On Honesty and Love

“The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed,
but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
--George Bernard Shaw

"Honesty about everything truly does open the doors to intimacy, love, and dynamic relationships. Without it, we're all just actors on a stage, reading our scripted lines. And to some degree, I think everyone knows we're pretending to be truthful. It's like we're all walking around holding dead chickens in our hands, making deals with each other. “Pretend you don't see my chicken, and I’ll pretend I don't see yours.” It's a scam, but one we're pulling over our own eyes."

http://www.healthyplace.com/relationships/creating-relationships/honesty-is-necessary-in-love/menu-id-1512/

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Death of Love

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing."

- Anais Nin

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Aztec mask - 3 Faces

Sculpture executed circa 1300 A.D

"The passage of time was one of the main concerns in Mesoamerican society; thus,
many depictions of its passage allude to different aspects of the Mesoamerican view of the cosmos.

The three faces depict three phases in which time and humans are closely related.
The central face is jovial and full of vigor, referring to the time when individuals are during
their most productive years in a society.

By way of contrast, the exterior mask has closed eyes,
alluding to the opposite phase, death.

In between is a period of no less importance,
he state that arrives with experience: old age."

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Lay of the Last Minstrel (Extract)

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,
From wandering on a foreign strand!
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no Minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung.

O Caledonia! stern and, wild,
Meet nurse for a poetic child!
Land of brown heath and shaggy wood
Land of the mountain and the flood,
Land of my sires! what mortal hand
Can e'er untie the filial band,
That knits me to thy rugged strand!
Still, as I view each well-known scene,
Think what is now, and what hath been,
Seems as, to me of all bereft,
Sole friends thy woods and streams were left;
And thus I love them better still
Even in extremity of ill.
By Yarrow's streams still let me stray,
Though none should guide my feeble way.,
Still feel the breeze down Ettrick break,
Although it chill my wither'd cheek;
Still lay my head by Teviot Stone,
Though there, forgotten and alone,
The Bard may draw his parting groan.

Meaning of unusual words:
pelf=money, wealth
Meet=well fitting
Yarrow, Ettrick, Teviot= rivers in the Scottish Borders

Scottish Poetry Selection
- Lay of the Last Minstrel (Extract)

The "Lay of the Last Minstrel" by Sir Walter Scott was based on an old Border narrative and is full of phrases which have passed into our language - though we often don't realise that it was Scott who penned them. The extract below illustrates this clearly with "O Caledonia, stern and wild", "Breathes there a man with soul so dead" and "Land of the mountain and the flood". They come from Canto Sixth, verses I and II.

This poem and the one next to it Invictus, were poems my mother held dear and would recite.
Must have been the Scot blood in her veins. (Jessup)

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Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

first published in 1888
in Henley's Book of Verses

At the age of 12, Henley fell victim to tuberculosis of the bone.
 A few years later, the disease progressed to his foot, and physicians
announced that the only way to save his life was to amputate directly
below the knee. It was amputated when he was 25.
In 1875, he wrote the "Invictus" poem from a hospital bed.
Despite his disability, he survived with one foot intact and led
an active life until his death at the age of 53.

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Social Media In The Workplace Quote...

"Shel Holtz (argued that) social connections are important for marketing, recruitment, testing ideas and getting quick feedback. Blocking access “is the laziest way around the problem,” Holtz said in the report.

Executives usually suspect that new technologies will result in employees slacking off.

“When American businesses after WWII started thinking about rolling out telephones on everyone’s desks, the biggest objection that was raised by senior managers, who already had telephones, was that everyone was going to use these phone for personal use,” Analyst Stowe Boyd said in the report. “They were going to call mom; they were going to gossip.” "

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Discover The Joy

"If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life?

It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth."

~MITSUGI SAOTOME

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Quotation: If I Have A Handful Of Silver...

“If I have a handful of silver it is because I work and my wife works, and we do not, as some do, sit idling over a gambling table or gossiping on doorsteps never swept, letting the fields grow to weeds and our children go half fed!”

– Pearl S. Buck (from the character Wang Lung in Buck’s novel The Good Earth)

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