Born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown on July 14, 1936, Pema is a notable American figure in Tibetan Buddhism. A humble, gentle & peaceful follower of the teachings of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, she is an ordained Buddhist nun, a teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage, and the author of numerous books — including No Time to Lose, The […]
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes described as “the father of modern linguistics,” Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science (the study of the mind, focusing on intelligence and behavior). He is the author […]
I’m not really a huge fan of his other works, and I don’t really know where he stands on the issues that I hold most dear (radical Kindness, spiritual freedom from religious dogma & animal rights). I also don’t really recommend books as a general rule, AND YET when it comes to LOVE, Paulo’s book […]
Megan Coffee is a doctor and nonprofit director who began working in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake there that left hundreds of thousands dead and many more injured. She works there without pay and raises money to support the free medical services she provides … Haiti, a Caribbean country that shares the […]
Rachel Corrie was an American peace activist and active member of a pro-Palestinian-liberation group called the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). She was killed by an Israeli Defense Forces armored bulldozer while trying to stop it from razing and destroying the private residences of several Palestinians in Rafah, a southern region of the Gaza Strip. […]
Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, music, mathematics, engineering, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of both palaeontology and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Credited with inventing of the […]
Say what you will about this jovial little Tibetan man, there can be no doubt that the strength of his Compassion is beyond reproach. Anyone who can repeatedly & openly & sincerely forgive those who continue to torture his friends is without a doubt a shining example of what we can one day become as […]
Dan Dewy’s simple-yet-amazing story of charity began when his father, after beating Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2002, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2005, and began chemotherapy treatment at Pontiac’s St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital in 2006. Dan started buying coffee for his dad while he went through the treatments, and before leaving, Dan would ask everyone […]
Born in 1879, Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. He developed the general theory of relativity (one of the two major pillars of modern physics), and was pivotal in establishing quantum theory (the other pillar) as well. While best known in popular culture for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2 (which has been dubbed […]
It has been said that “the best classroom in the world can be found at the feet of an elderly person”. I’m not so sure about the use of the word “best” in this proverb (After all, the classroom at the feet of a young child is at least equally ripe with perspective & wisdom […]
Rami Elhanan, the son of a Holocaust survivor, is an Israeli peace activist who lost his daughter to a terrorist suicide bomber when she was just 14. And yet instead of allowing this incredible tragedy to entrench his hatred for his enemies, Rami did something remarkable – he and his wife joined Bereaved Families for […]
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