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Hsin Hsin Ming – The Great Way
The Great Way is not difficult
for those who have no preferences.
When love and hate are both absent
everything becomes clear and undisguised.
Make the smallest distinction, however,
and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart.
A Vulnerable Gracious Presence
Sometimes when my world has developed a crack, I’ve remembered that day, only fifty years ago.
Sabbath Time
The Sabbath isn’t necessarily a day, but a state of mind, a quiet time, a pit stop on the racetrack of life.
Someone To Be
They aren’t particularly wealthy or overtly successful, but they value the things that are most important – personal relationships.
Why we don’t succeed – Simon Sinek
We need to help this amazing, idealistic, fantastic generation build their confidence, learn patience, learn the social skills, find a better balance between life and technology
Red Beans and Rice
A moving story of how a mother’s perceptiveness and love helped her son begin his journey into the outside world.
Rumi and Shams – The Power of Friendship
After meeting Shams, Rumi was transformed from a bookish, sober scholar to an impassioned seeker of truth and love.
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Alive to Each Moment – Sunrise from Mount Fuji
When ascending Fuji, ‘walls of doubt’ appear before trekkers – steep ascents, volcano ash, ice and snow…
True North – What Real Achievement Means
The goal I had reached was much richer for its difficulty and its elusiveness…
“It’s well book!” Stephen Fry on language
Language is changing all the time in surprising ways. Stephen Fry on the changing uses of our language.
Harold and Maude – The Flower Scene
Each person is different, never existed before and never to exist again…
Reconciliation – a beautiful story
People comment about how I changed the young girl’s life. To me however, this encounter changed mine…
Today you… Tomorrow me…
“Today you…. tomorrow me..” – how the kindness of strangers forced me to be more helpful on the road and in life in general.
A Victim Treats His Mugger Right
“If you’re going to be robbing people for the rest of the night, you might as well take my coat to keep you warm…”
The Train to Kyoto
“Everything comes down to you and one moment and one action…”
The Kindness of a Stranger
“Who is this man?” many years ago Barack Obama helped a desperate stranger…
We bought EVERYTHING
To brighten his day we walked into his store, and bought everything…