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October 9, 2023
EssayCANADIAN THANKSGIVING DAY. IT IS BETTER TO BE SILENT THAN TO DISPUTE WITH THE IGNORANT. PYTHAGORAS George Harrisons last words: "EVERYTHING ELSE CAN WAIT, but the search for God ca…
October 7, 2023
EssayMICHELLE ALEXANDER 1967---"The New Jim Crow" OUR ENTIRE POLITICAL SYSTEM is financed by wealthy private interests buying politicians and making sure the rules are written ins their…
October 6, 2023
EssayNOVEMBER 6---"MAD HATTER DAY IN 1996, RUSSEL SHERMAN PUBLISHED "Piano Pieces." a compilation of essays about teaching and performing. "notes may be missed but not casually flubbed.…
October 5, 2023
EssayWE THINK TOO MUCH AND FEEL TOO LITTLE. CHARLE CHAPLIN WHEN I MANAGE TO WRITE WELL, there is a second, silent language. this silent language says what it is all about. It's not the…
October 4, 2023
EssayALL WAR is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal. JOHN STEINBECK BE KINDER TO YOURSELF. AND THEN LET YOUR KINDNESS FLOOD THE WORLD. PEMA CHODRON THE ONLY WAY to be truly…
October 3, 2023
EssayTHERE IS A CALMNESS to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy. RALPH H. BLUM NEVER LOSE HOPE . . . The butterfly is proof that beauty can emerge from something completely falling a…
October 2, 2023
EssayLOVE IS A STATE WE EXXPERIECE FROM THE HEART. The bigger love is connecting to Source where Divine Love is the very fabric we hail from. The human experience of love is important a…
October 1, 2023
EssayOCTOBER 1ST, 1962: JOHNNY CARSON'S first night as host of the tonight show. He was introduced by Groucho Marx. guests included Joan Crawford, Mel Brooks, Rudy valley and Tony Benne…
September 30, 2023
EssayToday is National Mulled Cider Day & National Mud pack day. JOSEPH CONRAD: letter to friend Robert Cunningham Graham THERE IS -- LET US SAY -- A MACHINE. IT EVOLVED ITSELF (I A…
September 29, 2023
EssayRAINER MARIA RILKE: GOD speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go t…
September 28, 2023
EssayTODAY IS ASK A STUPID QUESTION DAY. WHEN WE ALIGN ourselves to a higher will, we open ourselves to grace, to a vast source of light that can illuminate and energize our lives. SWAM…
September 27, 2023
EssaySELF-KNOWLEDGE is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it. S.D. Beauvoir EXPLORING the wilderness of your own soul…
September 26, 2023
EssayLIFE SHRINKS OR EXPANDS IN PROPORTION TO ONE'S COURAGE. ANAIS NIN GEEORGE GERSHWIN. 1898-1937 "RHAPSODY IN BLUE" LIFE is a lot like jazz . . . it's best when you improvise. WHEN I'…
September 26, 2023
EssaySONYA GRACE EMOTIONS are the road that teach us how to transform the human experience. By focusing through meditation and dedication to one's practice we can eventually transcend t…
September 25, 2023
EssayTRUE COURAGE is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. JEREMY COLLIER 1650-1726 THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS JOY. W.B.YEATS IT IS IDEAS, as form, that constitute…
September 23, 2023
EssayWE are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the the music of the cosmos, we are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments, and our bo…
September 22, 2023
EssayGITA MEHTA 1943-2023 I'M LUCKY to be a writer coming out of a civilization like India. After all, ours is the civilization that based everything on relativity long before Albert Ei…
September 21, 2023
EssayTODAY IS NATIONAL PEACE DAY. H. G. WELLS 1866-1946. "WAR OF THE WORLDS""The Time Machine" "The Invisible Man" "The Magic Shop""Country of the Blind" WHAT REALLY MATTERS IS WHAT YOU…
September 20, 2023
EssayTODAY IS NATIONAL PEPPERONI PIZZA DAY. I BELIEVE WE SHOULD ALL LIVE WITHOUT HATE IF WE CAN. ROGER WHITTAKER CASS ELLIOT: IT'S TRUE, I DID GET HIT IN THE HEAD BY A PIPE THAT FELL do…
September 19, 2023
EssayFORGIVENESS is an act of choice. It is not about denying, condoning or excusing hurtful actions. Rather, it is the letting go of resentment or revenge, even when they seem warrante…
September 19, 2023
EssayCLASSIC BOOK REIEW: "Reading Between The Lies" by Dick Gregory "Slavery in America didn't start with black folks. In the 1500's, peoples from Spain and Portugal were over here ensl…
September 18, 2023
EssayTODAY IS NATIONAL CHEESEBURGER DAY! WHEN YOU ARE ONE with the sense of presence, then whatever is necessary by way of spiritual knowledge will sprout by itself. TODAY I LEARNED abo…
September 17, 2023
EssayTO A MIND THAT IS STILL . . . THE WHOLE WORLD SURRENDERS. CHAUNG TZU SUFFERING is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.…
September 16, 2023
EssayLAUREN BACALL. 1924-2014. "To Have and Have Not". IMAGINATION IS THE HIGHEST KITE ONE CAN FLY. WE LIVE IN AN AGE OF MEDIOCRITY. YOU LEARN to rise above a lot of bad things that hap…