Great quotes
While preparing for my talk at the M5, I stumbled across some great quotes that I think sum up some pretty important aspect of this life:
John of Salisbury -- 1159: “We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.”
Make sure to notice the date this was written. Dark ages. Bubonic Plague. Wars, death, Inquisition. Probably the most horrible bloody time in human history.
These roads that are before us have been forged before. We aren't whacking away at overgrowth with a machete; we are on an old interstate highway with a bunch of other cars. It is only on the shoulders of Giants (the Giant, Jesus) that we are here and that we have hope and love and faith. It's only because he's written His love on our hearts that we are even able to feel love.
So we aren't inventing any wheels. God built an Autobahn for us and gave us the keys to a new Ferrari and said, "Get in and follow My map .. "
Here's another:
Longfellow: "If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
Doesn't matter what kind of conflict you have, if you can see it from the other person's perspective -- truly see it, and not just empathize -- you will no doubt feel the weight of his idea.
It's habit #5 in Stephen Covey's The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Seek First To Understand, Then Be Understood.
We all have concerns and we all have voices. We all want to be heard. Rarely in this hustle bustle world do we feel that we ARE heard.
From Fight Club:
"Narrator: When people think you're dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just... Marla Singer: - instead of just waiting for their turn to speak?"
Hearing someone, and really understanding them and their voice, is like emotional air to people. If people think they are being heard, and that you care about them, then they will respect and love you to no end. Even if they were a mortal enemy, they will rethink their position about you, because you will move them in such a way that it breaks their paradigm about you.
It's really a powerful relationship-building technique. We are all on Spaceship Earth together, and we have to keep our hands and arms inside until the ride comes to a full and complete stop. The only way you get off the ride is when you die.
Once we realize that we are all pretty much in the same boat, and that we are no better or worse than anyone else, we can start building those intimate close deep relationships without fear.
No one is better than you. No one is worse than you. We all have choices to make, some are good, some are bad.
We are all washed by the same blood. If we choose it, wonderful! If not, that's a choice.
Once we Seek First To Understand, then we can make in-roads into people's hearts and minds and show them the Love and the Word that we've seen ..
Love you guys ..
Dale
John of Salisbury -- 1159: “We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.”
Make sure to notice the date this was written. Dark ages. Bubonic Plague. Wars, death, Inquisition. Probably the most horrible bloody time in human history.
These roads that are before us have been forged before. We aren't whacking away at overgrowth with a machete; we are on an old interstate highway with a bunch of other cars. It is only on the shoulders of Giants (the Giant, Jesus) that we are here and that we have hope and love and faith. It's only because he's written His love on our hearts that we are even able to feel love.
So we aren't inventing any wheels. God built an Autobahn for us and gave us the keys to a new Ferrari and said, "Get in and follow My map .. "
Here's another:
Longfellow: "If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
Doesn't matter what kind of conflict you have, if you can see it from the other person's perspective -- truly see it, and not just empathize -- you will no doubt feel the weight of his idea.
It's habit #5 in Stephen Covey's The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Seek First To Understand, Then Be Understood.
We all have concerns and we all have voices. We all want to be heard. Rarely in this hustle bustle world do we feel that we ARE heard.
From Fight Club:
"Narrator: When people think you're dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just... Marla Singer: - instead of just waiting for their turn to speak?"
Hearing someone, and really understanding them and their voice, is like emotional air to people. If people think they are being heard, and that you care about them, then they will respect and love you to no end. Even if they were a mortal enemy, they will rethink their position about you, because you will move them in such a way that it breaks their paradigm about you.
It's really a powerful relationship-building technique. We are all on Spaceship Earth together, and we have to keep our hands and arms inside until the ride comes to a full and complete stop. The only way you get off the ride is when you die.
Once we realize that we are all pretty much in the same boat, and that we are no better or worse than anyone else, we can start building those intimate close deep relationships without fear.
No one is better than you. No one is worse than you. We all have choices to make, some are good, some are bad.
We are all washed by the same blood. If we choose it, wonderful! If not, that's a choice.
Once we Seek First To Understand, then we can make in-roads into people's hearts and minds and show them the Love and the Word that we've seen ..
Love you guys ..
Dale
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