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September, 2010
The Effort of Learning
Learning is very close to the greatest blessing, second only to the gift of life. One of the wonders of our modern world is the availability of vast amounts of information and knowledge, for many it is literally at our fingertips. How well we employ these bits of potential knowledge lies in the crucial, individual choices we’ll make. Knowledge is the treasure that precedes influence, wisdom is the key that need be inserted before sound judgement is rendered.
What do you hope to understand? The miracle workings of the human body, the secrets of the universe or the latest advances in technology? The arts, the sciences, philosophy or power of mathematics? The purpose of life? Whatever your choices, a plethora of selections is waiting for you. When someone says to me, “I hate or hated school”, it tells me one of two things, either the choices of academics were incompatible with their abilities or comfort zones or the social network surrounding it is or was. If you consider yourself a life learner, you may not be comfortable around mental sluggards. If you’re sluggardly, you won’t be reading this. “The devil is in the details,” describes far too many attitudes today. We prefer our chosen knowledge injected or infused, delivered on demand and trimmed for rapid, efficient and pleasurable consumption. That is simply not how functional knowledge grows and prospers. Knowledge is proprietary, exclusive and unique to each living, thinking, individual being. Like everything living in the universe, the seeds of knowledge must be planted, fertilized, watered and exposed to time and the lights of challenge and discovery. It involves work and the fruits of such work are bountiful. What you gain is yours alone, unless you choose to share it. When you add knowledge to your experience, the result is singularly unique and unbelievably special.
We learn in any environment, public or parochial, painful or enjoyable, both from trials and blessings. If it’s all fun, you’ll only get half the lesson and half of any lesson will yield as much trouble as tribute. Read for knowledge and pleasure, study for affirmation and discovery, live for purpose and achievement, but only do these things if you want a full life! If your choice is a cup half full, then Tweet, post, gossip, view and embellish the ordinary. Life is the school we’ve been enrolled in, but knowledge is the product of our effort.
JC Calkins with Common Sense 4 Uncommon People
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Earn it!
We work our entire lives that we may sleep restfully, yet the more we gain from our work the less we are able to sleep. We seek physical assurances that we’ll have what we think we’ll need tomorrow or in many other cases, that we’ll have what we desire come tomorrow. Yet, the more things we have, the more things we will worry about losing, including sleep. We’ve become so regimented in these productive efforts that our worldly desires have… read more
Life’s Essential Truths
Each blog which we publish deals with some important life truth. Our Natural Reflections Journey series of (dvds, downloads) video-books and soothing graphics cover over 800 of these misplaced or forgotten necessities. Happiness is much more elusive today because we have too many expectations and lack the virtues of patience and compartmentalization. One of our kids innocently said while looking for a job after high school ‘ “it shouldn’t matter how I look, it should only matter who I am”…. read more
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