Manna – a story by Marshall Brain
Manna
Btw, the author happens to be the founder of howstuffworks.com
Check out his personal home page which goes on to several other links as well.
(thanks to Anand Shastri for the link)
I will tell you one thing which may sound unpleasant, so please bear with me and by all means let me know your disagreement. We have been fed with fear all our life. We live on it. I have been told all my life that “water is a dangerous thing” and “there are snakes in…
When I was a kid and used to grow vertically I used to stand straight against a wall where my Dad had drawn a vertical line. He’d hold a ruler above my head to mark it with a dash and write the date inspite of my mom’s complaints about not dirtying the wall. So later…
While helping my newphew-in-law with a physics astronomy assignment, and came across this amazing video of something that I’d posted earlier. “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home, That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives….
Build up your faith so that in times you will not be shaken This was a quote from a friend, and it was nice to read it – but in my opinion, faith “gets built” up, one cannot actively build it. If one actively tries to build it, it may end up becoming disillusionment.
How can you find peace in the world? By lying still. You don’t do anything, don’t try to purify it, otherwise you will muddle it more. Just lie down on the bank, wait. By lying still it becomes clear on its own accord. Don’t be worried about transforming the world; don’t be worried about changing…
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