Weekly Offering
Thursday, October 6th, 2005More Words of Wisdom From Lama Suryas Das:
Who is wise?
He that learns from everyone.
Who is powerful?
He that governs his passions.
Who is rich?He that is content.
Who is that?
Nobody.
~ Benjamin Franklin
It seem that some things don’t change. I’m reminded of the vast technological changes that have occurred since Ben Franklin’s time to ours. Perhaps its safe to say that the world we share would be seen as dangerous and confusing to him and his ilk, perhaps viewed with distaste. I stretch my imagination to question how our world would be different if we had advanced just as far in social or political arenas as well. These are, after all, the areas that our founding fathers were trying to address with their “Great Experiment.”
I wonder what he’d say about our progress…