January 30
WORTHY CHANNEL
If the channel be properly constructed all the available water can be taken through it to the desired place. Nature can be taken advantage of in this wise.
This privilege of man is to become the channel of the Divine. For that the conditions have to be fulfilled. Egolessness is the bed of the channel. Moral integrity is the embankment. Pure mind is the material of the embankment. Disciplined life is its maintenance.
When man becomes the worthy channel Divinity manifests of its accord in and through him.
--- Vedanta
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ROCHEFOUCAULD
RÉFLEXIONS OU SENTENCES ET MAXIMES MORALES
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Nous avons tous assez de force pour supporter les maux d'autrui.
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La constance des sages n'est que l'art de renfermer leur agitation dans le coeur.
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19.—We have all sufficient strength to support the misfortunes of others.
20.—The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.
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Football: Kaoru Mitoma named 2022 player of year by Japan pro association
サッカー男子日本代表三苫薫、 日本プロサッカー最優秀選手に
Japan winger Kaoru Mitoma was named the 2022 player of the year by the Japan Pro-Footballers Association on Jan. 18.
The 25-year-old scored two late goals against Australia last March to send Japan to the World Cup.
He also starred in the tournament in Qatar, setting up a winner against Spain in the group stage. Japan beat Spain in that game 2-1.
Mitoma also plays for Brighton in the English Premier League and has quickly become a fan favorite.
“I was rated highly by the players who competed with me as teammates as well as those who faced me as opponents, and I couldn’t be happier,” Mitoma said in a video message.
“My aim is for the team (Brighton) to finish as high as possible, we’re aiming for the top six. I want to focus on goals and assists and do my best to help my team win each match.” (Kyodo)
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Dueteronomy 024
Chapter 24
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1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;
4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
5 When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
6 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
(millstone うす石；pledge 質）
7 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.
9 Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.
10 When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
11 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
12 And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
13 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.
14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
15 At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
(hire = wages)
16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
18 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
19 When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
20 When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
22 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
