Life/Saints Quotes: ========= St. Hilary - Bishop & Doctor: 1. Do what is in your power & God will aid your good will ! 2. Do not be self-sufficient but place your trust in God ! St. Andrew - Apostle & Martyr; -The Imitations of Christ: 1. He is truly great who is light in his own eyes and makes nothing of the highest honor. 2. He is truly wise who looks upon all earthly things as folly, as nothing that he may gain Christ. St. Juliana Falconer; A Servite Nuns Founder: 3. How happy & prudent is he who tries now in life to be what he wants to be found in death. 4. Blessed is he who keeps the moment of death ever before his eyes & prepares for it every day. - Fate may choose our relatives, we choosse our friends - Jacques Delille, 1738-1813. It is not the dying for a faith that's so hard, ... it is the living up to it that's difficult - William Makepeace Thackeray 1811-1863. Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always (Lubek) - Albert Schweitzer, 1875-1965. A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something - Wilson Mizner, 1876-1933. No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth - Quintus Ennius, 239-169 B.C. Absence makes the heart grow fonder - Sextus Aurelius Propertius, 54 B.C. - A.D. 2. All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare - Benedict Spinoza, 1632-1677. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other way - Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790. - If hope is at the core of faith, peace and love are not far behind; (and hope does not mean inaction but faithful action/reaction in word & deed! -Lubek) - Tom Sheridan The Interpretation of Stories and Truth: ( By Lubek ) 2002/3 ------------------------------------------ - Truth and belief may be different from one person to another, from one generation, culture or tribe to another, from one era with another but if the truth is relevant and has meaning the basics of it never change and remain constant and truth is true to itself and in itself. (ABSOLUTE TRUTH CAN NOT BE AND SHOULD NOT BE CHALLENGED, IT'S FINAL... LIKE 2+2 = 4) However, in interpretations of stories, life philosphy and occurances truth depands on many factors. An individual interprets the story in his unique and individual way that is governed by such things as his/hers personality, broad experience of life, what's being read, views and attitudes on issues, events, mental imaging, relationships, tragedies and much more; it may be based on where these people are coming from (cultural relativism). Any group of people who live, socialize, work or study together will have some things in common: Age, gender, country of origin, language, area where they live, a similar experience of culture in society with its political affiliation and systems, mass media may fool foolish and so on, etc... - Justification for something that happenned that is not what you've expected, that it turned against you, then just take the blame, it may just end faster... Transfering or blaming trouble on something or somebody else is the way humans act, saying it's normal to happen the way it did and that it was meant to be is a way to let go and move on, to understand that part of life... To drive conclusions from it. But that may be was not may be if you screwed things up first. But that may not be necessarily true or correct, I say if the problem has not been resolved in some way, if you had the chance and it was not hard and did not fix it, then you are to blame. Dont let that be the justification to yourself that you are right, because it may be false justification and feeling. There are other ways to go around it. Overcome it with brains power. Brains control powers. But what kind of brains? Go figure... Making Things Interesting: ---------------------------- -In order for something to become interesting it should consist of something unusual, out of ordinary, super-natural or something that is deeply associated with your life or what you've experienced or something that brings out the best in you, a dream, something that's impossible to happen or close to impossible, something that's needed, something that links to man's subconsciousness. All those things are part of the equation that makes something interesting, practical thus enjoyable. It brings pleasure (not necessaritly physical); especially lasting happiness, joy. Understanding makes things easy. It's pretty simple formula for effective, healthy living. ------------------------- Teachers and teaching... Argentinian Educational Philosopher Paulo Freire says: " Respect for the autonomy and dignity of every person is an ethical imperative and not a favor that we may or may not concede to each other. It is precisely because we are ethical beings that we can commit what can only be called a transgression by denying our essentially ethical condition. The teacher who does not respect the students' curiosity in its diverse, aesthetic, linguistic and syntactical expressions; who uses irony to put down legitimate questioning; who is not respectfully present in the educational experience of the student (even though he may be smart and very well educated-Lubek), transgresses fundamental ethical principles of the human condition. It is in this sense that both the authoritarian teacher who suffocates the natural curiosty and freedom of the student as well as the teacher who imposes no standards at all are equally disrespectful of an essential characteristic of our human ethical standpoint, ethical standards, morals etc... " - Jan Lubek - A friend in need is a friend in deed annd vice versa. What goes up must come down, the bigger they are, harder they fall, One good turn deserves another, Hard work is a lottery won ( Lubek ), etc... A healthy mind is a healthy body, etc... MEANING OF LIFE, NEVER GIVE EM SIMPLE ANSWER: SOCRATES SAID OVER TIME PEOPLE WILL HAVE MORE KNOWLEDGE BUT WILL REMAIN STUPID, SO TRUE; -HE SAID: UNEXAMINED LIFE IS NOT WORTH LIIVING, -ARCHBISHOP FULTON SHEEN SAID: LIFE IS WOORTH LIVING, -JAN LARY LUBEK SAID: LIFE IS WORTH LIVINNG, MAKES SENSE ONLY IF IT'S MOTIVATED, HAS SET END GOALS!!!