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If one wishes to be big
be immensely generous
If one is to be bad
be bad at deception
To be good,be good at sharing
To be understood,be understanding
To grow one must learn.
To learn one must change.
To be free one must be unattached
To initiate change inappropriately
will cause unbalance.
To change with the myriad creatures
is to follow the way.
To seek success is to bring disappointment
If one is to be fast,be fast to adapt.
If one is to be ready,be ready to forgive
To know truth,be truthful
Dennis Conroy (1986)
More Wisdom
In attitude it is thoughtfulness that matters.
In action it is timeliness that matters.
In relationships it is consideration (respect) that matters.
In direction it is forethought that matters.
In inclination it is forebearance that matters.
Humility is not so much a virtue
as a prerequisite to learning.
Ones actions is what gives due credit
or discredit,to any title which one bears.
By realizing we are temporal
we touch the eternal.
In seeing we are finite
we may glimpse the infinite.
By understanding we are just a part,
we may come to know the whole.
Dennis Conroy (1987)
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