June 17, 2023
EssayBIRTHDAYS JUNE 17
BIRTHDAYS. JUNE 17 Ajahn Chah: "Food for the Heart" "A Taste of Freedom" WHEN the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything. THE serene and peaceful mind is the true epitom…
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June 17, 2023
EssayCLUES TO INNER JOURNEY
GUIDANCE FOR THOSE EMBARKING ON INNER JOURNEY FRITZ PERLS MOST PEOPLE lead fantasy lives. They live totally in the past or in terms of what they expect in the future, which amounts…
June 16, 2023
EssayTODAYS BIRTHDAYS---JUNE 16---A GREAT DAY
---BIRTHDAYS JUNE 16--- JOHN SHELBY SPONG 1931-2021 "Why Christianity Must Change or Die" "Jesus for the Nonreligious". "The Sins of Scripture" THERE'S an awful lot of biblical ign…
June 15, 2023
EssayJUNE 15********BIRTHDAYS
BIRTHDAYS JUNE 15 Thaddeus Golas "The Lazy Man's Guide To Enlightenment" 1924-1997 ENLIGHTENMENT is any experience of consciousness beyond its present limits. We could also say tha…
June 14, 2023
EssayTODAYS BIRTHDAYS---JUNE 14
BIRTHDAYS TODAY---JUNE 14, 2022 CHE GUEVARA. 1928-1967 "Man and Socialism in Cuba" THE TRUE REVOLUTIONARY IS GUIDED BY GREAT FEELINGS OF LOVE. BE REALISTIC, DEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE!…
June 14, 2023
EssayTREAT WILLIAMS
SALUTE TO TREAT WILLIAMS ROBERT TREAT WILLIAMS was killed today in Dorset, Vermont when an SUV collided with his motorcycle. Besides being a good actor he was a fine husband and fa…
June 14, 2023
EssayTREAT WILLIAMS
SALUTE TO TREAT WILLIAMS ROBERT TREAT WILLIAMS was killed today in Dorset, Vermont when an SUV collided with his motorcycle. Besides being a good actor he was a fine husband and fa…
June 13, 2023
EssayBIRTHDAYS JUNE 13
TIM ALLEN COMEDIAN 1953---- YOU don't know what people are really like until they're under a lot of stress. Man is the only animal to borrow tools. Anytime you work with animals, y…
June 12, 2023
EssayBIRTHDAYS JUNE 12
JUNE 12----BIRTHDAYS ANNE FRANK WRITER 1929---1945 "The Diary of Anne Frank" DESPITE EVERYTHING, I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE ARE REALLY GOOD AT HEART. I DON'T THINK OF ALL THE MISERY BUT…
June 12, 2023
EssayBIRTHDAYS JUNE 11
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU 1910--1997 WATER AND AIR, THE TWO ESSENTIAL FLUIDS WHICH ALL LIFE DEPENDS, HAVE BECOME GLOBAL GARBAGE CANS. FARMING AS WE DO IT IS HUNTING, AND IN THE SEA WE…
June 11, 2023
EssayJFK HOORAY
From Michael Moore: (excerpts) AN INCREDIBLE AND HISTORIC MOMENT TOOK PLACE 60 YEARS AGO ON JUNE 10, 1963. PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY WAS ASKED TO GIVE A COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS AT AME…
June 10, 2023
EssayBirthdays June 10
BIRTHDAYS TODAY JUNE 10 E.O.WILSON scientist 1929-- "The Ants" "Biophilla" "Half-Earth" IF ALL MANKIND WERE TO DISAPPEAR, THE WORLD WOULD REGENERATE BACK TO THE RICH STATE OF EQUIL…
June 7, 2023
EssayClassic Book Review: Courage The Joy of Living Dangerously by Osho
1999 Ohso International Foundation. St. Martin’s Press “IF enough Americans were to read the brilliantly provocative words in this book, we might actually become ‘the land of the f…
June 6, 2023
Essaytodays birthdays
TODAYS BIRTHDAYS PIERRE CORNEILLE DRAMATIST 1696-1684 "Le Cid" "L'illusion Comique" TO WIN WITHOUT RISK IS TO TRIUMPH WITHOUT GLORY. LOVE IS A TYRANT SPARING NONE. WE NEVER TASTE H…
June 5, 2023
EssayBIRTHDAY JUNE 5
BILL MOYERS JOURNALIST 1934 I'LL BELIEVE CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE WHEN TEXAS EXECUTES ONE. HOW DO WE PROTECT THE SOUL OF DEMOCRACY AGAINST THE BAD THEOLOGY IN SERVICE OF AN IMPERIAL…
June 4, 2023
EssayBIRTHDAYS JUNE 4
ROBERT FULGHUM AUTHOR. 1937--- THE EXAMINED LIFE IS NO PICNIC. SOLITUDE IS NO THE SAME AS LONELINESS. SOLITUDE IS A BOAT FLOATING IN A SEA OF POSSIBLE COMPANIONS. ALL I NEED TO KNO…
June 3, 2023
EssayBIRTHDAYS JUNE 3
ALAN GINSBERG FOLLOW YOUR INNER MOONLIGHT; DON'T HIDE THE MADNESS. POETRY IS THE ONE PLACE PEOPLE CAN SPEAK THEIR ORIGINAL HUMAN MIND. IT IS THE OUTLET FOR PEOPLE TO SAY IN PUBLIC…
June 2, 2023
Essaybirthday today June 2
BIRTHDAYS TODAY April 2 MARQUIS de SADE 1740-1814 YOUR BODY IS THE CHURCH WHERE NATURE ASKS TO BE REVERENCED. I'VE ALWAYS TOLD YOU: THE ONLY WAY TO A WOMAN'S HEART IS ALONG THE PAT…
June 2, 2023
EssayJune by James Russell Lowell
And what is so rare as a day in June! Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then, if ever, come perfect days; And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we liste…
May 27, 2023
EssayMiracles by Walt Whitman
WHY, who makes much of a miracle? AS to me I know nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, OR dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, OR w…
May 27, 2023
EssayThe best medicine: laughter
"As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason anyone should be exempt." - Moliere "You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor…
May 22, 2023
EssayCHEERFULNESS
THE MOST CERTAIN SIGN OF WISDOM IS CHEERFULNESS. Michel de Montaigne SUFFERING becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but…
May 17, 2023
EssayCLASSIC BOOK REVIEW
CLASSIC BOOK REVIEW---"Practical Mysticism" by Evelyn Underhill Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) English poet, novelist and mystic, was born in England and educated at Kings College, f…
May 14, 2023
EssayHIPPOCRATIC OATH
HIPPOCRATES HIPPOCRATES was born 460 BC. He is credited as the first person to believe that diseases were causednaturally not because of superstition and gods. He was acknowledged…