Humility

Ideas on humility—

„ To pass from impoverishment to poverty as one moves from humiliation to humility.“

„ Therefore hold to the things which are reliable.  Look to simplicity; embrace purity!“

„Humility is not a peculiar habit of self-effacement, rather like having an inaudible voice, it is a selfless respect for reality and one of the most difficult and central of all the virtues.“

„Humility must always doing its work like a bee making its honey in the hive: without humility all
will be lost.“

Eva-Maria

Our thoughts create the world we make for ourselves

Eva-Maria

Existence May Not Be Immediately Perceived

Existence may not immediately be perceived in its fullest nature, because it includes not only visible and tangible things.  It reaches further—the speculative qualities of existence, i.e. our dreams and also our fears.  We do not  perceive right away the great variations in life, which in general work to keep us fluid and flexible and help us avoid becoming one-sided, and therefore support a more gentle approach, one that is not only controlled by accepted facts or opinions.  They teach a reality that is much broader and, perhaps more encouraging.

While it may be difficult to grasp the inner nature of something, we can perceive the expression of it, and thereby read it through an engagement with the qualities discerned.  Any aspect of existence well-contemplated creates an enhanced faculty for insight.

Eva-Maria

Children

The Talmud records a saying to the effect that "the world is saved by the breath of the school children..."

Josephus, the famous Jewish historian, writes, "Our principle care of all is this--to educate our children well."

Say ye not, There are four months...

Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

King James Version of the Bible John 4:35

Be a Miracle to Yourself —Sei ein Wunder zu dir selbst

Sei ein WUNDER zu dir selbst und geistige Dankbarkeit füllt dich vollkommen.  Und gesunde Gedanken und Gefühle  werden nicht nur zu dir ein großer Segen, aber auch für anderen die es spüren! So ist der innere Frieden erschaffen!

Be a miracle to yourself and gratitude shall fill you deeply, and thus thoughts and feelings will bless you with a sense of wellbeing!  So is an inner freedom established—blessing you and also providing a restful presence for others.

Lass die Liebe ein Geschenk für dich sein!

Let love be a gift to you!

Eva-Maria

Always a knit of identity…

„Always a knit of identity… always distinction … always a breed of life.“

Walt Whitman

Drawing by me from my children’s book

Joseph

Joseph, as we read in Genesis 37, was the youngest son of Jacob, and his father loved him above all his other children, this enflamed their hatred for him,  which grew more and more because he, just a teen, boasted about his dreams.  After being given by his father a coat of many colors, his brothers had enough and threw him into a deep pit.

He was found by some men who were on a journey and they sold him as a slave to a guard of the Pharaoh of Egypt.

In spite of this, Joseph grew up as a good and wise man… and conducted himself in all ways with great dignity though he was tempted on all sides.  He became a leader and influenced the Pharaoh‘s circle.  As such he made decisions with far-reaching consequences for his adopted country.  He ensured grain was plentiful and stored for the use of many, including his neighbors.

A famine was spreading in the lands.  Jacob asked his older sons to travel to Egypt  to buy food.  When Joseph recognized them, he tested them, but free of resentment he could clearly recognize his own purpose in life, that he had  risen to leadership in order to preserve life!

It is in the shelter of each other that we live!

Eva-Maria