Music & the Spoken Word Library

Balance – and Bias – Sunday, May 03, 1953

On this question again of balance: Almost anyone, if he will let himself, can bring himself to seeing only one side of a subject—the side...

A Wholeness of Life – Sunday, April 26, 1953

The Tower of Pisa has been famous for centuries because it has stood so long while leaning some sixteen feet off center.  In this it...

Some Ingredients of Happiness – Sunday, April 19, 1953

Sometimes we suffer the symptoms of diseases we don't have.  And sometimes we suffer the symptoms of unhappiness for insufficient reasons.  Often unhappiness comes from...

Priority on Our Timetable – Sunday, April 12, 1953

In making decisions or in meeting emergencies, it is sometimes significant to see what a man is most concerned to save.  In case of fire,...

…Always-and forever – Sunday April 05, 1953

The longer we live the more aware we are of the shortness of this life we live, and the more aware we are of a...

Impersonal People – Sunday, March 29, 1953

In the normal course of living there are many pleasantries that pass from person to person.  There is also much social. veneer and much perfunctory...

Freedom and Force – Sunday, March 22, 1953

There is no more basic question in life than the question of freedom and force.  No doubt it was a foremost question before the world...

…men in the making – Sunday, March 15, 1953

As we see a new home, finished and landscaped and lovely, we may partly forget the process by which it was brought into being.  There...

Little Brass Nails – Sunday, March 08, 1953

Perhaps all of us pursue some things which, after we acquire them, seem somewhat shallow or shoddy or at least unessential.  And then we wonder...