body also,
and in case of the latter then the former will have to
bide their time or wait indefinitely for their resumption.
Wise
indeed is he who fully recognizes this law that never has
and that never will allow itself to be violated or undone,
but that will shatter, sometimes with telling and open
blows, more often perhaps with blows subtle and guarded,
but just as telling, the happiness or even the mind and
the body of the one who would do violence to or who would
fail to recognize its mandate— Moderation.
On
the other hand, to see evil in things good in themselves
is the perversion of another law that carries with it its
own peculiar penalty.
The one tends to make the prig, the self-righteous,
out of a good, wholesome man or woman, the same as the
other makes eventually the voluptuary.
The one errs in the one direction the same as the
other in another direction. Each pays the penalty for his folly, the one by cutting
himself off from much innocent and valuable God intended
enjoyment, at the same time casting a continual shadow
over the lives of others; the other by way of settling
heavy bills of costs for his excesses.
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should be then neither license nor perverted use on the
one hand, nor asceticism or priggishness on the
other—the full use of all normal and natural functions,
faculties, and powers, innocent and good in themselves,
that all may be brought to their fullest growth and
development, but never excessive or perverted use.
The
tendency of the great majority, especially in our
present-day American life, is on the side of the too
serious, the too busy, the too absorbing in the business,
in the work. This
induces all unconsciously, in time, a prevailing type of
thought and mental activity that takes, so to speak, the
buoyancy, the elasticity out of both mind and body, so
that age and its accompanying features manifest, assert,
and fix themselves in many, or to speak more truly, in the
majority of cases, long before their time.
By way of balance, by way of disarming these, we
need more of the play element, more of the open air, the
sunshine, the exercise element in our lives.
It would save thousands from stiffening of joints
and muscles, hardened arteries, dyspepsia, apoplexy, nerve
exhaustion, melancholia, premature age, premature death.
''Happy
recreation has a very subtle influence upon one's ability,
which is emphasized and heightened and multiplied by it.
How our courage is braced up, our determination,
our ambition, our whole outlook on life changed by it!
There seems to be a subtle fluid from humor and fun
which penetrates the entire being, bathes all the mental
faculties, and washes out the brain-ash and debris from
exhausted cerebrum and muscles. . . . A joyful, happy,
fun-loving environment develops powers, resources, and
possibilities which would remain latent in a cold, dull,
repressing atmosphere."
Look
where we will, in or out and around us, we will find that
it is the middle ground—neither poverty nor excessive
riches, good wholesome use without license, a turning into
the bye-ways along the main road where innocent and
healthy God-sent and God-intended pleasures and enjoyments
are to be found; but never getting far enough away to lose
sight of the road itself. The middle ground it is that the
wise man or woman plants foot upon.
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Walker:
A Parable
(an excerpt)
tom walsh
The
job with Gustav Ehrlich turned out to be rather
simple—Walker had to follow directions and do what he
was told. He
became fascinated with the work very quickly, as he
mixed the flour and the sugar and the salt, as he
learned the different types of bread and the different
ingredients that went into them.
Why did this bread take eggs, while this other
took no eggs, but needed milk? Why did they include yeast in the recipe for this bread, but
not in another? More
than anything, he loved smelling and tasting the results
of their work. The taste of hot fresh bread was one of the nicest sensations
he had experienced, and it never lost its beauty.
Getting up as early as they needed to was no
problem for Walker, for he loved to see the sunrise each
morning through the window of the bakery.
He
was also amazed at how the flour stuck to his arms—the
first few times he worked with it, he wasn’t quite
sure that his arms hadn’t become completely white for
good, that he hadn’t changed himself by working with
the flour. When
he worked with it for a long time, it got in the air and
floated all about him, and he loved to look at himself
in the mirror at those times to see how the flour had
gently settled on his hair and face and shoulders.
It always brought a smile to him when he saw his
reflection then.
The
most wonderful thing about the bakery, though, had to be
the oven. It
was immense, and it took an entire hour to heat up in
the morning. That
was one of Walker’s most important jobs, filling the
bottom level of the oven with wood and getting a healthy
fire going as soon as he woke up.
He loved to watch the fire catch, usually very
slowly, creeping along a piece of wood until it covered
it fully, then turning the wood to black as the wood
spent its energy. The
heat was beautiful, too, especially early in the morning
when there was a chill in the air.
Ehrlich
noticed Walker’s fascination with the flames.
“It’s
beautiful, isn’t it?” he asked Walker one morning.
He picked up a piece of wood.
