JUNE FIRST
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Nicolas Poussin born 1594.
Sir Christopher Marlowe died 1593.
Sir David Wilkie died 1841.
Hugo Münsterberg born 1863.
In every act of ours, in every feeling and every volition and every thought, we are conscious of a self which expresses its aims and meanings. Every idea of ours points beyond itself, every volition binds us in decision, and every experience gets meaning by our attitudes. The most immediate task which life demands from us in the understanding of ourselves and of others is, therefore, to interpret our ideas, to draw the consequences of our will, to appreciate the attitudes, to measure them by higher standards.
—Hugo Münsterberg.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.
—Genesis 1. 26.
My Creator, I pray that I may not only have the desire to know life, but the assurance to live it. Help me to understand that my earthly possessions are not the measure of my life, nor my body the boundary of my living. May I reach for the high standards that are free, without limit, to all. Amen.