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THOUGHTS THAT BRING ME PEACE

Rip Parker
3 min readSep 28, 2022

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Seldom do we rush into a great act. Great acts are an accumulation of small acts over time. Same is true for harmful action. Although, in an unguarded moment, great harm can be done quickly, it is the insidious accumulation of small, hardly noted harmful acts that lead to the great harm.

He who would awaken with enthusiasm and motivation to accomplish a worthy goal is benefited to sleep with that plan. But, he must sleep, leaving the action for tomorrow.

We may wonder, day to day, moment to moment, what we are about. To what end do I exist this moment? We exist this moment to ask that question. Be not anxious for the answer. It will come.

We all will feel, time to time, alone and lonely, but we never are alone. Our company may be silent, unavailable to our senses, but nonetheless, powerfully present and aiding our thoughts and feelings to accomplish the currently unknown goal.

We prefer knowing over dependence on faith, but on occasion knowing requires faith to allow it time to blossom. This is not a bad thing. It properly humbles us without destroying appropriate self esteem.

Faith requires strength and courage.

He who sets forth to speak wisdom will reveal foolishness.

We have heard misery prefers company, but never as meaningfully as peace prefers company, remembering we are all in this moment together in our quest for Truth. In that knowledge, we find confidence we together shall prevail.

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Rip Parker
Rip Parker

Written by Rip Parker

Geophysicist, lawyer, mediator, student of Jung, phenomenology, semiotics

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