Intelligence is endowed. Wisdom is learned - Quotes from Islamic, Chinese, Israelite, Christian, & Hindu Sources

• Wisdom in Early Confucian and Israelite Traditions, By Xinzhong Yao (Routledge, 2016. p. 79): (ZiGong BCE), one of the closest disciples of Confucius, reportedly said: 'Not to tire of learning is wisdom' :

  Wisdom is an integratal part of all philosophical and religious traditions in the world. Focusing on the concept of wisdom, this book examines the difficulties and problems facing comparative studies of the early Confucian and Israelite traditions by exploring the cosmological and ethical implications of wisdom in the older layers of Christian and Confucian texts. Presenting a detailed discussion of how wisdom was understood in philosophical, religious and social contexts by the writers of the socalled early Confucian and Israelite wisdom texts, this book offers an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the significance of wisdom in the East and West, and to our knowledge of different and yet related ways of life as understood in their literature.
  
  For the Israelites the divine is YHWH, the creator of the world and of human beings, and YHWH is the sole source of human nature and wisdom, as explained in the Book of Ben Sira: He [YHWH] gave to men few days, a limited time, but granted them authority over the things upon the earth. He endowed them with strength like his own, and made them in his own image … he filled them with knowledge and understanding, and showed them good and evil. (Sir. 17:2–7)(page 122)... Continue reading (ebook)

• Intelligence is endowed. wisdom is learned, IslamiCity Bulletin
• Prophetic Wisdom – Generation Gap By: Sadullah Khan   Source: IslamiCity
• Knowledge of the Sacred, According To to S H Nasr: Intelligence is endowed with the possibility of what? -- it is endowed with the possibility of knowing the Absolute
• Wisdom of Imam Ali  Source: IslamiCity
• Narayaneeyam - Dasakam: 5 (Cosmic Evolution): Oh Guruvayoorappa! This principle of intelligence is endowed with the three gunas. Being activated by that Supreme Consciosness,and being roused by Time. The principle of Intelligence was projected by Maya.This came to be known as "MAHAT". Although a f "Prakriti" with its constituent qualities of Sathwa, Rajas and Tamas,the 'mahat' was predominantly Sathwa in nature with no separate individuality or status of its own.A bit more of "TAMAS" was then added to "Mahat"and it now came to be known as "AHAMKARA" (Egoity),rooted in separateness, difference and plurality. [see also THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE --(The Concept of the "VIRATA PURUSHA")]
• Daniel 1:4 : biblehub: youths in whom was no defect, who were good-looking, showing intelligence in every branch of wisdom, endowed with understanding and discerning knowledge, and who had ability for serving in the king's court; and he ordered him to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans.
• Intelligence is endowed, but wisdom learned: Holy Trinity Primary School Environmental Garden
• Wisdom is learned through the School of Hard Knocks and is the result of struggle and mistakes. When one is arguing from Wisdom, one argues from a place of folk tradition, intuition and common sense. Wisdom gives acuteness of judgment. It is the Sophia, the innate knowing that we have and aren’t aware of. This is the power attributed to the great seers, oracles and Biblical judges. Seekers and Guides: Knowledge, Wisdom and Gnosis (Paganism)
• Chinese Wisdom - Poem by Lawrence CH Hiun : audio
  In crisis, wisdom growth,
  And gained.
  Intelligence endowed,
  But wisdom is learned.
  

Pathways to Kindness Audit

The bottomline here is 'When someone does you a big favor, don't pay it back. Pay It Forward.' wikiquote.org

Pay It Forward: A Novel  by Catherine Ryan Hyde` About the novel: "Catherine Ryan Hyde's Pay It Forward takes as its premise the bumper-sticker phrase "Think Globally, Act Locally" and builds a novel around it. The hero of her story is young Trevor McKinney, a 12-year-old whose imagination is sparked by an extra-credit assignment in Social Studies: "Think of an idea for world change, and put it into action." Trevor's idea is deceptively simple: do a good deed for three people, and in exchange, ask each of them to "pay it forward" to three more. "So nine people get helped. Then those people have to do twenty-seven.... Then it sort of spreads out." Trevor's early attempts to get his project off the ground seem to end in failure: a junkie he befriends ends up back in jail; an elderly woman whose garden he tends dies unexpectedly. But even after the boy has given up on his plan, his acts of kindness bear unexpected fruit, and soon an entire movement is underway and spreading across America."

