Yesterday, the indefatigable songwriter for America (indeed, for the world), the 71 year-old Bruce Springsteen sang at the Biden-Harris inauguration (“Land of Hopes and Dreams”):
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“Grudge none, Forgive All”
Muhammad Ali tells us in his autobiography, “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life’s Journey” that “People say that I gave away too much
“Try to be Kinder”
In “Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life”, Karen Armstrong writes that “one small act of kindness can turn a life around.” Jack London explains why
“Love Everyone”
We listen to Swami Vivekananda (“The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”) exhort the Graduate Philosophy Society of Harvard University on 25th March 1896: “Love everyone
“Be Water, my friend”
Kate Marvel, climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, writes in a 2017 OnBeing piece that “We should never have called it
Every second is “inestimably” Precious
The Roman philosopher-statesman, Seneca, who was asked by Emperor Nero to kill himself, writes (“On the Shortness of Life” translated by Gareth D. Williams) around
Everything is sacred
The geologist Hans Cloos wrote in 1953 (“Conversation with the Earth”) of “the harmony between the music of our own soul and the music of
“The Wisdom of Cheerfulness”
In “Ingersollia”, the 1882 compilation of thoughts from lectures, and conversations of Robert Ingersoll, the lawyer and agnostic thinker, we read: A cross man I