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Man I love Birthday Week at CrackBerry.com. The contests just keep coming and the site is a buzz'n. It almost makes getting older feel like a good thing.
Our next item up for grabs is provided by our friends at Schlage who are going to set one lucky winner up with a Schlage LiNK Starter Bundle (your choice of deadbolt or lever, as well as a Schlage Wired Camera and Trane Remote Energy Management Thermostat) and three months of free service. In case you missed our Schlage LiNK Review, the Coles Notes on it is that it allows you to lock/unlock the door to your home right from your BlackBerry as well as control your themostat and take care of security! Definitely awesome.
For your chance to win, just leave a single comment to this blog post. And to learn more about the Schlage LiNK Home Automation System, jump on over to link.schlage.com. Good luck!
wampum Mar 4, 2010 at 12:50 pm
my kids would love knowing i would get a txt message every time the got home:)
DaddyJ58 Mar 4, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Radical 4 sure!! This would make our lives soooo much easier... 3 boys!! The possibility of NO MORE Lost Key issues would be wonderful! Multi Codes available! Convenience is a plus! Energy Savings via remote Thermostat control?! Wow!, that is really smart and efficient!! Camera... speaks for itself!:-) And my wife and I both have Blackberry Smartphones!! Way cool! $12.99 monthly is very reasonable also.
herrmader Mar 4, 2010 at 12:54 pm
How many times have a gotten out of the car to check an already locked lock to make sure if it was locked! This would be MY life saver.
dkmoody Mar 4, 2010 at 12:56 pm
youngduece Mar 4, 2010 at 12:58 pm
pick me CB
Blackfoot_Bandit Mar 4, 2010 at 12:58 pm
More birthday goodness? You should have a birthday more often CB. Thanks for the contests.
ccjjr59 Mar 4, 2010 at 12:59 pm
I really hope I win this contest. That would be really cool to be able to unlock my door with my phone! Technology is amazing for sure.
Thank you for the contest and happy birthday!
jdwittemn Mar 4, 2010 at 1:04 pm
I've always liked the quality of Schlage products
josenpereira Mar 4, 2010 at 1:05 pm
Wow! This will be a great for my house!
gatorbob Mar 4, 2010 at 1:06 pm
I love me some home automation. Would be an awesome addition.
Chiitown Kruger Mar 4, 2010 at 1:10 pm
this would be nice
rswain64#CB Mar 4, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Looks interesting...would love to try it.
Me want this!
korymorford Mar 4, 2010 at 1:19 pm
I love Crackberry
sinogap Mar 4, 2010 at 1:23 pm
this is awesome
brassmonkey98 Mar 4, 2010 at 1:24 pm
Is there really any better lock company than Schlage?
firecop157 Mar 4, 2010 at 1:33 pm
Hope I win! I so want this and would love to have it installed at my house!
findthisfunny Mar 4, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Pick me! This sounds like a good product.
pabloguz Mar 4, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Its Mine!
Words can't describe my excitement for this product...
I want to do everything on my Blackberry and this product puts me one step closer to that goal!
Thank you Crackberry.com and Schlage for this awesome chance to win. This is an amazing product!
I could use this for my new home - another robbery took place last night near my street and I need this!
Cyclonicks Mar 4, 2010 at 1:37 pm
man those contests appear faster than I can post!!
go cb go!!
farmwersteve Mar 4, 2010 at 1:41 pm
this lock is something that i have been wanting for some time. i am glad Schlage has finally developed it.
happy birthday crackberry
Would love this for our very busy family of 6!
montminy Mar 4, 2010 at 1:45 pm
I would love to win this price so amazing.....
stormin_suzie Mar 4, 2010 at 1:50 pm
Wow! Schlage! Thanks, CB!
zhuotake2 Mar 4, 2010 at 1:53 pm
hook it up!
kngoworld Mar 4, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Thank You!
clintmbrannon Mar 4, 2010 at 2:02 pm
Very cool tech... I'd love to try this out.
New technology uses for the Blackberry!
Well done.
marcusjb Mar 4, 2010 at 2:06 pm
I'd love this.
CaptainDucttape Mar 4, 2010 at 2:10 pm
I have seen it several times but haven't wanted to shell out the $$. If I can get the hardware free, and just pay for the service, coolio.
mpjetta#CB Mar 4, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Pick me! ple
mrand90706 Mar 4, 2010 at 2:44 pm
Cool system. Not sure I'd ever buy one, but if they'll give me one I'll use it.
dzervit Mar 4, 2010 at 2:46 pm
I love these contests!
koilmaker Mar 4, 2010 at 2:55 pm
I have been waiting for equipment like this.......Wow
MrSlave Mar 4, 2010 at 2:56 pm
I was just talking about the Schlage with my sister and how awesome it would be to have one for the lights on/off capability!
cdnwanderer Mar 4, 2010 at 3:02 pm
this is awesome!
postobon Mar 4, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Im going to win LOL woohoo
ballzdeep8 Mar 4, 2010 at 3:07 pm
Give me one of those things, they look awesome.
mike602 Mar 4, 2010 at 3:13 pm
this would be great to have
greentj Mar 4, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Hope i win
cindycc21 Mar 4, 2010 at 3:23 pm
Very Cool!!!!!
jrhea23 Mar 4, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Crackberry rocks!
coach_j Mar 4, 2010 at 3:25 pm
With a 7 year old a 5 year old plus groceries and equipment this would perfect for my busy life....Happy B-day Crackberry.
I hope I win this, it is something I def. need since I live in a crappy part of town.....
I hope I win this, it is something I def. need since I live in a crappy part of town.....
jamesliu1 Mar 4, 2010 at 3:34 pm
This would be so cool!
fade2black Mar 4, 2010 at 3:35 pm
Cool contest. Happy Birthday!
KWinslow12 Mar 4, 2010 at 3:39 pm
this is a pretty sweet setup.
stardust815 Mar 4, 2010 at 3:49 pm
I want one!
AParamedic Mar 4, 2010 at 3:49 pm
I'd love a shot at this... thanks CB & Schlage!
timberwolf#CB Mar 4, 2010 at 3:53 pm
....please!!...and thank you!
Tangocore Mar 4, 2010 at 3:54 pm
Cant say no to this deal!
Sign me up!
winnersmw Mar 4, 2010 at 4:04 pm
Awesome, would be totally sick if I won!
bananasplit Mar 4, 2010 at 4:06 pm
oh wow hope i win this, this is really cooL!
rseutia Mar 4, 2010 at 4:11 pm
gerardbaer Mar 4, 2010 at 4:14 pm
This thing is fantastic!
I need protection.
Made_in_RIM Mar 4, 2010 at 4:22 pm
I would love this for my house! I didn't even know this existed, I bet it'll make somebody feel like James Bond 007.
replica48 Mar 4, 2010 at 4:34 pm
I'm away from home a lot, so I'd love to set my house up with these things.
flychinook Mar 4, 2010 at 4:35 pm
...and this would be perfect for it!
natedogg920#CB Mar 4, 2010 at 4:36 pm
OMG I Want
pijineo Mar 4, 2010 at 4:49 pm
I would like one.
gringofeo Mar 4, 2010 at 4:49 pm
Where's my 4 leaf clover?
cyberweasel Mar 4, 2010 at 4:52 pm
sign me up!
ardailey Mar 4, 2010 at 5:11 pm
Cool product.
