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Here is the final word on nutrition and health. It's a relief to know the truth after all those conflicting medical studies. The Japanes...

In the days ahead we must not consider it unpatriotic to raise certain basic questions about our national character. We must begin to ask, ...

Writing about the spiritual life is like making prints from negatives ... Often it is the dark forest that makes us speak about the open fie...

For every hill I've had to climb For every stone that bruised my feet For all the blood and sweat and grime For blinding storms and burn...

Realise that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Reme...

Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple ...

The clock is my dictator, I shall not rest. It makes me lie down only when exhausted. It leads me to deep depression. It hounds my soul. It ...

The minister had travelled from Birmingham to London to attend to the details of a new liturgical banner that was being made for his church....

God help us To rise up from our struggle. Like a tree rises up from the soil. Our roots reaching down into our trouble, Our rich, dark dirt ...

A neighbour found Nasruddin on his hands and knees. “What are you searching for, friend?” “My key.” Both men got on their knees to search. ...

Now that dusk is near - with parrots in the gum trees lessening their chatter, with the distant roar of cars fading to a mere murmur - may I...

A nun joined a convent which had a rule of silence; she was permitted to say only two words a year. The first year she came to Mother Super...

Once someone approached a disciple of the Muslim mystic Bahaudin Naqshband and said, “Tell me why your Master conceals his miracles. I have ...

Who am I? They often tell me I stepped from my cell’s confinement Calmly, cheerfully, firmly, Like a squire from his country-house. Who am I...

Keep your thoughts positive, because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive, because your words become your behaviour. Ke...

There is something about us Australians that prefers to communicate in silences rather than words. Perhaps we are defeated by it all, tongue...

"When will I be enlightened?" "When you see," the Master said "See what?" "Trees and Flowers and moon and...

In the 1960s people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

An old Cherokee chief is teaching his grandson about life: "A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy. "It is a terr...

The following poem was written by Nicholas Peters just after the outbreak of World War II in 1939. Peters, who lived for some years at Grand...