A Soulful Journey

Art Buchwald once wrote in his daily column about a new plane that was developed to race along at 2-3 times the speed of sound.  Buchwald commented that he would imagine a new plane that would fly so slow that any shot fired against it would have to miss!  The following morning he was called by Intelligence and told off for giving away classified information. What you imagine may not be so far removed from reality.

When a supporter gushed to Adlai Stevenson that all thinking people supported him, he replied, “Yes, but I need a majority to win.”   -George Will

“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”   - C. Archie Danielson Why?  Intelligence is like a gift.  If it is never unwrapped (used) what good is it? 

“I am reminded of a man of about sixty who was brought to me because of his auditory hallucinations lasting over many decades.   I was facing a ruined personality.   As it turned out, everyone in his environment regarded him as an idiot.   Yet, what a strange charm radiated from this man!   As a child he wanted to become a priest.   However, he had to be content with the only joy he could experience, and that was singing in the church coir on Sunday mornings.   Now, his sister, who accompanied him, reported that sometimes he grew very excited;   Yet in the last moment he was always able to regains elf-control.   I became interested in the psychodynamics underlying the case, for I thought there was a strong fixation of the patient on his sister, so I asked how he managed to regain his self-control: “For whose sake do you do so?”   Thereupon, there was   pause of some seconds and then the patient answered: “For God’s s...

Because it's [trees] glorious presence is mute testimony to an intelligence far greater than any on earth certainly in the present Administration." - Woody Allen

“When you come from the North, you have to prove you have a heart. When you come form the South, you have to prove you have a brain.   -Rev. Duncan King

“The Holy One, blessed be He, awarded women an intelligence that surpasses that of a man.” - Talmud, Nidda 45b Doesn’t each person have unique gifts that have been given to them from Above?