Editor’s note: As a follow up to yesterday’s post on Solicitude. I recommend to all you go to the site and read Tom’s comment. It is important for everyone who is trying to improve oneself to realize that all progress is vibratory and uneven. Like a light wave our progress goes up and down, but…
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Solicitude
I read recently that constant solicitude regarding the physical welfare of our near friends and the fear that something adverse might befall them, starts currents that actually tend toward that which is feared. I have to think about that one, and I wonder what Tom’s Sufi wisdom would say. It’s hard to believe that one…
While You’re Up
How do you know you’ve been married for forty-one years? When you spend your anniversary with your grandkids at Discovery Place, and have your romantic dinner at the airport Wendy’s as the boys are about to return home. Afterwards, we both commented that it was once of the nicest anniversarys we had spent together. When…
Divine Self
Have you ever used or heard the expression, “That wasn’t me, it was the devil in me that did it.” Or seen cartoons of the devil and angel sitting on a person’s shoulder debating whether the person should or shouldn’t do something. We all have a tendency to blame the devil, the imp, or that…
Patience
Probably Suzy’s most often used truism is “Patience is a virtue.” I have heard the word used a lot this last weekend as the twelve year-old philosophers conspired with the “Yingling Two” to test the patience of Suzy and Caroline. Actually they have all been pretty well-behaved as we have ventured forth to the Whitewater…