The SAN Script – Friday, October 17
Shared Values
Posted: 09 Oct 2014 09:00 PM PDT
Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations. ~Brian Tracey The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have. ~Leo BuscagliaStrive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. ~Albert EinsteinThere can be no high civility without a deep morality. ~Ralph Waldo EmersonTough times expose shared values. ~John Haas
Quotes about values
Photograph by Vincent Brassinne A beautiful Autumn stroll through Sonian Forest, which lies at the south-eastern edge of Brussels, Belgium. The forest measures 4,421-hectares (10,920 acres) and is popular destination for those that enjoy a nice place to be active. Today the forest consists of mostly European beeches and oaks
St. Anthony Today
Parent Meeting 8:00 am – Geraldine, Paul, Nora
Mass at 9:00am
Assembly at 2:15
- Pumpkin cutting contest
- certificates for soccer and cross country
- waste free Wednesday awards
- videos from first three sports
United Way forms due to Paul by 3:00PM to be entered in the draw
The Modern Violence of Over-work
BY PARKER J. PALMER (@PARKERJPALMER), WEEKLY COLUMNIST
Thomas Merton — Trappist monk, gifted writer, social critic, and spiritual virtuoso — has inspired many people. I’m one of them.
Merton wrote these incisive words in Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander more than fifty years ago, but they are no less true today than when he wrote them.
“There is a pervasive form of modern violence to which the idealist…most easily succumbs: activism and over-work. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence.
To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence.
The frenzy of the activist neutralizes his (or her) work… It destroys the fruitfulness of his (or her)…work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.”
I first read this passage in 1970, when I was caught up in the frenzy of working as a community organizer in Washington, D.C. To this day, I re-read them often because they remind me to ask myself a critical question that I too easily forget: “What do I need to do right now to tend the root of inner wisdom that makes work fruitful?”