Good qualities

January 5, 2013

Your good qualities, if you don't know how to use them, can hurt you — like money, which is something good but, if you don't know how to spend it wisely, can lead to your ruin; or like a good sharp knife that, if you don't know how to use it properly, can do you harm. Say, for instance, that you use the knife to kill someone. When you're caught, you'll have to be thrown in jail or executed, which means that you used the knife to kill yourself.  
~Access to Insight

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    Charles van Dijk

    January 5, 2013

    Every coin has 2 sides, one is creation and one is destruction. The sharpest knife is that of a surgeon who uses his tool to promote creation. With the power of suggestion we associate certain tools with our own demons which live inside. Sadly you experiences as a child stopped you from becoming a nurse. I was given a tool of destruction by the age of 6 by my father who suffered from post traumatic stress disorder. By doing so he send me on the same path. The problem with evil is they influences souls, which are utilised to influence other souls by nook and by crook to lower them on their despicable level.

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    Osvaldo de Aguiar

    January 5, 2013

    Para conseguir a amizade de uma pessoa digna é preciso desenvolvermos em nós mesmos as qualidades que naquela admiramos.

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    vidya sagar

    January 5, 2013

    nice quote with excellent presentation of usage of item. thanks for sharing such lovely collection.conclusion anything should be used properly at the right time. have a nice week end friend.

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    Jendhamuni Sos

    January 5, 2013

    Very true +Charles van Dijk , every coin has two sides. Thank you for sharing story. As for me, I need some more courage to overcome the nightmares.

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    Charles van Dijk

    January 5, 2013

    For that we must return to a similar environment. Work as a volunteer in a road trauma center enters my mind. Talk to a doctor to arrange something like that. A suffering human is human. +Jendhamuni Sos

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    Jendhamuni Sos

    January 5, 2013

    +Charles van Dijk I worked as a health educator and case worker where I assisted clients to the hospitals for so many years, but stil cannot look at blood. I had to hide behind the doctors, when interpreting for clients in the emergency room. I would faint, if I see blood.

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    Charles van Dijk

    January 5, 2013

    That must have been one heck of an awful experience, I thought I could imagine it but I can't. It is not lack of courage, your subconscious could even after all these years still apply a survival reaction to flee from violence. I congratulate you for that nothing to be ashamed off. +Jendhamuni Sos

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    Patricia Errazuriz

    January 5, 2013

    Beautiful pic sis +Jendhamuni Sos 🙂 and good qualities well it's true. You have to learn how to use them and not hurt other people and yourself.

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    Vijay Reddy

    January 5, 2013

    very good…excelent comparisison…..knife and money…

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    dietrich lombarde

    January 6, 2013

    Hmmm,You looking very serious .
    Great photo ,of a really fabulous lady.

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    Jendhamuni Sos

    January 6, 2013

    I cannot smile all the time +dietrich lombarde especially in the house. My mother will think I'm a crazy lady. She's already complaint that I smile too much:)))))

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    Jendhamuni Sos

    January 6, 2013

    Very kind of you to say that +Charles van Dijk 
    Some years ago, friends of mine were making fun of me because I went to study IT instead of nursing:)))))

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    Mikko Tyllinen

    January 8, 2013

    Such a Fantastic light, create such a dreamy atmosphere. And as Ghazi said a hopeful look into future! Magical portrait, very beautiful dear Jendhamuni!

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    Jendhamuni Sos

    January 8, 2013

    Thank you, my dear +Mikko Tyllinen I am very happy to hear from you again! So cold over here, I don't even want to go outside. We'll get more snow tomorrow.

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