Many years ago there was a man named Richard Henry Dana. Descended from a family of scholars and overachievers he was accepted into the esteemed halls of Harvard. A case of the measles ruined his eyesight and ended his academic…
If we could create an icon to represent the perfect man, what would it be? What would define the ultimate man? Kindness? Intelligence? Boldness? Loyalty? Courtesy? Reverence? Faithfulness? Trustworthiness? Powerful? Forgiving? Truthful? Would it be all of those things, and…
The original bible, Gods’ textbook, may have been this… “The Inner Workings of The Quantum Universe and Knowledge of Miracle Performance Within the Confines of a Carbon Based Life Form Limited to Four Measurable Dimensions in the Space-time Continuum and…
I recently watched a YouTube interview with Robert Sapolsky on Alex O’Connnor’s YouTube channel. Dr. Sapolsky is a brilliant man who is obviously well-versed in many subjects, chiefly biology and neuroscience. He doesn’t believe in “free will,” meaning that everything…
I grew up in the 70’s. If Saturday Night Fever, Charlie’s Angels, vinyl records, Evel Knievel,The Brady Bunch, etc. rings a bell with you then you did too. I don’t remember being anxious about much, other than when I was…
In 1841 Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote an essay that is, at once, oddly insightful and wonderfully honest regarding a topic which has become very nearly anathema, the light and wisdom that is contained within all men and the inability of…
After the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 15th, 1865 James Russell Lowell, a political critic, poet, and scholar, reflected upon the man who led America out of the turmoil, division, and angst that had boiled over into the Civil…
Very good question. Pain forces growth and change. Pain is the stimulus for you to seek good. Pain intensifies your comfort, peace, happiness, your serenity when they come. Pain allows you to see what works in the world and what…