Top Ten Reasons to Speak
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\n1. To acknowledge kindness, courage, worthy efforts and personal bests.<\/p>\n
2. To offer help, assistance, encouragement; particularly to encourage
\nthose who have reached for the stars and just failed to reach them…
\nthis time!<\/p>\n
3. To say ‘I love you’… in the way which is appropriate.<\/p>\n
4. When the conscience or intuition prompts. How often have you been in
\na silent room where there is something crying out to be said?<\/p>\n
5. To share grief or anguish with a trusted friend.<\/p>\n
6. To ask for help when doing so is difficult.<\/p>\n
7. To encourage the development of creative workplaces which honor all associated: staff, clients or customers and staff.<\/p>\n
8. To acknowledge being wrong and to apologize. The more difficult the
\napology, the greater the need to speak and the more we grow.<\/p>\n
9. To help identify your personal ‘group of ten’. These are those who
\nunfailingly encourage and support you, make you laugh and whose
\nfeelings you reciprocate. These are the people you love the most.<\/p>\n
10. To spread joy.<\/p>\n
– Rev. Thomas Gordy<\/p>\n
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AUSTRALIAN DEFINITION OF A “TRUE FRIEND”<\/p>\n
Are you tired of all those namby-pamby, girly, sissy, completely wet
\n“friendship” poems, that never come close to reality? Well, here
\nis a series of promises that really speaks to true friendship:<\/p>\n
1 . When you are sad – I will help you get drunk and plot revenge against the sorry bastard who made you that way.<\/p>\n
2. When you are blue – I will try to dislodge whatever is choking you.<\/p>\n
3. When you smile – I will know you’ve finally got laid.<\/p>\n
4. When you are scared – I will tease the crap out of you about it every chance I get.<\/p>\n
5. When you are worried – I will tell you horrible stories about how much worse it could be and to stop your bloody whining.<\/p>\n
6 . When you are confused – I will use little words.<\/p>\n
7. When you are sick – Stay the hell away from me until you are well again, don’t want whatever you have.<\/p>\n
8. When you fall – I will point and laugh at your clumsy ass.<\/p>\n
Remember: A good friend will help you move. A really good friend will
\nhelp you move a body. Let me know if I ever need to bring a
\nshovel. A good friend will bail you out. A true friend will
\nbe sitting next to you saying “we really fucked up this time”.<\/p>\n
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Alice, the town gossip and supervisor of the town’s morals committee,
\nrecently accused Tom, a local man, of being an alcoholic because she
\nsaw his pickup truck parked outside the town’s only bar.<\/p>\n
Tom stared at her for a moment, and said nothing.<\/p>\n
Later that evening, he parked his pickup truck in front of her house and left it there all night.<\/p>\n
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The person resolute in the Way must from the beginning never lose sight
\nof it, whether in a place of calm or in a place of strife. Beware of
\nclinging to quiet places and shunning those where there is disturbance.<\/p>\n
Daikaku<\/p>\n
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With Each Day…<\/p>\n
May I positively impact the life of another, and smile more than frown;<\/p>\n
Put service and compassion before my own renown;<\/p>\n
Meet adversity with courage, sorrow with hope;<\/p>\n
Have Faith to face uncertainty, and resiliency to cope;<\/p>\n
With joy as my companion, and truth as my guide;<\/p>\n
May I walk the path of excellence, gaining knowledge with each stride;<\/p>\n
To see the good that lies within each person in suppression;<\/p>\n
And through love and understanding, bring it forth into expression;<\/p>\n
Though this day may bring new challenges, yet not manifest;<\/p>\n
May I ever be reminded how much my life is blessed.<\/p>\n
– Robert Akers<\/p>\n
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We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God.
\n– Chief Joseph
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\nDistinctions must be defended. Give up the distinctions and the need to defend disappears.
\n– Carson’s Commentary<\/p>\n
You’ve no idea how hard I’ve looked for a gift to bring You. nothing
\nseemed right. What’s the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or
\nwater to the Ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to
\nthe Orient. It’s no good giving my heart and my soul because you
\nalready have these. So, I’ve brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and
\nremember me.
\n– Jalaluddin Rumi<\/p>\n
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Earth teach me stillness
\nas the grasses are stilled with light.<\/p>\n
Earth teach me suffering
\nas old stones suffer with memory.<\/p>\n
Earth teach me humility
\nas blossoms are humble with beginning.<\/p>\n
Earth Teach me caring
\nas the mother who secures her young.<\/p>\n
Earth teach me courage
\nas the tree which stands alone.<\/p>\n
Earth teach me limitation
\nas the ant which crawls on the ground.<\/p>\n
Earth teach me freedom
\nas the eagle which soars in the sky.<\/p>\n
Earth teach me resignation
\nas the leaves which die in the fall.<\/p>\n
Earth teach me regeneration
\nas the seed which rises in the spring.<\/p>\n
Earth teach me to forget myself
\nas melted snow forgets its life.<\/p>\n
Earth teach me to remember kindness
\nas dry fields weep in the rain.<\/p>\n
– John Yellow Lark, Ute Nation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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