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No need for comparison "Nothing is good or bad but by comparison." -- Thomas Fuller We are each unique, so comparing ourselves to others serves no purpose. Even comparing myself to how I was a while back is not usually helpful. Typically, comparison just brings the ego a false sense of either superiority or inferiority. If we let go of comparison and choose instead to completely accept where we are, we can enjoy both peace and growth. "Do not judge and you will never be mistaken." -- Jean Jacques Rousseau

EMBRACE ME YOU CHILD Carly Simon At night I heard God whisper lullabyes While daddy next door whistled whisky tunes And sometimes when I wanted, they would harmonize There was nothing those two couldn’t do Embrace me you child, you’re a child of mine And I’m leaving everything I am to you Go chase the wild and nightime streets sang daddy And God sang, pray the devil doesn’t get to you I thought together they must sing the moon away I thought that they must know each other well For the magic that they made, when they played Wasn’t lost between their heaven and their hell Then one night daddy died and went to heaven And God came down to earth and slipped away I pretended not to notice I’d been abandoned But no-one sang the night into the day And later night time songs came back again But the singers don’t compare with those I knew And I never figured out where God and daddy went But there was nothing those two couldn’t do

Barbara's Linguistic Profile: 60% General American English 25% Yankee 10% Upper Midwestern 5% Midwestern 0% Dixie What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Barbara's Inner European is Italian! Passionate and colorful. You show the world what culture really is. Who's Your Inner European?

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THE ANGLE ON ANGELS Dear Rabbi, Who is on a higher level, man or the angels? Jonathan in Johannesburg Dear Jonathan, It depends from what angle. Certainly angels are higher than man in respect to their level of comprehension of spiritual matters, their inherent greatness and their degree of holiness. Regarding their comprehension, the Zohar states: "The comprehension of angels is very great... which is not the case of those below them on the second level....The comprehension of those on the third level which is founded on the earth is the lowest, that is the level of comprehension of people" (Zohar Chadash, Bereshet, Midrash Ne'elam, on the verse 'G-d called the light day'). Regarding their greatness it says, "the angels are closest and first to receive the power and influence from [G-d] on high, and from them it flows down into the physical universe and all it contains, and from there down to man" (ibid. 16b). F