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Trust is a journey !
Two become One with the same goal.
The path is traveled side by side.
do not be tempted by the many forks in the road that may separate trust.
Budaka-Jones

We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
Speak or act with an impure mind
And trouble will follow you.
As the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart.

We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
Speak or act with a pure mind.
And happiness will follow you.
As your shadow, unshakeable.

How can a troubled mind understand the Way?
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.
But once mastered,
No one can help you as much,
Not even your father or your mother.

Buddha

I asked for strength that I might achieve;
I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey.

I asked for health that I might do greater things;
I was given infirmity that I might do better things.

I asked for riches that I might be happy;
I was given poverty that I might be wise.

I asked for power that I might have the praise of men;
I was given weakness that I might feel the need of God.

I asked for all things that I might enjoy life;
I was given life that I might enjoy all things.

I got nothing that I had asked for;
But everything I had hoped for.

Almost despite myself my unspoken prayers were answered;
I am, among all men, most richly blessed.

An unknown confederate soldier

Your attitude, or your willingness to think positively
John C. Maxwell
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"People don't usually think inspired thoughts because they're usually too preoccupied with the immediate things that clutter up their brain.
- Todd Rundgren Melody Maker 11/73

For myself, I found that I was fitted for nothing so well as for the study of truth; as having a Mind nimble and versatile enough to catch the Resemblances of Things (which is the chief point) and at the same time steady enough to fix and distinguish their Subtler Differencies; as being gifted by Nature with Desire to seek, patience to Doubt, fondness to Meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and as being a man that neither affects what is new nor admires what is old, and that hates every kind of Imposture. So I thought my Nature had a kind of familiarity and Relationship with Truth.
- Francis Bacon, "Of the Interpretation of Nature" 1603-4