December 2010
6 posts
The only time we ever “fail” at anything in our lives is when we walk away from a challenge before we’ve allowed it to teach us its lessons.
http://www.guyfinley.org/free-content/writings/special-lessons/2039
The Needle
By Tzvi Freeman
You are G-d’s needle with which He sews the many patches of Creation into a single garment for His glory.
At one end, the needle must be hard and sharp, to squeeze through the ordeal. But the other end must have a vacant hollow, a nothingness with which to hold the thread.
With the world, be firm and sharp. Within, feel how small you are before the Infinite.
Authentic Humility
By Tzvi Freeman
Humility has to be real. Real humility means transcendence of the self.
Moses, it is written, was the most humble of all men.
Obviously, he knew who he was. He knew that of all men, he alone was chosen to accomplish the greatest tasks of history —to lead an entire nation out from bondage and bring them to the greatest revelation that would ever be. He was the loftiest...
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it....”
– Howard Thurman
Steve Jobs Recounting His Summer Job At HP At 12
“When I was 12 or 13, I wanted to build something and I needed some parts, so I picked up the phone and called Bill Hewlett—he was listed in the Palo Alto phone book. He answered the phone and he was real nice. He chatted with me for, like, 20 minutes. He didn’t know me at all, but he ended up giving me some parts and he got me a job that summer working at Hewlett- Packard on the line,...
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Light Power
All that came into being…
…all the created worlds and all the ethereal entities that live in them, even the worlds that are mere emanations without tangible substance, even the worlds of thought and beyond to the realms of infinite light that preceded Creation…
—all this came to be only as a result of the thought of you, the earthly being, struggling in a world that...