Tag: virtue
Healing the Front Line: the Strong Side of Criticism!
You know, the things that matter are the things that really, really don’t matter! … Confused yet?! Well, let me put it another way. Whether you’re involved in satire, critical scholarship, the media, blogging, activism, or anything else that deals…
Sore Winners & Sore Losers: Are We Losing Our Power to Discriminate?
The old saying ‘It’s just not cricket’ expresses the survival of old chivalric norms of fair play, which survived into the sporting realm of more recent times. England and the UK, of course, can be credited with the Queensbury rules,…
READ NOW! 10 Politically Incorrect Truths They Never Taught You in School…
THE MEANING OF LIFE There are only three tasks we have here on earth.To suffer, to grow, and to relieve the suffering of others.Anyone who says otherwise is deceiving you, whether they know it or not. GOOD INTENTIONS ARE NOT…
Oath to Inner Freedom!
PEACE WITHIN, FREEDOM EVER OUTWARDS Swear with me: From this day forth, I solemnly swear by the name of the best within us, I will not let the powers of this world consume me with fear, with rage, with bitterness,…
Never Give Up!
The Jericho Declaration We all build our walls. But one day, we have to take the courage to break them down.
Don’t Sacrifice Your Ideals for Any Living Creature!
Anyone who truly loves you will let you keep your integrity. Anyone who tries to keep you from your highest of values is not acting out of love, but out of some much lower, baser, ignobler motive. If your values…
Love, Loss & Inner Freedom: Three Beautiful Meditations
SOUL EXPERIMENT If you’re on the edge of a volcano, you can see the steaming and the bubbles, and you suddenly realize you’re being held by the collar… What will you do? Scream at them to let you go? Or…
Chapter 8: Give me Liberty, or Give Me Slumber (Honest Adolph Volume III)
Sally Thatcher sat thumbing through the book she had strangely chanced upon.