You've got yourself a pretty powerful CyberFamily here, jp.
Carole
--- joan carol urquhart <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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
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