The walls we build around us...by Jim Rohn

The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.
~ Jim Rohn

The tragedy of life as said by Benjamin E. Mays

Benjamin E. Mays, credit: Swarthmore.edu

"It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach." 

~ Benjamin E. Mays

Ever wonder how the very greatest things in life come about?

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. 
~ Samuel Smiles

'How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow?'

"Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow."


~Thich Nhat Hanh

For those who burn the midnight oil being consumed with sorrow...

Night is the blotting paper for many sorrows. 
~ Unknown

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. 
~  Henry Wordsworth Longfellow 

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. ~ Victor Hugo

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. 
~ Chinese Proverb


Silence is medication for sorrow ~ Arab Proverb


 The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. 
~ Arthur Christopher Benson

You and Today!

~ With every rising of the sun, Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays; there let them sleep. Concern yourself with but today, Woo it, and teach it to obey Your will and wish. Since time began Today has been the friend of man; But in his blindness and his sorrow, He looks to yesterday and tomorrow. You, and today! a soul sublime, And the great pregnant hour of time, With God himself to bind the twain! Go forth, I say-attain, attain! With God himself to bind the twain! 
~ Ella Wilcox

Life being free from sorrow and difficulties

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If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point. 
~ Dirk Benedic

Speech & Silence: two powerful tools

Learn silence as you have learned speech...speech will guide you, and silence will protect you.


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Words of wisdom to ponder...

The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.  - Marcus Aurelius


We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. - Lee Iococca


Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Words of Wisdom by the Ancient & Present Greats

'Time is a river...And books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in its sands. Only a few, a very few, endure the testings of time and live to bless the ages following.' - Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

'If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.' -Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages

'The Universe is a cryptogram set up by the Almighty' -Sir Isaac Newton

'Laus Deo' "Praise God" - Inscription on eastern face of Washington Monument capstone

'Nullius in verba' "Take nobody`s word for it" - Motto of the Royal Society

'Je ova Sanctus Unus' "one true God" - (anagram) aka Isaacus Neutonus

'Service to others is the rent that you pay for your room here on earth'

-Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him); quoted by Mahatma Gandhi

'And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.' -Revelation 21:4

'Lo! some we loved, the loveliest and best

That time and fate of all their vintage prest

Have drunk their cup a round or two before,

And one by one crept silently to rest

-The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayum

"When death is regarded not (as with us) as an ultimate dissolution, but rather as a transitional (and crucial) stage of a journey, then the apparent Egyptian preoccupation with death becomes exactly the opposite of what it seems to be. It is, in fact, a preoccupation with life in the deepest possible sense." -John Anthony West, Serpent in the Sky

The Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Seal and Origin

According to Gould's History of Freemasonry Throughout the World:

The double-headed eagle was probably first introduced as a symbol in Masonry in the year 1758 . In that year, the body calling itself the Council of Emperors of the East and West was established in Paris. The double-headed eagle was possibly assumed by this Council in reference to the double jurisdiction which it claimed and which is represented so distinctly in its title.

Every Supreme Council in the world, and the subordinate bodies thereto, extensively employ this emblem in their Degrees, jewels, lectures, paraphernalia and stationery, making it the distinctive emblem of the Rite.

The highest degree achieved in the Scottish Rite of Free Masonry is the 33rd degree
'Ordo ab chao' "Order from chaos"

More on the Scottish Rite: Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

Words of Wisdom by the Ancient Greats

'Time is a river...And books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in its sands. Only a few, a very few, endure the testings of time and live to bless the ages following.' - Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

'If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.' -Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages

'The Universe is a cryptogram set up by the Almighty' -Sir Isaac Newton

'Laus Deo' "Praise God" - Inscription on eastern face of Washington Monument capstone

'Nullius in verba' "Take nobody`s word for it" - Motto of the Royal Society

'Je ova Sanctus Unus' "one true God" - (anagram) aka Isaacus Neutonus

'Service to others is the rent that you pay for your room here on earth'

-Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him); quoted by Mahatma Gandhi

'And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.' -Revelation 21:4

'Lo! some we loved, the loveliest and best

That time and fate of all their vintage prest

Have drunk their cup a round or two before,

And one by one crept silently to rest

-The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayum

"When death is regarded not (as with us) as an ultimate dissolution, but rather as a transitional (and crucial) stage of a journey, then the apparent Egyptian preoccupation with death becomes exactly the opposite of what it seems to be. It is, in fact, a preoccupation with life in the deepest possible sense." -John Anthony West, Serpent in the Sky