Words of Wisdom 1
God, please grant me the serenity, to accept the things that I can not change; the courage, to change the things that I can change; and the Wisdom, to always know the difference between the two.
Words of Wisdom 2
Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace, brought about by total faith in God and His protection, amidst the storms of nature and of life.
IF.
IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
IF you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowances for their doubting too;
IF you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
IF you can dream-and not make dreams your master;
IF you can think-and not make thoughts your aim,
IF you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
IF you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build’em up with worn-out tools;
IF you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
IF you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
IF you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings-nor lose the common touch,
IF neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
IF all men count with you, but none too much;
IF you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth - of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And-which is more-you’ll be a Man, my son!
-Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936).
THE QUEST.
(For The Holy Grail)
From the play: “The Man of La Mancha”
To dream the impossible dream,
To fight the unbeatable foe,
To bear with unbearable sorrow,
To run where the brave dare not go,
To right the unrightable wrong,
To love pure and chaste from afar,
To try when your arms are too weary,
To reach the unreachable star. (Morning Star)
This is my quest, to follow that star,
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far,
To fight for right without question or pause,
To be willing to march into Hell for a heavenly cause.
And I know, if I’ll only be true -
To this glorious quest,
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm,
When I’m laid to my rest.
And the world will be better for this,
That one man, scorned and covered with scars,
Still strove with his last ounce of courage,
To reach the unreachable star (
Rev. 2:25-28)
Lyrics by: Joe Darian.
Sam Fox Publishing Co. Inc., New York, New York 1965.
Revelation 2:25-28
2:25 But that which ye have [already] hold fast till I come.
2:26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
2:27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
2:28 And I will give him the Morning Star.
Words of Wisdom 3
Do not say that the struggle gains nothing,
and that the labour and the wounds are in vain,
and that the enemy does not faint or fail, and
that as things have been, they remain;
for whilst the tired waves seem to be vainly
breaking and seem no painful inch to gain;
far back through creeks and inlets making,
comes silent flooding in the main.
Words of Wisdom 4
It is not the man who has the most that is rich;
but the man who
needs the least.
Words of Wisdom 5
“In every person there is a spirit-Being (soul).
In every spirit-Being there is Intelligence.
In every Intelligence there is Thought.
In every Thought there is either Good or Evil*.
In every Evil there is Death.
In every Good there is Life.
In every Life there is God.”
“Grant O God Thy Protection.
And in Protection, Strength.
And in Strength, Understanding.
And in Understanding, [True] Knowledge.
And in [True] Knowledge, the knowledge of [Thy] Justice.
And in the knowledge of Justice, the Love of it.
And in that Love, the love of all Existences.
And in the love of all Existences, the Love of God.
God, and all Goodness.”
* Good (God) or Evil (d/evil) - Truth or untruth.
From the Appendix of
The Way home or face The Fire
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