Meandering into the studio . . .

Today is the birthday of . . .

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Meandering in thought . . .

Today is the birthday of Erich Seligmann Fromm (March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980), social psychologist, psychoanalyst, and humanistic philosopher.

"Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much."
— Erich Fromm

"Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He has constructed a complicated social machine to administer the technical machine he built. The more powerful and gigantic the forces are which he unleashes, the more powerless he feels himself as a human being. He is owned by his creations, and has lost ownership of himself."
— Erich Fromm

". . . freedom to create and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a slave or a well-fed cog in the machine . . . It is not enough that men are not slaves; if social conditions further the existence of automatons, the result will not be love of life, but love of death."
— Erich Fromm

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you."
— Erich Fromm

"The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have."
— Erich Fromm

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Meandering in the stacks . . .

Today is the birthday of Louis Dearborn L'Amour (March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988), author.

"The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for."
— Louis L'Amour

"Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow. The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds."
— Louis L'Amour

"I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen."
— Louis L'Amour

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning. "
— Louis L'Amour

"The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance."
— Louis L'Amour

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Meandering along the way . . .

Today is the birthday of Edgar Cayce (March 18, 1877 – January 3, 1945), psychic and healer. He is oft referred to as the "sleeping prophet," the "father of holistic medicine," and is one of the most documented psychics of the 20th century.

"Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions."
— Edgar Cayce

"Know that all healing forces are within, not without! The applications from without are merely to create within a coordinating mental and spiritual force."
— Edgar Cayce

"You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else."
— Edgar Cayce

"If you learn music you'll learn most all there is to know."
— Edgar Cayce

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Meandering in the mist . . .

Today is the birthday of René Daumal (March 16, 1908 - May 21, 1944), writer and poet.

"Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety."
— René Daumal

"You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know."
— René Daumal

"Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth."
— René Daumal

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Meandering in theory . . .

Today is the birthday of Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955), theoretical physicist. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.

"Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
— Albert Einstein

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
— Albert Einstein

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning."
— Albert Einstein

"The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up."
— Albert Einstein

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
— Albert Einstein

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Meandering on the path . . .

Today is the birthday of Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986), author. He is best known as L. Ron Hubbard, the author of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and founder of the Church of Scientology.

"One's attitude toward life makes every possible difference in one's living. You know, you don't have to study a thousand ancient books to discover that fact. But sometimes it needs to be pointed out again that life doesn't change so much as you. . . . The day when you stop building your own environment, when you stop building your own surroundings, when you stop waving a magic hand and gracing everything around you with magic and beauty, things cease to be magical, things cease to be beautiful. Well, maybe you've just neglected somewhere back in the last few years to wave that magic hand."
— L. Ron Hubbard

"When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood."
— L. Ron Hubbard

"Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe."
— L. Ron Hubbard

"A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists."
— L. Ron Hubbard

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