Anthony Damiani (1922-1984)

Anthony Damiani (1922-1984)

Wisdom's Goldenrod Center (located about 20 miles from Ithica, New York) had its beginnings in 1972 when Anthony and his wife, Ella May, donated five acres of their family land for the site.  The following is from a brief biographical sketch of Mr. Damiani.

For hundreds of us who met him in the 1960's and 1970's, Anthony Damiani was a man of many facets, any one of which would have made him remarkable. But first and foremost he was a man - a vital, passionate, kind, and dynamic human being who revered life by living sincerely. He saw the meanings embedded in each person's experience as lines of a primordial scripture that one is born to embrace and understand - with and as one's whole being. His genius lay in piercing the secular veneer, uncovering these meanings, and awakening the heart to an awareness of the sacred song at its core. This was a process of giving birth to truth, not as a conceptual exercise but as an act of love, an exquisite expression of the proper relation between a soul and its source.