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To read today’s post in its optimal format, please go to the Just A Thought website. Please click here. “Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.” – George Packer Without principles, whatever moral governor one might have stops working, and with it — … Continue reading Principles Matter
To read today’s post in its optimal format, please go to the Just A Thought website. Please click here. Be careful how you live… …“Your life may be the only Bible some people read.” ~ William Toms “Knowledge speaks, wisdom listens.” ~ Jimi Hendrix These days it seems like our ship is badly listing and the waters around us are rising fast. Generations of humane … Continue reading Timeless Wisdom
To watch the video included in today’s post please go to the Just A Thought website. Please click here. “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh When I was about 23, I was dropped off from work by a friend and rushed across the street without looking because … Continue reading Learning from Pain (by Eileen)
To read today’s post in its optimal format, please go to the Just A Thought website. Please click here. As the grandson of Irish immigrants I loved listening to my grandfather offer up his words of wisdom. Grandpa spoke in a deep Irish brogue with delightful, strange inflections. His sentences always ended on a higher note than they began. But what I loved most was the … Continue reading Irish Thought Candles
Destiny’s starting line can be hard to find; sometimes we need to borrow from someone else in our search. This is how I began to discover my own destiny. It was May of 1970 and Joe Thomas was visiting Seattle raising money for the work of the Ecumenical Institute. I’d spent the previous summer studying in Chicago at the Institute and I offered to be … Continue reading Discovering Your Destiny