“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic” (Anais Nin). TO BE “ILLUMINATED” MEANS TO BE “ENLIGHTENED.” In our language, light is very often used as a [...]
“Free inquiry, if restrained within due bounds, and applied to proper subjects, is a most important privilege of the human mind; and if well conducted, is one of the greatest friends to truth” (Theodore Agrippa D’Aubigne). PEOPLE WITH HIGH-QUALITY LIVES TEND TO BE THOSE WHO (A) ASK GOOD QUESTIONS, AND THEN (B) WORK HARD TO [...]
“There’s nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face” (Eva Hoffman). LIGHTHEARTEDNESS AND LAUGHTER ARE PRETTY GOOD SIGNS THAT THERE’S SOME LIFE IN US. Our exteriors may be buttoned-up and businesslike, but a little humor cracks the facade and lets it be known [...]
“‘Where there is a will, there is a way,’ says the proverb. That is not entirely true; but it is true that where there is no will, there is no way” (Thomas S. Szasz). WITHOUT A SUFFICIENTLY STURDY WILL, WE CAN’T BE EFFECTIVE IN ANY WORTHWHILE ENDEAVOR. If our intellect and our emotions are the [...]