Fellow Passengers… December 30, 1956
Today we should like to talk about people⎯just plain people⎯people with problems; people with ambitions and opportunities; people who sometimes make mistakes, and are sorry for them; people with...
The Courage to Face Facts December 16, 1956
In the process of adjusting to life, we all have some problems. And growing up is part of the process and the problem⎯sometimes a rather painful part. As Paul comments: “When I was a child, I...
The Courage to Live With Uncertainty… December 9, 1956
Each day brings its own news, it sown uncertainties and decisions. Not for any of us is life always or ever altogether controllable or predictable or safe or certain. We all have to adjust to...
The Courage to Carry Responsibility December 2, 1956
It seems sometimes that there is less, or at least too little, willingness on the part of too many people to accept real responsibility⎯for themselves or for their decisions, of for the soundness...
In a Period of Pressure November 25, 1956
It seems that most of us feel that we are living n a period of pressure⎯a pressure that seems to be felt at every level of life: the pressure of complexity, the pressure of anxiety, the pressure of...
On Understanding Parents November 11, 1956
After we have left childhood and youth behind, and have taken our places as parents, we understand many things that were not clear to us before. But before we personally face the problems of parents...
Comparison--and Covetousness November 4, 1956
For the purpose of measuring progress, for the purpose of measuring merit, some kinds of comparison are essential. They tell us where we are with respect to where we were, and where we ought to be....
The Power to Appreciate the Present October 28, 1956
How Fine the Line October 21, 1956
It is a dramatic and frightening fact that a man can do a thing right a thousand times, and then when he does it wrong just once, tragedy comes. Except for some very narrow escapes, perhaps any of...
From Here On… October 14, 1956
There are always some regrets in living life. No matter what decisions we make, we are likely to wonder what would have happened if we had done differently; and often we feel sure we should have...
Decisions of Principle--and of Preference October 7, 1956
There comes to mind the recent remark of a young man facing some current problems and pressures: It was the utterance of one awakening to reality: “There certainly are a lot of...
So Take Your Choice September 30, 1956
The Process of Procrastination September 23, 1956
We have talked of the tension of pretending⎯of insincerity, of pretending to be what we aren’t, of pretending to be doing what we aren’t doing. There is yet another side of this subject...
The Tension of Pretense September 16, 1956
There are, in literature and in life, some interesting tales of the tensions that come from leading a double life. In the field of espionage, for example, there would seem to be little time for...
The Thoughts We Think September 9, 1956
It was Cicero who said: “To think is to live.” Many other eminent observers have suggested the prime importance of the thoughts a person thinks⎯for thoughts are the forerunners both of...
Truly the Light Is Sweet… August 26, 1956
There is a short sentence in Ecclesiastes that suggests a subject: “Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is to behold the sun.” “Truly the light is sweet.” If...
A Door Must Be Either Open or Shut… August 19, 1956
We have previously referred to the rate of speed at which men move—to the fact that sixty miles an hour means moving eighty-eight feet in a single second—to the losses that could occur from only a...
On--or Over the Edge August 12, 1956
Some twenty centuries ago, Epictetus gave us these very modern-sounding sentences: “It needs but a little to overthrow and destroy everything—just a slight aberration from reason. For the...
The Warning Signs and Symptoms August 5, 1956
We should like to consider another side of the power of prevention: Often we become so busy in life that we ignore the first symptoms and the warning signs in many matters. Under the pressures of a...
The Power of Prevention July 29, 1956
We should like to turn for a moment or two to the power of prevention. It seems sometimes that we spend too much of our lives putting out fires—too much time running to meet emergencies—too much...