Go Schlage!
my wife and i were just talking about this last week.
candice ayotte Mar 4, 2010 at 5:12 pm
this would be the coolest accessary 2 have because i am so 4getful,it just may be a lifesaver 4 me!
statcarepm Mar 4, 2010 at 5:14 pm
This would be awesome!!!
phillicheeze Mar 4, 2010 at 5:23 pm
im addicted to crackberry... hook it up :-)
dantheman962 Mar 4, 2010 at 5:24 pm
this is really awesome. pick me please
jlongjr27 Mar 4, 2010 at 5:36 pm
This would be cool. I would use this a lot!
wayneo515 Mar 4, 2010 at 5:37 pm
This is a great idea that has come to life.
count me in!
i have absolutely no idea how this bundle works but still sounds like fun.
My fiance and I just bought our first house, I have wanted this since it first surfaced
stanzii Mar 4, 2010 at 5:59 pm
Blackberry is the best!
tigerhoodz06 Mar 4, 2010 at 6:10 pm
this is such a cool thing to have
irwindersra Mar 4, 2010 at 6:11 pm
i could put this to good use at rental properties or the cottage!
chomputer Mar 4, 2010 at 6:22 pm
Wouldn't trust my home without the Schlage
lock/unlock my door with my blackberry... that's brilliant idea.
PrestigeVideo Mar 4, 2010 at 6:38 pm
I have a system installed. It lives up to it's billing and then some. Because the Schlage Link system is Z-Wave based it is compatible with many other accessories and components from several manufacturers.
The Blackberry software is a bonus & fun. I was on vacation in the Caribbean and was able to view a snow storm at home in real time while sitting on the beach via the Schlage Link web cam.
The ultimate home remote!
jasonec Mar 4, 2010 at 7:03 pm
Plus, this Schlage thing is very cool - I'd love to win it!
rockigirl Mar 4, 2010 at 7:12 pm
I could so use this...
Your contests are awesome! Thank you Kevin!
ccannavo Mar 4, 2010 at 7:27 pm
Cant hurt to try :)
mimsiesboy Mar 4, 2010 at 7:32 pm
that would be so cool. I have really been wanting to try this.
dangerman Mar 4, 2010 at 7:34 pm
keep it up crackberry
Jaxur05 Mar 4, 2010 at 7:49 pm
Would absolutely love to get one of these!
Awesome prize :)
andie1995 Mar 4, 2010 at 8:13 pm
This is very cool, I entered before but never won:(
Please pick me!
This is one of the coolest gadgets
jarrettsmama Mar 4, 2010 at 8:16 pm
Pick me please
lovintheberry Mar 4, 2010 at 8:16 pm
for once!!!
JoeyDaioh Mar 4, 2010 at 8:24 pm
thanks crackberry
Hellfire Mar 4, 2010 at 8:39 pm
Sweet, my door lock is acting up!
thechin Mar 4, 2010 at 8:51 pm
Pretty slick... I would use this if I won! Thanks crackberry
NinjaChopstick Mar 4, 2010 at 8:54 pm
saw these a few weeks ago.. very cool
donny421 Mar 4, 2010 at 9:00 pm
Would be very helpful for me. Hope i win it.
eleung321 Mar 4, 2010 at 9:04 pm
chik'en dinna..
skfhman Mar 4, 2010 at 9:04 pm
Looks really cool and woulf be awesome on the house.
vecharo Mar 4, 2010 at 9:17 pm
Thanks in advance :)
bperil86 Mar 4, 2010 at 9:20 pm
yay big 3 huh
killyourbooks Mar 4, 2010 at 9:24 pm
structure like
Mister869 Mar 4, 2010 at 9:24 pm
Man this one is awesome. I have been thinking about investing in this. I have 3 kids that are at the age when coming home alone and this would be nice security.
Thanks Crackberry.
mikesilva188 Mar 4, 2010 at 9:48 pm
Awesome product!
ucintegra1 Mar 4, 2010 at 9:51 pm
go crackberry! you guys ROCK!!
alvinmathew88 Mar 4, 2010 at 9:57 pm
I would love this!!
joelwag Mar 4, 2010 at 10:02 pm
Lock it up! Hopefully (fingers crossed) I can win this.
This would be really useful for me and my family.
Thanks for all the great contests CB. Happy Birthday!
asggold Mar 4, 2010 at 10:04 pm
to have for free :)
domsrs Mar 4, 2010 at 10:07 pm
Been wanting one since Crackberry first reported on it.
natedeezy Mar 4, 2010 at 10:14 pm
this I would love
manxam Mar 4, 2010 at 10:32 pm
Keep up the good work CB team and happy 3rd barfday. Put my name in for the Schlage Link, it'll go perfect with the rest of my Zwave stuff! :)
deano1968 Mar 4, 2010 at 10:35 pm
I would love to put this to use!
bbcicamica Mar 4, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Boy in these days with the public safety issues that's exactly what we need.
CB Congratulation on yur Anniversary!
peterr22 Mar 4, 2010 at 10:43 pm
Ive been looking at these for a while, awesome idea
surfmly29 Mar 4, 2010 at 10:58 pm
cool contest and products!
dtn941 Mar 4, 2010 at 10:58 pm
Oooh this would be a great addition to my cancelled-alarm-system... it would allow me to unlock my door in the dark when my wife forgets to leave on any outside lights for me (I work til midnight every night)...
alumbreros Mar 4, 2010 at 11:00 pm
I'm leaving a single comment to this blog post.
tymarshall78 Mar 4, 2010 at 11:01 pm
I really wanted this the first time around. Pick me this time would ya.
sapphirestarr14 Mar 4, 2010 at 11:08 pm
Happy Birthday!! YAY!!!
franqui28 Mar 4, 2010 at 11:13 pm
Looks nice I want one
rlyncross Mar 4, 2010 at 11:16 pm
Very cool!!
elmoramos Mar 4, 2010 at 11:44 pm
i would love one of these!!
amradiar Mar 4, 2010 at 11:50 pm
i love this concept.. I would have to try it in a live situation to pay for it
honsoloswookie Mar 5, 2010 at 12:10 am
Happy bday!!!!
Shifty_P Mar 5, 2010 at 12:19 am
OMG! Saweet! I'm a security nut... this would be awesome!
Wow this would be a great addition to my house
sokkerplayer92 Mar 5, 2010 at 1:47 am
Man, I never saw this before but now I mean, wow that sounds really vcool, count me in!
webergene Mar 5, 2010 at 1:52 am
i want one....pick me! pick me!
excessfat Mar 5, 2010 at 2:06 am
Pick me please!
kushiyam Mar 5, 2010 at 2:17 am
i'm in
StraightWisdom Mar 5, 2010 at 2:28 am
This is just straight pimp!
that is really cool. Hope i win
rebirth92 Mar 5, 2010 at 3:00 am
woohoo happy bday crkberry!
dev2nsu Mar 5, 2010 at 3:20 am
I would like this alot> I hope I win
Oh oh pick me!! I want one.
rholford Mar 5, 2010 at 7:23 am
Awesome!!! I need a schlage link system so bad! I hope I win one of these!!
dcusick1 Mar 5, 2010 at 7:55 am
Here's my comment. Now I'm in!
jeh1984 Mar 5, 2010 at 8:04 am
This is awesome!
count me in!
billlokey Mar 5, 2010 at 8:35 am
Like everything technological, I want one of these.
jphaunef Mar 5, 2010 at 8:47 am
Great way to help protect all my stuff.
proud2bitalian1 Mar 5, 2010 at 9:05 am
It would be a great gift to give to my brother for his new house
baloghjz Mar 5, 2010 at 9:06 am
This system is definitely cutting edge and I'd love to use it! Count me in and Happy Birthday CrackBerry.com!
kennyd75#CB Mar 5, 2010 at 9:13 am
You guys rock!
bark8015#CB Mar 5, 2010 at 9:15 am
You guys have all the cool prizes.
grapechic Mar 5, 2010 at 9:25 am
VTshorty78 Mar 5, 2010 at 9:37 am
Count me in
dinonewt Mar 5, 2010 at 9:59 am
Would love to win this.
