todays 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 HAPPINESS IN PERFECTION, OUR MOST FORTUNATE SUCCESSES ARE MIXED WITH SADNESS. TRUE, I AM YOUNG, BUT SOULS NOBLY BORN VALOR DOESN’T  AWAIT THE PASSING OF YEARS. THE … Read more

BIRTHDAY JUNE 5

BIRTHDAY 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 STATE? OUR MEDIA AND POLITICAL SYSTEM HAS TURNED INTO A MUTUAL PROTECTION RACKET. AN UNCONSCIOUS PEOPLE, AN INDOCTRINATED PEOPLE, A PEOPLE FED … Read more

BIRTHDAYS JUNE 4

BIRTHDAYS 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 KNOW . . . I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN. STICKS AND STONES WILL BREAK OUR BONES, BUT WORDS WILL BREAK OUR … Read more

BIRTHDAYS JUNE 3

BIRTHDAYS 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 WHAT IS KNOWN IN PRIVATE. POETS ARE DAMNED . . . BUT SEE WITH THE EYES OF ANGELS. THE WEIGHT … Read more

birthday 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 PATH OF TORMENT. HAPPINESS IS IDEAL, IT IS THE WORK OF THE IMAGINATION. THE IMAGINATION IS THE SPUR OF DELIGHTS . . … Read more

CHEERFULNESS

CHEERFULNESS 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 through greatness of mind.    ARISTOTLE CHEERFULNESS is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.    JOSEPH ADDISON THE PRINCIPLE … Read more

CLASSIC BOOK REVIEW

CLASSIC BOOK REVIEW—“Practical Mysticism” by Evelyn UnderhillEvelyn Underhill (1875-1941) English poet, novelist and mystic, was born in England and educated at Kings College, for women, London. “Practical Mysticism” 1915 “THE SPIRITUAL LIFE is not a special career, involving abstraction from the worldof things. It is part of every man’s life; and until he realizes it … Read more

HIPPOCRATIC OATH

                                                                         HIPPOCRATES HIPPOCRATES was born 460 BC. He is credited as the first person to believe that diseases were causednaturally … Read more