Sources to find quotable quotes:
Christianity:

BIBLE VERSES ABOUT ACTS OF KINDNESS  -- includes Bible verses related to Acts of Kindness from the King James Version (KJV)

Hinduism:

• Compassion is kindness to all living beings especially when they are in distress. Non-covetousness is self satisfaction with what one has been allotted in life. Bhagavad-Gita: Chapter 16, Verse 1,2,3
• The epic is full of examples of compassion and kindness shown by Rama to the people who sought his help or simply surrendered to Him. [Valmiki’s Ramayana]

Islam:

• Quran Chapter : 107. Surah al-Ma'un (The Small Kindness).

• Hadith: "God did not send me to be harsh, or cause harm, but He sent me to teach and make things easy." - Sahih Muslim, Hadith 707
• "Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever is not kind has no faith." (Muslim)
• "Whoever is kind, Allah will be kind to him; therefore be kind to man on the earth. He Who is in heaven will show mercy on you." [Abu Dawud: Tirmidhi] -- [source: Moral Virtues]

Judaism:

• The Price of Kindness by Rabbi Yisrael Rutman
• True Kindness - the Crux of Torah, By Nechoma Greisman

On the same shelf:

Small Acts of Kindness Work Wonders with Audit Clients   image courtesy: thatauditguy.com 

• Spiritual Assessment in Healthcare Practice  Wilfred McSherry 
• Someone a little nicer | An experiment in kindness
• A Spiritual Audit of Corporate America: A Hard Look at Spirituality, Religion, and Values in the Workplace  Ian Mitroff
• Punishment: The Supposed Justifications: A Critical Audit of Classical and Contemporary Attempts to Establish the Morality of Punishment  Ted Honderich
• Just Get On With It: A Caring, Compassionate Kick Up the Ass!  Ali Campbell
• Implosion: Can America Recover from Its Economic and Spiritual Challenges in Time?  Joel C. Rosenberg
• Conversations In Silence: A Diary of a Journey with a Spiritual Master  Narendra
• Examining Library Spaces through a “Kindness Audit” 

Have you ever considered doing a “kindness audit” at your library?

In the HyperlibMOOC class, Michael Stephens discusses the concept of a “kindness audit” – look at your library space and examine how kind it is for your patrons.


• Is the signage positive?
• Are your service desks welcoming?
• Can users find their way easily?
• What obstacles do your users encounter?

SELFISH DESIRE, LUST, AND GREED

• SELFISH DESIRE, LUST, AND GREED -- quotes from World Scripture

• Whatever has happened to Hell?

•  Spending God's Money: Opportunities, Limits, Extravagance And Misuse 

• Pop culture versus God

• Priest: Thou shalt not steal (unless it's from big business)

   

Steps in Dealing With Grief, United Church of God

   Steps in Dealing With Grief   : We all have to cope with the loss caused by death. How can we deal with our grief and help others who are grieving?                                                 

• Stages of grief: denial
• Stages of grief: anger
• Stages of grief: bargaining
• Stages of grief: depression
• Stages of grief: acceptance

This, too, shall pass away

Time is a great healer. This is especially true in the case of the loss of a loved one.

In a speech before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society in 1859, Abraham Lincoln commented: “It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate at all times and situations. They presented him with the words, ‘And this, too, shall pass away.’ How much it expresses. How chastening in the hour of pride. How consoling in the depths of affliction.” [speech also quoted in Lincoln on America's Future]
Continue reading  Steps in Dealing With Grief

On the same shelf:

• Finding Angels In Boulders: An Interfaith Discussion On Dying And Death   Bruce Gordon Epperly
• Lessons from the Dying   Rodney Smith
• Two of a Kind   V'victoria
• Two of a Kind   M'margaret
• Surprised by Grief: A Journey into Hope   Janine Fair
• Gateway to Life: Death and Bereavement - Help and Hope Along the Journey
  Anthony M. Smith
• A Gift for the Bereaved Parent: A Remedy for Grief from the Islamic Perspective Using Quotes from the Quran and Hadith
• Grief & Depression From an Islamic Perspective   DR ABDULLAH AL-KHATER
• Discourses on Aging and Dying   Suhita Chopra Chatterjee
• Dying, Death and Bereavement in a British Hindu Community (New Religious Identities in the Western World)   S Firth
• Grief on the Ganges   Daphne Delaine
• Healing Mantras: Using Sound Affirmations for Personal Power, Creativity, and Healing   Thomas Ashley-Farrand
• In Amma's Healing Room: Gender and Vernacular Islam in South India   Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
• No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life   Thich Nhat Hanh
• Preparing to Die: Practical Advice and Spiritual Wisdom from the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition   Andrew Holecek
• The Joy of Living and Dying in Peace: Core Teachings of Tibetan Buddhism (Joy of Living & Dying in Peace)   Dalai Lama
• The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller
  Sogyal Rinpoche

