It has always seemed to me that those beliefs which have shaped my life come from two sources. One is a faith that does not ask for proof. The other is personal experience, the lessons that can be learned only...
Malvolio, in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, puts it in a nutshell. He’s in prison in the dark. He’s being cruelly teased by Mariah and Sir Toby Belch, who have entrapped him there. But what he says is: “I think nobly of...
Writer Emily Hahn had a sudden realization that even young babies are connected to a greater whole. She believed that since all of us are a part of the source of life, we must all "love the whole thing."
I think the center of my faith is an absolute certainty of good. Like everyone else, I get low and there are times when I feel as if I have my fins on backwards and am swimming upstream in heavy...
When I was younger, I read for inspiration, and for training as a lawyer in India, the works of great American writers and orators. So, through books, I have long been familiar with the American spirit. But it was only...
There is a line sung in the alma mater of my university, praising her “faith that truth shall make men free.” When I returned from the first summer vacation as a full-fledged sophomore, I rushed to the campus and embraced...
When I was about 15 years old, I had a sort-of combined religious and aesthetic experience. I have never recovered. Early one summer morning, I wandered alone through the Greek court, then slowly passed a few remnants of ancient Egypt,...
At present, my life is devoted to the seeking of knowledge. I believe knowledge is a spark which can light up the whole soul. It is something which lifts man to the heights of humanity, which God destined man to...
To delineate one's basic beliefs is a soul-searching and worthwhile experience, as I review some of he past experiences which have contributed most to what I now believe, these three stand out most vividly in my mind. The first occurred...
