tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700559925021182960.comments2011-01-12T14:59:18.111-08:00Find Your PauseThomas Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08570310715303710530noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700559925021182960.post-51404544002780404792011-01-12T14:59:18.111-08:002011-01-12T14:59:18.111-08:00Jeffrey Albrecht commented. Here's what he had...Jeffrey Albrecht commented. Here's what he had to say:<br />Well put, Tom. Fear is a potent force of destruction. Understanding has the power to dispel fear and so fear resists it. How much easier it is to point a... finger and say "them" instead of looking closer and seeing the individual behind the label. He has many fears of his own, I'm sure, and if they are allowed to perpetuate greater fear, then they could destroy us all, until nothing but fear remains. Yet, there is also hope, the arch enemy of fear, whose task it is to lift the spirits of those who are not yet strong enough to find balance and repose in understanding lest they be overcome by the fear and lose hope altogether.<br /><br />Kahlil Gibran wrote On Crime and Punishment in 'The Prophet':<br /><br />Oftentimes have I heard you speak of one who commits a wrong as though he were not one of you, but a stranger unto you and an intruder upon your world.<br />But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you,<br />So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.<br />And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree,<br />So the wrong-doer cannot do wrong without the hidden will of you all.<br />Like a procession you walk together towards your god-self.<br />You are the way and the wayfarers.<br />And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone.<br />Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone.Thomas Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08570310715303710530noreply@blogger.com