Everything is a gift of the universe. – Ken Keyes, Jr., Movie: Precious

Tao Te Chine by Lao Tzu [道德经 - 老子] (Translated by Victor H. Mair)

[Different version of text and its corresponding translation by Wikisource] Introduction by Huston Smith As soon as human beings started considering themselves the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, meaning begin to ebb, and the stature of man to shrink. The world lost its human dimension, and man [...]

Whenever trade occurs between two countries, mutual cultural borrowing is inevitable.

What is the use of running when we are not on the right way? – German proverb

The supreme perfection of actionlessness He attains though renunciation. – Bhagavad Gita, XVIII.49.3-4

Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured. Physical health is not a commodity to be bargained for, nor can it be swallowed in the form of drugs and pills — it has to be earned through sweat. It is something that we must build up. – [...]

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We can learn to fly! Who is more responsible than a gull who finds and follows a meaning, a higher purpose [...]

The Flight of the Iguana by David Quammen

Xenophobia – fear or hatred of what is foreign or strange. Earthworms Earthworms therefore were not only creating the planet’s thin layer of fertile oil; they were also constantly turning it inside out. On sloping land, where rainwater and wind would sweep their castings away and down into valleys, they were making huge contribution to [...]

Fidelity, enforced and unto death, is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up, for someone you want to hold forever, tighter and tighter, whether he’s close or far away, someone who becomes dearer to you the more you’ve sacrificed for his sake. This sacrificial relationship is precisely [...]

Song of Myself by Walt Whitman

[Full Text] I think I could turn and live with animals, they’re so placid and self contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing [...]