[Stoves] Do it anyway...

[Thomas Reed]

Dear Dean and All:

The holidays seem to be a time for slightly off subject discussions. 

The precepts you sent below are even more interesting than you thought.  
At http://www.paradoxicalcommandments.com/ you will find
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The Paradoxical Commandments were written by Kent M. Keith in 1968 as 
part of a booklet for student leaders. This website provides information 
about the origin <http://www.paradoxicalcommandments.com/origin.html> of 
the Paradoxical Commandments and the many places they have been sighted 
<http://www.paradoxicalcommandments.com/sightings.html> over the years. 
You can purchase books 
<http://www.paradoxicalcommandments.com/books.html> and products based 
on the Paradoxical Commandments, sign up for the newsletter 
<http://www.paradoxicalcommandments.com/newsletter.html>, send your 
favorite Paradoxical Commandment to a friend as a postcard 
<http://www.paradoxicalcommandments.com/postcards/postcard.html>, and 
share your story <http://www.paradoxicalcommandments.com/stories.html> 
about how the Paradoxical Commandments have made a difference in your 
life, and join the discussion on the Paradoxical People blog 
<http://www.paradoxicalpeople.com>. You can also learn about the author 
<http://www.paradoxicalcommandments.com/kent_keith.html> and contact 
<http://www.paradoxicalcommandments.com/contact.html> him directly.

For more than thirty years, the Paradoxical Commandments have circled 
the globe. They have been put on walls and refrigerator doors, featured 
in speeches and articles, preached from pulpits, and shared extensively 
on the web. They have been used by business leaders, military 
commanders, government officials, religious leaders, university 
presidents, social workers, teachers, rock stars, parents, coaches, and 
students. Mother Teresa thought the Paradoxical Commandments were 
important enough to put up on the wall of her children's home in Calcutta.

The Paradoxical Commandments have touched the hearts of millions of 
people all over the world. We hope that the Paradoxical Commandments 
will touch your heart, too!

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and an order blank for the book.  (I have it somewhere, can't locate it.)

While we are at correct attribution, the famous *Desiderata "(*Go 
quietly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may 
be in silence, .....
And whatever your laboars and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life 
keep peace in your soul. Whith all ist sham, drudgery and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.  Be cheerful, strive to be happy."  (Full 
text at http://hobbes.ncsa.uiuc.edu/desiderata.html.) ...

was NOT "found on the wall of St. Paul's Church, Baltimore, dated 1692" 
as is usually appended to commercial copies, but was written by Max 
Ehrman, an obscure Indiana poet in 1927. 

Between these two documents you will find a lot of wisdom and good 
advice.  Wish I had written them...

Yours for wisdom, whatever the source,

TOM REED                



Dean Still wrote:
>
> "We were told that this prayer was written by Mother Teresa and inscribed on
> the wall of her orphanage in Calcutta. However, Sister M. Nirmala M.C. at
> the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta wrote to us and said that she did
> not write this prayer. Another source said that this poem was found by
> Mother Teresa's bedside when she died, written in her own handwriting. It
> remains a mystery to us." (From the Roche's album "Zero Church".)
>
> Anyway
>
> People are often unreasonable, illogical,
> and self-centered;
> Forgive them anyway.
>
> If you are kind, People may accuse you
> of selfish, ulterior motives;
> Be kind anyway.
>
> If you are successful, you will win some
> false friends and some true enemies;
> Succeed anyway.
>
> If you are honest and frank,
> people may cheat you;
> Be honest and frank anyway.
>
> What you spend years building, someone
> could destroy overnight;
> Build anyway.
>
> If you find serenity and happiness,
> they may be jealous;
> Be happy anyway.
>
> The good you do today,
> people will often forget tomorrow;
> Do good anyway.
>
> Give the world the best you have,
> and it may never be enough;
> Give the world the best you've got anyway.
>
> You see, in the final analysis,
> it is between you and God;
> It was never between you and them anyway.
>
>
>
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