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Date: Sat May 24, 2003 7:38 am
Subject: The Voice of every voice om_namah_shi...
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That voice which is the origin of every cry and sound: that indeed is
the only voice, and the rest are only echoes.

- Rumi

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In all combinations every particle is trying to go on its own way, to
fly from the other particles; but the others are holding it in check.
Our earth is trying to fly away from the sun, and the moon from the
earth. Everything has a tendency to infinite dispersion. All that we
see in the universe has for its basis this one struggle towards
freedom; it is under the impulse of this tendency that the saint
prays and the robber robs.

- Vivekananda

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What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within
him."

-- Rabbi Louis L. Mann

"There are times when a man should be content with what he has but
never with what he is."

-- William George Jordan, writer

"Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat
with ourselves."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher

"It's true I am only one, but I am one. And the fact that I cannot do
everything should not prevent me from doing what I can do."

- Edward Everett Hale

"If you feel you have no faults ... there's another one." -- Unknown

"The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement." --
Unknown

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There's a well-traveled story about a teacher with a one-gallon jar
and a dozen large, irregularly shaped rocks. After a little
rearranging he got all the rocks in, filling the jar to the top. He
then dumped gravel in the jar until the spaces between the rocks were
filled. Next, he poured sand in the jar, shaking it continuously so
that the sand filled the spaces between the rocks and the gravel.
Finally, he emptied a pitcher of water into the jar.

"What does this demonstration prove?" he asked.

One student said, "No matter how full your life seems, you can always
take on a little more."

Another said, "Sequence and planning are very important to maximizing
productivity."

A third said, "It's about setting priorities. If I don't deal with
the big rocks first, all I'll end up with is a jar of wet sand and
gravel."

There's validity to each response, but the idea of identifying and
dealing with the big rocks first is a particularly valuable insight.

We will live fuller and more fulfilling lives if we set our
priorities -- not only at work but in our life as a whole.

Our relationships, work, spiritual life, hobbies and charitable
causes all claim our attention. We have to decide what's really
important. Too often we surrender control of our days, even the
direction of our lives, by letting circumstances or other people
determine how we spend our time. Thus, we simply deal with what comes
at us in the order it comes or we deal first with squeaking wheels
and demanding people. Unless we consciously distinguish between the
rocks, gravel, sand and water in our lives we're likely to neglect or
forget the things that really matter.

- Michael Josephson,

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