George MacDonald on Love

I know now, that it is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, where two love, it is the loving of each other, and not the being beloved by each other, that originates and perfects and assures their blessedness

George MacDonald, Phantasties pp165

Space Burial and meaning in Life, Longevity and ...

the same Houston outfit that rocketed Leary's cremated remains in 1997 in the first commercial space burial is inviting the public to join him in intergalactic immortality. On Saturday, some people took them up on it.

At a busy Long Beach Aspace Fair convention, Carl Grillmaier paid $50 to send he and his wife's DNA - six strands of hair- and a personal message on the next voyage mounted by the firm Encounter 2001

Jacques Cousteau on Meaning in Life

He said, "I couldn't care less how I'm remembered or if I'm remembered. When life is finished it is finished."

Author: Jacques Cousteau

Date: June 26, 1997

Source: LA Times

Life's little Instruction Book, Rutledge Press, The Wisdom of Daily Life

1. Watch A Sunrise At Least Once A Year

2. Plant Flowers Every Spring

3. Look People in the Eye

4. Compliment Three People Every Day

5. Live Beneath Your Means

6. Choose Your Life's Mate Carefully. From this One Decision Will Come Ninety Percent of All Your Happiness Or Misery.

7. Live So That When Your Children Think of Fairness, Caring , and Integrity, They Think of You.

8. Don't Postpone Joy.

H. Jackson Brown, JR.

- Daily, Bucket List

Lieutenant Colonel Tim Collins Motivation talk

British troops waiting to attack Iraq have been told to behave like liberators rather than conquerors.
But they have also been warned some of them may not return from Iraq alive.
Lieutenant Colonel Tim Collins gave the battlegroup of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish the pep talk as the US deadline for Saddam Hussein to leave Iraq or face action ticked away.
Reporters said the men listened in silence to the address at Fort Blair Mayne desert camp, 20 miles from the Iraqi border.
"We go to liberate not to conquer. We will not fly our flags in their country," he said.
"We are entering Iraq to free a people and the only flag which will be flown in that ancient land is their own. Show respect for them.
If you are ferocious in battle remember to be magnanimous in victory
Lieutenant Colonel Tim Collins

A Commanders orders to His men

By treefrog 

Thu Mar 20th, 2003 at 06:40:35 PM EST 

There is a long tradition of military commanders giving final words of encouragement to their troops before battle.

Below is a speech given by Lieutenant Colonel Tim Collins to the 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment.

It seems somewhat ironic to me that our military leaders appear to be more eloquent, and have a better understanding of the meaning of what they are doing, than the politicians who instruct them in our name.

The Stanger in the house

The Stanger

A few Months before I was born. My dad met a stranger who was new to our small Tennessee town. From the beginning, dad was fascinated with this enchanting newcomer, and soon invited him to live with our family. The stranger was quickly accepted and was around to welcome me into the world a few months later.

feeding the soul from the BBC

The conversation was on the radio that there was a study that showed that people who attended the "ARTS" lived longer and fuller lives than people who did not.
It was said Feeding the SOUL leads to a longer and healthier life than those that don’t.

Date: 20 December 1996 
Source: BBC morning radio

- Soul, Long Life,

The Worlds concept of a hero

WATCH YOUR HERO'S ALL THE TIME. SKY TV

Lust and Envy

It's sad to belong to someone else when the right one comes along

So I live my life in a dream world(dreamin of you and me.)

unknown source heard on radio over doctors office

Chief Wallington Staats on Fear

In talking with Chief Wallington Staats, of the Mohawks, at the presentation of a first edition of a 1804 copy of John's Gospel in Mohawk.

"People who are destroying the truth of the Gospel and accusing the church and Christians of destroying prehistoric, pre-Christian truth have never felt fear."

Author: Revd John Sperry, President of the Canadian Bible Society

Date: Spring 97

Source: World Action 97, World news of the Bible from Bible Society

Bible Society, Sonehill Green, Westlea, Swindon SN5 7DG

- Fear, anthropology, Hope, Culture, the Gospel,

Where you Born That Way

Steel work... Jim Lewis  and clerical worker Jim Springer. Identical twins separated five weeks after birth, they were raised by families 80 miles apart in Ohio. Reunited 39 years later, they would have strained the credulity of the editors of Ripley's Believe it or Not.

In talking with Chief Wallington Staats, of the Mohawks, at the presentation of a first edition of a 1804 copy of John's Gospel in Mohawk.

"People who are destroying the truth of the Gospel and accusing the church and Christians of destroying prehistoric, pre-Christian truth have never felt fear."

Revd John Sperry, President of the Canadian Bible Society, Spring 97