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Question & Thought for Valentines Day 2016!

Question & Thought for Valentines Day 2016!
Happy Valentines Day and Good Sunday Morning!!!
1. Question – Can I still have as much as I started out with if I gave what I have away?
2. Thought – It’s the same thing with love. I could love everybody in the room if I had the opportunity to know you, with equal intensity, and I would still have the same amount of love and the same potential to love that I have right at this moment. I will have lost nothing. But I first must have it. If my love is neurotic, if it’s possessive, if it’s sick, all that I could teach you is neurotic, possessive, sick love. If my knowledge about anything is vast and endless, I can give that to you. And so my responsibility to me is to make myself enormous, full of knowledge, full of love, full of understanding, full of experience, full of everything so that I can give it to you and then you can take it and build it from there. (Living, Loving & Learning from Dr. Leo Buscaglia)
“I do not know the answer to the problem of evil,” said Alyosha, “but I do know love.” (Dostoevsky)
Have a great week!
rem – I had no knowledge that I had no knowledge.
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Question & Thought for January 8th, 2016!

Question & Thought for January 8th, 2016!
Good Monday Morning!
1. Question – What is the only thing we can give to other people?
2. Thought – Father William Du Bay stated it far better than I, when he said, “The most human thing we have to do in life is to learn to speak our honest convictions and feelings and live with the consequences. This is the first requirement of love, and it makes us vulnerable to other people who may ridicule us. But our vulnerability is the only thing we can give to other people.” (Leo Buscaglia – Love)
“Just because the message may never be received does not mean it is not worth sending.” (Segaki)
rem – I had no knowledge that I had no knowledge.
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Question & Thought for February 6th, 2016!

Question & Thought for February 6th, 2016!
Good Saturday Morning!
1. Question – Why don’t we have classes on love?
2. Thought – Each man lives love in his limited fashion and does not seem to relate the resultant confusion and loneliness to this lack of knowledge about love.
If he desired to know about automobiles, he would, without question, study diligently about automobiles. If his wife desired to be a gourmet cook, she’d certainly study the art of cooking, perhaps even attend a cooking class. Yet, it never seems as obvious to him that if he wants to live in love, he must spend at least as much time as the automobile mechanic or the gourmet in studying love. No mechanic or cook would ever believe that by “willing” the knowledge in his field, he’d ever become an expert in it. (LOVE by Leo Buscaglia)
“If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it, but if I didn’t love others, I would of gained nothing.
​Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.​ It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.” (Paul)
rem – I had no knowledge that I had no knowledge.
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Question & Thought for December 16th, 2015!

Question & Thought for December 16th, 2015!
Good Wednesday Morning!
1. Question – Which one are you – a cynic or a skeptic or a cock-eyed optimist?
2. Thought – It is unfortunate, but nonetheless true, that we live in a world of too many cynics and skeptics. They are a vigilant group, only too eager to expose the insincerity and dishonesty they are certain is common to all. They are convinced that acts of kindness and love are mostly the result of ulterior motives.
Many of us, unfortunately, have fallen prey to developing a hard outer shell. If someone offers us a rose and immediately follows up with a plea for a donation, we naturally form a mindset against such future occurrences. From that time on, every flower offered is cause for suspicion.
Lovers who have trusted and made themselves vulnerable in a relationship may suddenly find that they have been deceived. When they pick up the pieces, and are again offered love, they are understandably skeptical. They have become “healthy cynics” – less open, less trusting, less vulnerable; in short, less able to maintain healthy relationships in the future.
It is far easier, it seems to me, to become a cynic than it is to work beyond disappointments and rise above wounds. We must be willing to trust again and expect better than we’ve received. True cynics who believe that have become experts at seeing through people have actually succumbed to a different kind of blindness. If we want love, it is better to look for the good in people, even if it means being somewhat of a cock-eyed optimist. (Leo Buscaglia, Born for Love)
“There isn’t any formula or method, You learn to love by loving.” (Aldous Huxley)
rem – I had no knowledge that I had no knowledge.
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