Mahatma Gandhi

“I know the path: it is straight and narrow
It is like the edge of a sword.
I rejoice to walk on it.
I weep when I slip.
God’s word is:
‘He who strives never perishes.’
I have implicit faith in that promise.
Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail a thousand times.
I shall not lose faith.”

His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama: Peace Through Compassion

In the remotest parts of Tibet, the American Himalayan Foundation has been working quietly as a lifeline for people who have no one else.

Over a dozen years AHF has built 33 schools where Tibetans learn in their own language, 24 bridges over dangerous rivers, and eight clean water systems for villages. They shelter elders whose poverty is shocking, support orphans, and build and maintain hospitals and clinics that care for thousands each year.

This year, AHF will help build two more schools with dorms and kitchens because nomad children live so widely scattered, a bridge that will free 3,000 villagers, and a clean water system so that 2,000 Tibetans wont have to spend hours gathering contaminated water from a river far away. Helping Tibetans has never been more urgent.

For more information about AHF and how you can help, please visit:http://himalayan-foundation.org

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Solitude

"The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship." - Francis Bacon

"No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude."

 - Thomas de Quincey

The Three Mystic Monkeys

     HEAR NO EVIL, SEE NO EVIL, 

      SPEAK NO EVIL

Monkeys represent our tendency to spread gossip and to gloat over the misfortune of others.  The three mystic monkeys - See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil - symbolize our ability to rise above this debased state, and to control and discipline our minds.