Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them. And the [...]

Why Tell Stories

When the great Rabbi Israel Shem Tov saw that the Jews were being mistreated, he went into the forest, lit a sacred fire and said a special prayer, asking God to protect his people. And God sent him a miracle. Later, his disciple Maggid of Mezritch, following in his master’s footsteps, went into the same [...]

Inspirations by Paulo Coelho

[Jorge Luis] Borges starts his talk by saying how the ancients did not revere the book – the written word – as we do. Rather, they saw in the written words a sort of imprisonment of the spirit, of oral teachings. Indeed, to write a message down transforms it: it becomes visible, palpable and no [...]

Suffering produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us. – Romans 5:3-5

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can [...]

By the River Piedra I Sat Down & Wept by Paulo Coelho

Rarely do we realize that we are in the midst of the extraordinary. Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them because we have been taught that we must follow certain formulas and rules if we want to find [...]

The surest way to the heart of a people is through their faith.

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. – Dr Martin Luther King Jr

The Teaching of Buddha by Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai

Wheel of Dharma Buddha If he looks in the right way he recognizes the true nature of sickness, old age and death, and he searches for meaning in that which transcends all human sufferings. In my life of pleasures I seem to be looking in the wrong way. Consider your body: Think of its impurity. [...]

Place your burden at the feet of the Lord of the Universe who accomplishes everything. Remain all the time steadfast in the heart, in the Transcendental Absolute. God knows the past, present and future. He will determine the future for you and accomplish the work. What is to be done will be done at the [...]