Asulli Mar 5, 2010 at 10:08 am
This will be the third time I have tried to win this. Maybe the saying will be true for me!
Baz#CB Mar 5, 2010 at 10:09 am
Open door policy...sweet
Gav508 Mar 5, 2010 at 10:10 am
Gotta love all these contests. Pick me. Happy Birthday to an awesome site.
I'll take one
rdsammons Mar 5, 2010 at 10:22 am
I love presents on other peoples' birthdays...
firstname.lastname@example.com Mar 5, 2010 at 10:25 am
happy birthday!
Curly62 Mar 5, 2010 at 10:28 am
Thanks in advance...
adlinazman Mar 5, 2010 at 10:46 am
This would be nice for my office..!
fiftiesdean Mar 5, 2010 at 11:17 am
hello hello
JGLADIATORS Mar 5, 2010 at 11:17 am
ParkDaddy42 Mar 5, 2010 at 11:30 am
If i win i will for sure change the lock daily to piss my roommates off...it'll be classic...
Princess Mina Mar 5, 2010 at 11:37 am
This sounds like the most useful tool ever. Good luck to everyone! Even if I don't get this I think I'm going to sell the advantages to hubby and convince him it is a must purchase item!
rockys57 Mar 5, 2010 at 12:13 pm
May I please have this one?
rebelkerrie Mar 5, 2010 at 12:37 pm
This looks like a sweet option to have.
kayakit Mar 5, 2010 at 12:45 pm
I want to keep my house as safe as my Blackberry.
Solace07 Mar 5, 2010 at 1:04 pm
just maybe i will win
domn8r#CB Mar 5, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Pick me :)
squeakz0rz#CB Mar 5, 2010 at 1:21 pm
I would love to win the Schlage LiNK starter system for my home!
drtrask#CB Mar 5, 2010 at 1:22 pm
... I'd like to win a Free SchlageLink starter system
tgaskill Mar 5, 2010 at 1:23 pm
because there are so many AWESOME contests going on right now, but if I haven't I think I'll enter it now.
webb6377 Mar 5, 2010 at 1:33 pm
I need to be a winner!!
huynh727 Mar 5, 2010 at 1:41 pm
I would love to secure my apartment with this! Happy Birthday Crackberry!
slowjamit Mar 5, 2010 at 1:55 pm
Now thats a prize!!!
1up_on_you Mar 5, 2010 at 1:57 pm
secure my home with the quickness. ill take two lol
MrJabezTaylor Mar 5, 2010 at 2:11 pm
I hope i win this also
cherrycokesgood Mar 5, 2010 at 2:24 pm
I really really really need this. Thanks!!!! These rock! And so does CrackBerry!
montage Mar 5, 2010 at 2:31 pm
add me in for this one
utshane7#CB Mar 5, 2010 at 2:34 pm
oh come on pick me
slyman1973 Mar 5, 2010 at 2:46 pm
I should win so then I'd have won!
Charley2397 Mar 5, 2010 at 2:59 pm
This would make my friends envy me, lol.
Unicorn56 Mar 5, 2010 at 3:12 pm
Schlage me!
Elric_Edward Mar 5, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Crackberry, happy birthday and many more =)=)=)
mikells43 Mar 5, 2010 at 3:24 pm
This is for the ultimate control freak hahahahhaha.
imnotahippie Mar 5, 2010 at 3:37 pm
wow. this would kick ass. my naighhbor keeps breaking in and no one will do anything cause he has brain damage.
BennyBlackberry® Mar 5, 2010 at 4:21 pm
Wishing you all the best over at Crackberry, and wishing I win something, LOL...
lowrider27 Mar 5, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Pick Me!!! I'll take one!
afavreau Mar 5, 2010 at 4:47 pm
Enter me this would be awesome!
Lizzdmc Mar 5, 2010 at 4:50 pm
Been looking into this and would love to try it out!
chizenguy5 Mar 5, 2010 at 4:53 pm
seriously, do it!
kknaujock Mar 5, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Enter me!
vecharo Mar 5, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Schlage Security! thanks
djanark2000 Mar 5, 2010 at 5:36 pm
sick contest this is awesome happy b day crack!!
truss83 Mar 5, 2010 at 5:49 pm
hook me up crackberry this would be amazing to have please oh please
mixedberry Mar 5, 2010 at 6:18 pm
sounds good!
sancho123 Mar 5, 2010 at 6:39 pm
:) i love all these free giveaway contest!
justin_pyper Mar 5, 2010 at 6:45 pm
just heard about this... i think its very cool11
klsmalls1 Mar 5, 2010 at 6:59 pm
Here's to hoping I win!
Sign up!
mb.ball Mar 5, 2010 at 7:07 pm
Here's hoping!
bradtrox Mar 5, 2010 at 7:54 pm
I have been wanting to check this out, this is perfect.
wildchild#CB Mar 5, 2010 at 8:08 pm
Happy B-Day!!
jamiejo830 Mar 5, 2010 at 8:09 pm
Hope I win!
MXRider88 Mar 5, 2010 at 8:15 pm
I Would like this for my house
reddragon7660 Mar 5, 2010 at 8:22 pm
Would be cool to win since I am buying a new house and having a some cool Items for it would be nice.
BlackBerry Guy Mar 5, 2010 at 8:35 pm
...a perfect addition for my house.
HairJunkiee Mar 5, 2010 at 8:52 pm
I want one!
Bababoey22 Mar 5, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Bondman Mar 5, 2010 at 9:25 pm
This is great!
Thanks, CrackBerry!
Remy1701 Mar 5, 2010 at 9:44 pm
This isthe coolest application/device for my crackberry condition. I love it. I am so stoked about this system. Even if I do not win this is wicked cool.
lenzino03 Mar 5, 2010 at 10:09 pm
Ill take one
Ajanthan Mar 5, 2010 at 10:21 pm
hope i win!
Caesar94 Mar 5, 2010 at 10:37 pm
thank you
ImGeorgeous Mar 5, 2010 at 10:48 pm
Already have one of your regular locks.. but would love to win this LiNK Starter kit ;)
glenius Mar 5, 2010 at 11:08 pm
Happy Birthday!
amoney3 Mar 5, 2010 at 11:11 pm
sweet stuff!
haugrud Mar 5, 2010 at 11:16 pm
Im really interested in this
Thuggidy Mar 5, 2010 at 11:19 pm
i want my whole house to be tech crazy
iwnh68 Mar 5, 2010 at 11:52 pm
and key
mikewet88 Mar 6, 2010 at 12:12 am
Happy B-day @Crackberry. Thank for this awesome giveaway!!
mikelanding Mar 6, 2010 at 12:21 am
More birthday fun and joy. Thank @crackberry
The Gaffer Mar 6, 2010 at 12:38 am
I would like to lock up this prize.
catmama Mar 6, 2010 at 12:49 am
That is so awesome!! Would greatly appreciate a chance to win this! Thanks
demotime Mar 6, 2010 at 1:01 am
How great would this be
Godzfavrt Mar 6, 2010 at 1:08 am
I need to win!!!
brendanpsmith Mar 6, 2010 at 1:17 am
I would love to win this.
mindcrime11 Mar 6, 2010 at 1:19 am
Here I am.
whooper Mar 6, 2010 at 1:28 am
The title says it! Lol
praisemd Mar 6, 2010 at 2:00 am
get me one please.


