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Love Burdens Itself With The Wants And Woes And Losses And Even The Wrongs Of Others.

Buddha Wrote A Code Which He Said Would Be Useful To Guide Men In Darkness, But He Never Claimed To Be The Light Of The World. Buddhism Was Born With A Disgust For The World, When A Prince's Son Deserted His Wife And Child, Turning From The Pleasures Of Existence To The Problems Of Existence. Burnt By The Fires Of The World, And Already Weary With It, Buddha Turned To Ethics.

Advertising Tries To Stimulate Our Sensuous Desires, Converting Luxuries Into Necessities, But It Only Intensifies Man's Inner Misery. The Business World Is Bent On Creating Hungers Which Its Wares Never Satisfy, And Thus It Adds To The Frustrations And Broken Minds Of Our Times.

The Mark Of The Christian Is The Willingness To Look For The Divine In The Flesh Of A Babe In A Crib, The Continuing Christ Under The Appearance Of Bread On An Altar, And A Meditation And A Prayer On A String Of Beads

Calamity, War, Famine, Plague, Death, Adversity, Disease, Injury Do Not Necessarily Produce Repentance. We May Become Better In A Calamity But It Does Not Necessarily Make Us Repent. The Essence Of Repentance Is That We Cannot Be Repentant Until We Confront Our Own Self Righteousness With God's Righteousness.