Friday, March 02, 2007

Collected Thoughts

Whenever I encounter thoughts that I collected long ago, their gifts still nourish me

Namaste (Nahm'es_tay" )

An unnamed respondent in Google, March 1,2007, notes that "Namaste is true regardless of national origin, culture, race, or age....

"Namaste" is an ancient Sanskrit word. I was told years ago, that the greeting means:

"I honor the place in you in which the entire universe dwells. I honor the place in you, which is of love, of truth, of light and of peace. When you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, we are one.
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A Shared Poem
Years ago, Mrs. Emma Agate, a dear friend, who has now passed on, gave me a small church folder with a poem she liked and I like. The poem was written by a minister she knew, Dr. Robert L. Veon. Dr. Veon was a minister in the First Presbyterian Church, in Haddonfeld, New Jersey. He wrote:

The Growing Edge

The other morning I heard
a courageous robin's
early call for Spring.

and across the softening crust
of winter's dark debris,

I felt the stirring warmth
of your eternity.

Thank you, Father, In Jesus' name. Dr. Robert L. Veon


THE GIFT OF LOVE

As we carry love into
our days among others,
we discover that love
nourishes all whom it touches
and gives life its meaning.

Marylee Manson Armour
March 5, 2000
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TURNING THE PAGE IN MY COLLECTION

I find statements friends have shared with me
but who failed to leave the name of their author.

"Age is just a number.
It has nothing to do with
how young you are."
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"Age doesn't matter unless you are cheese."
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"In the twilight years there is one statement
that is hardly ever heard:
'I wish I had spent more time at work.' "
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"Beauty seen is never lost."
John Greenleaf Whittier.



The beautiful is a phenomenon
which is never apparent of itself,
but is reflected in a thousand.
different works of the Creator. Goethe


BABY PRAYERS

Golden slumbers
kiss your eyes.
Smiles awake you
when you rise.

Sleep pretty darling,
do not cry and
I will sing you
a lullaby.

-Author unknown

Sleep baby Sleep ( A Lullaby whose tune I know)

Sleep baby sleep
Thy Father guards the sheep
Thy mother shakes the dreamland tree
And down falls pretty dreams for thee
Sleep Baby sleep
Douglas Brooks-Davie (author ?)
Google has more informatin on the lullaby. and
gives the source at which CDs may be purchased..
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A TRUTH?

The brain keeps growing
if you use it.
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Life by the yard is hard.
Life by the inch is a cinch. Author unknown
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COMFORT
The soul would have no rainbow
Had the eyes no tears.
John Vance Cheney

GET-UP_ AND _Go

I'm thankful for my get-up-and-go.
It's heaven-sent.
Today that gift is absent.
Was it only heaven-lent?

Marylee Armour, September 21, 1993
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A TRUE STORY ABOUT PRESIDENT EISENHOWER

Dwight D. Eisenhower kept a piece of string
on his desk to remind himself that we cannot push people
into action. We can only hope to draw them along into
ways that seem wise.

Reporter's Name unknown
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FROM CHARLES DICKENS

Try to do to others as you would
have them do to you, and do not be discouraged
if they fail sometime.
It is much better that they should fail
than that you should.
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FAITH
I can see how it might
be possible
for a man to look down upon the earth
and to be an atheist, but I cannot conceive
how he could look up into the heavens
and say there is no God.
--- Abraham Lincoln






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