“Fire isn’t quite clear to me, but I think I
have a pretty good idea of how it works.
You see this piece of wood?”
He handed it to Walker, who examined it closely.
“It’s nothing.
It’s dead, for all practical purposes.
But it’s full of potential, just like you and
me.
“You
see, the flame is nothing more than a catalyst that
allows the wood to expand to its potential, that allows
it to release its energy in the form of heat.
When the wood is lying on the ground, it expends
no energy, but it is full of potential.
That potential is converted either by animals and
insects that eat of the wood, and thus turn the
potential into energy that drives their bodies, or by
flame, something that allows the energy actually to be
energy, as opposed to potential. Anything that burns is the same way—full of potential, yet
until the flame is applied, it can be nothing helpful,
nothing worthwhile.
Potential does nothing to help anyone—it’s
the fulfillment of that potential that becomes helpful
to the whole world.
“You
and I are very similar—every person on this planet is
full of potential, yet unfortunately, few people ever
reach their full potential.
Do you know why?”
“Because
they have no fire?”
Ehrlich
smiled. “Precisely.
Most people sit around, doing the same things
over and over, waiting for some sort of catalyst to come
along and turn them into fulfillment of their potential.
They don’t understand that the catalyst rarely
just comes to them—they must go out in search of it,
and they must actively try to find it.
“And
many people, as soon as they find that catalyst, they
try very hard to put out the flame, because they’re
afraid of what’s going to happen when the flame
engulfs them completely.
They have the opportunity to reach fulfillment of
their potential, yet they shy away from allowing that
potential to break free.
They want complete control over the fulfillment
of their potential, not realizing that it’s only in
the letting go of the control that they can ever find
the fulfillment.
“Still
others, sadly, spend their entire lives running from the
flame, never letting it touch them, for their fear is so
strong that they cannot live fully.
They spend their lives in darkness, fearing the
illumination of the flame that would allow them to see
through the darkness that they choose for themselves.”
Walker
stared at the wood in his hands.
His eyes ran over every curve, every split, every
grain, every aspect of the thing.
It did, indeed, seem dead in his hands, but he
knew what would happen if he were to put it into the
fire—it would catch along with the other pieces, and
add its heat to the heat of the rest of the wood, adding
to the energy that filled the oven and turned the
mixtures of flour and water and egg and salt and
whatever else was in there into something edible,
something that was a necessary part of the community.
“But
when the energy is gone,” Walker asked, “what then?
The wood is gone.”
“Then
we find more wood,” Ehrlich replied.
“But that, my friend, is the most beautiful
part—we humans are like wood in that we have potential
that may or may not be reached, but we have the
extraordinary ability to replenish our energy.
On the purely physical level, we can eat, and we
can sleep, and our bodies can continue on, with just as
much energy as before, perhaps with even more.
“Our
spirits, though, are renewed every time we feel
satisfaction with an accomplishment, every time we hear
the words ‘thank you,’ every time we see the
positive results caused by something that we’ve done.
Our spirits are a wonderful gift, yet we spend
very little time trying to make our spirits grow, trying
to develop them, trying to help them reach their
potential. People
will spend years learning information or processes or
knowledge, but very few learn about the higher part of
ourselves.”
Walker
was thoughtful. “This
spirit,” he asked, “do I have one?”
“Of
course you do, Walker.
And yours is strong—as strong as a child’s, I
would say. Somehow,
you haven’t allowed it to weaken, as most of us adults
have. I
work very hard to keep my spirit healthy, to keep it as
healthy as a child’s spirit.
It takes a lot of work, though—I have to think
all the time about ideas that I wish to accept or
reject, about actions I wish to take or not take, about
people I wish to spend time with or avoid—there are so
many ways that we can hurt our spirits, and for some
reason, it seems that most people search out the ways
that most harm them.
Usually, it seems to come down to fear.”
“Fear
must be very strong, if people can make themselves
unhappy because of it.”
“Well,
the relationship between people and fear is much
trickier than that.
It may be simply a difference in words, but
people don’t make themselves unhappy because of
fear—fear enters them and causes them to make
themselves unhappy.
But you’re right, my friend—fear is probably
the strongest element on this planet, for it controls a
great number of people.”
“Can
you tell me more about fear?” Walker asked.
Ehrlich
smiled. “You’ll
learn more about fear than you want to.
Right now, we have bread to make.”
Walker
smiled. He couldn’t imagine learning more about anything than he
wanted to—every little bit of information that he
learned opened up an entirely new realm of knowledge of
which he knew nothing.
He loved it.
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I
have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a
jail once on this account,
for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid
stone, two or three
feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the
iron grating which
strained the light, I could not help being struck with the
foolishness of that
institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood
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From
"Acres of Diamonds"
Russell H. Conwell
For
a man to have money, even in large sums, is not an
inconsistent thing.
We preach against covetousness, and you know we
do, in the pulpit, and oftentimes preach against it so
long and use the terms about “filthy lucre” so
extremely that Christians get the idea that when we
stand in the pulpit we believe it is wicked for any man
to have money--until the collection-basket goes around,
and then we almost swear at the people because they
don't give more money. Oh,
the inconsistency of such doctrines as that!
Money
is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to
have it. You
ought because you can do more good with it than you
could without it. Money
printed your Bible, money builds your churches, money
sends your missionaries, and money pays your preachers,
and you would not have many of them, either, if you did
not pay them. I
am always willing that my church should raise my salary,
because the church that pays the largest salary always
raises it the easiest.
You never knew an exception to it in your life.
The man who gets the largest salary can do the
most good with the power that is furnished to him.
Of course he can if his spirit be right to use it
for what it is given to him.
I
say, then, you ought to have money.
If you can honestly attain unto riches in
Philadelphia, it is your Christian and godly duty to do
so. It is
an awful mistake of these pious people to think you must
be awfully poor in order to be pious.
Some
people say, “Don't you sympathize with the poor
people?” Of
course I do, or else I would not have been lecturing
these years. I
won't give in but what I sympathize with the poor, but
the number of poor who are to be sympathized with is
very small. To
sympathize with a man whom God has punished for his
sins, thus to help him when God would still continue a
just punishment, is to do wrong, no doubt about it, and
we do that more than we help those who are deserving.
While we should sympathize with God's poor--that
is, those who cannot help themselves--let us remember
there is not a poor person in the United States who was
not made poor by his own shortcomings, or by the
shortcomings of someone else.
It is all wrong to be poor, anyhow.
Let us give in to that argument and pass that to
one side.
A
gentleman gets up back there, and says, “Don't you
think there are some things in this world that are
better than money?”
Of course I do, but I am talking about money now.
Of course there are some things higher than
money. Oh
yes, I know by the grave that has left me standing alone
that there are some things in this world that are higher
and sweeter and purer than money.
Well do I know there are some things higher and
grander than gold.
Love is the grandest thing on God's earth, but
fortunate the lover who has plenty of money. Money is power, money is force, money will do good as well as
harm. In
the hands of good men and women it could accomplish, and
it has accomplished, good.
I
hate to leave that behind me.
I heard a man get up in a prayer-meeting in our
city and thank the Lord he was “one of God's poor.”
Well, I wonder what his wife thinks about that?
She earns all the money that comes into that
house, and he smokes a part of that on the veranda.
I don't want to see any more of the Lord's poor
of that kind, and I don't believe the Lord does.
And yet there are some people who think in order
to be pious you must be awfully poor and awfully dirty.
That does not follow at all.
While we sympathize with the poor, let us not
teach a doctrine like that.
Yet
the age is prejudiced against advising a Christian man
or woman (or, as a Jew would say, a godly man or woman)
from attaining unto wealth.
The prejudice is so universal and the years are
far enough back, I think, for me to safely mention that
years ago up at Temple University there was a young man
in our theological school who thought he was the only
pious student in that department.
He came into my office one evening and sat down
by my desk, and said to me: “Mr. President, I think it is my duty sir, to come in and
labor with you.”
“What
has happened now?”
Said
he, “I heard you say at the Academy, at the Peirce
School commencement, that you thought it was an
honorable ambition for a young man to desire to have
wealth, and that you thought it made him temperate, made
him anxious to have a good name, and made him
industrious. You
spoke about man's ambition to have money helping to make
him a good man. Sir,
I have come to tell you the Holy Bible says that
‘money is the root of all evil.’”
I
told him I had never seen it in the Bible, and advised
him to go out into the chapel and get the Bible, and
show me the place.
So out he went for the Bible, and soon he stalked
into my office with the Bible open, with all the bigoted
pride of the narrow sectarian, or of one who founds his
Christianity on some misinterpretation of Scripture.
He flung the Bible down on my desk, and fairly
squealed into my ear:
“There it is, Mr. President; you can read it
for yourself.”
I
said to him: “Well,
young man, you will learn when you get a little older
that you cannot trust another denomination to read the
Bible for you. You
belong to another denomination.
