Leonard Dubrow NELSON MANDELLA 1918-2013. “Long Walk to Freedom” YOU CAN NEVER HAVE AN IMPACT ON SOCIETY IF YOU HAVE NOT CHANGED YOURSELF. IT is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it. THERE can be no greater gift than that … Read more
“IN PERFECT TIMING” BY PETER CADDY I LOVE BOOKS. My journey has been immeasurably aided by the insight I have gained from books of every genre, my speciably being spirituality. I discovered Eileen Caddy quite a while ago and I follow her messages from God. “The … Read more
PHYLIS DILLER. 1917-2012 COMEDIAN A SMILE IS AN ARC THAT SETS EVERYTHIKN G STRAIGHT. I NEVER MADE Who’s Who,” but I’m featured om “What’s That?” I ONCE WORE a peekaboo blouse. People would peek and then they’d boo. … Read more
LINDA HOGAN. 1947—-Author, Professor. She descended from a family of storytellers who helped shape her. “Mean Spirit” “Solar Storm” WE MAKE ART OUT OF OUR LOSS. A SPOKEN STORY is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation … Read more
IRIS MURDOCH. 1919-1999 “The Sea, the Sea” “The Black Prince” HAPPINESS is a matter of one’s most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. ONE OF THE SECRETS of a happy life is continuous small treats and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured … Read more
WOMEN GROW RADICAL WITH AGE. One day an army of women may quietly take over the earth. GLORIA STEINEM THE LONGER I LIVE, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. Gentle work. Steadfast … Read more
WOLE SOYINKA 1934— Soyinka is the first Black person to win the Nobel Prize for literature (1986). The motivation for the Prize was, ” . . Who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence.” “The Trials of Brother Jero” BE YOURSELF. ULTIMATELY JUST … Read more
SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI PLEASURE OR PAIN ARE ASPECTS OF THE MIND ONLY. Our essential nature is happiness. But we have forgotten the Self and imagine that the body or the mind is the Self. It is that wrong identity that give rise to misery. … Read more
FREDERICH BUECHNER. 1926-2022. “Goodrich” “Wishful Thinking” PAY ATTENTION to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near. OUR LIFE ON THIS EARTH is all we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and … Read more
THE SMILE THERE is a smile of love, … Read more
