philosophical

I am in a cage. I desire to be set free.

I thought you might appreciate this.....__xcerpt from my lecture Sunday February 22, 2015 at Soul-Esteem Center10 Commandments - God knew when he gave us choice some would make the wrong choices, but God wanted his creation, man, to have free will and felt later it necessary to write the 10 Commandants as a reminder of how God wanted his creations to perform. The 10 Commandants contain 5 positives and five negatives__ I. Alan Appt, The Strength in Knowingtags: motivational, philosophy, psychology, self-helpPeace to all,Alan Appt

Work on your character, let life fall into place.

I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible.

Living in the fast lane is great as long as you remember where the slip roads are

_"We live in a world where those things that we never imagine could ever do something, did the best.

If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us. However, since He took the most horrific death to redeem us, He showed us in fact that suffering and pain have great power.

Man is now able to fly through the air like a bird, he is able to swim under the sea like a fish, he is able burrow beneath the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

How we handle adversity determines the chances if we either fall or rise.

But shame is like a wound that is never exposed and therefore never heals.

Nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to follow the path that leads to himself.

Hatred and disdain do harm to the donor not the intended recipient_The Strength in Knowing ----- by I. Alan Appt

Would you like to be best of the worst or the worst of the best?

Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade.

Introspection does not need to be a still life. It can be an active alchemy.

You call me the unhuman," it might say to him, "and so I really am__or you; but I am so only because you bring me into opposition to the human, and I could despise myself only so long as I let myself be hypnotized into this opposition. I was contemptible because I sought my 'better self' outside me; I was the unhuman because I dreamed of the 'human'; I resembled the pious who hunger for their 'true self' and always remain 'poor sinners'; I thought of myself only in comparison to another; enough, I was not all in all, was not__nique.[102] But now I cease to appear to myself as the unhuman, cease to measure myself and let myself be measured by man, cease to recognize anything above me: consequently__dieu, humane critic! I only have been the unhuman, am it now no longer, but am the unique, yes, to your loathing, the egoistic; yet not the egoistic as it lets itself be measured by the human, humane, and unselfish, but the egoistic as the__nique.

A man who does not question his own judgment, society, and who flourishes between deceit and bewilderment, fails his moral responsibility as a rational being.

It is not in our interest, I suppose, to let South Sudan fall under the category of the burdened societies. We must be critical about our own actions if we want to move forward as a nation proud of its immense diversity.