Sunday, February 24, 2013

WE ARE WHAT WE SAY

Refraining from putting people down, and from putting oneself down, is an aspect of our purpose here in the world -- to come to recognize that each and every one of us is nothing less than the Creator's personal handiwork. To insult one of God's creations is to disturb our relationship with God Himself.

 

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When we curb that inexplicable urge to put others down, we start finding ourselves less frequently in the irritating company of imbeciles, ingrates, and sadists, and surrounded more often, much to our surprise, by fallible, vulnerable, striving human beings who resemble -- how uncanny! -- none other than you and me.

 

(We are what we say, Sara Shapiro)

 

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