by Marty Coleman | Aug 21, 2009 | Antonio Porchia, Heart - 2010 |
Pretty simple really, the more you feel for others the less it takes to be moved.
Some are always wary of people caring about them, especially if the person doing the caring is in a stereotyped group.
Some don’t let themselves be cared for out of worry about being exploited or taken advantage of.
Some don’t care for others because they don’t feel anyone cares the same for them, and that is unfair.
Some think they aren’t worthy of being paid attention to in their pain and so never let it be known.
Some love to care but don’t have proper boundaries or discipline.
But no matter what the mutation of care is, we can all strive towards having that pure heart of love; the heart that cares, that pays attention, that is helpful.
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“A large heart can be filled by very little.” – Antonio Porchia, 1886-1968, Argentinian printer and writer
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by Marty Coleman | Aug 20, 2009 | Death - 2001-2011, Jorge Wagensberg |
I know, I know. Who’s to say life before birth is all that bad, right? I mean you get to float around in warm water, get fed intravenously, and travel safe wherever you go. Maybe that is what happens after life as well. How are we to know.
The quote made me wonder and so, here are my profound questions of the day. Do you exist before conception? If so, where and in what form? If not, then how do we end up living for eternity given that we had a specific starting point in time before which we did not exist?
Just something light to think about as you go about your day.
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“Life after death can’t be much worse than life before birth.” – Jorge Wagensberg, 1948 – not dead yet, Spanish academic
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by Marty Coleman | Aug 19, 2009 | Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
A variation on a theme I return to again and again, that of mixed motives in what we do in life.
Most people look for purity of motive in deciding whether to judge someone positive or negative. The more obvious virtue in the act, the better the judgment, the more vanity in the act, the worse the judgment.
I think that is us being enamored of a fictitious ideal. We like the stories of old that idealize the heroes and it such a clear and easy world those stories tell of that we dearly wish to find that in real life. However, reality is the ultimate hard-ass partner, not allowing us the luxury of that fantasy for very long.
Why not simply embrace that virtue and vanity are linked, that one will always travel with the other. Why think that is wrong for them to travel side by side? Why not welcome them when they accompany one of your friends or family, or a celebrity you see on TV? You might as well, since you know V and V are going to accompany you when you go visiting, and you would like them to be welcomed as part of who you are, right?
It makes life much more comfortable and real to admit the reality of our lives and our motives in it.
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“Virtue would not go so far without vanity to keep it company.” – Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld, French aphorist and swashbuckling roque, 1613-1680
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by Marty Coleman | Aug 18, 2009 | Albert Einstein, Education - 2016 |
Quote is by Albert Einstein. Enough said.
Ok, not enough said. In honor of students going back to school and college I am presenting a napkin about the end of school. I do this so you who are taking care of these students will keep in mind throughout the year that they are learning school stuff and they are learning life stuff. You are teaching them both whether you realize it or not.
Realize it.
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“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
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by Marty Coleman | Aug 17, 2009 | Rainer Maria Rilke |
It isn’t easy, but all of life is about it.
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“We need in love to practice only this: Letting each other go. For holding on comes easily – we do not need to learn it.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
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by Marty Coleman | Aug 13, 2009 | Lillian Watson |
Kids today have it so much harder than we did.
America used to be a nation of ‘Christian’ principles.
People used to care about each other.
Neighbors used to know each other and watch out for each other.
Children were better educated back then.
We don’t have a strong moral foundation any more.
The earth is getting more and more polluted and no one is doing anything about it.
It was better when all food were local and you knew the farmers who grew it.
Entertainment used to be so wholesome and uplifting, not like today’s mean music and movies.
SO, having said all that, I would like to hear from YOU, what is BETTER now than in ages past?
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“There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.” – Lillian Eichler Watson, author of ‘Light From Many Lamps – A Treasury of Inspiration’ and ‘The Book of Etiquette’, (early 1900s)
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by Marty Coleman | Aug 12, 2009 | Edwin Teale, Heart - 2010 |
The first half of this quote is ‘The Measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events”.
In other words, keep your faith and your drive going when there is nothing outside yourself to bring it out or else you will likely falter and give up.
Don’t give up.
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“It is between bites that the luke warm angler loses heart.” – Edwin Way Teale, 1899-1980, American naturalist, photographer and writer.
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by Marty Coleman | Aug 12, 2009 | Ken Keyes jr. |
I don’t pretend to speak for those living in crime ridden streets, poverty infested countries or hatred filled societies, but in middle class America, this is true.
You see what you expect to see. The tragedy is in those who think they are looking at the one and only reality. Some fear acknowledging a loving world exists because it would mean they have to show trust and love themselves, something that could lead to disappointment and hurt. Others fear acknowledging a hostile world exists because hostility leads down a path of anger and destruction in their mind and they have to much at stake to go down that road.
Both fears have validity but it is forgotten that acknowledging something exists doesn’t indulging and approving of that same thing. Take your time, love one thing or allow that one person’s grievance has some truth. See where that goes.
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by Marty Coleman | Aug 10, 2009 | Anonymous |
Of course you wouldn’t take money for your family, that seems to be a no brainer.
But what about your ‘stuff’. What among your stuff wouldn’t you sell, and why? Want to bet 100% of those things have sentimental value attached to your family or closest friends?
The spinning wheel that belonged to your great grandmother, as well as the photo showing it in the corner of your grandmother’s first home.The quilt your aunt made for your father when he returned from the war. The little sewing kit you remember your mother bringing out whenever a button needed to be sewn back on. The painting your grandfather did. The colorful rocks you collected on the rafting trip with your best friends.
It is the sentiment, the emotional connection to things and people that you don’t want to sell.
What are you doing to continue to create that sort of wealth in your life?
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by Marty Coleman | Aug 9, 2009 | Job Elmer Hedges |
What the heck is that thing, anyway? Why is purple duck-lip guy (girl?) kneeling and kissing it? What is its purpose and value?
Green comb-over guy doesn’t know. All he knows is someone has something he doesn’t have and that makes him jealous and envious. He will now pay a lot of money to get a gold thingamajig just like it.
I wish I had a hundred of them in my garage to sell.
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“Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.” – Job Elmer Hedges, republican primary candidate for NY governor in 1912 & 1914.
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Pretty simple really, the more you feel for others the less it takes to be moved. 
