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Western Buddhist meditation teacher Lama Surya Das publishes a newsletter of inspirational quotes. The most recent ones contained Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support our needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and…

Here’s a brief snipped from Beliefnet’s article on the Christian undertones of the Superman story on the origins of Superman: Jews have often claimed the archetypal superhero as their own. Superman sprang from the imaginations of two Jewish cartoonists, and scholars have compared him to the golem myth—the supernatural creature who vanquishes the Jews’ enemies…

Where I live, the fireflies only seem to appear for an hour every night during the first three weeks of July. After that, I don’t know where they go. Fireflies are the most saintly bugs. I am filled with awe and feel lucky each time I see them. How can such amazing creatures exist? The…

Heavy rains here in New York. And after the rain, the weeding! It seems the weeds in the Chattering family garden are growing two inches a day. “Weeds want to tell a story. They are Nature’s way of teaching us, and their story is interesting,” writes Ehrenfried E. Pfeiffer in “Weeds and What they Tell,”…
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