" It's not the load
that breaks you down,
it's the way
you carry it. "
Lena Horne
" To different minds,
the same world
is a hell,
and a heaven. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
" I am determined
to be cheerful and happy
in whatever situation
I may find myself.
For I have learned
that the greater part
of our misery
or unhappiness is
determined
not by our circumstance
but by our disposition. "
Martha Washington
Wife of George Washington
and first First Lady
of the USA
" Speak your mind -
even if your voice shakes.
Well aimed slingshots
can topple giants. "
Maggie Kuhn,
founder, Gray Panthers
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Free Will- What IS that?
Yes, we live & act based
on the way were were raised,
the family, community, nation
where we grew.
Genetics and brain chemistry
pull many of our strings. . . .
And yet-
In every community
there are those
who live generosity
while neighbors
live a predatory existence.
There is no
Manual for the Human
in Washington, Rome, or Beijing
where we can look up the correct
"Answers"
So in the truest sense,
EACH of us, YOU & me,
has the task (if we think about it)
to CHOOSE what we BELIEVE
about the nature of life, of
reality.
Many of us contract out this power
to a Church, Mosque, Peer-Group,
Conspiracy Mind Set,
or Common Ethos
(where we happen to live).
On my quest to Find Out
I have found many powerful little
(and Huge) gems.
Call them Tools, Skills, Maxims,
Wisdom.
I am constructing
my own Understanding.
I act from what I know to be right.
When I fail, I forgive myself.
I believe that God cares, cheers me on, smooths my path.
But I do not subscribe to any church
but the world.
No one should hold the reigns of my morality
but me.
That's Free Will.
That's tested Cloudia Morality Reigning.
I dine at every tradition's ancient banquet
as a respectful guest.
My soul rises up to sing with theirs.
But I decide of the feast
what is the Chicken
and what are the bones
to be discarded.
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