Month: July 2005
Meditation
Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace and blessedness itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, the ultimate truth of the oneness […]
Temperature Guide
TemperatureWhat others doWhat Minnesotans do+60New Yorkers try to turn on the heat.Minnesotans plant gardens.+50Californians shiver uncontrollably.Minnesotans sunbathe.+40Italian cars won’t start.Minnesotans drive with the windows down.+32Distilled water freezes.Minnehaha Creek water gets thicker.+20Floridians wear coats, gloves & […]
Bravado
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.Edmund Burke
Talk about spoiled
With a $225 million paycheck, a gal gets used to a little special treatment. So when OPRAH WINFREY was denied entry to the Hermés store in Paris 15 minutes after closing time, the daytime queen […]
Duty
Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty.Mark Twain
Memory Bank
A 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud man, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o’clock, with his hair fashionably coifed and shaved perfectly applied, even though he is legally blind, moved to a nursing […]