text:
Morgan Park Academy has seen a confirmed case of strep throat in the Middle School recently.
Strep throat is a bacterial infection that is diagnosed by a strep screen and/or throat culture. Early signs and symptoms of strep throat may include the following: fever, sore throat, pain upon swallowing, headache, abdominal pain, fatigue, rash, and enlarged lymph nodes in the neck. Strep throat is spread by person-to-person contact via drops of saliva or nasal secretions.
If you feel your child has strep throat, it is advisable to seek medical attention to receive a definitive diagnosis. Strep throat is treated with an antibiotic and a child is considered no longer contagious after being on the antibiotic for 24 hours. Children should not return to school unless they have been fever-free (without Tylenol or Motrin) for 24 hours.
If your child is diagnosed with strep throat, please notify the school and as always, feel free to contact Becky McGovern, our school nurse, with questions or concerns. She is available at (773) 881-6700 ext. 253 and email@example.com.
Faculty & Staff Email © 2014 Morgan Park Academy 2153 W. 111th Street Chicago, IL 60643 P 773 881 6700 F 773 881 8409 Contact Us Mobile Site Map

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text:
It was cold that day, but spring was in the air. The birds were singing their beautiful melody. Too beautiful for the task at hand.
The young woman stood in the church yard, surrounded by family and friends. She was barely hearing the prayer. It all felt entirely too familiar. Except for her baby. Somewhere nearby — someone was comforting her 1-year-old.
It was silent now; it was time. She kissed the rose she'd held loosely in her
grasp, then placed it on the grave. She turned and made her way into the
It was time, once again, to move forward.
Not yet 29, Amy Otto found herself facing her worst fears: She was a single parent, raising a baby alone without a reliable long-term income and needing to face decisions about how she would provide for herself and her daughter.
She had been young when she'd first married; she did not have a college degree. Critics who had said she was "too young to get married" and that it would "never last" had never dreamed that her marriage would end as it had —or that it would lead to this.
But that was the first time around.
Grieving was one thing she knew. But being solely responsible for a little one's life? That one thing changed everything.
This time.
The most remarkable part of Amy Otto's story is not that she had to learn to be without her husband at age 28. The truth is: She had learned to face that cold reality six years earlier when she'd first gazed into the mirror and saw a widow looking back at her.
No, the most unbelievable part of Amy's story is not that she was widowed at age 28. It is that she was widowed at age 22. And again at age 28.
She had lost two husbands before her 29th birthday.
But the birds were singing the day Jeff Otto was laid to rest.
I know, because I was there, and strangely, even in the moment, it seemed to me a sign of hope.
Amy lost her husband. I lost a friend. I stood near the grave with my circle of friends, and collectively, we grieved our loss. But this wasn't about us. It couldn't be. It was about Amy. We needed to surround her and love her and help her, but we were all so young. We had no idea what that would look like.
Answers would be revealed in the day-to-day of the months and years ahead. Some answers would never come. Amy would become my best friend, and our daughters would in turn grow up to be best friends.
For 13 years, I have felt a prompting to tell her story. I'm finally getting the chance as part of this series. There is more to tell than I could possibly do justice to here, and I admit that when I sat down to interview my best friend, it felt a little strange to assume the role of a journalist, asking questions, some of which I already knew the answers to (because I was there with her). But our time together was rich.
I wish that I could simply share the raw recordings of the interview. But my job as a writer is, in part, to disseminate information and to help my readers make sense of it, and that is precisely what I intend to do, even as difficult as this story has been for me, personally, to put together.
The way Amy has responded to hardship, the way she has raised her daughter, the way she has invested in the lives of others both personally and in her work, and (often personally at her work) is a true inspiration to many, but most of all, she is an inspiration to me.
Amy's story is one of the most heart-wrenching I've ever heard of, and certainly the most heart-wrenching I've ever been a part of. Yet never once have I heard one word of self-pity come from Amy Otto's lips. And I wonder: How could this be?
"I never had the luxury of self-pity," Amy told me. "I had Chais, and I had to take care of her. Plus, it's not in my nature — I don't understand pity ..."
As a radiation therapist, Amy works with cancer patients, a career she chose after her second husband's death.
"If I have a patient come in with breast cancer, she is frightened and hurting. But the person after her may have just learned that his pancreatic cancer is basically a death sentence. There's always someone worse off than you."
"Every single person has a story, if you ask them. Everybody does. We all have that common ground. There's not pity — we should empathize with each other and hold each other up," Amy said.
Amy believes that God has a plan for every person's life, and she feels that God "ushered her through the doors" of her life for a purpose.
"I didn't want to be a single mom. I didn't want to go to school. But God literally showed me each step of the way. You're going to do this. Now go here …And there were people there to help me. I couldn't have done it without them," she told me.
"I'm not a 'school' person. You know I couldn't have gotten through school without you.." she added.
The journalist in me came unraveled. Together, we cried.
Time heals wounds, but in touching the scars, we remember the pain.
Remembering is good.
It reminds me that Amy's faith, positive attitude and sheer determination not only helped her make it through school and to start a career, but it also helped her to focus whole-heartedly on her daughter, to love her deeply and expressively and to raise her well. In time, she was able to open her heart to love again. (She is getting married this September.)
Amy has graciously agreed to share the details of her loss, along with the
direction her life has taken because of it and where she is headed next. I want to thank her for that and urge you, Dear Patch Reader, to read more of her story next week. It is my honor to do the telling as we continue together in "Fathering the Fatherless."


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Albert Henry Haas, 64, loved his job as a civilian aircraft mechanic at Bagram Air Base, near the Afghanistan capital of Kabul.
Haas, an Army veteran of Vietnam, volunteered for duty at Bagram, where he worked on both helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes after decades as a aircraft mechanic in the United States.
"It was one last hoorah," said Haas' younger brother, Kenneth Haas, also of Belleville.
"He said the work was great. The food was great. The vacation time was great," Kenneth Haas said. "He was going on and on. And he said, 'They pay us for this.'"
Although Bagram is a frequent target of Taliban rocket and mortar attacks -- including one that killed four Americans in June -- Albert Haas did not believe he was in danger, according to Kenneth Haas.
"Al used to talk about it. He goes, 'But the rockets are from the old Russian era,'" Kenneth Haas said. "'So the motors are still good, but the warheads are usually duds.'"
Shortly after midnight on Nov. 29, a large rocket exploded in the barracks building where Albert Haas was sleeping, killing him and a female civilian worker, Kenneth Haas said.
Both Haas and the deceased female civilian worked for AAR Airlift Group, of Palm Bay, Fla., which has a contract with the U.S. Transportation Command, based at Scott Air Force Base, to provide air transportation services to the U.S. Department of Defense, according to Chris Mason, a spokesman for AAR Corp.
"AAR Airlift has a fleet of planes and helicopters that are used to transport equipment, supplies and mail," Mason said.
Mason declined to identify the female employee who died in the rocket attack. Mason also declined to say if any new safety procedures have been put in place to protect AAR employees since the rocket attack.
AAR Corp., the parent company of AAR Airlift, is in business to move "troops and equipment into theaters of operations, sustain in-theater activity and provide real-time communications and situational awareness," according to the company website.
AAR Corp., headquartered in Wood Dale, a Chicago suburb, employs more than 6,000 people across the globe at 60 venues in 13 countries, according to its website.
