Judge a man by the way he treats those who can do nothing for him.

Teach and discover your own ignorance

No-one has the right to remain idle on the excuse that he knows too little to teach. For he may always be sure that he will find others who know still less than himself. It is not until a man begins to try to teach others that he discovers his own ignorance and tries to remove it.

H.P.Blavatsky

Good and Ill

When anyone offends against you, let your first thought be, Under what conception of good and ill was this committed? Once you know that, astonishment and anger will give place to pity. For either your own ideas of what is good are no more advanced than his, or at least bear some likeness to them, in which case it is clearly your duty to pardon him; or else, on the other hand, you have grown beyond supposing such actions to be good or bad, and therefore it will be so much the easier to be tolerant of another's blindness.

Marcus Aurelius trans. Maxwell Staniforth

There are already enough names

Once the whole is divided, the parts need names.

There are already enough names;

Know when to stop.

From 32nd verse of Tao te ching.

Wayne Dyer in "Change your thoughts change your life" page 156

Can we stop war by praying for peace?

Question: Can we stop war by praying for peace? Krishnamurti: I do not think that war can be stopped by prayer. Isn't praying for peace merely a particular form of emotional release? We think that we are incapable of preventing war and so we find in prayer a release from this horror. Do you think that by merely praying for peace you are going to stop violence in the world? Prayer only becomes an escape from actuality. That emotional state which results in prayer can also be worked upon by propagandists for the purposes of war, hatred. As one eagerly prays for peace, so, equally enthusiastically, one is persuaded about the beauties of nationalism and the necessity of war. Prayer for peace is utterly useless. The causes of war are manufactured by man, and it is of no value to appeal to some outside force for peace. War exists because of psychological and economic reasons. Until those causes are fundamentally altered, war will exist, and praying for peace is of no value.

Ojai 8th Talk in the Oak Grove 24th May, 193

Words

People feed on words,

live by words, would fall apart without them.

Anthony de Mello in "The Prayer of the frog" page 81

True forgiveness

True forgiveness is a willingness to change your mind about your Self.

Robert Holden