There is no such thing as a "broken family." Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate will always be with you.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow people; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. "Patriotism" is its cult... Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.
Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child’s entire sense of value can revolve around what they see in your face when you first see them?
Let's see and feel our blessings in this present moment. This moment could easily be our last. When we remember this, everything is more beautiful. Read more