Thought for 26 Sept 2005

    The TfT is Individuality. This is most understood ............................but least practiced and often compromised upon............WHY......is compromising upon it really benifitting and worth it????????? ..........WHO ARE U?  ARE U RESPONSIBLE FOR UR OWN ACTIONS? WHAT IS UR CONTRIBUTION TO THE WORLD AROUND U?

"Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true."

                                                                                                                                                        -- Buddha

"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."
                                                                                                --Eleanor Roosevelt

"One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings."

                                                                --Franklin Thomas in Gloria Steinem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, 1983

"The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost."

                                                                --M. Scott Peck

"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

        --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have expressed my strong interest in the mass of the people; and this is founded, not on their usefulness to the community, so much as on what they are in themselves.... Indeed every man (sic), in every condition, is great. It is only our own diseased sight which makes him little. A man is great as a man, be he where or what he may. The grandeur of his nature turns to insignificance all outward distinctions."

                                                        --William Ellery Channing