The Daily Ripple

“Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid.”~ Proverbs 12:1 (NIV) ~ Yep. That’s in the Bible. It really says stupid. Not everybody grew up with that book, and that’s fine. But it’s out there, and every now and then we stumble across a line that makes us want to dig a…

“Laughter is an instant vacation.”~ Attributed to Milton Berle ~ No plane ticket. No packing. No overpriced airport sandwich. Think about the last time you really laughed with somebody. The kind where you can’t finish the sentence. For a minute, everything else got put on hold: the to-do list, the inbox, whatever you’d been chewing…

“To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”~ Confucius (translation, Analects 2.17) ~ Most of us have the first half down. We know what we know. We’ll tell you about it, too. Loudly. At dinner. The second half is where the real knowledge lives. Saying “I don’t know”…

“No daylight to separate us. Only kinship.”~ Gregory Boyle ~ Kinship is one of those old ideas that doesn’t get much airtime anymore. It’s not about who’s in your family tree or your circle of trust.  It’s deciding there’s no “us” and “them.” Just us. Some of the kindest people who ever lived kept coming…

“Whether one believes in a religion or not… there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.”~ Dalai Lama, Path to Tranquility (1998) ~ Everybody’s rushing. Everybody’s got an opinion. Patience is hard to find. But nobody, on any side of anything, turns down kindness. A small act can turn someone’s whole day around…and that…