Marc Gilbert-Widmann

Tag: Literature

  • Quote of the Day 20 March 2014 ~ Spring Fever

    “It’s spring fever.  That is what the name of it is.  And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!” — Mark Twain Related articles Mark Twain no less! Mark Twain quotes February brings Spring…

  • The Changing Face of my Dreams – 24 February 2014

    I don’t mean to be a tease, but the meat of this writing is under Thoreau… “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.” “Things do not change, we do.” “Be not simply good,…

  • Enlightened Mind Writings 08FEB 2014 – An Experience

    Selected writings from The Enchanted Mind; An anthology of Sacred Prose  Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926). Only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn’t exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person or something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being. For if…

  • Poetry of the Day 03 February 2014 – Alone

    Alone From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken My sorrow; I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone; And all I loved, I…

  • Quote of the Day 22 December 2013 – Echo

      LIFE IS AN ECHO. What you send out – comes back. What you sow – you reap. What you give – you get. What you see in others – exist in you. Do not judge – so you will NOT be judged. Radiate and give LOVE – and Love comes back to you.  …

  • Quote of the Day 1 December 2013 – Reality

    “Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can write reality because there is fiction; everything we consider today to be myth and legend, our ancestors believed to be history and everything in our history includes myths and legends. Before the splendid…

  • Quote of the Day 17 October 2013 – Traits We Detest

    “It always seemed strange to me… the thing we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they…

  • Quote of the Day – 01 Sept 2013

    Quote of the Day – 01 Sept 2013

    Marc’s Quote of the Day for Sunday, 01 September 2013 ‘always thinks of the other; ego thinks only of oneself. Love is always considerate; ego is absolutely inconsiderate. Ego has only one language and that is of self. Ego always uses the other; love is ready to be used, love is ready to serve.’ Related…