“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win, by fearing to attempt.”

~ William Shakespeare

Thanks to Mark Russ for dredging up this nugget.

“The forces that are for you are greater than the forces that are against you!”

- Joel Osteen

“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold, is for people of good conscience to remain silent. “

- Thomas Jefferson

On this fourth day of July, as we celebrate our nation’s independence, let us remember those who toiled and sacrificed (in many cases their very lives) to light the lamp of liberty, establishing The United States of America!  In doing so, let us also resolve to stand up with the same righteous spirit, the same fortitude, and vigilantly safeguard our freedoms so that we may remain an in-dependent rather than dependent society.

Yes I’m being political…and here’s further commentary from Mr. Jefferson to underscore just how far our bureaucratic assembly in D.C. has strayed from this country’s original charter.

“A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.”

Will you go quietly as tyranny storms ashore, or will you take a stand as this great country’s founders did and say, “don’t tread on me!?”

By the way Tyr-an-ny:

- arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority.

Is that not Washington, D.C.?  Let’s fix it, an office at a time, a legislator at a time, and in the process…let us not lose sight of the FREEDOMS that inspired generations before us!

(Cue the fireworks!)

“Open eyes see nothing without an open mind and an open heart.”

Kelly posted this on Facebook last week, and I thought, “what a simple, beautiful message.”

This week may each of us remember to clear the windows to our mind and heart daily…lest any brilliance shared with our eyes becomes filtered, muted, or dulled by preconfigured, full drawn blinds.

“If you are going through HELL…KEEP GOING!”

                          - Winston Churchill

“…and beware: the advertised “rest areas” are really tourist traps!”

                          - RJS

“To live…remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.”

- Havelock Ellis

Thinking aloud, perhaps no ONE person can adequately teach, but maybe that is by design.

Perhaps, just maybe, true enlightenment is intended to be cultivated through the collective experience of loving and sharing, treating ALL as one, rather than any ONE as all.

Hmmm…off to further study.

“You are not what you think you are; but what you think…you are.”

- Norman Vincent Peale

“Tis easy enough to be pleasant when life flows like a song.  But the man worthwile is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.”

                                   - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

55th Day of unemployment…and still smiling!  GOD is indeed great!

“The hibernation of your deepest desires ends when you dare to feed your dreams.”

- RJS