Cultivating the Heart
Short but touching writings will make the field of your heart rich.
Jul 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…
Jul 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…
Jul 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…
Jul 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…
Jul 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…
Jul 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,…
Jul 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,…
Jul 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…
Jul 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…
Jul 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…
Jul 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,…
Jun 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…
Jun 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…
Jun 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…
Jun 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…
Jun 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,…
Jun 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…
Jun 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,…
Jun 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…
Jun 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…
Jun 2, 2020
Serving the Magistrate by Looking at His Clothes
A county magistrate disguised himself as a woodcutter to see how the people lived. While looking around the town, he felt thirsty and knocked on the gate of…
May 28, 2020
If My Burden Is Heavy
In a horse race, each horse is to carry an assigned impost, which is a specified weight. It includes the weight of jockey, saddle, and saddle pad. Race…
May 26, 2020
Lake Wobegon Effect
Those who live around Lake Wobegon are almost perfect. Men are all handsome, women are strong, and children are smart. This town, where everyone believes with groundless self-confidence…
May 22, 2020
Why Do Baseball Managers Wear Their Teams’ Uniforms?
Soccer, basketball, volleyball, and handball coaches usually wear suits when their teams are in the game. However, baseball managers and coaches wear their teams’ uniforms with the uniform…
May 20, 2020
Kindness That Changed a Robber’s Mind
It happened in New York, U.S. A young social worker ran into a robber in a lonesome place on his way home from work. The robber with a…
May 18, 2020
Resonator
Musical instruments that make beautiful sounds! Their material, shape, and way to be handled are different, but they all have something in common: Their inside is empty. The…
May 14, 2020
A Heart That Goes Out to the Neighborhood
Jang Gye-hyang is another great mother in the Joseon Dynasty of Korea along with Shin Saimdang, the mother of famed scholar Yi I. Jang wrote recipes invented around…
May 12, 2020
As the Children of Light
The darker it is, the brighter the moonlight seems. The brilliant shining moon in the night sky lights up the streets at night and works as a guide.…
May 8, 2020
Scar
There was an eagle, injured and hurt. The eagle thought he couldn’t fly higher anymore because of his wound. In grief, he no longer wanted to meet anyone.…
May 6, 2020
Tests
There are many accessories made of pure gold, which is not only beautiful but also has the characteristic that doesn’t change or get rusty over time. The value…