tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345889130053053070.post3819485086146260909..comments2023-08-20T21:14:43.398-07:00Comments on Before Nine: TalibanMongo, At The Momenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00973606827337262084noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345889130053053070.post-29560332555449434332015-03-31T11:58:28.689-07:002015-03-31T11:58:28.689-07:00Ditto. I also think Elvis got it when he said, &q...Ditto. I also think Elvis got it when he said, "Don't / Step on my Blue Suede Shoes".Mongo, At The Momenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00973606827337262084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345889130053053070.post-83694615856354401332015-03-31T10:07:44.370-07:002015-03-31T10:07:44.370-07:00Slightly edited (to be non-theistic) version of th...Slightly edited (to be non-theistic) version of the Prayer of St. Francis (as Wikipedia makes clear, it was named in honor of him, not written by him)<br /><br />My goal is to be an instrument of peace.<br />Where there is hatred, let me sow love;<br />Where there is injury, pardon;<br />Where there is doubt, faith;<br />Where there is despair, hope;<br />Where there is darkness, light;<br />Where there is sadness, joy.<br /><br />I seek not so much to be consoled, as to console;<br />to be understood, as to understand;<br />to be loved, as to love.<br /><br />For it is in giving that we receive.<br />It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,<br />and it is in letting go of a smaller self that we are able to recognize our wider identity.<br />mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.com