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Expecting a Blessing.

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The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

-Aiden Nowlan

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy."

- Martin Luther King, Jr., Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader

Calmed in body,
calmed in speech,
well-centered & calm,
having disgorged the baits of the world,
a monk is called
thoroughly
calmed.

-Dhammapada, 25, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

You're not crazy. You're just pregnant (which can actually make you feel just a little crazy, but that's another story). And what you're experiencing is a normal - and just about inevitable - side effect of pregnancy, one you share with the vast majority of your pregnant comrades. Worry is one of the most common complaints of pregnancy, affecting ( Read more... )

Hate hidden in a kinsman's heart will cause
many miseries, and more--it will kill a man.

When hatred arises, dissension destroys unity,
and men fall inescapably toward ever-ready death.

-Tirukkural 885-886

Cut down
The forest of desire,
Not the forest of trees.
From the forest of desire
Come danger & fear.
Having cut down this forest
& its underbrush, monks,
be deforested.

-Dhammapada, 20, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

( I'm doing my final post. )