William Blake wrote a poem, The Clod and the Pebble, which was included in the collection Innocence and Experience (1794). Poem: The Clod and the Pebble Love seeketh not Itself to please,Nor for itself hath any care;But for another gives its ease,And builds a Heaven in Hells despair. So sang a little Clod of Clay, Trodden […]
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I have been reading the works of Phenius Parkhurst Quimby, the father of New Thought. There is a quote from his manuscripts that reads… Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here
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My understanding of the term mentor has changed over the years. I used to put my teachers and mentors on pedestals. They always fell off. I’ve put myself on a pedestal. I fell off. Then, after getting a graduate degree in education and teaching for 18 years as a professor in college, I learned that