The torch that guides footsteps.

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.

Ellen DeGeneres

Golden Rules for Living

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Jesse Shwayder ( 1882 - 1970) was the founder of Shwayder Trunk Manufacturing Company, on 10 March 1910. The business was a small luggage factory in Denver, manufacturing suitcases with a small staff of 10. It was around this time that Jesse introduced his management philosophy, which was to guide the firm from day one, namely

The Substitute Reality

In this world, you believe you are sustained by everything but God. Your faith is placed in the most trivial and insane symbols; pills, money, "protective" clothing, influence, prestige, being liked, knowing the "right" people, and an endless list of forms of nothingness that you endow with magical powers.

All these things are your replacements for the Love of God.

'Foots' Clements, Master of the Soft-Drink Sell.

As a farm boy in Alabama, W.W. Clements was trained by his father to introduce himself by saying, "I'm Woodrow Wilson Clements, and I am the future President of the United States of America." Young Clements' pals, however, were more impressed by his size-11½ feet than his political prospects and chose to call him Slew-foot, a nickname later shortened to just plain Foots. It was a handle that its unpretentious owner would hang on to for life.

Golden Rule

 “In order to perfectly live the Golden Rule, one in business, to begin with, would be compelled to buy his merchandise in such a way that he would be dealing with the seller on the basis of the Golden Rule, as well as buying for his customers on the basis of the Golden Rule. The thought I want to bring out, is that we have left most things religious and spiritual down in the swamps of sentimentalism. The efforts of the church in the past have not been directed as much as they may toward educating and equipping men and women to live large and full lives. Whatever has come to the A. Nash Company in living the Golden Rule has come because there has been enough business knowledge to enable us to live it to just that degree, and whenever we have failed in exercising that very highest and keenest business judgment on a truly ethical basis. It has been because we did not have sufficient insight to understand our obligation measured by the Golden Rule. . . . In other words, perfect and infallible living of the Golden Rule would require infallible mentality and undaunted courage.”

The dreamer and dream are one.

"People say to me, "But I am trying to liberate myself, yet nothing happens. In spite of all my efforts I remain as I am. Why?"
If you have ever asked this question, do not be concerned. It merely means that the seeker is still trying to grasp higher truths with the lower mind. It cannot be done. That is like trying to hear music by reading the printed notes. A new sense is needed, that of _awareness._ The everyday mind can lead to the door of the higher world but it cannot enter. This is of utmost importance to understand; it saves so much frustration. Notice how often the New Testament states that the human mind cannot comprehend cosmic concepts." VH

"The only thing that is wrong with Christianity is that we are not giving it a trial. We are using it as something to talk about, Sunday after Sunday, as something to sing and to pray about, to listen to ministers preach about, and all the time neglecting to go forth and live it in our daily lives. If nations, communities, individuals, were only living by the great principle which, glibly enough, has come to be called the

"Principle Before Party"

 Samuel Milton "Golden Rule" Jones (1846 - 1904) was a Progressive Era Mayor of Toledo, Ohio from 1897 to until the time of his death in 1904. Jones was famous for his outspoken advocacy of the proverbial Ethic of reciprocity or "Golden Rule," hence his nickname. Jones was an influential advocate of municipal reform and oversaw implementation of a series of humane modifications of the city of Toledo's administration during his tenure as mayor.

 Based on his belief in the Golden Rule, Jones:

·         opened free kindergartens,

·         developed a park system,

·         established playgrounds for children,

·         established free public baths,

·         instituted an eight-hour day for city workers,

·         took away truncheons from the police,

·         refused to enforce blue laws

·         reformed the city government.

Arthur Nash: The Golden Rule in Business

"GOLDEN RULE NASH"

A REMARKABLE EMPLOYER

Profits Distributed Amongst His Employees

NEW YORK, Saturday

The law of giving and receiving.

We are accustomed to think that a certain amount of time and energy is required to make the visible copy of the idea--the visible chair, or plow, or broom. But the more perfectly we think it out--that is, create it as a complete idea in mind--the more quickly and perfectly we can create it in visible form; and as we think it out better and better, we find that we require less and less time to make the visible thing-and less and less energy.

Bringforthism.

Gemma Stone: When we reach rock bottom {have you hit rock bottom?} there is a quest waiting. It begins with asking, what do I want?

The silence is not an end in itself; it is merely a means to an end. It is only the threshold to greater things, for beyond the silence lie all the infinite resources of God. To open the door and pass this threshold into the presence of Being, consciously living and moving and having your being in God, is your privilege. Once you have entered into the light, continue to walk in the light, for the light becomes your life. THE SILENCE by E.V. Ingraham 1922

 Energy Medicine is not based on pathology, it is based on the following questions:

What is your mission in life?

