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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Collection rocks on the moon

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Collection rocks on the moon


One of the few men to walk on the moon tells how he had to suppress his artistic instincts when he got there.

He remembered looking back at Earth and being enraptured by the sight. For a while he stood rooted to the ground, thinking. “My, that’s lovely!”

Then he quickly shook the mood off and said to himself, “Stop wasting your lime and go collect rocks.”

There are two educations:
the one that teaches how to make a living
and the one that teaches how to live
.



PRAYER OF THE FROG PART 2
Anthony de Mello

Awareness

Awareness


Last year on Spanish television I heard a story about this gentleman who knocks on his son's door.

“Jaime,” he says, “wake up!” Jaime answers, “I don’t want to get up, papa.”

The father shouts, “Get up, you have to go to school.”

Jaime says, “I don’t want to go to school.”

“Why not?” asks the father.

“Three reasons,” says Jaime.

“First, because it's so dull; second, the kids tease me; and third, I hate school.”

And the father says, “Well, I am going to give you three reasons why you must go to school:

First, because it is your duty; second, because you are forty-five years old, and third, because you are the headmaster.”

Awareness
Anthony de Mello