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LOVE IS SOMETHING

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LOVE IS SOMETHING

“Love is something you and I must have.
We must have it because Our Spirit feeds upon it.
We must have it because without it We become weak and faint.
Without Love Our Self-esteem weakens.
Without it Our courage fails.
Without Love We can no longer look confidently at the world.
We turn inward and begin to feed upon Our Own personalities,
and little by little We destroy Our Selves.
With it We are Creative.
With it, and with it alone, We are able to sacrifice for Others.”

Chief Dan George

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Chief Dan George, OC (July 24, 1899 – September 23, 1981) was a chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, a Coast Salish band located on Burrard Inlet in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He was also an author, poet, and an Academy Award-nominated actor. His best-known written work was “My Heart Soars. Born as Geswanouth Slahoot in North Vancouver,his English name was originally Dan Slaholt. The surname was changed to George when he entered a residential school at age 5.  He worked at a number of different jobs, including as a longshoreman, construction worker, and school bus driver,and was band chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation from 1951–63.

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INSIDE OUT

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your own soul

Vivekananda (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902) was an Indian Hindu monk and chief disciple of the 19th-century saint Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world.  Nikola Tesla used ancient Sanskrit terminology in his descriptions of natural phenomena. As early as 1891 Tesla described the universe as a kinetic system filled with energy which could be harnessed at any location. His concepts during the following years were greatly influenced by the teachings of Swami Vivekananda.

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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SILENCE

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This following medieval manuscript is kept in the British Library. The language indicates that it was written about a thousand years ago. The text is written in Old Irish and was translated by Dennis King.

“The Irish text finally surfaced in print in 1926, in volume two of the Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the British Museum, compiled by Robin Flower.

Very few texts in Old Irish survive in their original written form. In almost all cases, the material was copied and recopied from older manuscript compilations into newer ones, as the old books wore out.

 The language of this little anecdote is arguably more than a thousand years old, but the anecdote survives only in a paper manuscript in the British Library known as Egerton 190, copied in 1709 by Richard Tipper of Mitchelstown, Co. Dublin,” Dennis King said.

 This is the text of the manuscript, translated into English:

“Three monks turned their back on the world. They go into the wilderness to repent their sins before God.

They did not speak to one another for the space of a year. Then one of the men said to another at the end of the year, “We are well,” said he.

Thus it was for another year. “It is well indeed,” said the second man.

They were there after that for another year. “I swear by my habit,” said the third man, “if you do not allow me some quiet I will abandon the wilderness entirely to you!”

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Repost from the original article:  Is This The Worlds Oldest Joke?