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…
Read moreMay 8, 2019
“I Knew It!”
We call the ability to see what is likely to happen in the future foresight. On the contrary to this, there is a psychological phenomenon called hindsight bias.…
May 7, 2019
A Café That Discriminates People
Nice is a resort city located in the southern part of France. In this city, there is a café where they priced their coffee on the menu as…
May 3, 2019
Patience and Persistence
Bill Porter was born with cerebral palsy in San Francisco, U.S., in 1932. He spoke in an awkward way, his back was bent, and his right hand and…
May 2, 2019
The T-Mac Time
On December 9, 2004, there was a basketball game between the Houston Rockets and the San Antonio Spurs. When they had only 41 seconds left, the score was…
April 30, 2019
Manners
After completing a six-month rehabilitation course, a tennis player had a match. In the match, he played with all his might, but he lost the game. A reporter…
April 29, 2019
Mother’s Faith
On September 17, 1960, many people who were watching the Rome Olympics paid attention to one female American athlete. She won a gold medal in the 100-meter dash…
April 26, 2019
This Is ( ).
This makes your heart flutter. This makes you ready to do anything for it. This allows you to be free from complaints. To achieve this, you have to…
April 25, 2019
A Conductor and His Passengers
While checking passengers’ tickets, a train conductor said to a passenger, “You are on the wrong train. Please transfer at the next stop.” The conductor also said the…
April 24, 2019
The Reason the Big Tree Fell
A big tree had stood firmly for four hundred years on a hill in the State of Colorado in the United States, but one day it fell down…
April 23, 2019
The 101st Hit
A reporter asked a question to Benjamin Franklin, well-known as a scientist, politician, and diplomat. “How could you accomplish your goals without giving up, despite many difficulties?” Franklin…
April 17, 2019
Sincere Consideration
One day, Gandhi went on a business trip. When he arrived at a train station, he quickly boarded the train that was about to take off. At that…
April 16, 2019
Mutual Respect, the Key Principle for Successful Organizations
Recently, there have been a report that rude speech and behavior negatively impact job satisfaction or work performance. According to a survey done on 3,000 workers by Pearson…
April 15, 2019
The Secret to Success
Restaurant A is the most successful stew restaurant in town. There was one man who went to restaurant A frequently. One day, he went to restaurant A to…
April 12, 2019
The Value of a Glass of Milk
This is a true story that happened in America. A university student was thirsty while walking along the road. As he was passing by a farmer’s house, he…
April 11, 2019
Courage of a Mother
Pearl S. Buck, a Nobel Prize winner in literature, spent her childhood in China with her father who was a missionary. Once, there was a drought while her…
April 10, 2019
The Miracle of Kindness
One day, John Rockefeller, a global businessman called the King of Kerosene, received shocking news that he only had one year left to live. When he was sitting…
April 9, 2019
Success Created by Compliments
Jack Welch, the former CEO of GE, who was also known as a famous executive, stuttered a lot when he was young. He stuttered so bad that once,…
April 8, 2019
Anger Is Poison Inside of Your Body
There is a saying that goes, “When you get angry once, you will age once. When you laugh once, you will get younger once.” Like these words, laughter…
April 7, 2019
The Result of Giving Thanks
Nelson Mandela, the former President of the Rep. of South Africa, was kept in prison for a long time. He was in prison for 27 years from the…
April 6, 2019
Contextual Listening
When conversing with others, we may wear each other out by insisting on our own opinions. In this situation, we may become frustrated with one another. Speaking is…
April 5, 2019
The Thief Who Stole from Himself
There was an infamous thief who was skilled at stealing expensive jewels. He was clever enough to evade the police for a long time. One day, he was…
April 4, 2019
The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard
The following parable teaches us a lesson about unity: “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men…
April 3, 2019
Those Who Were Conscious of God
The LORD said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the…
April 2, 2019
A Great Way to Remove Weeds
A teacher brought his students to a field overgrown with weeds to teach them one final lesson before ending the semester. Pointing to the field, the teacher asked,…
April 1, 2019
It’s Never Too Late
One day, an elderly man, who wanted to learn Russian, went to a Russian language school to enroll for classes. A staff member kindly asked him, “Have you…
March 31, 2019
Our Concert
Unlike today, old pipe organs could only generate sound when a person forced air into the pipes through a bellows. One day, a famous organist held a recital.…
March 30, 2019
Greeting Opens the Heart
A TV show conducted an experiment: A man entered an elevator with his hands full of luggage and dropped a bag as he was getting off. The purpose…
March 29, 2019
Little Things Add Up to Spiritual Blessings
Being faithful to God even in little things is the best way to store up spiritual blessings. In Matthew 25, we can find a good example of how…
March 13, 2019
Ubuntu
An anthropologist visited the Bantu tribe in Africa. After gathering some children, he proposed a fun game. He put a basket full of their favorite fruits near a…
March 12, 2019
The Blessing of Forgetting
The car keys you have been searching for are in your hand; the cell phone you lost rings in the drawer; the remote control you lost is found…