AAR Airlift flew Haas' family to Dover Air Force Base, in Delaware, to meet the casket that brought the Belleville man home, according to Kenneth Haas.
Albert Haas is survived by Bay Thi, his wife of 41 years; a son Thao Hass, of Texas; and daughters Tina Smith, of Shiloh, and Lisa Carnahan, of St. Louis.
Albert Haas worked for many years for Ozark and TWA airlines, and then commuted for several years to Kansas City to work for American Airlines.
His decades of work in the airline industry provided him with free airline tickets, which he used often on trips with his family, said his daughter Lisa Carnahan.
"He was not your conventional guy," Carnahan said. "He raised us to truly appreciate what the world had to offer."
When Carnahan was 12, her father took her and the family on a trip to London, in addition to extensive travels across America.
"We saw every national forest, and every museum in D.C. and up and down the coast of California," she said. "We were in Taiwan and Hong Kong."
Her last trip she took with her father in 2012 to the nation of Burma, which was in the process of shedding its military regime.
"We were there for the first truly free elections, where (opposition leader) Aung San Suu Kyi" was elected to the Burmese parliament, Carnahan said.
Albert Haas was also a great believer in women's rights, and raised both his daughters to see themselves as capable as any man, she said.
"He was very adamant that we could do anything the boys could do," Carnahan said. "We helped him roof his house. We helped him rewire the entire house ... I can change my own tire on the side of the highway because of him."
In recognition of Albert Haas' support for women's rights, the Haas family has asked that memorials be sent to the Afghan Learning Institute, which has promoted educational and training opportunities for Afghan women and girls more than two decades.
A visitation is set for 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at George Renner and Sons Funeral Home, 120 N. Illinois St., Belleville.
The funeral for Haas, a 30-year veteran of the U.S. Army and Army Reserve, is planned for Friday at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, in South St. Louis County.
So far the U.S. military has not released information about the attack that killed his brother, Kenneth Haas said.
"That's what we're all wondering, 'Why?" he said. "When contractors are killed over there, it hits the news right away."
U.S. Department of Defense representatives could not be reached for comment.
Contact reporter Mike Fitzgerald at email@example.com or 618-239-2533.


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Industrial Design Schools
Industrial Design Schools Links:
Academy of Art University – School of Industrial Design
(San Francisco, CA) The School of Industrial Design at the Academy of Art University offers Industrial Design Bachelors and Industrial Design Masters Degree Programs. Among covered topics are Industrial Design, Transportation Design, Product Design, Toy Design and Furniture Design.http://www.academyart.edu/industrial-design-school/index.html
AFAD School
(Bratislava, Slovakia) Founded in 1949, the Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava is a higher education institution that offers bachelor, master and doctoral in fine arts, design, architecture, conservation and restoration.http://www.vsvu.sk/
Art Center College of Design
(Pasadena, CA, USA) The Art Center College of Design has been a leader in art and design education for nearly 75 years. The College offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in a wide range of disciplines, included a degree in Transportation Design.http://www.artcenter.edu/
Carleton University – School of Industrial Design
(Ottawa, Canada) The School of Industrial Design offers a professional program that leads to a Bachelor of Industrial Design (B.I.D.). The program blends design studies with applied sciences, such as math and physics, and social sciences like psychology and business. The focus is on process, from concept and design, through to manufacturing and the everyday use of the product.http://www.id.carleton.ca/
CCS – College for Creative Studies
(Detroit, MI, USA) The College for creative Studies (formerly known as the Center for Creative Studies) is one of the leading arts education institutions. The Industrial Design Department offers courses in Furniture Design, Product Design and Transportation Design.http://www.collegeforcreativestudies.edu
Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA)
(Cleveland, USA) The Cleveland Institute of Art prepares artists and designers for professional roles in the visual arts sector. It features an undergraduate Industrial Design Program.http://www.cia.edu/
DSK-ISD India
(Pune – India ) DSK-ISD (International School of Design) is the first international school of design in India, offers courses in product design, transportation design and digital design.http://www.dskisd.com/
FH Joanneum – Industrial Design Department
(Graz – Austria) The FH Joannum University offers a well-known degree programme in Industrial Design. The course has a length of 8 Semesters and is open to 16 students each year.http://fh-joanneum.at/ide
HTW Berlin – Department of Design – Industrial Design
(Berlin, Germany) The course of study Industrial Design at the HTW Berlin was established in 2011. Each year 40 students can be admitted in the winter term based on an assignment, portfolio and an aptitude test taken in spring. The Bachelor of Arts degree is reached after 7 terms of study.http://www.id.htw-berlin.de
Huddersfield University
(Huddersfield – UK) The School of Art, Design and Architecture (ADA) at the Huddersfield University offers a selection of design-related Courses, including Transport Design, Product Design and 3D Digital Design.http://www.hud.ac.uk/schools/artdesignandarchitecture/
Humber College – Industrial Design
(Toronto, Canada) – The School of Applied Technology at Humber College offers an Industrial Design degree program.http://www.humber.ca/program/bachelor-applied-technology-industrial-design
IAAD – Istituto di Arte Applicata e Design
(Turin, Italy) The Institute of Applied Arts and Design (IAAD) operates in different design areas: Transportation design, Industrial Design, Advertising & graphic design, Interior Design.http://www.iaad.it/
IDSA Design Schools List (USA)
A list of US-based design schools that are in the process of or have been evaluated and accredited using the standards and guidelines adopted by The National Association of Schools of Art & Design (NASAD) as formalized by the 1984 IDSA/NASAD agreement. Source: Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA).http://188.8.131.52/webmodules/articles/anmviewer.asp?a=118&z=49
IED – Istituto Europeo di Design
The Istituto Europeo di Design is an international school built on an Italian matrix, that organizes first-level academic diplomas, three-year courses, Masters courses and advanced training courses. It has locations in Milan, Rome, Turin, Venice, Florence, Cagliari, Madrid, Barcelona, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. In Turin, Barcelona and São Paulo, the school features degrees (BA and MA) in Transportation Design.http://www.ied.edu
ISD France
(Valenciennes – France) The Institut Superieur de Design offers courses in product and transportation design.http://www.isd-valenciennes.com/


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Tri Tri Tri Again
Saturday - October 17
Friday - October 16
Thursday - October 15
Wednesday - October 14
Tuesday - October 13
Monday - October 12
I've been a slacker blogging in the last couple of day. The day was long, the course was rough, the wind was tremendous. I promise the world's longest race report in the next week or so.
THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE SHARED THIS JOURNEY WITH ME. Your support has meant more to me during the dark times than you will ever know.
Sunday - October 11
wieczynski's Training Log
Actual vs Planned
Upcoming races
- July's totals
- June's totals
- 2014 totals
- 2013 totals
Run: 29h 05m 32s - 144.84 Mi
Kayaking: 42m
Stretching: 30m
Walking: 1h 10m
Swim: 00m 29s - 83.76 Yd
Run: 24h 09m 40s - 123.86 Mi
Bocce: 1h 00m
Kayaking: 13m
Stretching: 1h 50m
Table Tennis: 30m
Walking: 3h 40m
Swim: 2h 04m 39s - 7964.16 Yd
Bike: 10h 22m 17s - 192.67 Mi
Run: 87h 03m 16s - 458.21 Mi
Strength: 1h 25m
Bocce: 1h 00m
Hiking: 1h 52m
Kayaking: 2h 40m
Stretching: 4h 30m
Table Tennis: 30m
Walking: 9h 15m
Swim: 7h 04m 29s - 18942.23 Yd
Bike: 8h 58m 53s - 167.54 Mi
Run: 126h 20m 38s - 712.02 Mi
Strength: 11h 33m
Hiking: 5h 00m
Home Improvement: 12h 00m
Kayaking: 14h 06m 48s
Run: 10m
Stretching: 3h 10m
Walking: 7h 23m 02s
Water Polo: 45m
Yard Work: 14h 31m 15s


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Monism is a philosophical and cosmological stance which posits an ultimate Unity of all things, and that all apparent differences, distinctions, divisions and separations are ultimately only apparent or partial aspects of an ultimate whole. It has arisen and developed with many diverse forms of emphasis, in widely diverse and distinct philosophical, mystical, religious and scientific traditions, and is a primary element of most forms of Perennial Philosophy.
