Epitome

Sixteen directions, suggestions, and descriptions to help live a life of purpose, love, and joy. Discovered in 1980 on the streets of Boston, Massachusetts. By Joshua Bridge. Pretzels from Heaven Publications, copyright 1979 by Dorothy and Michael Bridge.

Henry David Thoreau, born July 12, 1817, poet, abolitionist, surveyor, historian, American transcendentalist, is best known for his book, Walden , a chronicle of his two-year experiment in simple living in a cabin he built on Ralph Waldo Emerson's land near Walden Pond.

Attributed to the legendary Chinese mystic sage, Laotze (6th century B.C.E.), the Dao De Jing , or The Way and Its Power , is a work of profound depth and brevity compressed into 81 passages. This episode presents the first nine.

Conclusion of Benjamin Franklin's pamphlet written under the pseudonym of Richard Saunders, culled from 26 issues of Poor Richard's Almanac.

Still more proverbial wisdom from Benjamin Franklin on the virtues of frugality.

More proverbial wisdom from Benjamin Franklin culled from Poor Richard's Almanac.

Benjamin Franklin's compilation of proverbs collected from across his publications of Poor Richard's Almanac over the years 1732-1758. Using the framing device of a wise sage, addressed as Father Abraham by a crowd of people waiting for a general store to open, Franklin dispenses his proverbial advice on the virtues of frugality.

Conquer the overwhelming force of past habit using its own energy - the power of momentum - and thereby design your life according to your free will.

Poet and Visionary William Blake's radical portrayal of the ideas pervading and governing the infernal realm.