Practice Makes Perfect

Bertrand Russell authored more than forty books on a variety of subjects including philosophy, politics, education, sex and mathematics. He was a member of one of England’s most distinguished families. He co-authored “Principia Mathematica” which opened up a new vista in the study of philosophy and mathematics. He lectured at leading universities on three continents. In 1950 he won the “Nobel Peace Prize For Literature.” He was a dominant figure in the “Peace Movement” of the sixties. Although he was an eminently successful person by worldly standards, nevertheless he was evidently unsuccessful in finding inner-peace. In his autobiography, Russell cites a letter to a friend in which he says that it pleases him to see people he is fond of …

“What else is there to make life tolerable?” he asks. Then he adds, “We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and the emptiness. Sometimes a voice answers out of the darkness. But it is a voice of one…