Showing posts with label idea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label idea. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Keeping Hatred Out of Politics

I read a book once which says there are basically three psychologies to life - "I'm ok, you're not ok" -"I'm not ok, you're ok" -and "I'm ok, you're ok" . Only the third one is healthy. How do we make politics more healthy? By realizing (both) parties mean well, but simply have a different view, and idea, or vision of what will work.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

By Philips Brooks, Late 1800's

"All truly consecrated men" (man and wo-man of course!) "learn little by little that what they are consecrated to is not joy or sorrow, but a divine idea, and a profound obedience, which can find their full outward expression, not in joy, and not in sorrow, but in the mysterious and inseparable mingling of the two."