- See also:
- There are many monisms. What they have in common is that they attribute oneness. Where they differ is in what they target and how they count.
- In Monism. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (19 March 2007). Retrieved on 5 January 2014.
- Similar to a person who is not attached to external pleasures but enjoys happiness in the Atman (soul), the person who perceives Brahman in everything feels everlasting joy.
- Bhagavad Gita, 5.21
- Cause, Principle, and One eternal
From whom being, life, and movement are suspended,
And which extends itself in length, breadth, and depth,
To whatever is in Heaven, on Earth, and Hell;
With sense, with reason, with mind, I discern,
That there is no act, measure, nor calculation, which can comprehend
That force, that vastness and that number,
Which exceeds whatever is inferior, middle, and highest;
Blind error, avaricious time, adverse fortune,
Deaf envy, vile madness, jealous iniquity,
Crude heart, perverse spirit, insane audacity,
Will not be sufficient to obscure the air for me,
Will not place the veil before my eyes,
Will never bring it about that I shall not
Contemplate my beautiful Sun.
- Giordano Bruno, in De la Causa, Principio e Uno [Cause, Principle, and Unity] (1584), "Of Love", the dedicatory poem, as translated in The Infinite in Giordano Bruno : With a Translation of His Dialogue, Concerning the Cause, Principle, and One (1978) by Sidney Thomas Greenburg, p. 89
- Variant translation:
- Cause, Principle and One, the Sempiterne,
On whom all being, motion, life, depend.
From whom, in length, breadth, depth, their paths extend
As far as heaven, earth, hell their faces turn :
With sense, with mind, with reason, I discern
That not, rule, reckoning, may not comprehend
That power and bulk and multitude which tend
Beyond all lower, middle, and superne.
Blind error, ruthless time, ungentle doom,
Deaf envy, villain madness, zeal unwise,
Hard heart, unholy craft, bold deeds begun,
Shall never fill for one the air with gloom,
Or ever thrust a veil before these eyes,
Or ever hide from me my glorious sun.
- As quoted in "Giordano Bruno" by Thomas Davidson, in The Index Vol. VI. No. 36 (4 March 1886), p. 429
- It is manifest... that every soul and spirit hath a certain continuity with the spirit of the universe, so that it must be understood to exist and to be included not only there where it liveth and feeleth, but it is also by its essence and substance diffused throughout immensity... The power of each soul is itself somehow present afar in the universe... Naught is mixed, yet is there some presence.
Anything we take in the universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part of it.
- Giordano Bruno, in De la Causa, Principio e Uno (1584)
- The universal Intellect is the intimate, most real, peculiar and powerful part of the soul of the world. This is the single whole which filleth the whole, illumineth the universe and directeth nature to the production of natural things, as our intellect with the congruous production of natural kinds.
- Giordano Bruno, in De la Causa, Principio e Uno (1584)
- Our philosophy… reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single end, and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end. From this coincidence of contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.
- Giordano Bruno, in De innumerabilibus, immenso et infigurabili(1591); usually referred to as De immenso, as translated by Dorothea Waley Singer (1950)
- The one infinite is perfect, in simplicity, of itself, absolutely, nor can aught be greater or better, This is the one Whole, God, universal Nature, occupying all space, of whom naught but infinity can give the perfect image or semblance.
- Giordano Bruno, in De immenso (1591); II 12 as translated by Dorothea Waley Singer (1950)
- The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God.
- Giordano Bruno, in De immenso (1591); IV 9; as translated by Dorothea Waley Singer (1950)
- All things are in all.
- Giordano Bruno, in De immenso (1591); V 9; as translated by Dorothea Waley Singer (1950)
- Before anything else the One must exist eternally; from his power derives everything that always is or will ever be. He is the Eternal and embraces all times. He knows profoundly all events and He himself is everything. He creates everything beyond any beginning of time and beyond any limit of place and space. He is not subject to any numerical law, or to any law of measure or order. He himself is law, number, measure, limit without limit, end without end, act without form.
- Giordano Bruno, in De immenso (1591); VIII 2, as quoted in The Acentric Labyrinth (1995) by Ramon Mendoza
- Hen to pan
- One is The All.
- Cleopatra the Alchemist, in The Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra
- One is The All.
- The man who abides in the will of God wills nothing else than what God is, and what He wills. If he were ill he would not wish to be well. If he really abides in God's will, all pain is to him a joy, all complication, simple: yea, even the pains of hell would be a joy to him. He is free and gone out from himself, and from all that he receives, he must be free. If my eye is to discern colour, it must itself be free from all colour. The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye and God's eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love.
- Meister Eckhart, in Meister Eckhart's Sermons (1909), Sermon IV : True Hearing
- Parmenides believed that all Being is what he called the One, and denied absolutely the possibility of change. He believed that the cosmos is full (i.e., no void), uncreated, eternal, indestructible, unchangeable, immobile sphere of being, and all sensory evidence to the contrary is illusory. One Parmenidean fragment stated, "Either a thing is or it is not," meaning that creation and destruction is impossible.
- The Godhead, according to Eckhart, is the universal and eternal Unity comprehending and transcending all diversity. "The Divine nature is Rest," he says in one of the German discourses; and in the Latin fragments we find: "God rests in Himself, and makes all things rest in Him." The three Persons of the Trinity, however, are not mere modes or accidents, but represent a real distinction within the Godhead. God is unchangeable, and at the same time an "everlasting process." The creatures are "absolutely nothing"; but at the same time "God without them would not be God," for God is love, and must objectify Himself; He is goodness, and must impart Himself. As the picture in the mind of the painter, as the poem in the mind of the poet, so was all creation in the mind of God from all eternity, in uncreated simplicity. The ideal world was not created in time; "the Father spake Himself and all the creatures in His Son"; "they exist in the eternal Now" —"a becoming without a becoming, change without change." "The Word of God the Father it the substance of all that exists, the life of all that lives, the principle and cause of life." Of creation he says : "We must not falsely imagine that God stood waiting for something to happen, that He might create the world. For so soon as He was God, so soon as He begat His coeternal and coequal Son, He created the world."
- William Ralph Inge in Light, Life, and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages (1904), p. xx
- Reduced to their most pregnant difference, empiricism means the habit of explaining wholes by parts, and rationalism means the habit of explaining parts by wholes. Rationalism thus preserves affinities with monism, since wholeness goes with union, while empiricism inclines to pluralistic views. No philosophy can ever be anything but a summary sketch, a picture of the world in abridgment, a foreshortened bird's-eye view of the perspective of events. And the first thing to notice is this, that the only material we have at our disposal for making a picture of the whole world is supplied by the various portions of that world of which we have already had experience. We can invent no new forms of conception, applicable to the whole exclusively, and not suggested originally by the parts. All philosophers, accordingly, have conceived of the whole world after the analogy of some particular feature of it which has particularly captivated their attention.
- Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational. The all-form allows of no taking up and dropping of connexions, for in the all the parts are essentially and eternally co-implicated. In the each-form, on the contrary, a thing may be connected by intermediary things, with a thing with which it has no immediate or essential connexion. It is thus at all times in many possible connexions which are not necessarily actualized at the moment. They depend on which actual path of intermediation it may functionally strike into: the word 'or' names a genuine reality.
- William James, in A Pluralistic Universe (1909), Lecture VII
- I believe that the Universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy, and they are all in communication with each other, therefore parts of one organic whole. (This is physics, I believe, as well as religion.) The parts change and pass, or die, people and races and rocks and stars, none of them seems to me important in itself, but only the whole. This whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it and to think of it as divine. It seems to me that this whole alone is worthy of the deeper sort of love and there is peace, freedom, I might say a kind of salvation, in turning one's affections outward toward this one God, rather than inwards on one's self, or on humanity, or on human imaginations and abstractions — the world of spirits.
I think it is our privilege and felicity to love God for his beauty, without claiming or expecting love from him. We are not important to him, but he to us.
- Robinson Jeffers, in a letter to Sister Mary James Power (1 October 1934); published in The Wild God of the World : An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers (2003), edited by Albert Gelpi, p. 189; also partly quoted in the essay "Robinson Jeffers, Pantheist Poet" by John Courtney
- If those who lead you say, "See, the Kingdom is in the sky," then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, "It is in the sea," then the fish will precede you. Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty.
- Jesus, as quoted in Gospel of Thomas : Saying 3
- Variants:
- His disciples said to Him, "When will the Kingdom come?"
Jesus said, "It will not come by waiting for it. It will not be a matter of saying 'Here it is' or 'There it is.' Rather, the Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it."
- As quoted in Gospel of Thomas : Saying 113
- And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
- As quoted in Gospel of Luke 17:21
- We are all one in God's seeing.
- Julian of Norwich, in Revelations of Divine Love (c.1393), Ch. 30
- The Tao that can be expressed is not the eternal Tao; The name that can be defined is not the unchanging name.
Non-existence is called the antecedent of heaven and earth; Existence is the mother of all things.
From eternal non-existence, therefore, we serenely observe the mysterious beginning of the Universe; From eternal existence we clearly see the apparent distinctions.
These two are the same in source and become different when manifested.
This sameness is called profundity. Infinite profundity is the gate whence comes the beginning of all parts of the Universe.
- Laozi, in Tao Te Ching, Ch. 1, as translated by Ch'u Ta-Kao (1904)
- Variant translation:
- The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao;
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth.
The named is the mother of ten thousand things.
Ever desireless, one can see the mystery.
Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations.
These two spring from the same source but differ in name;
this appears as darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gate to all mystery.
- Tao Te Ching, Ch. 1, as translated by Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English (1972)
- Since before time and space were,
the Tao is.
It is beyond is and is not.
How do I know this is true?
I look inside myself and see.
- Laozi, in Tao Te Ching, Ch. 21, as interpreted by Stephen Mitchell (1992)
- There is a thing inherent and natural,
Which existed before heaven and earth.
Motionless and fathomless,
It stands alone and never changes;
It pervades everywhere and never becomes exhausted.
It may be regarded as the Mother of the Universe.
I do not know its name. If I am forced to give it a name, I call it Tao, and I name it as supreme.
- Laozi, in Tao Te Ching, Ch. 25, as translated by Ch'u Ta-Kao (1904)
- The "concept" of the One is not, properly speaking, a concept at all, since it is never explicitly defined by Plotinus, yet it is nevertheless the foundation and grandest expression of his philosophy. Plotinus does make it clear that no words can do justice to the power of the One; even the name, "the One," is inadequate, for naming already implies discursive knowledge, and since discursive knowledge divides or separates its objects in order to make them intelligible, the One cannot be known through the process of discursive reasoning (Ennead VI.9.4). Knowledge of the One is achieved through the experience of its "power" (dunamis) and its nature, which is to provide a "foundation" (arkhe) and location (topos) for all existents (VI.9.6). The "power" of the One is not a power in the sense of physical or even mental action; the power of the One, as Plotinus speaks of it, is to be understood as the only adequate description of the "manifestation" of a supreme principle that, by its very nature, transcends all predication and discursive understanding.
- Edward Moore, in "Plotinus" at Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, on the monism of Plotinus.
- The unity and continuity of Vedanta are reflected in the unity and continuity of wave mechanics. In 1925, the world view of physics was a model of a great machine composed of separable interacting material particles. During the next few years, Schrodinger and Heisenberg and their followers created a universe based on super imposed inseparable waves of probability amplitudes. This new view would be entirely consistent with the Vedantic concept of All in One.
- Walter J. Moore in Schrödinger: Life and Thought (1989) ISBN 0521437679
- Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
- Isaac Newton, in Rules for methodizing the Apocalypse, Rule 9, from a manuscript published in The Religion of Isaac Newton (1974) by Frank E. Manuel, p. 120, as quoted in Socinianism And Arminianism : Antitrinitarians, Calvinists, And Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Europe (2005) by Martin Mulsow, Jan Rohls, p. 273
- Variant: Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
- As quoted in God in the Equation : How Einstein Transformed Religion (2002) by Corey S. Powell, p. 29
- There is one story left, one road: that it is. And on this road there are very many signs that, being, is uncreated and imperishable, whole, unique, unwavering, and complete.
- Parmenides, Frag. B 8.1-4, quoted by Simplicius, Commentary on the Physics, 144
- The Immortal Principle was first called water by Thales. Anaximenes called it air. The Pythagoreans called it number and were thus the first to see the Immortal Principle as something nonmaterial. Heraclitus called the Immortal Principle fire and introduced change as part of the Principle. He said the world exists as a conflict and tension of opposites. He said there is a One and there is a Many and the One is the universal law which is immanent in all things. Anaxagoras was the first to identify the One as nous, meaning "mind."
Parmenides made it clear for the first time that the Immortal Principle, the One, Truth, God, is separate from appearance and from opinion, and the importance of this separation and its effect upon subsequent history cannot be overstated. It's here that the classic mind, for the first time, took leave of its romantic origins and said, "The Good and the True are not necessarily the same," and goes its separate way. Anaxagoras and Parmenides had a listener named Socrates who carried their ideas into full fruition.
- Robert M. Pirsig, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 29
- Jesus knew — knew — that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look? You have to be a son of God to know that kind of stuff.
- J. D. Salinger, in Zooey (1957)
- Inside most people there's a feeling of being separate — separated from everything. … And they're not. They're part of absolutely everyone, and everything.
- Victor Salva, in Powder (film) (1995)
- No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors ... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.
- Erwin Schrödinger, in writings of July 1918, as quoted in A Life of Erwin Schrödinger (1994) by Walter Moore
- The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of the union with God regularly leads to this view, unless strong prejudices stand in the way.
- Erwin Schrödinger, as quoted in The Eye of Shiva: Eastern Mysticism and Science (1981) by Amaury de Riencourt
- The Soul appears to be finite because of ignorance. When ignorance is destroyed the Self which does not admit of any multiplicity truly reveals itself by itself: like the Sun when the clouds pass away.
- Adi Shankara, in Atma Bodha
- Like bubbles in the water, the worlds rise, exist and dissolve in the Supreme Self, which is the material cause and the prop of everything.
- Adi Shankara, in Atma Bodha
- He who renouncing all activities, who is free of all the limitations of time, space and direction, worships his own Atman which is present everywhere, which is the destroyer of heat and cold, which is Bliss-Eternal and stainless, becomes All-knowing and All-pervading and attains thereafter Immortality.
