childIt is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. Katherine Mansfield / laughter oneself to learnChange alone is the constant. Arthur Schopenhauer - Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life / changeAs for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it. Antoine de ...
One day while going on his daily alms round, Venerable Angulimala came upon a house where a pregnant mother was going through a difficult labour. Venerable Angulimala felt deep compassion for the pregnant woman, and went back to Jetvana Monastery to ask the Buddha for advice. The Buddha told...
Somehow, I do not dread being alone to-night, and I can go to sleep without fear... Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, with such unknown horrors as it has for me! How blessed ar...
ElizabethcongratulatedMary (“God has blessed you above all women, and your child is blessed”),condescendedherself before Mary (“Why am I so honoured, that the mother of my Lord should visit me?”),confirmedMary’s encounter with Gabriel (“When I heard your greeting, the baby in my wo...
You don’t have to fight it; in fact the Buddha does not recommend that you fight it, because that habit energy is you, and you should not fight against yourself. You have to generate the energy of mindfulness, which is also you, and that positive energy will do the work of ...
The complaint of O against U for intruding into the wordsHonour, Labour, Superiour, Governour, and the like. ~Thomas Edwards, "An Account of the Trial of theLetter ϒ,alias Y,"1765 Letter V. — V. The twenty-second letter of the alphabet, used as a pet name for a five-dollar ...
Turned out to be a pigeon with a knife wound. –David Letterman It was so hot today I went to a cash point machine just to enjoy the feel of a cold gun against the back of my neck. –David Letterman President Bush says he needs a month off to unwind. Unwind? When the hell does...
Parents want to make sure that their child is vaccinated or immunised against the most common diseases. Vaccination processes in Spain are similar to that of the rest of Europe including the United Kingdom. Each child up to the age of 14 in Spain is assigned a Paediatrician at the local Ce...
“I’m against these aggressive tax avoidance schemes but I’m not just against them, this Government has taken a huge amount of steps to legislate and toughen the laws and go after aggressive tax avoidance schemes for the very simple reason that if people go after these schemes and aggressiv...