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Katharine Graham

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  Katharine Graham Katharine Graham’s Personal History is an extraordinary autobiography that won the Pulitzer Prize. It spanned the ownership of the Washington Post as a family business. Started with Eugene Myer, the Post was inherited by Phil Graham - his son-in-law, passed on to Kay, Myer’s daughter, and ended up in the hands of Don, Myer’s grandson. Eugene laid the foundation of the Post. Throughout his leadership as publisher, the paper was competing with four other newspapers in Washington DC. His venture was losing money, but as publisher he held on to it, and set its editorial standards. Eventually, he transferred its reigns to Phil – a Harvard graduate who had just wrapped up his service in the military. He became the publisher, and with Kay they controlled most of the shares. During this period Phil made acquisitions that included Newsweek, WTOP-TV in Washington DC, and WJXT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. He became active politically, and was responsible for Lyndon B. Joh
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Omnipresent Mind

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  Omnipresent Mind According to the Hindu Upanishads people are part of a ubiquitous, ever-understanding eternal reality, and with free will that reflects the Divine truth. This represents order and disorder that underlie the workings of the Universe. That is why life appears as good, and bad, happy, and unhappy, organized, and disorganized, alive, and deadly. But underneath these polarities there exists One Omnipresent Mind.
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Experiencing Cultures

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  Experiencing Cultures Why travel to different countries? Some trips are billed as once in a lifetime experience. What about making sure you visit the continents of the world before you die. Celebrate life in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. Take trips to Antarctic and Antarctica. Cruise on the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans before journeying to the Mediterranean Sea, Amazon, or Nile River. As you travel, dress appropriately, greet the natives, try speaking their language, visit historical sites, enjoy the music, and sample the rich array of local foods
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Patterns in Nature

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  Patterns in Nature Every living organism is determined by time. It is a process that cannot be escaped. A basic tenet of nature is that all life comes alive this way. A species grows and dies. A tree may begin with a seed. This tiny seed is planted in the soil. When it dies it germinates. Eventually a shoot appears. This twig will become larger in its own time. It is sturdier as a trunk sprouting branches in the air. These limbs will form basic patterns that are replicated in leaves, blossoms, flowers, and fruits. Time may manifest itself simply as the patterns in nature.
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Our True Self

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  Our True Self Our true self is like a TV screen, and not the shows that we are watching. These pictures in our heads are merely electrical impulses seen as actors, places, and objects that are being converted by our brains to look that way. People are basically like transmitters and receptors that are a combination of atoms. Their awareness is consciousness that interacts and interconnects with the natural Universe.
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Harmless Living

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  Harmless Living Do no harm as you live. Have respect for the animate and inanimate. This is a way of reverencing the sacred in nature. A believer does not have to practice Jainism or believe in reincarnation to embrace such ideas. It is true that Jains love the sacredness of life even in a rock, fly, or leaf. They hold that humans are the highest form of life, but by their behavior can ascend or descend the continuum of life. But our goal whether we are Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Daoist, or a Non-Believer must be to treat all life forms with the utmost respect. Such compassion will surely help in protecting our environment.   
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The Sun's Rays

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  The Sun’s Rays Sunshine brightens our day. It enlivens our spirits and spreads joy. With this ball of fire in the sky, life on earth flourishes. Plants grow and the seas teeming with fishes, ebb, and flow. Its soothing rays are often pleasurable, and people are quite happy. But at times this universal light disappears, and many may wonder why? What does this foretell? Is it going to be the end of life? Still, the sun reappears. There will undoubtedly be phases. It is like everything in nature that opens and closes, bright and dark, happy, and unhappy like people’s moods. On reflection, “To what extent does the sun’s rays affect human behavior?”  
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