LIBRARY AS SANCTUARY - A Resource List •

"THE LIBRARY AS SANCTUARY: NPR film critic Bob Mondello takes a look at the role libraries have played in popular culture in this report for All Things Considered. “In songs and books and movies and art,” Mondello remarks, “libraries are sanctuaries, places of bustling quiet, storehouses of ideas that fuel the imagination.” Any library essay that includes quotes from August Wilson, Germaine Greer, and Keith Richards (yes, that Keith Richards) is worth listening to!" source: Libraries' Leading Roles: On Stage, On Screen And In Song, by BOB MONDELLO

• Sanctuary through Technology, By Joseph Janes American Libraries Column for December 2002
• Library as Sanctuary - Veronica's Blog - Pleasant Hill, CA
• Sylvia Leigh Lambert. The Library as Sanctuary for Inner-City Youth: Protections, Implications, Cohesions, Tensions, Recommendations, and Inspirations.
• ATN-reading-lists - Library as Sanctuary
• HBPL Director's Blog: Library as Sanctuary
• Library as Sanctuary, by jwinkelstein November 9, 2007
• Library serves as sanctuary for Sunday service - Orleans Hub
• Here there be sanctuary: The public library as refuge and retreat
• School library no sanctuary | Humber Et Cetera -- Laptops, iPods and cellphones are ruining the serenity, by Kyle Rindenella 
• Crime and incivilities in libraries: Situational crime prevention strategies for thwarting biblio-bandits and problem patrons

Holy Water in News

Christian: Holy Scams! Have A Wary Christmas

Mass holy water. Biggest scam ever? - MabinogiPlayer - Mabinogi / Peter Popoff's Miracle Holy Water Scam

Genuine Holy Water from Lourdes

Muslim: Fake Holy Water – The Zam Zam Scam

Buddhist: Wat Sanamchan temple [The temple is also in trouble over its holy water claims]
See also a Pathfinders To Detect Spam and Forwarded Email Scams @ To-forward or not-to-forward

On the same shelf:

Forwarded, But no Luck: It's your Karma--they say in the spiritual lingo!!!

Chain emails - send it now to every one you love.... "If you need God to open some doors for you...send this on."

Saga of a "Pastor Scam" Against a Christian Business Owner

Lady discovers her spiritual gift is sending forwarded emails

Theological Discussions: Mmmm, Tasty Forwarded Emails Dipped in a Crunchy Shell of Misconceptions and Half-truths.

The Top 10 Signs of an E-mail Hoax

How an Enterprise SPAM Filter Works

Social : Let Us Fight Spam

why inspirational quotes on Twitter suck

Gay sex: ‘Use science, not religion to justify ban’

Expressindia » Story

New Delhi, October 15: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday pulled up the Centre for relying on religious texts to justify ban on gay sex and asked it to come up with scientific reports to justify it.
The court's observation came while hearing a PIL filed by gay activists seeking to decriminalise gay sex among consenting adults.
Additional Solicitor General P P Malhotra, appearing for the Centre, cited an article which contained quotes from religious texts to justify the ban.
Not satisfied with the government contention, the Bench, also comprising Justice S Muralidhar, asked the government to show scientific proof that gay sex is harmful to society.
"This is just one-sided version of a religious body which cannot be relied upon. This is part of religious doctrine. Show us some scientific report which says that gay sex should be criminalised," a Division Bench headed by Chief Justice A P Shah said.
Earlier, the Centre had justified the criminal provision against homosexual acts and had said that it is required to curb the spread of HIV infection.
It had further said that homosexual behaviour is a reflection of a perverse mind and it could not be allowed in the society.
The petitioner, Naz Foundation, an NGO, had said that Section 377 which criminalises homosexual acts is unconstitutional and it should be amended to allow gay sex among consenting adults.

Real desecration of Lord Ganesha!

"IDOL worship? or IDLE worship? or IDEAL worship?" quotes Inbarajan S, based on emails circulating from a yahoo.group discussion board.

"Doll or Idol or Ideal... Which Worship?" Asks another blogger.

