If you live with fear, you will make choices based on what you want to avoid. Those who live in a world of fear do not even believe that the world of honor and trust exists. If you live with fairness, you will choose based on what you want to get. Those who live in a world of fairness may see that others live differently, but they either do not believe it can be better for them or they do not know how to get into that world. If you live with honor, your choices are based on what you value most. You know that you can do more with others than you can alone. You know that it is only through empowering others that you can achieve what is possible. You know that the best way to gain influence with them is to give up control of them.
Blaine Lee, The Power Principle: Influence with Honor
Baruch Ata Adonai Elo-hei-nu me-lech ha-olam a-sher ke-d-sha-nu b- mitz-vo-tav, v-tzi-va-nu al s-fi-rat ha-omer.
Praised be you Adonai our God who rules the Universe instilling within us the holiness of mitzvot by commanding us to count the Omer.
Today is the seventh day of the Omer.