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03-04-2012, 10:53 PM
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Master
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 18,675
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The Church bells rang...
This was a horrible proposal (that the eight-year-old Albert join a friend in killing birds with a sling) but I dared not refuse for fear he would laugh at me.
So we came to a tree which was still bare, and on which birds were singing out gaily in the morning, without fear of any of us.
Then stooping over like an Indian on the hunt, my companion placed a pebble in the leather of his sling and stretched it. Obeying his preemptory glance I did the same, with frightful twinges of conscience, vowing firmly that I would shoot when he did.
At that very moment the church bells began to sound, mingling with the song of the birds in the sunshine. It was the warning bell that came a half-hour before the main bell.
For me it was a voice from Heaven. I threw the sling down, scaring the birds away, so that they were safe from my companion's sling and fled home.
And ever afterwards when the bells of Holy Week ring out amidst the leafless trees in the sunshine I remember with moving gratitude how they rang into my heart at that time the commandment; Thou shalt not kill.
- Albert Schweitzer ('Memoirs of Childhood and Youth')
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All this talk of religion, but it's how you live your life that is the all-important thing.
If you set out each day to do all the goodness and kindness that you can, and to do no harm to man or beast, then you are walking the highest path.
And when your time is up, if you can leave the earth a better place than you found it, then yours will have been a life well lived.
http://holy-lance.blogspot.com
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03-04-2012, 11:32 PM
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I like this guy. :)
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04-04-2012, 09:23 AM
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Master
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 18,675
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Yes, I like him too!
Albert dedicated his life to helping others. He cared about people and animals and insects.
He started the 'Reverence for Life' movement based on the Ahimsa principle.
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All this talk of religion, but it's how you live your life that is the all-important thing.
If you set out each day to do all the goodness and kindness that you can, and to do no harm to man or beast, then you are walking the highest path.
And when your time is up, if you can leave the earth a better place than you found it, then yours will have been a life well lived.
http://holy-lance.blogspot.com
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