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Ron Alexander's Blog – December 2009 Archive (5)

Release the Deep Spirit of Altruism that You Carry in Your Hearts

WORD FOR THE DAY (gratefulness.org)
Monday, Dec. 28

If there is anything I have learned about men and women,
it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident.
Just as the rivers we see are minor compared to the underground streams,
so, too, the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what people carry
in their hearts unreleased or scarcely released.

Dr. Albert Schweitzer

Added by Ron Alexander on December 28, 2009 at 9:28am — 1 Comment

Treat Everyone As If they will be dead by Midnight

WORD FOR THE DAY(gratefulness.org)
Sunday, Dec. 20

Treat everyone you meet as if he or she were going to be dead by midnight.
Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster,
and do so with no thought of reward. Your life will never be the same.

Og Mandino
The Greatest Salesman in the World

Added by Ron Alexander on December 20, 2009 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Joy - Pleasure

Joy - Infinite & Eternal

Pleasure - short-lasting - ephemeral

Joy - from Being

Pleasure - to escape, numb

Joy is the realization of oneness,
the oneness of our soul with supreme love.

Rabindrath Tagore

For happiness one needs security,
but joy can spring like a flower
even from the cliffs of despair.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Added by Ron Alexander on December 18, 2009 at 10:13am — No Comments

The Non-violent Approach Strengthens Those Committed to It

WORD FOR THE DAY (gratefulness.org)
Thursday, Dec. 10

The nonviolent approach does
not immediately change the heart
of the oppressor. It first does
something to the hearts and
souls of those committed to it.
It gives them new self-respect;
it calls up resources of strength
and courage they did not know they had.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Added by Ron Alexander on December 10, 2009 at 12:13pm — No Comments