Justin Horner, a graphic designer from Portland, Oregon, tells this story about human goodness:

‟During this past year I’ve had three instances of car trouble: a blowout on a freeway, a bunch of blown fuses and an out-of-gas situation. They

As His Holiness the Dalai Lama explains: ‟Compassion and generosity must be coupled with detachment. Expecting something in return is like doing business. If the owner of a restaurant is all smiles with his customers, generally it’s not because he

61-year-old Joynal Abedin drives a rickshaw in Bangladesh. A rickshaw is a large tricycle with seats attached in the back that carry two or more passengers. He earns the equivalent of $6 a day. 

‟ My father died because we

In 1996, Elissa Montanti visited Bosnia. At the time, she lived in Staten Island and suffered from a debilitating anxiety disorder. ‟I was shown a letter from a boy who had lost two arms and a leg when a land

1-To become rich, powerful and famous

2-To treat the universe as if it was a mail order catalogue for our desires and fancies

3-To yearn for the ‟freedom” to do everything that comes into your mind. (This is not freedom,

1.  An exacerbated sense of self-importance

2.  To keep ruminating on the past

3.  To be full of anxiety about the future

4.  Not to be able to rest in the awareness of the present moment

5.  To put all

In the 18th century, a Milanese judge, who did not believe that torture had any value in obtaining reliable confessions from suspected criminal, killed his mule, accused his servant of committing the misdeed, and had him subjected to torture, whereupon

In his inspiring book ‟La bonté humaine” (The human goodness), recently published in France, Jacques Lecomte quotes a text by Mordecai Paldiel, who was Chair of the Righteous Among the Nations, Israel. Paldiel argues that it is the