* Gratitude, thankfulness, or gratefulness is a feeling of appreciation by a recipient of another’s kindness. This kindness can be gifts, help, favours, or another form of generosity to another person. The word comes from the Latin word “gratus”, which means “pleasing” or “thankful”. Gratitude Be grateful for the kindly friends that walk along your…
The five balls of life
Here is a short but very inspiring speech about Life by Coca Cola’s former CEO Brian G. Dyson. Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them — work, family, health, friends and spirit — and you’re keeping all of these in the air. You…
Sorrow
Sorrow We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life. Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of…
The Mad Yogi of Bhutan “Drukpa Kunley”
The fifteenth-century Himalayan saint Drukpa Kunley is a beloved figure throughout Tibet, Bhutan, and Nepal, known both for his profound mastery of Buddhist practice as well as his highly unconventional and often humorous behaviour. If it were not laughed at, it would not be sufficient to be Tao. Lao Tse (Tao Te Ching) The monks…
“Guidance and Light” Prayers
Prayer One Guide us in Thy way, O Lord, and mercifully show the fountain of wisdom to our thirsting minds; that we may be free from sorrowful heaviness, and may drink in the sweetness of life eternal, Amen. Mozarabic, before A.D. 700 Prayer Two I Need Thee to teach me day by day, according to…
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