Eric Hoffer: Went Blind for Eight Years, Miraculously Recovered His Sight
March 26, 2012 Eric Hoffer: The Longshoreman Philosopher by Tom Bethell FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE STANFORD—Hoover Institution Press released Eric Hoffer: The Longshoreman Philosopher by Tom Bethell....
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This weekend’s Blast from the Past, from Amiel’s Journal: January 6, 1853. Self-government with tenderness–here you have the condition of all authority over children. The child must discover in us no...
View ArticleMiss Louisiana 2012 Shares Life Lessons with Teens
Miss Louisiana 2012 Shares Life Lessons with Teens Baton Rouge Business Journal and sister site www.PassiontoLearn.com caught up with Lauren Michele Vizza, Miss Louisiana 2012, by telephone, the...
View Article“No Feeling is Final”
5 Thoughts from poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926) “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything...
View ArticleToday’s Birthday: Anton Chekhov (January 29, 1860)
10 Favorite Quotations of Anton Chekhov: 1. “Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” 2. “Any idiot can face a crisis; it’s this day-to-day living that wears you...
View ArticleRULES vs. CHAOS in Music
Are you a RULES person or a CHAOS person? Find out how you can be both! Read article online here: RULES vs. CHAOS in Music « Kevin Woolsey Tagged: following rules or creavity?, music lessons in br
View ArticleCarlos Slim Helú: Richest Man in World Gives Advice
Success is not about doing things well or even very well, or being acknowledged by others. It is not an external opinion, but rather an internal status. It is the harmony between the soul and your...
View ArticleDare to Ask 10 Questions Today
Why do we not dare to ask more questions? Is it because we think there are not enough answers? But questions, not asked for the purpose of distracting but for the purpose of investigation and...
View ArticleIf Knowledge is Power, How Come I Am Not the Master of the Universe Yet?
Knowledge gives power to the person that possesses it because it gives the blueprint as to how to accomplish a thing. The understanding of to do something, however, does not give one the energy, desire...
View ArticleWeekend Thoughts, RWE
Many years ago I read this famous line from Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The house praises the carpenter.” Today I am stopping to reflect and answer the question, “What was it about this thought, the first...
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