A letter from Albert Einstein to his daughter – about The Universal Force which is LOVE

While this letter is often attributed to Albert Einstein, Diana Kormos-Buchwald, a professor of physics and the history of science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and director and editor of the Einstein Papers Project has stated that it was not...

A poem on hope, Abbé Pierre

I will continue to believe, even if everyone loses hope. I will continue to love, even if others distill hatred. I will continue to build, even if others destroy. I will continue to talk peace even in the midst of a war. I will continue to spread light, even in the...

Prayer – The Other

Lord, When I’m hungry, when I’m starving, lead me to someone who needs food. When I am thirsty, send me someone who needs water. When I am cold, send me someone I can give warmth to. When I am hurt, give me someone to console. When my cross becomes heavy,...

Reverence for All Life

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965). Here is an excerpt from My Life and Thought in which the Nobel Peace Prize winner ponders the spiritual practice of reverence. “The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give to every will-to-live the same...

Compassion

Translated from the book Au Bord du Gange, (On the banks of the Ganges River) by Martine Quentric-Séguy Râmânuja, one of the three great  masters of Védânta, was generous. He viewed all human beings in the same manner,  gave to  all the same attention, men and women...

Excerpt about compassion from Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko – 1967 Yevtushenko’s Reader

I believe it is impossible to live a happy life if one nourishes resentment for some harm done to oneself, or guilt or repressed anger for an error of omission or commission we caused. On the other hand, we become incapable of resentment when we have understood that...