Birds and Buddha nature. “When the Sun of compassion arises, darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.”― Amit Ray I’ve always found birds fascinating. Even as a kid growing up in Haiti, I’d spend hours just watching them. Sometimes, my friends and I would go bird hunting to kill time—not something I enjoyed …
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Abraham Lincoln To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan.” There’s a story about the U.S. President, Abraham Lincoln that we can all learn from when we feel the urge to do something rash. Legend said, when Lincoln would get angry, rather than taking it out …
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American author Robert Greene talks about a powerful concept called “Alive Time or Dead Time.” This idea came to Greene after studying the life of Malcolm X, whose birth name was Malcolm Little. (Thank you for asking) X was an American Muslim minister, activist, and spokesman for the Nation of Islam until 1964. Though, before …
