Daily Signet

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In our Prayer to the Mystery of Enlightenment, we remember all the special and great teachers through moving time whose teaching keeps alive the biography of human mind and spirit…of flame lighting flame.  And it is not the analytical assessment of their teachings that we seek to recall. We aren’t simply trying to remember the rules of rhetoric espoused by Isocrates or Quintilian but rather their excellence of practice. Hand in hand with the rules of rhetoric they taught, we pay homage to the spirit and power of their lives unto good, to their roles, in creating those amazing epiphanous moments, albeit scarce, when teaching and example resulted in a magnanimous human spirit. We remember the great teachers as lights themselves as well as the great light of their teachings…both of which make us more than we are by the vitalizing power of their lives that help us learn to See.                                                                

Teri Martin

On This Day…

Lewis Carroll born 1832 in Dorset, England: writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican Deacon and photographer. Works: Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Hunting of the Snark. Died, 1898. 
Quotes: “I can’t go back to yesterday – because I was a different person then.” “Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end, then stop.” “Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.”