I guess the creed of all human beings embraces the desire to leave their mark on the mortal world, when they pass to the immortal one. Maybe this is even the strongest of all urges of the human soul. Many...
“All is well, now and a thousand years hence. There is nothing more certain and solid than this.” These words, written by the English poet and scientist Edward Carpenter, have meant a great deal to me since I first read...
I am one of those many people who can no longer say with complete confidence, ”I believe.” And the words must be in quotes in the sort of way that belief is implied in the creeds of the Christian churches...
The general idea is, I believe, that we grow through sorrow. If that is true, I haven’t grown at all but live in this sort of personal dream world. It’s a mighty pleasant world, and I wouldn’t change it if...
All my life I’ve been an independent in my political and economic beliefs and also in my professional career. I prefer to work, as well as think, for myself. This pattern colors my life in spiritual matters also. For example,...
Taught to believe in the brotherhood of man, I had no conception of God or God’s meaning until I went to kindergarten. There a schoolteacher explained that God does everything for us. Several days later on my way home from...
Our days are in His hands. Yet there’s too much evidence of the unexplainable and unseen and unknown in our everyday lives, for example the birth of a child, to make me feel I must make complete logic out of...
I believe many more people want to do right than do wrong. They are misty on what constitutes doing right, but generally they and I believe that truth, beauty, justice, and love are to be preferred to falsehood, ugliness, injustice,...
Occasionally my mother used to announce that she was going to take time out from the day’s activities to “rest,” she would say, and to “invite my soul.” She always put the phrase in quotes, in order I expect to...
