Background

I wanted to place some flesh around our last post.

BTW, that post is :-

Being A Critic
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Messages

1. Edward Abbey
   • You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light.
   • There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience.
     And then there is California.
2. Aboriginal Activists Group, Queensland
   • If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.
     Aboriginal Activists Group, Queensland
3. Unknown
   • I make the Living, he makes life worth living
4. Muhammad Ali
   • Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
5. Ansel Adams
   • There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
   • No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
   • Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes, your easy smile is your museum.
6. Henri Frederic Amiel
   • Learn to…be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
7. Jeff Van Gundy
   • “Don’t take criticism from people you wouldn’t take advice from,” Van Gundy said.
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8. Barack Obama
   • Portrait of a man who views politics with the distancing eye of an outsider
     • Links
       • NY Times
         • Obama exhibits calm in the swirl of history
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     • Messages
       • One of the curiosities about Mr. Obama is his professed lack of interest in the writers who pore over that life, trying to deconstruct his fractured family and geography. He claims not to read profiles that pile high in his plane.
       • “It just encourages the narcissism that is already a congenital defect for a politician,” he says. “I find these essays more revealing about the author than about me.”
9. Nouman Ali Khan
   • You compare yourself with your-own self from past. That is the only one worth comparing” advice from Nouman Ali Khan to budding students trying to follow his footsteps.
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10. Lauren Lake
    • You never let someone’s one dimensional perspective affect your multi-faceted destiny
    • We get labels, and labels are limiting
11. Andre Agassi
    • Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we’re here. To make each other feel safe.
12. Shawn Achor
    • We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.
13. Diane Ackerman
    • Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
14. Susan B. Anthony
    • I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
15. Guillaume Apollinaire
    • Come to the edge. We can’t. We’re afraid.
      Come to the edge. We can’t. We’ll fall!
      Come to the edge. And they came.
      And he pushed them. And they flew.
16. Katie Holmes
    • You’ve got to keep going: Katie Holmes
      • “You’ve got to keep going,” she also advised in that interview. “In every part of your life. Focus on the positive. Stay creative. Go to things that interest you. Do work that’s fulfilling. Challenge yourself. What’s amazing about the human spirit, there are so many people doing inspiring things. If you focus on that, it makes your life richer.”
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Referenced Materials

1. Marta Davidovich Ockulu
   • Joy of Quotes
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2. Modern Hero
   • Lauren Lake
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Smith Wigglesworth

As this is a message on faith, it is right to let Mr. Smith have the last few words :-

Great

Great faith is the Product of great fights.
Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests.
Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.

Two Sides

There are two sides to this Baptism: The first is, you possess the Spirit;
The second is that the Spirit possesses you.