Category Archives: Nelson Mandela

May Your Choices Reflect What’s Best in You….

Posted on October 17, 2013 by John

When our choices reflect what’s best in us, when our choices reflect the better angels of our nature, when our choices reflect our deepest values and highest hopes, our virtues–courage, patience, wisdom, discernment, perspective–and principles such as a reverence for … Continue reading →

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How Free Are Any of Us Really To Choose Love over Fear or What’s Truly Good for Us over What Feels Good and Only Temporarily So?

Posted on August 5, 2011 by John

“The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free.” – Nelson Mandela The following is abridged and adapted (meaning I’ve edited the heck out of it and added to it and … Continue reading →

Posted in C.S. Lewis, Courage, Erich Fromm, Love is a Choice, Love is a Decision, Love is an Act of Will, Nelson Mandela | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment