While I enjoy posting videos and pictures about my life and those around me, I do come across things that I feel need to be shared every now and then. This website, while aimed at advising men on how to be manly (and I am living proof of this site achieving this goal) this article caught my attention by it's relevance to our society today, perhaps even more relevant than when William Jordan wrote it in 1905. That being said: women, I think you could benefit from reading this article too.
In our lives where we seek to add levels of complexity and noise to drown out the, what has become, uncomfortable-ness of nature's simple silence we lose the truths from which we were made; to love. Take some time today to simplify your life. Put down your iphone/blackberry and have a conversation with someone face to face; not looking past them, not surfing the web, not listening to the radio while talking with them. Try today to 'live down' your life so that you can live it up to it's fullest.
For it when you are weak that He will make you strong.
"No character can be simple unless it is based on truth—unless it is lived in harmony with one’s own conscience and ideals...The man whose character is simple looks truth and honesty so straight in the face that he has no consciousness of intrigue and corruption around him...To true simplicity, to perceive a truth is to begin to live it, to see a duty is to begin to do it...Simplicity is never to be associated with weakness and ignorance. It means reducing tons of ore to nuggets of gold. It means the light of fullest knowledge; it means that the individual has seen the folly and the nothingness of those things that make up the sum of the life of others. He has lived down what others are blindly seeking to live up to. Simplicity is. . .the secret of any specific greatness in the life of the individual."
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