Joy in living comes from having fine emotions, trusting them, giving them the freedom of a bird in the open. Joy in living can never be assumed as a pose, or put on from the outsid...

      Occasionally, without warning, the drunken wreckage of my father would wash up on our doorstep, late at night, stammering, laughing, reeking of booze. Ban...

There are no such setbacks we could not overcome Our tolerating ability is indeed may beyond our imagination. But not until the very critical moment will we realize our potential ...

There was a group called 'The Fisherman‘s Fellowship'. They were surrounded by streams and lakes full of hungry fish. They met regularly to discuss the call to fish, and the thril...

I opened my eyes. I was looking up at the ceiling. Why I was looking there, I don‘t know, but I kept looking anyway, and laughing. I kicked my legs and shuck my arms, but it broug...

The old monk often took the young monk to the hill outside the temple to recite the lection. One day the young monk said to the old monk,'How slowly the time goes!' The old monk sa...

When the moon is fullest it begins to wane, When it is darkest it begins to grow.—Chinese Proverb There is a calm wisdom in this old saying that impressed me when I heard it first...

When I was a puppy, I entertained you with my 1)antics and made you laugh. You called me your child, and despite a number of chewed shoes and a couple of murdered throw pillows, I ...

All over my garden I’ve planted nothing but roses, fragrant and—if looked at from afar—ablaze with color like sunset clouds, I’d be very happy if anyone of my visiting friends ...

The Mid-Autumn is a very important Chinese festival. It falls on the 15th day of August. A few days before the festival, everyone in the family will help to make the house clean an...