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3 we should cherish the moments we have with the ones we love our time upon this earth is not infinite neither is it actually that long and we know we are almost always blind to how fast time goes by in this regard it is true that speech is silver and silence is golden but i think that the right words at the right moment matter and always will therefore my philosophy on this matter can be summarized as follows never pass up the occasion to tell someone how much they mean to you never miss an opportunity to say something kind to someone you love never waste a chance to say i love you to someone you really love because in the blink of an eye everything can change and you may never know when you may not have that chance again but none of this would be possible without one basic prerequisite which is also an effective way to describe what love is all about the courage of one s tenderness it s d h lawrence s definition of love as having the courage of your tenderness love invites one to have the courage to show oneself as one is including one s own tenderness and fragility therefore the list should be recompiled as follows never be afraid to show your feelings never pass up the occasion to tell someone how much they mean to you never miss an opportunity to say something kind to someone you love never waste a chance to say i love you to someone you really love because in the blink of an eye everything can change and you may never know when you may not have that chance again posted by s r piccoli a 1 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette literature philosophy quote of the day august 28 2018 integrity they say integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching even when it may work to your disadvantage and this obviously because wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it and right is right even if no one is doing it this simply means that integrity besides being the moral excellence that the modern world most needs is a very difficult virtue to practice it has way more false fans than true ones and more true enemies than real friends personal integrity requires that the person invariably act in accordance with his values of course this is clearly an ideal standard rather than an achievable state sometimes having personal integrity means you will taste failure temporarily as winston churchill once said courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm in other words integrity is a continuous challenge and a never ending struggle against ourselves and the world around us actually as job rhetorically once asked job 7 1 nonne militia est vita hominis super terram isn t man s life upon the earth a military campaign or as seneca put it epistle 96 to lucilius vivere militare est to live is to fight maybe in a time when peace is often confused with passivity and war is almost always associated only and exclusively with death terror cruelty and destruction i guess we d better rethink this whole matter and to rediscover the positive aspects of the concepts of fight struggle and war after all there are unjust wars but also just wars there are bad fights and good fights let s not forget paul s words 2 timothy 4 6 8 for i am already being offered and the time of my departure is come i have fought the good fight i have finished the course i have kept the faith henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness which the lord the righteous judge shall give to me at that day and not to me only but also to all them that have loved his appearing posted by s r piccoli a 1 11 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette literature philosophy religion july 18 2018 tell the truth and shame the devil and i can teach thee coz to shame the devil by telling truth tell truth and shame the devil if thou have power to raise him bring him hither and i ll be sworn i have power to shame him hence o while you live tell truth and shame the devil william shakespeare king henry iv part 1 have you ever experienced the power of telling the truth well the fact is that nowadays no one expects you to speak the truth they simply think that you are part of the big lie that underlies the western culture on so many levels but when you speak the plain truth out loud the energy that carries your spoken words to the ears of a listener is of a particular vibration or frequency this is the frequency of truth and the universe is behind you in ralph waldo emerson s words speak the truth and all things alive or brute are vouchers and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness harvard divinity address of course sometimes you need to tell a little white lie to avoid hurting someone s feelings or say to get yourself the timeout you need but speaking the truth should be something like a minimum requirement of decency which should be inculcated from the childhood obviously reality is different and when you speak the truth you must expect the worst and assume that it will happen yet nothing will be the same afterwards as if a curtain had fallen as in the story the emperor s new clothes posted by s r piccoli a 12 24 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette literature quote of the day july 16 2018 prepare to submerge yourself in silence someone maybe from an atheistic point of view once said faith isn t a virtue it s the glorification of voluntary ignorance well no truer words were ever written or spoken read this st ephrem the syrian s sermon on faith if you don t believe that s the case and prepare to submerge yourself in silence the sea is mighty if you want to fathom it you will be overwhelmed by the force of its waves one wave can sweep you away and dash you against a cliff suffice it oh feeble being to be able to trade in a boat faith is better for you than a boat on the sea the boat in fact is guided by a rudder but the tide can sink it your faith cannot sink if your will does not wish it so how desirable for the sailor to be able to manage the sea as he likes he thinks in one way the sea acts in another manner only our lord held sway over the sea so that it became silent and stopped raging he also gave you the power to dominate a sea and calm it mightier than the sea is arguing and disputing is more violent than the waves if the wind of inquiry rages in your mind reprimand it and calm its billows the storm tosses the sea about your quibbles perturb your mind our lord issues an order the wind dies down and the boat slips peacefully through the sea control and bridle inquiry and your faith will be at peace the creatures whose use you know should convince you of that for instance you are unable to relinquish a drink even if you collapse at the spring having drunk from springs you do not surely think you have taken them all in you also fail before the sun and yet you are not deprived of its light by the fact that it comes down to you with its rays you do not desire to reach its height although the air is quite extensive for you a little bit of it provides you with life although it is your pledge you ignore how great its mass is you receive from creatures their limited help and service and leave their vast unknown treasures in the chest do not disdain what is less nor long for that which is more let these creatures of the creator instruct you about the creator himself you should boldly ask his help and