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Robert Frost – Buddhist
Three poems pointing to eternity.
POEM #1 Trial By Existence
By Robert Frost
Even the bravest that are slain
Shall not dissemble their surprise ...
from Nelson Mandela
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you ...
What really killed the cat?
Dr. Weeks Comment: it wasn’t curiosity. Inattention or slow reflexes or a really big rat, maybe, but NOT curiosity.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Are You Uncurious?
by ...
How Christian is the Christmas Tree?
While most Christians embrace Christmas, a few recall a more complex history
By TOM BREEN | Associated Press Writers
December 14, 2007
In researching his book, “Christmas: ...
The Doctor Within
The Doctor Is Within
By Pico Iyer
Associated Press/Ashwini Bhatia Dalai Lama speaking last month to Tibetan students at the Tibetan Children’s Village School in ...
bee venom poetry
Bee Stings Cure Arthritis
James L. Rosenberg
My swollen fingers, gnarled and knotted
Cramped awkward with intolerable ache;
I bought a farm of snarling bees;
They stung ...
To You
To You
by Walt Whitman
(1819-1892)
… Whoever you are! claim your own at any hazard!
These shows of the East and West are tame compared to you,
These immense ...
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Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio
“To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me.
It is ...
The Donkey lesson
One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a
well. The animal cried piteously for hours as
the farmer tried to figure out what to do.
Finally, he decided the animal was old, ...
“…to strive to seek to find….and not to yield!
Ulysses
It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That ...
