Reputation or integrity, which lasts?
Triumph or humility, which teaches?
Pour love on concrete, it will not grow.
The hoarder will lose everyone.
Find contentment in yourself, and it cannot be taken away.
Know when you are rich, let the rest go.
This is peace.
Hegira (hej' i ra, he ji' ra) (Arab, hejira, the departure). The epoch of the flight of Mohammed from Mecca to Medina when he was expelled by the magistrates, July 15th, 622. The Mohammedan calendar starts from this event.
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1963. p. 444.
Taking up this thread again, after more than a year's disuse.
I first heard the word hejira from Shelby Foote, in The Stars in Their Courses, Jeb Stewart's roundabout trip to meet up with R. E. Lee. I also learned about Yael or Jael from Foote.
Artemisia Gentileschi had a lot to work through. Hers is my favorite Judith, as well.
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body, integrity, humility.
Pour most things on concrete and they won't grow.
The hoarder may lose everyone, but wow, they'll have lots of stuff!
Contentment; without it you have to pee a lot?
'Let the rest go' - the rest of what?
mmmm... pie.
Phil,
This is philosophy.
Yes, it is.
If I can take the mundane and make it incomprehensible, why can't I take the philosophic and make it pragmatic?
Phil,
Oh, of course you are welcome to. I just have to smart off back.
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