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So, when you encounter such people who want such certainty so desperately, allow your hearts to be softened, allow yourselves to be understanding as God is. You do not need to adopt the same tone and fire right back, so to speak. For this type of striving accomplishes nothing. The wisest men always preface their comments with qualifiers which denote an uncertainty. - [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=2001-05-03-True_Friendship#Lesson Ham]
So, when you encounter such people who want such certainty so desperately, allow your hearts to be softened, allow yourselves to be understanding as God is. You do not need to adopt the same tone and fire right back, so to speak. For this type of striving accomplishes nothing. The wisest men always preface their comments with qualifiers which denote an uncertainty. - [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=2001-05-03-True_Friendship#Lesson Ham]
==Symbols of Spirit==
When human beings grow to the point of placing the upmost value on spirit itself rather than the symbols of spirit, there will be peace upon this world. - [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=2001-05-10-Symbols_of_Reality#Symbols Ham]
==Experience==
The world is quite a harsh and unforgiving place and yet the lessons learned from the difficulties of life, the suffering of life, are vastly greater than those learned on the ecstatic mountain tops of joy and triumph. Do you want to be a whole person? If yes, then life will entail suffering some hardship. Do you want to be a loving person? If so, then life must make you aware of the hardships of others so that you can love them despite the handicaps of life. Do you want to be a resilient person? Then you must be bent and tested as to how far you can go before breaking. All these things will come to pass and you will be wiser, more resilient and more loving that you were. - [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=2001-05-10-Symbols_of_Reality#Experience Ham]
==Now==
The passage of time is cyclical like the seasons. There is, as they say, a time for all different experience under the sun. Human beings make themselves unhappy when they wish it to be spring when it is winter, or winter when it is summer. Happiness is found in the cherishing of what is. You cannot stop time or change it. One can only adapt to its various requirements. Be happy in what is now and let tomorrow take care of itself. - [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=2001-05-10-Symbols_of_Reality#Cycles Ham]
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