Your desire to be and live from greatness is an aspect of your spiritual energy. In order to create balance in this area of your life, you have to use the energy of your thoughts to harmonize with what you desire. Your mental energy attracts what...
You are asking about your parents, "They were so juicy - what has happened?" Everybody is juicy when they are young, youth brings all your juices to their peak. But youth is a fleeting phenomenon. I have heard about three old men: one was seventy, another...
Thomas Edison, considered the inventor who harnessed electricity, believed that a workable system would have to be based on direct cur rent DC). When the Serbian scientist Nikola Tesla appeared to have suc ceeded in creating a system based on alternating current (AC), Edison was...
The Dutch philosopher Desiderius Erasmus described how this eternal cycle of conflict is perpetuated at every level of society in his 1517 book The Complaint of Peace. I enter the courts of kings … I see every outward sign of the highest offices and humanity …...
Whosoever has gone over to the side of virtue, has given proof of a noble nature; he who follows pleasure is seen to be weakly, broken, losing his manhood, and on the sure path to baseness unless someone shall establish for him some distinction between...
Human problems everywhere, though apparently dissimilar, are really more or less similar As one travels one is very much aware that human problems everywhere, though apparently dissimilar, are really more or less similar; the problems of violence and the problem of freedom; the problem of how...
For the favour done by a friend, as the principal strength of an animal is within, is not for display or ostentation, but frequently as a doctor cures his patient imperceptibly, so a friend benefits by his intervention, or by paying off creditors, or by...
Malamati means the "Blameworthy". The basis of the Malamati Order is: never blame others, always blame yourself; that will bring transformation. The general tendency of the human mind is to throw the blame on somebody. That is a way to protect yourself, but then you remain the...
Suppose one day, the phone rings. An excited voice tells you that you have just scooped the lottery jackpot – $10 million! How would you feel? And, how long would you feel like that? Another scenario. The phone rings and you learn that your best...
By helping to create language, literature creates a sense of identity and community. I spoke initially of Dante, but we might also think of what Greek civilization would have been like without Homer, German identity without Luther's translation of the Bible, the Russian language without...
