Saturday, September 9, 2023

Random Building Thoughts - 2023-09-09

 

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No Work, 
No Transformation. 
Know Work, 
Know Transformation!
 
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What Hampers Craft Growth 
are Accepted Masons not Becoming 
the Free Masons They Were Intended to Be. 
You Can Change this, 
but Only for Yourself.

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<I got mine! You get yours yet?>
 
Masonry Equips 
Serious Travelers 
with High Beams 
to Light their Paths.
 
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 To Make a Difference,
You Must Commit to Difference,
and Honor It Without Exception!

 
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FILED UNDER: 
Master Mason Level Wisdom
 
The Word is Not Any word 
that Can Be Written or Uttered. 
It is a Word that Requires 
No Aid from Others to Render. 
 It is Recognized by all 
who See Truth.

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Don't ever 
with a binary talking Jedi 
with a drawn light saber.
Either "Free" or "Accepted" 
Are You. 
"And" is There.

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 Free & Accepted

Free = Exceptional; Pure; Extraordinary; 
Superior; Masterful (Master)

Accepted = Entered; Initiated; 
Joined; Made (Apprentice)
 
 
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"My notion of marriage 
is that if marriage isn't a first priority 
in your life you're not married. 
It's an extremely important decision, 
that of marriage, 
because it does amount to 
and require a yielding 
and the yielding has to be total 
to now being a member of a dyad 
and acting in relation to that twoness. 
As I've said to people 
who are worried about it, 
when you make what you call 
a sacrifice to the other person, 
that's not what you're sacrificing to.
You're sacrificing to the relationship. 
The relationship is the sacrificial field, 
where both of you are relating 
to the relationship and then you are, 
as it were, two together. 
Really like that yin-yang thing. 
(If you hang on to being the yin, 
or hang on to being the yang in this thing, 
as a separate unit, you don't have a marriage.) 
Then everything in your life from then on 
relates to that relationship. 
And when judgments of actions 
and decisions at various times 
have to be taken in that sense, 
then you're married."
-- Joseph Campbell, 
"The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work"

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The Trouble that Arises 
with Taking any Faith Literally 
is that this Manner Produces Individuals 
who shall Find Nothing But Flaws. 
This is because many Metaphors Translate 
very Poorly when Taken Factually.
 
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 Until every Weak Link 
is Strengthened in Wisdom's Chain,
 it shall Fail at its 
Weakest Fool.
 
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FILED UNDER: 
Things you ought to know
 
The main difference between 
SUBDUE and SUPPRESS
 is the former seeks to direct what is 
while the later seeks to withhold what is. 
 
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Our job IS to Figure out 
WORTHINESS and to JUDGE!
 
1) Our Charge:
 
"Our laws and regulations 
you are strenuously to support, 
and be always ready to assist 
in seeing them duly executed. 
You are not to palliate, 
or aggravate,
 the offenses of your brethren; 
but, in the decision of every trespass 
against our rules, 
you are to JUDGE 
with candor, 
admonish with friendship, 
and reprehend with justice."
 -- (Duncan)
 
2) You are determining worthiness and judging when you sign a petition.
3) You are determining worthiness and judging when you cast your ballot.
 
Judgment is not a bad thing. 
False and hypocritical judgment is.
 
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Any Successful Circumscription 
or Subduing of Passions and Desires 
Begins with Accurate Emotional Awareness.

 
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-- Coach Nagy ;-)

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