When stubbornness, indifference, apathy, refusing to listen, and Satan’s many other impediments to open-mindedness blind me to where my path leads, I hope to see what is seen by my own Balaam’s burro
Lawyers ply their trade with words, but not always wise words, which was not the case with famed attorney and consummate wordsmith Max Ehrmann, author of “Desiderata,” an inspirational prose poem in which every word contributes to the collective wisdom of the work’s ultimate message.
When the world is too much with me, and — paraphrasing poet William Wordsworth —getting and spending and laying waste my powers stymie efforts to become a better human being, few items in my repertoire of memorized works are as therapeutic as Desiderata, especially the lines from it reminding me to “go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there is in silence.”