Cultivating the Heart
Short but touching writings will make the field of your heart rich.
Nov 14, 2022
Great Wine
Making wine starts with planting vines. Good wine requires good grapes, and good grapes are produced on good soil. Winemaker’s skill is important in making good wine, but…
Nov 13, 2022
A Boy Who Became a Shoe Shiner
In April 2011, a Chinese rural boy began to walk toward Guangzhou, one of the largest cities in China. All he had was a shoeshine kit box made…
Nov 13, 2022
Halmangbadang (Granny’s Sea)
In 2016, the UNESCO officially recognized the culture of women divers [haenyeo] in Jejudo Island, Korea, as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The local community’s solidarity, economic…
Nov 13, 2022
How Not to Forget
A man went to the lecture of a celebrity. His lecture was so popular that the man barely managed to buy a ticket and enter the lecture hall.…
Nov 1, 2022
The Motto of the Rich Choi Family
In the era of Joseon Dynasty of Korea, the Choi family of Gyeongju lived in a mansion that encompassed 99 rooms, 100 servants, and a ware-house that could…
Nov 1, 2022
The Power of a Small Practice
If you set rectangular blocks in a long line at regular interval and push down the first block, the rest fall down one after another. This is called…
Oct 31, 2022
Expectancy Violation Effect
If a kind and gentle person suddenly treats you coldly, you feel sad, but if a cold person suddenly treats you gently, you appreciate it. That is because…
Oct 31, 2022
The Reason It Is Always Green
There is a tree that stands firm in a snowstorm, showing off its greenness. It is labeled as an evergreen, and is the symbol of integrity and firm…
Oct 31, 2022
The Way to Love Your Country
Ahn Chang-ho (1878–1938), a Korean independence activist and educator, went to the U.S. with his wife right after getting married. It was from his belief that the way…
Oct 28, 2022
The Elderly and Kittens
Elderly people in nursing homes need to be in the care of others. But the elderly at a nursing home in Tucson, Arizona, U.S., are not only being…
Oct 19, 2022
Overview Effect
If you go up to the rooftop of a skyscraper, you can see the whole town at a glance; if you climb up a high mountain, you can…
Oct 19, 2022
Please People Close to You
About 2,500 years ago, there was a monarch of a small country in China. He had a worry: His people often crossed borders into neighboring countries, so the…
Oct 19, 2022
To Fly in the Sky
Human beings have long wanted to fly in the sky. After inventors’ constant study, trial and error, the plane was finally born, and today there are very large…
Oct 11, 2022
Going to Work at Midnight
Before dawn, a police patrol found a young man walking on a lonesome road. The police approached him and asked where he was going at this hour. The…
Oct 11, 2022
A Daughter Found in Twenty-Four Years
In January 1994, Wang Ming-ching and his wife, who were fruit sellers in Chengdu, China, lost their three-year-old daughter while giving change to their customer. Even after twenty…
Oct 11, 2022
Mother’s Love That Does Not Yield to Old Age
In 2017, a 98-year-old lady named Ada moved into a nursing home in Huyton, Liverpool, U.K. The reason she entered the care home was because of her 80-year-old…
Oct 7, 2022
Labeling Effect
The respected leader Winston Churchill was also famous for leading his subordinates well. To the person whom he wanted to proceed with a task quickly, he said, “You…
Oct 4, 2022
A Cure for Altitude Sickness
Altitude sickness is an acute reaction of the body that cannot cope with the lack of oxygen and pressure changes at an altitude of 2,000 meters [6,500 ft]…
Oct 1, 2022
Reality and Language
This is what happened at a lecture. The instructor let one member of an audience stand up during the lecture and said, “I’m telling you a lie now.…
Sep 29, 2022
For a Friend of Mine
Some elementary school students went on a field trip to a car factory. When the students entered the factory, a man shook his hands, calling the name of…
Sep 19, 2022
A Load That Is Not a Load
About 70% of the cargo that is imported or exported around the world is transported through the ocean. Ships are a means of transportation, which can carry the…
Sep 19, 2022
The Result of a Positive Mind
A man who doesn’t have any talent on basketball throws a ball toward the hoop. He throws it ten times and fails all the ten times. However, when…
Sep 13, 2022
A Special Supper
An American photographer asked fifty amazing chefs what they would eat for their final meal on earth. Most of them picked simple foods such as doughnuts, chicken, fried…
Sep 13, 2022
Despite More Than Seven Hundred Failures
In the 1900s, there was a man who was dreaming of being a writer. While working various clerical and sales jobs, he wrote whenever he had time and…
Sep 5, 2022
A Doctor Who Insisted on Washing Hands
In the 19th century, the mortality rate from childbed fever was high in Europe. Childbed fever was fever due to an infection in a cut made during childbirth.…
Sep 5, 2022
A Mother’s Earnest Request
In the time of Joseon Dynasty, there was a servant boy in the house of an official who was in charge of finances of the country. Although the…
Aug 29, 2022
Between Determination and Action
“I will not eat at night anymore, starting tomorrow.” “I will read at least for an hour every day from next week.” “I will start working out from…
Aug 29, 2022
A Great Meal
Physicist Einstein was very poor when he was young. Because he couldn’t afford to only study, he worked in the daytime and taught students after work; he often…
Aug 29, 2022
How to Survive in the Jungle
In one jungle in Zimbabwe, a baby elephant fell backwards as it fell into a puddle. The mother elephant tried its hardest to help its baby elephant up,…
Aug 25, 2022
One Step Before Success
A successful businessman had a time to talk about how he was able to lead his business to success. One journalist there asked the businessman for an interview…