In the Prologue to “Mom and Me and Mom”, the remarkable Maya Angelou writes that she is “Frequently….asked how I got to be this way.”
Category: Love
“Temples of Goodness in our Hearts”
In the 34th of the verses titled “Fruit Gathering”, published in 1916, we listen to Rabindranath Tagore: ‘Sire,’ announced the servant to the King, ‘the
“Condemn none….”
In excerpts from the journals that the sculptor Anne Truitt wrote over seven years (“Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”), we read (in an entry
Hope and Faith
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”):
“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
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