Letting People In Is Largely A Matter

My Prayer Is: I Will Be What I Will Be, I Will Do What I Will Do.

Whenever We Condemn, We Cloak The World In Pain.

For Communication To Have Meaning It Must Have A Life. It Must Transcend "you And Me" And Become "us." If I Truly Communicate, I See In You A Life That Is Not Me And Partake Of It. And You See And Partake Of Me. In A Small Way We Then Grow Out Of Our Old Selves And Become Something New. To Have This Kind Of Sharing I Cannot Enter Into A Conversation Clutching Myself. I Must Enter Into It With Loose Boundaries. I Must Give Myself To The Relationship, And Be Willing To Be What Grows Out Of It.

I Can Not 'make My Mark' For All Time - Those Concepts Are Mutually Exclusive. 'lasting Effect' Is A Self-contradictory Term. Meaning Does Not Exist In The Future And Neither Do I. Nothing Will Have Meaning 'ultimately.' Nothing Will Even Mean Tomorrow What It Did Today. Meaning Changes With The Context. My Meaningfulness Is Here. It Is Enough That I Am Of Value To Someone Today. It Is Enough That I Make A Difference Now.

Stands Must Be Taken. If I Am To Respect Myself I Have To Search Myself For What I Believe Is Right And Take A Stand On What I Find. Otherwise, I Have Not Gathered Together What I Have Been Given; I Have Not Embraced What I Have Learned; I Lack My Own Conviction.