"Would you like your GOD's bulldozed like garbage...
and treated like this...
Maimed? Desecrated? And you create a hue and cry when some statue in the city gets desecrated?
We just got to Think, Decide & Act......... But it would be great if you can do it to avoid real desecration.

Respect Religion, Spirtuality not by celeberating it in a desecrated manner."

About Lord Ganesh and the sacred sphere:

Religioustolerance.org: Web Analytics Series no.3

PS. On the left is a graph depicting religioustolerance.org's Aharef website-mapper. It reveals the structure of the Web sites' html, css codes. Here are my three websites.

blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags
source: AHAREF

See also:

religioustolerance.org | Web Safety Ratings from McAfee SiteAdvisor

God.com: Web Analytics Series no.2

Beliefnet.com: Web Analytics Series no.1

Video for the Voiceless: An Idea for Missionaries - Faithwise Review of the Week

Wired Magazine has a story on do it yourself indigenous filmmakers that suggests an idea for the way mission -aries work. continue reading

Pope honours Indian scientist: DR. K. KASTURIRANGAN, MP (Rajya Sabha)

New UK immigration law may affect Sikhs

Prayer can be criticized @ Faith Commons

When nurses are Muslim

Mantras, Malas, Rosaries and Such @ The Gates of Horn

Nativity Review

Blogging about church IT, Network World
Church IT professionals aren't just busy optimizing Web sites for their congregations - they're also blogging to benefit their peers.

On a Web and a prayer Network World
"Will you now open your laptops to the Web page in your program and recite the following passage. . . ." [info courtesy: Tim @ Let the Good Times Roll ]

Indians boost church attendance in Britain The Times of India

Virtual world: Second life in cyberspace, Noopur Tiwari, December 13, 2006 (Paris)

One World Music. New Age Music C Ds view sample audio: Taranga. Prem Joshua; Yatri. Prem Joshua; Fragrance of the East. Prem Joshua; Hamsafar. Prem Joshua; Dakini Lounge. Prem Joshua.

Had a car crash? It's all in the stars, study says
Toronto: Never mind how careful you are behind the wheel or how long you've been driving, the signs of the zodiac may be bigger factors behind your ability to avoid car crashes - or why you have too many. According to a study by InsuranceHotline.com, a Web site that quotes drivers on insurance rates, astrological signs are a significant factor in predicting car accidents.

Death warrant for 'Osama' Prabin Kalita, The Times of India
it is all about Osama, that is a rogue elephant that has killed over a dozen people

Gene That Governs Pain Perception Is Found

Sanjay Dutt hopes for divine intervention

QUOTE OF THE MONTH

Random quote series. The following quote is yours faithfully:

The quote of the month comes from a much-publicized design document by Microsoft, which details how computers made to order to run Vista should look like. "We want PCs to be objects of pure desire" the document says. Interpreting this is left to the astuteness of our readers. [quoted in BitDefender Newsletter]

See the full picture about the desire: Microsoft, Design Guru It's pushing a sleek new hardware vision to PC makers. Will they bite? Business Week, JULY 27, 2006

More business like innernet content from my previous post:
Visualizing the Innernet or Visual Display of the Website's Infostructure

All the above is not above the Desire Under the Elms (1958), the play by Eugene O'Neill.

More quotable quotes from my other blog: Library & Information Science Quotations

Rant of the day - Magic, Technology...

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
- ARTHUR C. CLARKE [ source: CIOL - CyberTimes News Daily ]

Google for magic and IT

see also: my other blog on quotable quotes: Library & Information Science Quotations


And, my review: Harold Billings Magic and Hypersystems: Constructing the Information-Sharing Library American Library Association, 2002.
Information Resources Management Journal, 18(3), 88-91, July-September 2005

Deep Thoughts - Writing on the White Board

Two things amaze me from a post (given below); viz., first it is about the human desire to learn anyhow, anywhere, anyways; and second, it shows the creative visualization of a blogger to capture the tacit and make it tangible (that it gets traffic, is an interesting observation). Moral of the story: Every information its reader.

Deep Thoughts, posted by m.m.a., The Hospital Librarian, June 16, 2006
Everyday the white board outside of our hospital chapel has a new inspirational, thought-provoking, timely quote for passersby to read. It's a busy hallway and many people make a point of checking it out, including myself. The quotes aren't always of a "religious nature" (whatever that may mean) and they've featured words from Oprah to Moses and everywhere in between.
I was pleasantly surprised today to find this quote from the infamous Jessamyn West. Read the quote

See also my blog on quotations

Technocrati tags: Inspiration; Care givers; Spirituality.