A doorstep is the highest of all mountains. Slovenian.

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Our way is not soft grass, it’s a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.

Dr. Ruth Westheimer

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foto – mt warning from bilambil heights 2008

Filed under: AMENDS, MOUNTAINS AND MOLEHILLS, STEP 9

Confess’d faut is half amends.

SCOTTISH PROVERBS

It is a wise father that knows
his own child. — (Shakespeare)

 

foto – father and son at ilnam estate winery carool.  2008.

Filed under: AMENDS, MEN, STEP 9, WISDOM

It mostly happens, that he who intends to injure another, is himself the sufferer.

If ye do wrang, mak amends.
Haiti

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"Æsop’s fables : accompanied by many hundred proverbs and moral maxims, suited to the subject of each fable"

foto – poley bridge clarence

Filed under: AMENDS, INJURY AND HARM, STEP 9

He that harmeth his household shall reap the wind.

It is a base crime to repay confidence by treachery,
and to injure the friend who trusts us. Such crimes 

merit the severest punishment. 

 

Æsop’s fables : accompanied by many hundred proverbs and moral maxims, suited to the subject of each fable"

foto – music at wide river cafe ulmarra

doug, andrew hegedus, izzy foreal, karl mullan.

Filed under: AMENDS, MEN, STEP 9

Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past–not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us. Desmond Tutu

The cruel man injures himself.

foto- cassandra pomroy in the uk 2009

Filed under: AMENDS, INJURY AND HARM, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE, STEP 9