I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to somebody's need made me blind

But I never have yet Felt a tinge of regret for being a little to kind

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Thomas B. Macaulay (1800-1859) English politician, essayist and poet.

“The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong".”

Sydney J. Harris

Jesus said, “No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.” (Matthew 6:24 NIV) Attempting to serve two masters leads to “double-mindedness” (James 4:8), undermining loyalty to a cause. . James 5:2

Mortal sin, according to the beliefs of Roman Catholicism, and some Protestant denominations, is a sin that, unless confessed and absolved (or at least sacramental confession is willed if not available), condemns a person's soul to Hell after death. These sins are considered "mortal" because they constitute a rupture in a person's link to God's saving grace: the person's soul becomes "dead", not merely weakened.

vipaka

Vipāka is the fruition of Kamma

According to the seed that’s sown,
So is the fruit you reap therefrom,
Doer of good will gather good,
Doer of evil, evil reaps,
Down is the seed and thou shalt taste the fruit thereof.

—Saṃyutta Nikāya

triangular theory of love

The triangular theory of love is a theory of love developed by psychologist Robert Sternberg. The theory characterizes love within the context of interpersonal relationships by three different components:

1. Intimacy – Which encompasses feelings of closeness, connectedness, and bondedness.
2. Passion – Which encompasses drives that lead to romance, physical attraction, and sexual consummation.
3. Commitment – Which encompasses, in the short term, the decision to remain with another, and in the long term, the shared achievements and plans made with that other.

The “amount” of love one experiences depends on the absolute strength of these three components; the “type” of love one experiences depends on their strengths relative to each other. Different stages and types of love can be explained as different combinations of these three elements; for example, the relative emphasis of each component changes over time as an adult romantic relationship develops. A relationship based on a single element is less likely to survive than one based on two or three elements.

the crown jewel of life...........death

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The Kübler-Ross model first introduced by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her book "On Death and Dying", describes, in five discrete stages, a process by which people allegedly deal with grief and tragedy, especially when diagnosed with a terminal illness. The stages are known as the Five Stages of Grief.

Stages

The stages are:

1. Denial
2. Anger
   
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance

Let me not pray

Let me not pray to be sheltered from
dangers but to be fearless in facing
them.



Let me not pray for the stilling of
my pain but for the heart to conquer it.



Let me not look for allies in life’s
battlefields but to my own strength.



Let me not crave in anxious fear to
be saved but hope for the patience to
win my freedom.



Grant me that I may not be a
coward, feeling your mercy in my
success alone; but let me find the grasp
of your hand in my failure.



Rabindranath Tagore

('Fruit-Gathering')