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"The teaching of the fishermen and tentmakers shines in the language of the barbarians more brightly than the sun."

John Chrysostom of the Goths using their venacular of the 3rd cen.( borrowed from another CF member's signature)
 
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tulc said:
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears, and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call...The Twilight Zone.
-R. Serling - The Twilight Zone
LOLOXOXOL tulc...:hug: :hug: :hug: maybe there should be a twilight zone agenda....(we need more freedom of air space above our heads which is marketable real estate that I've heard....)
 
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HumbleBee said:
Forgiveness is like the fragrance of a lily to the heel that has crushed it.
Oh, that's wonderful! Thanks! :)


We find comfort among those who agree with us--growth among those who don't. - Frank A. Clark

(Feeling the truth of that one lately!)

(FreeSpirit--been missing you! :hug: )


 
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The Mummer's Dance

When in the springtime of the year
When the trees are crowned with leaves
When the ash and oak,
and the birch and yew
Are dressed in ribbons fair.
When Owls call the breathless moon
In the blue veil of the night
The shadows of the trees appear
Admist the lantern light
We've been rambling all the night
And some time of this day
Now returning back again
We bring a garland gay.
Who will go down to those shady groves
And summon the shadows there
And tie a ribbon on those sheltering arms
In the springtime of the year
The songs of birds seem to fill the wood
That when the fiddler plays
All their voices can be heard
Long past their woodland days
And so they linksed their hands and danced
Round in circles and in rows
And so the Journey of the night descends
When all the shades are gone.
"A garland gay we bring you here
and at your door we stant
It is a sprout well budded out
The work of our Lord's hand."
We've been rambling all the night
And some time of this day
Now returning back again
We bring a garland gay.

-Lorena McKennitt
 
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Gosh, tulc, I miss those woodland revelries of spring!... I kinda think of Wyeth's painting of Helga for now about woodland parties....:wave: elanor!!!

BALANCE

REMEMBER THE PAST

LOOK TO THE FUTURE

ENJOY THE NOW
 
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LEADERS CREATE THEIR OWN (PECULIAR?) DESTINIES

During the next five years, there won't be room for paper pushers. Only people who make personal determinations to be leaders will survive---and that holds true at all levels of all organizations (including entry level).

Surprisingly, we've seen this phenomenon take place where most people least expect to find it: in the military. First, war is the ultimate improv venture. The most improvisional, least hierarchial situation that I've ever been in was my 16-month stint in Vietnam. But second, real-life experience in the Army or in the Navy teaches you that you must have leaders at every level. So too in today's corporate wars. In this new world order, the real battle starts when the computer gets knocked out, the captain gets killed, the lieutenant is gravely wounded, the sargeant is hesitant, and suddenly the 18-year old Iowa farmhand finds himself leading a platoon into combat. And the life and the death of the company or the team or the project hangs in balance. That's leadership at all levels, which boot camp teaches alot better than business school."



Tom Peters Rule #8 of "Rule#3: Leadership is Confusing as @"
 
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[font=Georgia,Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Many love Christ as long as they encounter no hardship; many praise and bless him as long as they receive some comfort from him. But if Jesus hides himself and leaves them for a while, they either start complaining or become dejected. Those, on the contrary, who love him for his own sake and not for any comfort of their own, praise him both in trial and anguish of heart as well as in the bliss of consolation. Even if Jesus should never comfort them, they would continue to praise and thank him. What power there is in a pure love for Jesus - love that is free from all self-interest and self-love!
-Thomas à Kempis

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"A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestrial realm, arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back to his homeland."

Kahil Gibran
 
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"I have no need to see and test in order to be set free. I am free even in the confusion of servitude. I enjoy the freedom of the future, generations in advance. And when I die, I shall die a free man, for I have fought for freedom my whole life being."

Nikos Kazautzakis
 
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"Only he is free who boldly aspires,
Whose deepest cravings is the deed, whose goal is an heroic act of the spirit...

And is it anything more than words and sound,
If we hail the rosy dawn of freedom,
And not understand that its finest fruit
Can ripen only in the light of the spirit?"

Henrik Ibsen

"Freedom and Destiny:The renewal of Life" Rollo May
 
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