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The Bumps of Relationships

“My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms, the rhythm of attracting people for fear that I may be lonely, and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them because I know I am bored.    - Philosopher, farmer C.E.M. Joad Here is the question of our days: Can we become less fickle and more consistent?

All

Lord Byron said he did not like an author who was “all author.”   How many of us are “all lawyer,” “all mother,” “all reverend,” “all physician?”  We need a life. ...and what is life if not different every day?

Living the Life, Walking the Walk

Rabban Gamliel was noted as saying that a person’s interior and exterior should be mirror images of each another.   Perhaps this is what he meant about such consistency: “There are those who preach and act accordingly; Some act correctly and do not preach well; And you have good preachers who do not practice.”  - Yevamot 63b