What were you born into this body and this life for?

What are your dreams and how can you actualize them?

Energy medicine is about creating what you want, creating possibilities and creating a wonderfully positive future! - See more at: http://www.nlpca.com/DCweb/healing-with-energy-medicine-shamanism-and-nlp.html

"Create what you seek," Daryn Kagan "Show The World What's Possible!" www.darynkagan.com/

Think about something that you want and all of the possibilities that you have in achieving it. Ask yourself, “What is possible?”

I know of no large organization that is not as earnestly striving to unify its human relations within its walls as it is without.

 “All Industry and all people in every walk of life, from the farmer to the rolling mill, and from the author to the maker of stockings, is only now coming into the full understanding that each man is both producer and consumer, and that the only path for producer and consumer is that joyous path of mutual helpfulness which is perfectly defined in the too much forgotten golden rule.”

Salvation comes from my one Self.

Correct action is action against anything which is _wrong_, not merely against whatever is wrong with the neighbor or the social system. It is an endless trick of egotism to see wrongness outside of itself, while conveniently forgetting its own falsity which contributes to the very social system it denounces. By seeing both sides of wrongness at once, both within and without, we no longer divide it, which means we are no longer wrong. VH

Osteens talk role of faith after Boston, Texas tragedies

Every major religion in the world has a variation of the Golden Rule:

Christianity All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye so to them; for this is the law and the prophets. Matthew 7:1
Confucianism Do not do to others what you would not like yourself. Then there will be no resentment against you, either in the family or in the state. Analects 12:2
Buddhism Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.Udana-Varga 5,1
Hinduism This is the sum of duty; do naught onto others what you would not have them do unto you. Mahabharata 5,1517
Islam No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself. Sunnah
Judaism What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellowman. This is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary Talmud, Shabbat 3id
Taoism Regard your neighbor’s gain as your gain, and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss. Tai Shang Kan Yin P’ien
Zoroastrianism That nature alone is good which refrains from doing another whatsoever is not good for itself Dadisten-I-dinik, 94,5


WHAT HAVE A FEW OF OUR TEACHERS TOLD US?

“You must be the change you want to see in the world.”~ Gandhi

“If we would live the life of real success, real joy, real Christlikeness, we must keep the current turned to flow from within outward instead of in the opposite direction. God says, “If you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like noonday. The Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your needs in parched places, and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters never fail” (Is. 58:10-11). H. Emilie Cady

“…. service is one of the steps that lead up to the place where all the fullness of God awaits men…..Unless you use for the service of others what God has already given to you, you will find it a long, weary road to spiritual understanding.” H. Emilie Cady

“…man should commit the justice that he wishes to see brought into human affairs.” Charles Fillmore

“Here is the great lesson for us. We should give ourselves first. Walt Whitman said: “… When I give, I give myself.” Here is a great lesson for all of us, that we must put the spirit of giving into our gift. If we don’t do that, it falls short of the real thing.” Charles Fillmore, 1929

“As you help others spiritually and in every way you not only fulfill the law of giving and receiving, you develop your own resources and capabilities in fuller measure.” Myrtle Fillmore

“It is (Creative Energy’s) nature to spring into being through our thought and action.” Ernest Holmes

“It is quite a burden lifted when we realize that we do not have to move the world – it is going to move anyway. This realization does not lessen our duty or our social obligation. It clarifies it. It enables us to do joyously, and free from morbidity, that which we should do in the social state.” Ernest Holmes

The Golden Rule

Universality of the Golden Rule (Baha'u'llah, Gleanings, LXVI:8 ) (Mahabharata 5:1517) (Udana-Varga 5.18) (Samyutta Nikaya v. 353) (Matthew 7:12) (Analects 15:23) (Mahabharata 5.1517) (Fourth Hadith of an-Nawawi 13) (Mahavira, Sutrakritamga) (Talmud, Shabbat 31a; Tobit 4:15) (Chief Seattle) (Udana-Varga 5.18) (Guru Granth Sahib, pg. 1299; Guru Arjan Devji 259) (Tai Shang kan Ying P'ien, 213 - 218) (Unitarian principle) (The Wiccan Rede) (Shayast-na-Shayast, 13.29) Some persons are born with an inner constitution which is harmonious and well balanced from the outset. Their impulses are consistent with one another, their will follows without trouble the guidance of their intellect, their passions are not excessive, and their lives are little haunted by regrets.

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