Big Thoughts, Human-sized Canvas
When we tell the Universe to “Gimme, gimme, gimme,” it responds in like fashion, and we find ourselves feeling put upon and out of balance. But when we ask the Universe, “How may I share?” it will ask “How may I share with you? You are a…
The very poor can always be depended upon. They never turn away the hungry. Time and time again, all over the United States, have I been refused food by the big house on the hill: and always have I received food from the little…
She Laugh. Let’s us put a few advertisements in the paper, she say. And let’s us raise your prices a hefty notch. And let’s us just go ahead and give you this diningroom for your factory and git you some more women in here to…
Difficult and easy complement each other.
Long and short contrast each other;
High and low rest upon each other;
Voice and sound harmonize each other…
I have three treasures which I hold and Keep.
The first is mercy; the second is economy;
The third is daring not to be ahead of others.
From mercy comes courage; from economy comes generosity;
From humility comes leadership.
Imagine being a leader who is doing their best work, work which helps others to succeed. Others are happy with their success, but what about you? Pushing others to recognize you as a source of their success requires that they don’t credit their own abilities as strongly. Why would someone trust a leader who is not firmly behind the success of others?
Next to things of necessity, the rule for a gift, which one of my friends prescribed, is, that we might convey to some person that which properly belonged to his character, and was easily associated with him in thought…
