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joan carol thomas merton was our inspiration when fighting for the ordination of women here in australia your note brought back memories judy >From: joan carol urquhart <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: twenty dollar bills/school : >projects/worth/value/acceptance/privacy/generosity/pride/humility/ego/s > hame/perceptions/distortions >Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:07:52 -0400 > >And in 1955, Thomas Merton wrote, > >"Only when we see ourselves in our true human context, >as members of a race which is intended to be one organism >and "one body", >will we begin to understand the positive importance >not only of the successes but of the failures and accidents in our lives. >My successes are not my own. >The way to them was prepared by others. >The fruit of my labours is not my own: >for I am preparing the way for the acheivements of another. >Nor are my failures my own. >They may spring from the failure of another, >but they are compensated for by another's acheivement. >Therefore the meaning in my life is not to be looked for >merely in the sum of my own acheivements. >It is seen only in the complete integration of my acheivements and failures >with the acheivements and failures >of my own generation, and society, and time... >That was what the poet John Donne realized during a serious illness >when he heard a death knell tolling for another... >Every other man is a piece of myself, >for I am a part and a member of mankind." > >.......................From "No Man Is An Island", Thomas Merton > >All that we are, and all that we do, belongs to everyone. > >Joan U. > > > >Jorge A Romero, MD wrote: > > >No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the > >continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, >Europe > >is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of >thy > >friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I >am > >involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells > >tolls; it tolls for thee. > > > >>From Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (in section 17) by John Donne >quoted > >by Hemmingway for the book "For Whom the Bell Tolls" > > > > >>And Juanita Hibbert wrote: > > >> Janet, your words brought to my mind > >> a song I learned as a teenager. > >> No Man Is An Island., > >> The words are very profound. > >> No man is an island, no man stands alone. > >> Each mans joy is joy to me . > >> I cannot remember the rest right this moment. > >> However I believe the first line says it all! > >> Juanita CG for George 74/71/64 ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com