Self Appreciation

” There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance;that imitation is suicide;”     Ralph Waldo Emerson These immortal words in Emerson’s essay on Self-Reliance  are just as true today as they were 150 years ago when they were written. Yet in our current culture…

The Myth of Security

Ernest Holmes wrote:  “The greatest good that can come to anyone is the..absolute certainty of himself, and of his relationship to the Universe, forever removing the sense of heaven as being outside himself.. Such an understanding teaches us that there can never come a time when we shall stop progressing…Such an understanding will rob man…

The Power of Music

I love good music. I have eclectic musical tastes ranging from the early 1900’s to present day. I knew most of the lyrics to my parents popular music and still do.  Music is a magical potion that opens the hearts and minds of the listeners. Plato said: Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to…