Books and Our Sidereal, Sunnier Day

23/04/2024

No one's perfect. We all feel like failures from time to time. It's normal. Part of learning and growing.

When you do feel like a failure, here's a book that can help. It can helps you transform your failures into an advantage. Author Joseph Tissot offers readers practical guidance to gain a proper sense of themselves. And a more accurate perspective of their failings.

Drawing on the wisdom of St. Francis de Sales and other great saints, as well as a rich understanding and broad experience of human nature, Tissot offers practical guidance for the interior struggle.
Description

How to Profit From Your Faults
A practical, hope-giving book
Learn how God will bring beauty even out of your faults
Inspiring and uplifting

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24/06/2023

'I wanted to be a hermit and only hear the hymns
of the earth, and the laughter of the sky,
and the sweet gossip of the creatures on my limbs
the forests.

I wanted to be a hermit and not see another face
look upon mine and tell me I was not
all the beauty in this world.

For so many faces do that – cage us.

The wings we have are so fragile
they can break from just one word, or a glance void of love.
I wanted to live in that cloister of light’s silence
because, is it not true, the heart
is so fragile and shy.'

~ St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)

Via Maria Lancaster

23/06/2023

23/06/2023

11/06/2023

In 1987, a 74-year old rickshaw puller by the name of Bai Fangli came back to his hometown planning to retire from his backbreaking job. There, he saw children working in the fields, because they were too poor to afford school fees.

Bai returned to Tianjin and went back to work as a rickshaw puller, taking a modest accommodation next to the railway station. He waited for clients 24 hours a day, ate simple food and wore discarded second-hand clothes he found. He gave all of his hard-earned earnings to support children who could not afford education.

In 2001, he drove his rickshaw to Tianjin YaoHua Middle School, to deliver his last installment of money. Nearly 90 years old, he told the students that he couldn't work any more. All of the students and teachers were moved to tears.

In total, Bai had donated a total of 350,000 yuan to help more than 300 poor students continue with their studies. In 2005, Bai passed away leaving behind an inspiring legacy.

If a rickshaw-puller who wore used clothes and had no education can support 300 children to go to school, imagine what you and I can do with the resources we have to bring about positive change in our world!

10/06/2023

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