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Man is related to the whole thing, related inextricably to all reality, known and unknowable. This is a simple thing to say, but the profound feeling of it made a Jesus, a St. Augustine, a St. Francis, a Roger Bacon, a Charles Darwin, and an Einstein. Each of them in his own tempo and with his own voice discovered and reaffirmed with astonishment the knowledge that all things are one thing.

John Steinbeck

A Viral Pause for Viral Peace

By Food for thought
A Viral Pause for Viral Peace By Amita Shukla (This is adapted from a piece written for the JHU Last Lecture Series on “Wellness of the Mind” in 2020, where Amita was invited to speak before the pandemic turned those lectures into essays.) As the Covid-19 pandemic swept the globe,...
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Over the clean stones by the sea/ I came jumping today/ Stone cool/ Jumping fit/ I meant to ask the sea about something/ that’s troubling me/ The sea listened/ and I forgot the question.

Helge Torvund (Norwegian poet)

Each of us has the capacity, if only in some little way, to lift the level of humanity to higher heights, and thereby share in a greatness that outlasts the fall of empires. All history in the end bears witness to the fact that greatness—all greatness that lasts—is service.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Vitamita Credo

By Vitamita
One winter evening over a decade ago, I came home after an especially challenging and exhausting week at work. As I began to unwind, I wondered what advice I could offer the entrepreneurs and leaders I had met that week. Over the next hour, I wrote down the core principles...
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The American commitment is not to affluence, nor to all the cushioned comforts of a well-fed nation, but to the liberation of the human spirit, the release of human potential, the enhancement of individual dignity. Those are the great themes of our life as a people. Everything else is a means to those ends.

John Gardner