“The Success of a Physical Life is Beautiful, most worthy, but the Perfection of Yourself is a thousand times more valuablethan all of the wealth you can accumulate about you.” The following message was hung in the office of Mother Teresa:  ANYWAYPeople are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may…

More words of wisdom from Catherine Ponder’s ‘The Millionaire Moses’: You must learn to claim your good in the face of opposition and in the midst of hard conditions. We all deal with feelings of depression and discouragement that confront us when challenges arise to affect our dreams, desires and emotions. These appear as problems…

  We live in interesting times. We are in the middle the most powerful economic crises since the Great Depression. It is being called the ‘Great Recession.’   Most importantly, it is a time of great learning and transformation. Throughout history, we have experienced great challenge and always survived and risen above to greater heights.…

Question: “What thing about humanity surprises you the most?”  The Dalai Lama’s answer was as follows: Man Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.Then he sacrifices his money to recuperate his health.Then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present,and as a result he does not…

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