While waiting to pick up a friend at the airport in Portland, Oregon, I had one of those life-changing experiences that you hear other people talk about — the kind that sneaks up on you unexpectedly. This one occurred a mere two feet away from me. Straining to locate my friend among the passengers deplaning… Read More »
by Peter Bregman. We were 15 kayakers and three support rafts — and scouted the rapid from the right bank of the river. So far, I hadn’t been feeling myself on this trip. The water was bigger than anything I had paddled before, and now even small rapids — waves I could normally surf for… Read More »
Oseola McCarty spent a lifetime making other people look nice. Day after day, for most of her 87 years, she took in bundles of dirty clothes and made them clean and neat for parties she never attended, weddings to which she was never invited, graduations she never saw. She had quit school in the sixth… Read More »
Source ” The best way of evading the fire of hell lies in feeding the hungry , providing water to the thirsty , removing the wants of the needy and befriending the miserable .”- Sufi. In 1987, a 74-year old rickshaw puller by the name of Bai Fangli came back to his hometown planning to… Read More »
I arrived at the address and honked the horn. After waiting a few minutes, I honked again. Since this was going to be my last ride of my shift, I thought about just driving away, but instead I put the car in park and walked up to the door and knocked. ‘Just a minute’, answered… Read More »
In the ’70 he had reached the peak of his bodybuilding career and was about to retire. Of course back then he wasn’t as famous as in the ’80 and ’90. So, in 1976 a journalist asked him what he was planning to do after his bodybuilding career. Schwarzenegger smiled at him and calmly replied:… Read More »
Source You can’t change the cards life has dealt you, but you can determine the way you’ll play them. That’s the philosophy Wendy Stoeker decided to live by. When she was a freshman at the University of Florida, Wendy was placed third in the girl’s state diving championship. At that point, she was swimming number… Read More »
—Sri Chinmoy, Life’s Bleeding Tears And Flying Smiles. There was a very, very saintly priest whom everybody was extremely fond of. A young aspirant came to the priest’s hermitage and expressed his desire to practise spirituality. The priest said, “No, no, you are too young. I do not want to have you as my student.”… Read More »
When Chris Gardner talks about homeless people, his words resonate; he has walked in their shoes. He knows what it’s like just trying to survive. “Remember these are still people,” he says. “They are not invisible. They each have a story.” In his lifetime, the successful against-all-odds stockbroker who inspired the Academy Award-nominated The Pursuit… Read More »
On his first day in office as President, when Abraham Lincoln entered to give his inaugural address, one man stood up. He was a rich Aristocrat. He said, “Mr. Lincoln, you should not forget that your father used to make shoes for my family.” And the whole Senate laughed; they thought they had made a… Read More »