You are taught in the theological school,
however, that emphasis is exegesis.
Now, will you take that Bible and read it
yourself, and give the proper emphasis to it?”
He
took the Bible, and proudly read, “’The love of
money is the root of all evil.’”
Then
he had it right, and when one does quote aright from
that same old Book he quotes the absolute truth.
I have lived through fifty years of the mightiest
battle that old Book has ever fought, and I have lived
to see its banners flying free; for never in the history
of this world did the great minds of earth so
universally agree that the Bible is true--all true--as
they do at this very hour.
So
I say that when he quoted right, of course he quoted the
absolute truth. “The
love of money is the root of all evil.” He who tries to attain unto it too quickly, or dishonestly,
will fall into many snares, no doubt about that.
The love of money.
What is that?
It is making an idol of money, and idolatry pure
and simple everywhere is condemned by the Holy
Scriptures and by man's common sense.
The man that worships the dollar instead of
thinking of the purposes for which it ought to be used,
the man who idolizes simply money, the miser that hordes
his money in the cellar, or hides it in his stocking, or
refuses to invest it where it will do the world good,
that man who hugs the dollar until the eagle squeals has
in him the root of all evil.
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Make
your life after it reaches its noon, glorious with sunlight, rich with
harvests, and bright with color.
Be alive in mind, heart and body.
Be joyous without giddiness, loving without silliness, attractive
without being flirtatious, attentive to others' needs without being officious,
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Alone
in his car heading west, it's easy for Jason to feel sorry
for himself and mad at the world. But then he gives
a ride to Hector and learns life isn't as negative as we
sometimes see it. The friendship between this young
man and his 70-year-old passenger is an inspiring story of
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An excerpt:
Jason
smiled. “I love driving through storms.
It’s pretty awesome to drive through the heavy
rain and have the windshield wipers going full speed just
trying to keep up with the water, knowing that you’re
safe and sound and dry in this little compartment speeding
down the highway. You
don’t even get wet, even when you’re going through the
worst storms. It’s pretty cool.”
“Yes,
it is very impressive when we think of how protected we
are from the elements.
Some of us try to protect our emotions in much the
same way.”
“How?
By driving through rainstorms?” Jason laughed.
Hector
didn’t answer immediately.
He looked at Jason for a moment, then looked again
at the approaching storm.
“By putting their emotions into a little box
inside of their minds in order to protect them from other
people. If
you can lock away your emotions, then you will not be
hurt. That is
what people think. Sometimes
I believe that most of us never get out of our cars—we
always keep ourselves isolated from other people in order
to protect ourselves from the rain and the snow and the
thunder and lightning.
But I think that we do ourselves much harm by
isolating ourselves from others.
The rain and snow can be beautiful to walk in and
enjoy.”
“I
think you’re right there, Hector,” Jason agreed.
“I know I do that.
It’s safer that way."
Hector
looked at him quizzically.
“What is safer?”
“You
know, ‘it.’ Life,
I guess. Living.”
“But
life never is safe. How
can we make safe what is not meant to be safe?”
“You
can keep yourself from getting hurt, that’s for sure.”
Hector
chuckled. “And
you can keep yourself from getting food poisoning by never
eating. Only
you will soon starve to death.
There is an old saying that says that a ship in the
harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are made
for.”
“I
like that,” Jason said.
“I’ve got to remember that.”
“There
are many such sayings that we should remember.
Most of the important ones, I have forgotten.
I wish that I could remember them better, but I
cannot.”
“Yeah,
I seem to forget most of the important stuff myself.
Then I make the same mistakes over and over again,
and I think, ‘Oh, yeah—I should have remembered
that!’ Look
at that grove of trees up there,” he said, pointing to a
spot ahead of them. “All
of the trees that are farther away are in the rain, and
you can hardly see them.
It’s moving in on us, that’s for sure.”
“Yes,
it is,” Hector agreed.
“I
love this. It’s like being at an amusement park on one of those rides
that go into long dark tunnels.
It’s all about expectation and getting ready for
something that promises to be really cool.”
Just
as he finished his sentence, the first drops of rain hit
the windshield.
“Here
we go,” Jason said, sitting up straighter in his seat.
He knew that he’d have to concentrate much harder
once they were in the storm itself, and he put both hands
on the wheel. “Do
you like storms, Hector?”
“I like everything,” Hector said simply.
“I believe storms are among the most beautiful
things in this world.
They show the true beauty of power that is expended
in a completely impersonal way.
Storms do not do what they do to impress anyone,
yet they are impressive.”
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