Remember the second precept - take nothing which is not given freely. Or go biblical and recall Thou shall not steal.
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Lovely work from the #PReCePT programme on how perinatal prevention work saves money as well as benefitting patients @karenluyt.bsky.social @frankdv.bsky.social @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
A Precept For The New Year
My New Year's thought one year ago. This year, too.
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A Precept For The New Year
My New Year's thought one year ago. This year, too.
rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-precept-for-ne...
#EightfoldPath, #enlightenment, #hermitpractice, #NewYears, #precept #vow, #Zen
A Precept For The New Year
My New Year's thought one year ago. This year, too.
rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-precept-for-ne...
#EightfoldPath, #enlightenment, #hermitpractice, #NewYears, #precept #vow, #Zen
Contentment is the grace of desiring little.
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Compassion is the soul
answering the pain
it cannot ignore.
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Ambition is the mind stirred by what it dares to imagine.
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Generosity is the measure of a heart unbound by possession.
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Integrity is what remains when all pretense falls away.
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Acceptance is the quiet strength of facing what is.
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Temptation is desire testing the strength of the will.
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Painting - Fallen Angel by Alexandre Cabanel
Anger is the mind enslaved to what it cannot change.
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Forgiveness frees the heart
more than the offender.
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Knowledge grows where humility waters it.
#Aphorism #prompt #knowledge #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #PoetryCommunity #microwriting #maxim #adage #microfiction #epigram #axiom #precept #dictum #epigraph
Curiosity is the mind’s gentle rebellion against the known.
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Pride is the self standing where it ought to bow.
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Humility is to stand small
before what is great.
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Justice is truth administered without favor or fear.
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Gratitude turns what is present into enough.
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Patience is the strength
to endure what
cannot be hastened.
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Fear is what the mind refuses to know.
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Change reveals
the persistence of
what cannot
remain the same.
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Truth is not discovered but remembered.
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Time does not pass;
it peels away
what pretends to last.
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.....They are just an another #echo of what does not work. #Violence doesn't work. It never has and it never will. What if #God wasn't giving you a #moral #precept as much as #tactical #wisdom? You want #peace, even #unknowingly you are trying to achieve it. Light of infinity, very revealing....
Love is the recognition that
what is most eternal
cannot be possessed.
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Silence is not the lack of speech,
but the moment when truth refuses translation.
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Solitude is not the absence of others,
but the presence of what remains when they leave.
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Back to #honesty. If I can't tell #myself the #truth, what can I do? Having that become an #experienced #truth instead of a #moral #precept was extremely #important in my #development. I'm not a #liar, but I #slithered LOL. And to my own #pain and #shame I #chameleoned. I don't do any of that now.