If

My friend Neal came across this poem, and recently shared it with me.
While Kipling is addressing a man, I’m sure he meant this wisdom for everyone.
Everyday, is a journey, isn't it? ...Peace and Love everyone, Dora
If:
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
and stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

I Have a Duty

This man (Ron VanDyke) is going through a rather complex legal challenge. I don't know the specifics. But here are the statements he is compelled to express and affirm as his guiding principles in this situation and in his life. He has humbly and graciously offered them to anyone if they so desire.

I Have a Duty...

- I have a duty to tell the truth, as I know and understand it, to anyone and everyone.
- I have a duty to recognize everyone’s right to see differently than I see, to savor his or her own experience of awakening.
- I have a duty to live peaceably with all others to the best of my ability.- I have a duty to educate myself, to strive to learn what I do not know or remember... yet.
- I have a duty to serve others, for service most fully expresses my nature, which is Divine and unconditional Love.
- I have a duty to defend those not yet aware enough to defend themselves, and to teach the willing, through humility, that which I have come to know.
- I have a duty to contemplate the effect of my words and actions upon others so as to create the most beneficent and beneficial result possible for everyone concerned.
- I have a duty to act in the utmost kindness to all I may encounter, especially those who may appear hostile.
- I have a duty to pay attention to the things that happen and the people that appear in my world, knowing that their gift to me is the revelation of things in me that are or have been hidden from me. This is how the Universe works to create the evolution of consciousness.
- I have a duty to honor differences, knowing that in diversity is great beauty and strength.- I have a duty to recognize and integrate the opposite polarities within myself to the best of my ability.
- I have a duty to look inward every day of my life to see and reflect on the silent messages I am given.
- I have a duty, as a conscious being, to recognize the Higher Law at work in the affairs of men and women.
- I have a duty to speak the Truth to those claiming false power over others.- I have a duty to laugh at myself when my ignorance surfaces.
- I have a duty to play with children… and to learn from them the art of innocence and the beauty of forgiveness.
- I have a duty to forgive others when their weaknesses or mistakes cause pain for me or for others.
- I have a duty to allow all of my emotions peaceful expression... even and especially my anger at injustice.
- I have a duty to challenge the status quo that invalidates and enslaves my brothers and sisters.
- I have a duty to rock the boat when that is necessary to awaken those in danger.
- I have a duty to give freely of that which is in my power to give.
- I have a duty to rise above my fears to the best of my ability.
- I have a duty to walk humbly before God and Man.
- I have a duty to know, beyond all appearances, that I am God’s Holy Child, eternal, infinite, and compassionate.

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