“Don’t worry if you feel you can only do one tiny good thing in one small corner of the cosmos. Just be a Buddha body in that one place.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh Happiness, health, prosperity and peace, a better world for our children – all of us want these same...
Taylor Luck – Special correspondent Down an almost-hidden passageway in Jerusalem’s labyrinthine Old City is Tikiya Khaski al-Sultan, a soup kitchen that dates to the height of the Ottoman Empire. It is a lifeline for modern-day Jerusalemites facing rising costs...
By the side of a busy road in Northwestern Kabul, the savory smell of bolani, traditional vegetable-stuffed flatbread, wafts out of a cloth-walled, temporary building. Inside, a woman in a hijab and a white apron is starting to clean up the balloons, ribbons and empty...
A beautiful woman in an expensive dress came to her psychiatrist, saying that she was depressed, and her life was meaningless. ‘I’m going to ask Mary here to tell you how she found happiness. All I want you to do is listen to her.’ The psychiatrist...
Along its 169 miles, from Greece through Albania to the Adriatic Sea, the Vjosa runs through forests, valleys, and canyons, free from artificial barriers. About 119 miles of the river and its tributaries in Albania will now remain so – crucial for the health of some...