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Author: Donald Redheffer Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595614256 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 181
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Speak the truth and let the profit go; For those who seek to please, reap as they sow. A SAMPLING FROM The Musings of a Meandering Stream To admit error openly and without hesitation brings an authenticity that being correct can never provide. Resentment of authority is the inevitable response to a world where the unfit with rare exceptions rise to power. Nature and nurture contrive to make us one of a kind, and yet we strive to be one of the many. Creativity seldom survives the standardized tests of life. Whom do we believe? Censure's sincerity may be suspect, but flattery rarely escapes its desire to please. Culture writes its indelible message on our tabula rasa, capturing us for life. Time shapes recollections to serve our needs. Virtue becomes vice when it is merely adopted as effective strategy. Those who go the wrong way down the one-way streets of life are far less dangerous than the thoughtless majority, whose mindless adherence to prevalent views of the moment is uncorrupted by evidence to the contrary. The tender touch of a hand can express the most profound feelings of love and longing. What is hell but immortality without love. Memory evokes a creative portrait of the past. Neutrality in the face of evil is no virtue.
Author: Donald Redheffer Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595614256 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 181
Book Description
Speak the truth and let the profit go; For those who seek to please, reap as they sow. A SAMPLING FROM The Musings of a Meandering Stream To admit error openly and without hesitation brings an authenticity that being correct can never provide. Resentment of authority is the inevitable response to a world where the unfit with rare exceptions rise to power. Nature and nurture contrive to make us one of a kind, and yet we strive to be one of the many. Creativity seldom survives the standardized tests of life. Whom do we believe? Censure's sincerity may be suspect, but flattery rarely escapes its desire to please. Culture writes its indelible message on our tabula rasa, capturing us for life. Time shapes recollections to serve our needs. Virtue becomes vice when it is merely adopted as effective strategy. Those who go the wrong way down the one-way streets of life are far less dangerous than the thoughtless majority, whose mindless adherence to prevalent views of the moment is uncorrupted by evidence to the contrary. The tender touch of a hand can express the most profound feelings of love and longing. What is hell but immortality without love. Memory evokes a creative portrait of the past. Neutrality in the face of evil is no virtue.
Author: Donald Patrick Redheffer Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1440175764 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 197
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From the author of Musings of a Meandering Stream, Streams of Thought offers innovative, provocative concepts that challenge the mind and inspire thought. With piercing wit and wisdom, Redheffer tackles a wide range of subjects such as agnosticism, beauty, doubt, hypocrisy, marriage, religion, science, sex, sin, and everything in between in over 1,100 original aphorisms. An indifferent student yet widely knowledgeable, he has said that he never let school interfere with his education. At the age of seventy, he began to write down his thinking in aphoristic form. These aphorisms are faithful to his unique perspective on life. Most of all, these ideas will encourage the reader to think. Absence Absence makes the heart ponder, Is love to last or will it flounder? Absence puts friendship on the side, No way to nourish that which is denied. Writing A writers greatest asset is a great reader. Writing aphorisms becomes an obsession, a magnificent obsession that drives one to explore every aspect of the human condition.
Author: Jose Varghese Publisher: Blue Hill Publications ISBN: 9390788471 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 156
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Nomadic Musings is a collection of 12 short stories and 10 poems. Some are life experiences of the author, some based on the stories of people known to him with an added element of imagination and rest purely a work of fiction. The themes of these short stories and poems would definitely resonate with the reader as they depict the life of common people. The pain of someone losing his unborn child, relationship with teachers who moulded his career and character, philosophy of life through the eyes of a child, being hopeful against all odds during a crisis, hallucinations of a disturbed mind, heart breaks from infatuations, outcry against discrimination and the desire to go back in time are some of the themes in this collection.
Author: Nishu Mathur Publisher: Partridge Publishing India ISBN: 148282180X Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 301
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Morsels Of Musings is a compilation of poems on the world around us. There are poems on flowers and trees; on Celeste, Sol and stars; on love and romance, that special someone who makes life worth living: on life with its multi faceted emotions with an imploration to live and 'seize the day'. Some poems are of the senses, some that reach the heart and some that will tickle the funny bone. Poetry written with a flair, different from the brazen literature of today, written with respect for the English language and arts.
Author: Donald Patrick Redheffer Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1475900902 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 257
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Sense and Sound presents a new collection of more than five hundred poems exploring more than one hundred and fifty subjects, including aging, love, war, religion, and beauty. This inspiring collection of verse addresses the fundamental concerns of the human condition. The poetry roams freely, reaching for abstract truth one moment and touching upon human frailty the next. These verses consider many topics in the struggle to make sense of the mystery of life including issues of the head and the heart. Sense and Sound is organized alphabetically by topic for ease of use. Author Donald Patrick Redheffer writes with emotional depth and understanding while bringing his poetry to life. The Poet My songs can be deliberate With thought well defined, Or they can be pure surprise Unknown to the mind. When the heart insinuates, Words find their own way. With sense and sound they surround Our feelings to betray. Once this avalanche of feeling Has tight hold of me There is no way to look away From what Ive come to be. The poet hopes his precious words Will someday live to be A cherished memory of the race Facing its mortality.
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