Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Best gifts

“To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy.”

--Robert Louis Stevenson

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H. HeideWednesday, December 15, 2010 at 8:31:00 AM CST
Stevenson lived this: I remember reading a wonderful defense of Fr. Damien of Molokai that he wrote.

http://catholicinsight.com/online/saints/article_910.shtml

Good words to live by. Thank you for sharing them.
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What happiness a friend, a fellow kind,
whose gentle hands attend a heart entwined,
for, long as loving likens two,
they consummate a life anew,
aligned;

but none may know the ties, when so profane,
and none, with open eyes, will ascertain
the bond, invisible, but true,
that suffering cannot subdue,nor strain;

and so, this holy whole, incorporate
and incorporeal, is our oblate,to lift an everlasting hue
for treasures that we hold and do
await.

--Cartesian Quies ( Read more excellent poems @ http://quietcartesian.blogspot.com/)