Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God. -Matthew 19:21-24
Fall down 9, get up 10. dust off, detach, asses, learn, recalibrate, reengage, back to building>
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt - Abraham Lincoln
Logic, reason and common sense are the best tools for determining reality
Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent. Proverbs 17:28
Information Hygiene: The ability to tell the difference between spin and propaganda, between unknowns and fiction, to make probabilistic assessments when confronted with confusing contradictory ideas instead of falling into conspiracy theories or cults.
No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth Plato
To abstain from all evil, to cultivate good, and to purify one's mind.
God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble’
Buddha has termed the "roots of evil" — greed, hatred, and delusion — from which emerge their numerous offshoots and variants: anger and cruelty, avarice and envy, conceit and arrogance, hypocrisy and vanity
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's. clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
One fool makes a lot of fools.— Yiddish
A person can study for seventy years and at the end die a fool. — Yiddish proverb
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions --Leonardo Davinci
Once you stop learning, you start dying –Albert Einstein
We are too soon old, and too late wise. — Jewish proverb
Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom — Yiddish proverb
Goebbels - Repeat a lie often enough and people will believe it
A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things stored out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of Luke 6:45
The true believer pursues goodness, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness, and love Peter 2:1
The counterfeit Christian is marked by arrogance and slander (2:10). They are "experts in greed" and "their eyes are full of adultery" (2:14) Peter
We tend to seek evidence that confirms our preconceived notions and ignore data that might go against our hypotheses.
That which is false, troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility. Rumi
We slept in one world and woke up in another. Suddenly hugs and kisses become weapons, not visiting Grand parents become act of love. Hamsa Nandini On Coronavirus Pandemic: Hugs And Kisses Become Weapons
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes. — Cato the Elder
There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. Aristotle
One fool can ask more questions than ten wise men can answer.— Yiddish proverb
Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. Mark Twain
It’s easier to fool people than convince them they have been fooled. Mark Twain
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's. clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble
. From Peter 2:1 The true believer pursues goodness, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness, and love (1:5).
The counterfeit Christian is marked by arrogance and slander (2:10). They are "experts in greed" and "their eyes are full of adultery" (2:14)
A person can study for seventy years and at the end die a fool. — Yiddish proverb
Buddha has termed the "roots of evil" — greed, hatred, and delusion — from which emerge their numerous offshoots and variants: anger and cruelty, avarice and envy, conceit and arrogance, hypocrisy and vanity
A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things stored out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of
Luke 6:45 That which is false, troubles the# heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility ~ Rumi
Purification Purification: The Gateway to Higher States" - Jack Kornfield -Link The practice of the Buddha's teaching in three simple guidelines to training: to abstain from all evil, to cultivate good, and to purify one's mind.
