April 2012
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“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”
—George Bernard Shaw
“You never find yourself until you face the truth.”
—Pearl Bailey
“No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time.”
—Frank Bolles
little girls as nuns in Thailand -a growing trend? →
reuters.com
In Uttaradit, Thai Mae ji. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The temporary ordination of young men has long been part of Thai culture, with men spending a few days as monks and returning to their normal professions after time at a monastery.
In Uttaradit, Thai Mae ji. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
But the ordination of “mae ji” or “nuns” is less common, and the idea that women
should not play an active role in monastic life still prevails among more conservative Thais.
Fully ordained Buddhist nuns are not legally recognized, as they are in Myanmar and Sri Lanka - one sign of the inequality women still face in certain fields in Thailand
“If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?”
—Margot Fonteyn
“If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.”
—Laurence J. Peter
“It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.”
—Sally Kempton
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“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”
—M. Scott Peck
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
—Marie Curie
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“In our deepest moments of struggle, frustration, fear, and confusion, we are being called upon to reach in and touch our hearts. Then, we will know what to do, what to say, how to be. What is right is always in our deepest heart of hearts. It is from the deepest part of our hearts that we are capable of reaching out and touching another human being. It is, after all, one heart touching another heart.”
—Roberta Sage Hamilton
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“There are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy to maintain, but ultimately toxic. Other tool is passion.
(Stop Stealing Dreams)” —Seth Godin
(Stop Stealing Dreams)” —Seth Godin
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