He and He

Sahl (al Tustari) said " O poor man! He was and you were not, and He will and you will not be. While you are today, you say: 'I, I'; be now as though you have not been, for He is today as He was."

From Imam Al Ghazali's Book XXXV of The Revival of the Religious Sciences, Ihya' 'ulum al-din. Faith in Divine Unity & Trust in Divine Providence- translated by David B. Burrell, C.S.C.

Carl Sandburg quotes........

• “Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence”
• “Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
• “Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep”
• Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
• Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
• When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

......the great aim of education

"..the great aim of education is not knowledge but action" Herbert Spencer

What Mothers Teach

A beautiful story from Beliefnet/Chicken Soup:

Many years ago, when my daughter Sara was in the fifth grade, she came to me with a life-gripping problem. As tears welled up in her big brown eyes, she began explaining her dilemma.

“Marcy hates me!” she cried. “She hates me because Kathy is my friend, too. She wants me to be her friend and nobody else’s.” Sara choked back her tears and said, “She won’t play with me if I hang out with Kathy. But, they are both my friends!”

Read on.