Then in the 1960s and ’70s, “Desiderata” popped up on posters hung in college dorm rooms and home bathrooms around the world (although it erroneously was described as a work by an unknown author and ...

A continued exploration of Desiderata…. SPEAK YOUR TRUTH QUIETLY AND CLEARLY, AND LISTEN TO OTHERS, EVEN THE DULL AND IGNORANT, THEY TOO HAVE THEIR STORY. There are many ways to speak our truth, and ...

Yasiin Bey, the artist formerly known as Mos Def, released a somber and moving speech through Stop Being Famous about the state of current events. “We are at a critical time,” he explains. “We are at ...

I was ordained on April 1, 1970. That’s right! I was ordained on April Fools Day. Perhaps you can imagine the jokes and the teasing that simple fact has prompted. Clare and I were members of Crescent ...

Desiderata, Latin for "desired things", is a 1927 poem by American writer Max Ehrmann. Largely unknown in the author's lifetime, the text became widely known after its use in devotional recordings. In ...

In 1927 Max Ehrmann wrote Desiderata, a prose poem that began with the words “Go placidly.” It was extraordinarily popular in the 1970s but seems today to have returned to the obscurity from which it ...

After speaking into many aspects of human life and emotion, Max Erhman writing in his prose poem (The Desiderata’) ends it simply by saying - “whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy ...