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Post by Tamrin on Jun 3, 2013 10:04:26 GMT 10
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 8, 2013 11:02:33 GMT 10
Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps
Douglas William Jerrold (Died this day 1857)
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 15, 2013 8:20:29 GMT 10
The Erikson life-stage virtues, in the order of the stages in which they may be acquired, are: Erik EriksonDanish-German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst (Born this day 1902) Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit I like to compare Erikson's stages of development to our understanding of Jacob's ladder: This ladder has many staves or rounds, but there are three principles ones, namely, Faith, Hope and Charity. Ideally, we begin with faith in others (usually our parents); grow to hope and aspire to be like our role models; and finally come to a time of integrity, true charity and self-sacrifice, when we strive to aid in the welfare and growth of others. Fittingly, we become the font of charity in which we as infants had faith.
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 2, 2014 7:32:35 GMT 10
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 11, 2014 8:09:26 GMT 10
Each soul seeks the ladder in order to ascend above; but the ladder cannot be found … Be what it may, one must leap until God, in His mercy, makes exultation come about
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The system of meanings that permeates the universe is like an endless flight of stairs. Even when the upper stairs are beyond our sight, we constantly rise toward the distant goal
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Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel I (Born this day 1907)
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