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Saturday, May 27, 2006 06:24 PM
Daniele Cohen
John Brown,
"Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, & a thunderbolt to the liar,
But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity."
John Brown, Last words at trial
December 2nd, 1859
" This court acknowledges, as I suppose, the validity of the law of God. I see a book kissed here which I suppose to be the Bible, or at least the New Testament. That teaches me that all things whatsoever I would that men should do to me, I should do even so to them. It teaches me, further, to "remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them." I endeavored to act up to that instruction. I say, I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done -- as I have always freely admitted I have done -- in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right.
Now, it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments -- I submit; so let it be done!
Let me say one word further. I feel entirely satisfied with the treatment I have received on my trial."
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Love is the most precious thing in life. And second to love, life itself is most precious. If we have love and life, we need one thing further, an ideal. These three elements, love, life, and an ideal, are not just precious and profound in value; they are the very things that make our lives worth living.
► 7/6/04 "I declare to you very bluntly today: God exists & He is our Parent. He lives & carries out His work within each person's life. He exists without form."
"Every human being possesses a mind, but can anyone locate the mind with confidence & certainty? Energy clearly exists & sustains life, but energy is invisible.
In the same way,God absolutely exists with attributes of eternality, changelessness & uniqueness, but He cannot be seen with the human eye. Because God is the original body of energy,we will not be able to see Him even in the Spirit World. This is why we say God is omniscient,omnipotent,& omnipresent. Because He has no form, there is nothing to keep Him from going anywhere He pleases in the world of existence."
All things must go back to God mind- body unity. Then we can overcome any obstacles. Have full authority over might. Don't tell a lie. Be really honest
► 6/20/04 You must have complete faith. Just as it will become like the very beginning of the Creation when God spoke His first words, there is nothing else to it except absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience.
When you follow the path set out by your conscience your mind will come to embrace
the Universe.
► 6/12/04: Live in the certainty of God's existence to the point that you can feel His presence against your skin.
► 6/12/04: Live in attendance to your conscience as you would your teacher, your God or your parents.
► 6/12/04: Just as water, air,& light will flow to fill even the smallest space, the movement of true love is flowing & covering the Earth.
► 6/12/04: Those who shed tears for others are wise men,because they can win God & the whole world & everything in it.
► 6/5/04: Nothing was built without reason: there is always a law and explanation behind everything.
► 6/4/04: Everything should be a source of gratitude. In the morning when you see the sunrise, thank God.
When you see the bright day or wind or rain or the beautiful moonlight, everything just becomes a source of gratitude, thanking God every moment of the day.
'God, thank you.' By the water,
'God thank you.'
When you sleep, even if only for five minutes still you say,
'God thank you.
Five minutes is good enough.' When you kiss your wife, thank God. Living with God, walking with God, that is our way of life.
Do you feel the excitement? Do you feel the bubbling enthusiasm?
► You must completely surrender to God's love.
► A defeat or fall can come about when we are vague in our sense of purpose,in our sense of the direction or goal.
► Purity is something like a blossom before it is opened.
► The fall of man came from self-love and selfishness, but love of a saint is very sacred.
► Restitution is the fee or the toll we pay to cross the border from the satanic side to God's side.
► Prayers are only answered to those who try their best to fulfill that for which they prayed.
► We must be prepared to go over any initial difficulty in prayer, and
never be defeated by it.
► Prayer is like rain,washing everything,giving moisture to the land so that life might come forth.
► Within ourselves is a certain entity which recognizes the existence of
the super-plus and which makes a constant effort to join with it.
► Let us go forth in the shoes of a servant, with the heart of the Father, shedding sweat for Earth, tears for man, and blood for Heaven...
► Once you become the owner of the love of God there is nothing to envy in this world.
► When you possess the love of God you can do all things, and on behalf of
God you can be given owner-ship of all things.
► When you do all things for God then you share ownership of all things
with God.
► The ideal is to be rich and wealthy spiritually,and then to enjoy
material wealth.
► Carving yourself out of stone is painful,with all kinds of hardships coming to you as the chips fall away.
► 4/2904:There should be consistent order and discipline in life,but when they are ignored nothing but chaos can result.
► 4/2904:A horizontal relationship begins with a meeting or encounter,but a
vertical relationship is one that is born into and which no one can change, even after death.
► 4/2904: Good thoughts are universally liked by people of the present, past and future.
► 4/2904: We are all brothers and sisters.
► 4/2904:Take what you have and be proud of it. Blacks, be proud. Asians, be
proud, whites, be proud.
► 4/2904: When you become a dynamo of true love, you can melt everything into true love without limit.
► 4/2904: Thinking makes things happen.
► 4/2904: It is the quality of a person's thinking that describes his nobility, or lack of nobility.
► 4/2904: The men and women of patience who are really tough are the kind of people that shall remain.
► 4/2904: My attitude is to forgive and forget.
► 4/2904: In order to live today we must have a purpose and objective.You must live each day to train yourselves and prepare for tomorrow.
► 4/2904: Persevere for the future, regardless of the present.
► 4/2904: One most important thing to think deeply about is how to overcome the difficulty of an enemy taking something precious from you and still love him.
► 4/2904: We must discover the sweet taste in all bitter things.
► 4/2904: The ideal has nothing to do with being comfortable,it has to do with
fulfilling a purpose.
► 4/2904: Nothing was built without reason: there is always a law and explanation behind everything.
► 4/2904: From early morning to evening see everyone in a positive way and never resent people.
► 4/2904: We can safely say that those who appreciate bitter things can produce any amount of sweetness, but not the other way around.
► 4/2904: The most important thing is that you are the one to conquer time instead of time conquering you.
► 4/2904: The more difficult life is, the more valuable it is.
► 4/2904: When you are motivated and your anxiety to reach the goal is unbearably
strong,it will push you thru like a title wave.
► 4/2904: Love has the power to motivate,particularly under adverse conditions.
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Give love and forget it.
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► When you follow the path set out by your conscience your mind will come to embrace
the Universe.
► Live in the certainty of God's
existence to the point that you can feel His presence against your skin.
► Live in attendance to your conscience
as you would your teacher, your God or
your parents.
► Just as water, air,& light will flow to fill even the smallest space, the movement of true love is flowing & covering the Earth.
► Those who shed tears for others
are wise men,because they can win God & the whole world & everything in it.
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The Way of Tradition
Sun Myung Moon
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