shy away from sophistry about him accept the life of divine majesty but do not probe it love the father s goodness but do not scrutinize his essence yearn after and love the son s blessedness but do not inquire about his eternal birth long for the presence of the holy spirit but do not try to fathom him the father son and holy spirit are registered by their names ponder their names and do not mull over their content if you want to scrutinize their essence you are lost if you believe in the name you are safe let the father s name be a limit for you do not surpass it trying to plumb his nature let the son s name be a wall for you do not try to scale it to scrutinize his generation let the holy spirit s name be for you a hedge do not enter in order to understand these names will be a limit for you and with them stop every investigation you have heard the names and their reality turn to the commandments you have perceived the laws and the commandments turn now to your way of living you have accomplished it perfectly then turn to the promises do not neglect the commandments to apply yourself to what is not prescribed you have heard the truth in manifested realities do not go astray in the case of hidden things truth is proclaimed in few words do not search it with lengthy probes save your effort by being silent o frail being posted by s r piccoli a 12 33 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette religion june 1 2018 under the linden tree have you ever enjoyed the smell of linden trees in late spring to early summer sweet heady totally overwhelming with their aroma in the northeast of italy these majestic trees also known as lime trees though with no connection to the fruit or basswoods usually blossom between the end of may and the beginning of june every time it s the same wonderful olfactive experience only god knows how much i love this time of the year the scent is so strong that you can smell it hundreds of yards away actually the odor is more pronounced further from the source as soon as you get out or open the windows to let in the light of the day or the cool air of the night the gentle and pervasive smell of linden trees spreads everywhere and reigns supreme it s something magical it s a kind of urban miracle that transforms the town into a scene that wouldn t look out of place in a fairy tale walther von der vogelweide not for nothing in china the linden is named the tree of forgetfulness because its energy is soft gentle and it offers the sensation of warmth and peace it s also interesting that in the hellenic period of egypt the masks of the sarcophagus of fayoum were made of linden wood which proves the sacred nature of this tree since ancient times and that in the mythology of ancient rome it was a symbol of marital love and fidelity in the couple in turn in slavic mythology the linden was considered a sacred tree in polish folklore the belief still exists that the linden tree planted in front of a house protects the family from the evil spirits while the germans considered it as a sacred tree of the lovers because it had the capacity to give fertility and prosperity the linden tree also appears as a romantic symbol in medieval poetry for example there is a medieval love poem called unter der linden under the lime tree which is one of walther von der vogelweide s best known pieces in it a naïve common class girl rejoices in her love experience under the linden tree the crushed flowers still showing the place where the couple had lain i m quoting it because i think this is an appropriate way to celebrate the linden tree 1 under the lime tree on the heather where we had shared a place of rest still you may find there lovely together flowers crushed and grass down pressed beside the forest in the vale tándaradéi sweetly sang the nightingale 2 i came to meet him at the green there was my truelove come before such was i greeted heaven s queen that i am glad for evermore had he kisses a thousand some tándaradéi see how red my mouth s become 3 there he had fashioned for luxury a bed from every kind of flower it sets to laughing delightedly whoever comes upon that bower by the roses well one may tándaradéi mark the spot my head once lay 4 if any knew he lay with me may god forbid for shame i d die what did he do may none but he ever be sure of that and i and one extremely tiny bird tándaradéi who will i think not say a word modern english translation by raymond oliver posted by s r piccoli a 4 38 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette literature quote of the day may 3 2018 do not cast your pearls before swine rudeness is a contagious behavior that spreads rapidly and as we all know is rampant everywhere nowadays edmund burke once said that rudeness is the weak man s imitation of strength perhaps this suggests that given the widespread diffusion of such contagious behaviors weak people are the majority of humans be that as it may however well mannered and kind people are becoming increasingly rare at the same time it must be said that often the ruder they are the more demanding of other people s time and attention they are clearly they take too much for granted fortunately though there are many antidotes to rudeness and oafish behavior and i think i can say without fear of contradiction that i know some of them very well one and perhaps the most effective is minimizing the contact opportunities with rude people you have certainly heard the expression do not cast your pearls before swine which is part of a famous gospel passage matthew 7 6 give not that which is holy unto the dogs neither cast your pearls before the swine lest haply they trample them under their feet and turn and rend you for a correct understanding of the metaphor please note that the jewish law regarded swine and wild dogs as unclean and unfit for close human contact very likely because they were dirty unkempt lice infested and prone to attack or cause trouble well that s not only a great gospel passage but also an inspirational piece of advice for everyday life in fact one of the possible meanings in a lay sense of the metaphor could be that we should not waste our time and energy on people who rebuff the rules of well mannered behavior and live by the rules of the worst selfishness self aggrandizement and callous disregard of others including the manipulative use of others for one s own ends of course the gospel doesn t say that we have to despise the dogs and swine those who don t recognize something holy for what it is and people who don t show discretion appreciation or discernment of the metaphor and even less that we can treat them like garbage similarly we must be patient and open minded towards other people s feelings and opinions but at the same time we must be firm on principles all emotions are acceptable not all behaviors are not everything is justifiable this means that we have the right and duty to sanction bad conduct when it occurs the above mentioned sanction makes it so that we give the right message while protecting ourselves from an over exposure to other people s bad energy so to speak this is essentially a question of both ecology of mind and justice inextricably intertwined with each other of course there are a lot of other corrective actions but most of them seem to me to be either too extreme or too watered down and far 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