{"id":4249,"date":"2014-06-20T05:05:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T05:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?p=4249"},"modified":"2014-06-20T05:52:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T05:52:02","slug":"the-paradoxical-commandments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2014\/06\/20\/the-paradoxical-commandments\/","title":{"rendered":"The Paradoxical Commandments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Daniel Lafontaine published on Facebook a set of aphorisms\u00a0about doing good attributed to by Mother Teresa today. \u00a0I enjoyed them immensely and when I researched them, I discovered that they are based on a text called &#8220;The Paradoxical Commandments&#8221; (no doubt based in turn on earlier wisdom) written by Kent M. Keith in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the original text:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>The Paradoxical Commandments<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong><em>by Dr. Kent M. Keith<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong><em>1968<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>Love them anyway.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>Do good anyway.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>Succeed anyway.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>Do good anyway.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>Be honest and frank anyway.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>Think big anyway.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>Fight for a few underdogs anyway.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>Build anyway.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>Help people anyway.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>Give the world the best you have and you&#8217;ll get kicked in the teeth.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>Give the world the best you have anyway.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Daniel Lafontaine published on Facebook a set of aphorisms\u00a0about doing good attributed to by Mother Teresa today. \u00a0I enjoyed them immensely and when I researched them, I discovered that they are based on a text called &#8220;The Paradoxical Commandments&#8221; (no doubt based in turn on earlier wisdom) written by Kent M. Keith in &#8230; <a title=\"The Paradoxical Commandments\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2014\/06\/20\/the-paradoxical-commandments\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Paradoxical Commandments\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9296425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[651],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9296425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}