Knowing what you don't know is more useful than being brilliant.
02622 – What You Don’t Know
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02417 – Compassion & Our Shared Humanity
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
02315 – Dark & Light
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
02237 – Doubt is the Beginning of Real Faith
The problem with accepting truth as it comes to us rather than truth as we divine it for ourselves is that it's not worth dying for--and we don't. It becomes a patina of ideas inside of which we live our lives without passion, without care. This kind of faith happens...
02219 – A Friend Who Cares
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can...
02199 – Treat People Well
Many people are hanging by the very thinnest of threads. If you treat them well, without knowing you may very well be that thread.
02038 – Good Can Come from Evil
To show you … how out of evil there can come good, in those five years I read every book in the black school library. I read all the books I could get from the white school library. I memorized James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Countee Cullen and Langston...
01954 – What’s Your Problem?
Your problem is not that you don't know the truth, but that you don't know yourself.
01894 – Life is Hard
Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same. And that's why life is hard.
01787 – Casting Our Bread Upon the Waters
When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from that grantor's gift.