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May
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Today's
Quotation:
You
must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your
horizon. The more things you love, the more you are
interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are
indignant
about-- the more you have left when anything
happens.
Ethel Barrymore
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Today's
Meditation:
There's
so much in this world that we'll never know, and I think
that for the most part, that's a good thing. So much
of the stuff that people want us to know is completely
useless to us as human beings, and it's difficult sometimes
to pull the important things from the massive amount of
information that we're exposed to each day of our lives.
But
broadening our horizons does not mean knowing more
information. It doesn't mean memorizing more facts and
figures. It does mean opening our hearts and eyes and
minds in an effort to become more aware. It means
finding out what kinds of things your loved ones enjoy
doing. It means learning how we're polluting our
planet and what we can do about it. It means taking
the time to learn more about your health and ways that you
can take care of yourself and others. It means knowing
what effects foods have on you and being able to deal with
those effects or change your eating habits if necessary.
"The
more things you love"--what a great phrase. My
goal in this life is to love as much as I possibly can, and
if I want to do so, I have to know as much as I can. I
want my self to be open to everything possible so that I can
love it, so that I can add a bit more love to this world in
every single circumstance in which I find myself. I
can do that only if I'm open to the world, and if I'm open
to learning about things that I know nothing about
now. I have to admit my ignorance if I want to turn on
my learning, and the benefits of doing so will be with me
forever.
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Questions to ponder:
1. In what directions would you most
like to broaden your horizons? Are you actively doing so now?
2. How many things might you be
interested in
if you learned something about them?
3. What makes you indignant?
How do you deal with your indignation? |
For further
thought:
Perhaps the most valuable result
of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do,
when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned;
and however early a person’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson he or she learns thoroughly.
Thomas
Henry Huxley
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