Cultivating the Heart
Short but touching writings will make the field of your heart rich.
August 25, 2024
A Housekeeper Who Brought Honor to Her Hotel
In 1992, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel received the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. It was the first hotel to win this award. This award is a prestigious award which the U.S. government gives to an enterprise with an outstanding quality of…
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The Miracle of the Team in the Last Place
An English football club of which the transfer fee of all 11 players in total is less than half of the transfer fee of one player in a…
August 26, 2020
No Matter How Much You Have
Charles F. Feeney, known as a rich Irish American, has kept his promise to return all his property to society by donating $7 million to his alma mater,…
August 24, 2020
In the Same Daily Routine
Are you bored and tired of your repetitive daily life? In a survey conducted by a job portal site, the most skeptical moment for employees is when they…
August 20, 2020
Learning from a Plant
Gang Hee-an, who was a representative writer and painter in the early years of Joseon Dynasty, was also good at gardening. In his book, Yanghwa Sorok, he recorded…
August 18, 2020
Uncomfortable Happiness
When an opponent team made a mistake in an athletic match, when a boss I dislike was scolded by his boss, when a friend in a similar grade…
August 14, 2020
A Life Saved by a Piece of Bread
During the First World War, a German soldier raided the enemy’s trenches, entrusted with the task of capturing enemy soldiers. An enemy soldier got caught in his hand.…
August 12, 2020
To Become King
The education for the crown prince in the Joseon Dynasty of Korea was very strict. The prince had to be thoroughly educated because he was the pillar to…
August 10, 2020
Time Horizon
The horizon is the line where the earth or sea seems to meet the sky, and it is also used figuratively to mean vision or possibility in a…
August 6, 2020
Something More Valuable than a Gold Medal
There are not only gold, silver, and bronze medals at the Olympic Games. There is also a medal that has nothing to do with the game result and…
August 4, 2020
A Tree and Grass
A tree in the forest asked the grass that lied down flat on the ground, “Hey, how can you live here with such a small and weak body?”…
July 30, 2020
While You Don’t Know
In the dramatic poem, “Pippa Passes,” by Robert Browning, a representative English poet, the main character Pippa is a poor girl who works for a silk factory in…
July 28, 2020
They Just Have Not Realized Yet
Benjamin Zander is a prominent conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, and a renowned orator on leadership and the value of life. This is what a child said…
July 24, 2020
The Most Important Thing
Rick Rescorla was a U.S. Army officer, and he served as a security officer at an investment bank in New York after his retirement. He trained employees to…
July 22, 2020
Focusing Illusions
When you are young, you believe you would be happy if you have what you want; when you are trying to get a job, you think you would…
July 20, 2020
Page-turner
At a chamber orchestra or a piano recital, there is one person who is almost unnoticed to the audience though he stands on stage throughout the performance. He…
July 16, 2020
Men Before Nature
The Himalayas are called the Roof of the World. Although it’s been over 60 years after New Zealand’s mountaineer Edmund Hillary left the first footprints on Mount Everest,…
July 14, 2020
Mission
Oprah Winfrey is one of the most influential broadcasters in America. After a dark childhood and adolescence, she mentioned the four missions she realized, in her autobiography. One,…
July 10, 2020
How to Learn Well
When you have acquired knowledge, there is a way to see if you have fully understood it or not. It is to explain it to others. Although you…
July 8, 2020
It Is Entirely Up to You
Even the same writing gives different feelings to different people. A word that is skimmed by someone can be a clue to precious realization to another. Sometimes, situations…
July 6, 2020
A Heart More Beautiful than a Crown
Khanittha “Mint” Phasaeng, a 17-year-old girl, won a beauty contest in Thailand in 2015. As soon as the contest was over, Khanittha ran straight to her mother and…
July 2, 2020
A Lesson from a Spider
A troop of a country was defeated in a battle; it was almost wiped out. The general, who barely survived and hid in a cave with his remnants,…
June 26, 2020
Good Weather
Just because the sun is hot, wind blows fiercely, or it rains, are you sometimes in a subdued mood or irritated? Sunlight helps generate vitamin D in the…
June 24, 2020
Turning a Weak Point into a Strong Point
A shark, the apex predator in the sea, has fatal weak points as a fish. It is that it doesn’t have an air-filled sac, namely, an air bladder…
June 22, 2020
Just Like Him
Just as a lighthouse guides ships sailing in the dark sea, you need a guide to lead you to the right path in your voyage of life. Such…
June 18, 2020
Life-saving Invention
Jack Andraka was a teenage boy who created revolutionary pancreatic cancer detection tool. A close friend of his family had suddenly died of pancreatic cancer and Andraka was…
June 16, 2020
At the Sound of the Daughter’s Cry
The only way of expression for babies is to burst into cry. So a mother is sensitive to her baby’s crying, and when her baby cries at night,…
June 12, 2020
Weight
A man carrying his load complained to God. “Why do you give me such a big and heavy load while giving others small and light one?” God took…
June 10, 2020
Just by Looking at Mom in the Photo
The University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States conducted an experiment on children aged seven to twelve years. When they were asked to solve math problems before strangers,…
June 8, 2020
The Value of the New Covenant
People are apt to make a wrong choice when they do not know the value of something; they may even make a choice that they will bitterly regret…
June 4, 2020
For the Co-worker in Danger
A man is being hung upside down, tied with a safety belt at the top of the pole, losing his consciousness. On the next pole another man is…