You hear a lot of jokes every once in a while about ‘Silent Cal Coolidge.’ The joke is on the people who make the jokes. Look at his record. He cut the taxes four times. We had probably the greatest growth and prosperity that we’ve ever known. I have taken heed of that because if he did that by doing nothing, maybe that’s the answer.
Ronald Reagan
Cutting
You on the cutting
You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday’s impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.
Ronald Reagan
I’ve been told that
I’ve been told that some members of Congress disagree with my tax cut proposal. Well, you know it’s been said that taxation is the art of plucking feathers without killing the bird. It’s time they realized the bird just doesn’t have any feathers left. Ronald Reagan
Since I was cut
Since I was cut from the reedbed I have made this crying sound. Anyone separated from someone he loves understands what I say. Anyone pulled from a Source longs to go back.
Rumi
A craftsman pulled a
A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it’s been wailing a tender agony of parting, never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute Rumi
We Are All the
We Are All the Same
Listen to the reeds as they sway apart;
Hear them speak of lost friends.
At birth, you were cut from your bed,
Crying and grasping in separation.
Everyone listens, knowing your song.
You yearn for others who know your name,
And the words to your lament.
We are all the same, all the same,
Longing to find our way back;
Back to the one, back to the only one.
Rumi
The same wind that
The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never brag of being strong. The axe doesn’t worry how thick the branches are. It cuts them to pieces. But not the leaves. It leaves the leaves alone.
Rumi