"Some friendships are made by nature; some by contract; some by interest; and some by souls. And in proportion to these ways of uniting, so the friendships are greater or less, virtuous or natural, profitable or holy, or all of this together." - Jeremy Taylor, "A Discourse on Friendship," 1657. How much lighter and fuller …
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Communications of Friendship
I said, "Friendship is the greatest band in the world," and I had reason for it, for it is all the bands that this world hath; and there is no society, and there is no relation that is worthy, but is made so by the communications of friendship, and by partaking of some of its …
A Worthy Friend
"Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary of our calamities, the councellor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds, the emission of our thoughts, the exercise and improvement of what we meditate. And although I love my friend because he is worthy, …
Peak Performers
“Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.” - Charles A. Garfield To my mind the most beautiful of life’s many qualities is its constant motion. This is as true in Nature as it is in the world man builds for himself; in both, change is constant. Your …
Friendship
Hand Grasps hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand, And grow one in the sense of this world’s life. ﹣Robert Browning To be a friend one must be thoroughly devoted to goodness and truth, for anything less is but a commercial alliance.
Wisdom, Beauty and Truth
"Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form." - Emerson, Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical, comp. by Charles Noel Douglas. New York: Halcyon House, 1917; Bartleby.com, 2012. A friend of mine recently asked me: "Can a tree be wise?" It was a sweet, seemingly simple question to answer, but it …
Greatness
"Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength." - Beecher. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical, comp. by Charles Noel Douglas. New York: Halcyon House, 1917; Bartleby.com, 2012. I believe that every man has sufficient strength in himself to reveal greatness in every thing he undertakes. Rarely is man short on the strength …
World Within
The love of learning is the beginning of knowledge; humble appreciation for reproach is the beginning of wisdom. The former leads to a more extensive understanding of the world without, while the latter leads to a deeper ken of the world within.
The Physics of Life
"For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; For soule is forme and doth the bodie make." - Spenser, C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical, 1917. Every visible thing takes form first in the invisible, in vibration. While I am sure this notion is well clothed by many other patterns of thought, the physics …
Reference to the Soul
"As all curves have reference to their centres or foci, so all beauty of character has reference to the soul, and is a graceful gesture of recognition or waving of the body toward it." - Henry David Thoreau, C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. You have two souls: one eternal and one temporal. …
Gregory Hake 