UQ Media » philosophy http://uq-media.com Raise your Understanding Quotient Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:59:29 +0000 en hourly 1 The Contribution to Peace http://uq-media.com/2009/09/12/the-contribution-to-peace/ http://uq-media.com/2009/09/12/the-contribution-to-peace/#comments Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:52:27 +0000 lauren.speeth http://uq-media.com/?p=941 Continue reading →]]> The Rosicrucians value tolerance and peace and celebrate a Rosicrucian Day of Peace worldwide annually on the fourth Sunday of June. These ideas for contributing to peace are printed and given out free at their Egyptian Museum and Peace Garden in San Jose:

  • I contribute to Peace when I strive to express the best of myself in my contacts with others.
  • I contribute to Peace when I use my intelligence and my abilities to serve the Good.
  • I contribute to Peace when I feel compassion toward all those who suffer.
  • I contribute to Peace when I look upon all men and women as my brothers and sisters, regardless of race, culture, or religion.
  • I contribute to Peace when I rejoice over the happiness of others and pray for their well-being.
  • I contribute to Peace when I listen with tolerance to opinions that differ from mine or even oppose them.
  • I contribute to Peace when I resort to dialogue rather than to force to settle any conflict.
  • I contribute to Peace when I respect Nature and preserve it for generations to come.
  • I contribute to Peace when I do not seek to impose my conception of God upon others.
  • I contribute to Peace when I make Peace the foundation of my ideals and philosophy.

They can also be found at  http://peaceconsciousness.blogspot.com/

]]> http://uq-media.com/2009/09/12/the-contribution-to-peace/feed/ 0 Lao Tse on Quarreling http://uq-media.com/2009/08/06/lao-tse-on-quarreling/ http://uq-media.com/2009/08/06/lao-tse-on-quarreling/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:23:40 +0000 lauren.speeth http://uq-media.com/?p=780 Continue reading →]]> If terms to end a quarrel leave bad feeling,
What good are they?
So a sensible man takes the poor end of the bargain
Without quibbling.
It is sensible to make terms,
Foolish to be a stickler:
Though heaven prefer no man,
A sensible man prefers heaven.

]]> http://uq-media.com/2009/08/06/lao-tse-on-quarreling/feed/ 0 Lao Tse on Paradox http://uq-media.com/2009/08/06/lao-tse-on-paradox/ http://uq-media.com/2009/08/06/lao-tse-on-paradox/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:22:36 +0000 lauren.speeth http://uq-media.com/?p=779 Continue reading →]]> Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox told us by the wise, who seem to twist the truth: one who bites dust is owner of earth, one who is scapegoat is the ruler.”

]]> http://uq-media.com/2009/08/06/lao-tse-on-paradox/feed/ 0 Lao Tse – Mastery http://uq-media.com/2009/08/06/lao-tse-mastery/ http://uq-media.com/2009/08/06/lao-tse-mastery/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:19:55 +0000 lauren.speeth http://uq-media.com/?p=778 One who knows much about others may be learned, but one who understands oneself is more intelligent. One who controls others may be powerful, but one who has mastered oneself is mightier still.

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]]> http://uq-media.com/2009/08/06/lao-tse-on-response/feed/ 0 Herodotus – War Violates the Order of Nature http://uq-media.com/2009/05/21/herodotus-war-violates-the-order-of-nature/ http://uq-media.com/2009/05/21/herodotus-war-violates-the-order-of-nature/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 02:54:05 +0000 lauren.speeth http://uq-media.com/?p=514 In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
Herodotus

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]]> http://uq-media.com/2009/05/21/leave-violence-to-the-incompetent/feed/ 0 Aristotle on Moral Excellence http://uq-media.com/2009/05/21/aristotle-on-moral-excellence/ http://uq-media.com/2009/05/21/aristotle-on-moral-excellence/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 02:54:05 +0000 lauren.speeth http://uq-media.com/?p=516 Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. -Aristotle

]]> http://uq-media.com/2009/05/21/aristotle-on-moral-excellence/feed/ 0 Do Right In Spite of Feelings http://uq-media.com/2009/05/21/do-right-in-spite-of-feelings/ http://uq-media.com/2009/05/21/do-right-in-spite-of-feelings/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 02:53:42 +0000 lauren.speeth http://uq-media.com/?p=525 “You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.” -Pearl Buck

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