- Adi Shankara, in Atma Bodha
- When you say that if I deny, that the operations of seeing, hearing, attending, wishing, &c., can be ascribed to God, or that they exist in Him in any eminent fashion, you do not know what sort of God mine is; I suspect that you believe there is no greater perfection than such as can be explained by the aforesaid attributes. I am not astonished; for I believe that, if a triangle could speak, it would say, in like manner, that God is eminently triangular, while a circle would say that the divine nature is eminently circular. Thus each would ascribe to God its own attributes, would assume itself to be like God, and look on everything else as ill-shaped.
The briefness of a letter and want of time do not allow me to enter into my opinion on the divine nature, or the questions you have propounded. Besides, suggesting difficulties is not the same as producing reasons. That we do many things in the world from conjecture is true, but that our redactions are based on conjecture is false.
- My opinion concerning God differs widely from that which is ordinarily defended by modern Christians. For I hold that God is of all things the cause immanent, as the phrase is, not transient. I say that all things are in God and move in God, thus agreeing with Paul, and, perhaps, with all the ancient philosophers, though the phraseology may be different; I will even venture to affirm that I agree with all the ancient Hebrews, in so far as one may judge from their traditions, though these are in many ways corrupted. The supposition of some, that I endeavour to prove in the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus the unity of God and Nature (meaning by the latter a certain mass or corporeal matter), is wholly erroneous.
As regards miracles, I am of opinion that the revelation of God can only be established by the wisdom of the doctrine, not by miracles, or in other words by ignorance.
- All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else.
- Swami Vivekananda, in Pearls of Wisdom edited by the Ramakrishna Mission
- All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
- Swami Vivekananda, in Pearls of Wisdom edited by the Ramakrishna Mission
- All that is real in me is God; all that is real in God is I. The gulf between God and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing God, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
- Swami Vivekananda, in Pearls of Wisdom edited by the Ramakrishna Mission
- Pluralism and monism, philosophical theories that answer "many" and "one," respectively, to the distinct questions: how many kinds of things are there? and how many things are there? Different answers to each question are compatible, and the possible combination of views provide a popular way of viewing the history of philosophy.
- By The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica in pluralism and monism. Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved on 5 January 2014.
- The ancient Hindu philosophers stated as a fundamental truth that the world of our sense-experience is all illusion (maya), that change, plurality, and causation are not real, that there is but one reality, God. This is metaphysical Monism of the idealistic-spiritual type, tending towards mysticism.
- In Monism. New Advent. Retrieved on 5 January 2014.
- The thought of the Gita is not pure Monism although it sees in one unchanging, pure, eternal Self the foundation of all cosmic existence, nor Mayavada although it speaks of the Maya of the three modes of Prakriti omnipresent in the created world; nor is it qualified Monism although it places in the One his eternal supreme Prakriti manifested in the form of the Jiva and lays most stress on dwelling in God rather than dissolution as the supreme state of spiritual consciousness; nor is it Sankhya although it explains the created world by the double principle of Purusha and Prakriti; nor is it Vaishnava Theism although it presents to us Krishna, who is the Avatara of Vishnu according to the Puranas, as the supreme Deity and allows no essential difference nor any actual superiority of the status of the indefinable relationless Brahman over that of this Lord of beings who is the Master of the universe and the Friend of all creatures. Like the earlier spiritual synthesis of the Upanishads this later synthesis at once spiritual and intellectual avoids naturally every such rigid determination as would injure its universal comprehensiveness. Its aim is precisely the opposite to that of the polemist commentators who found this Scripture established as one of the three highest Vedantic authorities and attempted to turn it into a weapon of offence and defence against other schools and systems. The Gita is not a weapon for dialectical warfare; it is a gate opening on the whole world of spiritual truth and experience and the view it gives us embraces all the provinces of that supreme region. It maps out, but it does not cut up or build walls or hedges to confine our vision."
- Śrī Aurobindo in Sri Aurobindo (1 January 2000). Essays on the Gita. SriAurobindoAshram Publication Dept. p. 8. ISBN 978-81-7058-613-5.
- The Bhagavadgita combines many different elements from Samkhya and Vedanta philosophy. In matters of religion, its important contribution was the new emphasis placed on devotion, which has since remained a central path in Hinduism. In addition, the popular theism expressed elsewhere in the Mahabharata and the transcendentalism of the Upanishads converge, and a God of personal characteristics is identified with the brahman of the Vedic tradition. The Bhagavadgita thus gives a typology of the three dominant trends of Indian religion: dharma-based householder life, enlightenment-based renunciation, and devotion-based theism.
- In Hinduism: The Bhagavad Gita. Retrieved on 5 January 2014.
- The Bhagavadgita may be treated as a great synthesis of the ideas of the impersonal spiritual monism with personalistic monotheism, of the yoga of action with the yoga of transcendence of action, and these again with yogas of devotion and knowledge.
- By P.T. Raju in P T Raju (13 May 2013). The Philosophical Traditions of India. Routledge. p. 258. ISBN 1-135-02941-5.
- ...in Sikhism epistemological idealism also leads to metaphysical idealism. Sikhism starts with plurality of objects and ends in monism. It evolves a comprehensive metaphysical system of absolute dynamic non-dualist view of the Reality.
- In Nirbhai Singh (1 January 1990). Philosophy of Sikhism: Reality and Its Manifestations. Atlantic Publishers & Distri. pp. 1–. GGKEY:QYQ76RFT4JG.
- In the context of Sikhism it [Metaphysical monism] considers atman (spiritual element) and body (material element) as inseparable aspects of a single spiritual cosmic spiritual continuum.
- In "Philosophy of Sikhism: Reality and Its Manifestations", p.2
- Sikhism lays more emphasis on dynamism, non-dualism and social involvement. Reality imply that Sikhism puts forth a dynamic metaphysical system.
- In "Philosophy of Sikhism: Reality and Its Manifestations", p.3
- The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
- By William James on neutral monism quoted in Jeffrey A. Bell (2009). Deleuze's Hume: Philosophy, Culture and the Scottish Enlightenment. Edinburgh University Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-7486-3439-2.


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"He will be called Wonderful Counselor" (Isaiah 9:6).
Literally this title means "a wonder of a counselor," speaking of the wisdom of his plan. The word "wonderful" means "astonishing" or "extraordinary." The writers of the Old Testament used it for acts of God which man cannot understand. The word "counselor" means "advisor" or "ideal ruler."This means he is a reliable counselor. Those who come to him will never be led astray. Talk radio is filled with people who make their living giving advice to others. Much of it is good, some not so good. But the Lord goes to no one for advice. And when anyone comes to him, he gives them the counsel they need.He is therefore the perfect teacher and the ultimate counselor. This gives us insight into his working. His plans are not our plans, his ways not our ways. He will accomplish things beyond human comprehension, and he will do it in ways we cannot fathom. He will do the greatest work ever accomplished, and he will do it successfully. A violent death would not be man's way to victory, but it was God's plan and our Lord carried it out perfectly.As the Wonderful Counselor, he gives wholesome direction to His people. Those who follow him will not walk in darkness but in the blazing light of day.
Lord Jesus, all the treasures of divine wisdom are found in you. You know what we need for today and tomorrow. Grant us a holy desire to do your will. Amen.
Ray Pritchard pastored in Los Angeles, Dallas and Chicago. Married to Marlene for 38 years, he enjoys being a husband, a father and a grandfather, riding his bike, and playing with Dudley and Gary, beloved basset hounds.