The Way of It

So you found peace after you freed yourself from a belief system that you deemed oppresive

I wonder what that reminds me of…

by Kent Keith

1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.

Love and trust them anyway.

2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.

Do good anyway.

3. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.

Succeed anyway.

4. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.

Do good anyway.

5. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.

Be honest and frank anyway.

6. The biggest people with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest people with the smallest minds.

Think big anyway.

7. People favor underdogs but follow top dogs.

Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

8. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.

Build anyway.

9. People really need help but may attack you if you help them.

Help people anyway.

10. Give the world the best you have, and you may get kicked in the teeth.

Give the world your best anyway.

-In gratitude to my dear friend Charlotte Price who sent this my way.

Being “spontaneous”

is anothe form of posing.

When you’re blinded by what you know

to the point of hurting people with what you say or do

you don’t really know anything.

I don’t remember the past the way it happened.

People write all kinds of things

on blogs.

I learn from them all.

I betrayed my friend’s trust and she made it public.

That’s all it took:  I would not have it any other way.

It’s never too late to be what you might have been!

-Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot)

(With thanks to Joan Halifax Roshi for passing this on)

I don’t pretend to be happy

I just live my life instead.

I went out with a beautiful woman one night

and the next morning

as she slept by my side

and the scent of summer filled the room with it’s silence

I was able to figure out this: