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November 2, 2023
EssayLIFE would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. MARK TWAIN HAN SUYIN 1917-2012. "A MANY-SPLENDORED THING"DIED 11/2.…
November 1, 2023
EssayWHEN WE PRACTICE LOVING KINDNESS AND COMPASSION, WE ARE THE FIRST TO PROFIT. RUMI PREJUDICE is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. E,B,WHITE…
October 31, 2023
EssayCOMPASSION is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you. Deepak Chopra GIVE YOUR ATTENTION to the experience of seeing rather…
October 31, 2023
EssayRUTH GORDON 1896-1985. "HAROLD AND MAUDE" TO BE SOMEBODY YOU MUST LAST. NEVER GIVE UP. AND NEVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES FACE THE FACTS. discussing HOW OLD YOUR ARE is the temple o…
October 28, 2023
EssayI LOST MY HAT WHILE GAZING AT THE MOON, & THEN I LOST MY MIND, RUMI TO ALL THE PEOPLE who are loving and kind to me. T hank you for the sunshine you bring into my life. BRIGITT…
October 27, 2023
EssayPSYCHOLOGY is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul. TELL ME WHAT YOU YEARN FOR and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized image…
October 26, 2023
EssayPEOPLE do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. RALPH WALDO EMERSON PABLO PICASO-------------- I PAINT WHAT I THINK, NOT WHAT I SEE…
October 25, 2023
EssayWORLD PASTA DAY----WORLD OPERA DAY A QUIET MIND IS ABLE TO HEAR INTUITION OVER FEAR. I HAVE A VERY SIMPLE CREED: that life and joy and beauty are better than dusty death. One may s…
October 24, 2023
EssayTO BE KIND is more important than to be right. Many times what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens. F.SCOTT FITZGERALD IN THE VERY END,…
October 24, 2023
EssayNATIONAL HORROR MOVIE DAY! OUR SCIENTIFIC POWER has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Martin Luther King Jr. YOU CAN ALSO COMMIT INJUSTICE BY D…
October 22, 2023
EssayTHE QUIETER YOU BECOME, THE MORE YOU ARE ABLE TO HEAR. RUMI TIMOTHY LEARY 1920-1996. "The Psychedelic Experience". TO think for yourself you must question authority and learn how t…
October 21, 2023
EssayTHE READING OF ALL GOOD BOOKS is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. RENE DESCARTES NEVER BE AFRAID TO RAISE YOUR VOICE for honesty and truth and compassio…
October 21, 2023
EssayIT IS NOT the apparatus of the machine that's wrong, but the organized cult of machinery that is really evil. It is a monster that can transform man into a passive, purposeless ani…
October 19, 2023
EssayI'D BE MORE WILLING TO ACCEPT RELIGION, even though I don't believe in it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other, but I don't think it does. ANDY ROONEY THE TONGUE HAS NO…
October 18, 2023
EssayROLAND GRIFITHS. 1946-2023 the New York Times Oct. 17, 2023 A HALLMARK FEATURE of these Psilocybin experiences is that we're all in this together. it opens people up to this sense…
October 17, 2023
EssayTRY TO BE A RAINBOW IN SOMEONE'S CLOUD. MAYA ANGELOU GARY ZUKAV 1942----"The Seat of the Soul""Authentic Power". A BLESSING IS THE OPENING of a passageway between you and nonphysic…
October 16, 2023
EssayHAPPY PEOPLE ARE IGNORAMUSES AND GLORY IS NOTHING ELSE BUT SUCCESS AND TO ACHIEVE IT ONE ONLY HAS TO BE CUNNING. MANY a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles…
October 15, 2023
EssayPEACE IS THE ONLY WAR WORTH WAGING. ALBERT CAMUS WILLIAM BLAKE 1757-1827 "THE LITTLE BLACK BOY" "Liberate the instinctual self to defeat reason." MAKE YOUR OWN RULES OR BE A SLAVE…
October 15, 2023
EssayLOUISE GLUCK (1943-2023) "Greatest Po em in the World" THE LITTLE BLACK BOY by William Blake MY mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White…
October 14, 2023
EssayTHE MAN WHO does not read good books, has no advantage over the man who cannot read. MARK TWAIN LOUISE GLUCK 1943-2023 NOBLE PRIZE WINNING POET FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME, IN CHILD…
October 13, 2023
EssayTHE KEY TO JOY IS DISOBEDIENCE. A MAN WHO IS DOING HIS TRUE WILL has the inertia of the universe to assist him. ALEISTER CROWLEY ENTER INTO MY PEACE THIS DAY, shut out all the nois…
October 12, 2023
EssayTODAY IS NATIONAL VERMONT DAY AND OLD FARMERS DAY. DICK GREGORY 1932-2017. "Nigger" "From the Back of the Bus". THE UNITED STATES is the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation…
October 11, 2023
EssayLAMENTING the age of complete license -- in the arts as well as in daily life TERENCE DAVIES (1945-2023) told L.A.Weekly in 2012: "The first thing that goes is subtlety. The first…
October 10, 2023
EssayTODAY IS INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPER CARRIER DAY. ALL THE THINGS I LIKE TO DO are either immoral, illegal or fattening. ALEXANDER WOLLCOTT I CANNOT THINK of a more personally rewarding…