How We Work October 16, 1960
This we have said: that work should be more than merely motions; more than for money; it should also be moral⎯and since it is the expenditure of life itself, it should provide not only essential...
Seed and Fruit… October 23, 1960
To cite a sentence from Emerson: “Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed;…” This suggests another sentence concerning cause and consequence which says,...
What We Choose to Think… October 30, 1960
There sometimes comes the question: Where do thoughts come from? How can they be controlled? By some it may be assumed that we are not responsible for the thoughts we think, since we cannot say for...
Control… of Thought, of Action, of Utterance… November 6, 1960
Controlling thought is essential to controlling all we are ever likely to become, everything we are about to be. And he who persists in saying that he cannot help what he thinks, is in effect saying...
What We Are to Be, We Are Becoming… November 13, 1960
Causes That Can Be Counted On… November 20, 1960
Emerson gave us this sentence to consider: “Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed;” he said, “for the effect already blooms in the cause,…the fruit...
To Think as He Ought… November 27, 1960
Further as to the thoughts we think, and our responsibility for all our actions and words: This subject seems somehow to be summarized in a single sentence from Pascal, who said: “Man is...
The Waste of Doing Only Average December 4, 1960
We would preface these thoughts with a quotation from Carlyle: “men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.” This suggests of course, the willingness to use as fully...
What Takes Our Time…? December 11, 1960
To quote again from Carlyle: “Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.” In this day and season of many pressures, we frequently feel we ought to do more than we...
Home--and Christmas December 18, 1960
What can one say for a season where so much is intermixed? There is thoughtfulness for others, but a thoughtfulness preoccupied with much bustling and busyness. Nor could one deny that sentiment is...