Greater miracles

That the starry vault shall surcharge the heart with all rapturous marvelings,
is only because we ourselves are greater miracles,
and superber trophies than all the stars in universal space.

        Herman Melville, Pierre: or, The Ambiguities

 

 

 

 

Tomorrow has arrived

Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody -
will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday,
and will expect equivalent opportunities.
That is why we face the problem of making every kind of job
meaningful and capable of satisfying every educated man.

Peter F. Drucker, Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World

 

 

 

Riches

Riches... don't consist in having things,
but in not having to do something you don't want to do....
Riches is being able to thumb your nose.

        Josephine Tey, Brat Farrar

 

 

 

 

 

Patience

A goose never voted for an early Christmas.

            Irish saying

 

 

 

 

 

 

Smart

An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.

        Paul Valery, Mauvaises Pensées et Autres

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Hannukah

The path of the righteous ones is like the bright light
that is getting lighter and lighter until the day is firmly established.

        Solomon, Proverbs Chapter 4, Verse18

 

 

 

 

Poem: They Build the Tabernacle

To devotion God set no limits,
and to dedication of the spirit
God set no bounds.

But great quantities of tribute God did not demand,
and the people were restrained from bringing
too much gold for the Tabernacle.

Though the Temples of Solomon and Herod
were far more costly,
it is written that the Divine Presence was found
more constantly in the humbler structure.

To dedicate the spirit to God is more difficult
than to give money,
to devote the whole heart to God
is more difficult than bringing gifts.

Not because of the gold on the walls
does the light of the sanctuary shine forth,
but because of the spirit within.

Those who worship carry away with them
more than they bring
for they find there the light to illumine
their lives.

                    Ruth Brin