Your Daily Reprieve

                Your Daily Reprieve for Friday September 27, 2024   From Waynesville, NC     It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well. ~Thomas A Kempis     Slow down and enjoy life.  It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast --you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. ~Eddie Cantor   People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life.   I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking.   I think that what we’re really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.     -Joseph Campbell     Karma isn...

                Your Daily Reprieve for Thursday September 26, 2024   From Waynesville, NC     Life is not mean, it is grand; i f it is mean to any, he or she makes it so.   God made it glorious.   It is paved with diamonds;   its banks He fringed with flowers.   He overarched it with stars.   Around it He spread the glory of the physical universe —suns, moon, worlds, constellations, systems— all that is magnificent in motion, sublime in magnitude, and grand in order and obedience.   God would not have attended life with this broad march of grandeur if it did not mean something.     -Orison Swett Marden     "A highly developed value system is like a compass. It serves as a guide to point you in the right direction when you are lost" ~Idowu Koyenican ...