Pakistan's City with No Water

The City with no water: Imagine having to spend half your salary or more buying water, sometimes only available illegally from criminals. Or if water taps in your area only ran once a fortnight in the middle of the night for less than two hours. That was the situation for millions in the city of Karachi, Pakistan back in 2016, where climate change and mismanagement saw the supply of water drastically reduced. Ordinary families were the hardest hit as Fazeelat Aslam reported.

Unreported World

The rich, the poor and the trash | DW Documentary

The gap between the rich and poor is growing. The rich consume much more than the poor and produce much more waste. Trash has become a symbol of our times.

DW Documentary

"Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it." - Osho

Doublecrossed By Ego

In the sitting practice of meditation, each time pain comes up, you feel that you are overcoming the possessiveness of ego by feeling that particular pain. But in actual fact, your ego may be strengthened, because you feel that you worked so hard and you faced so much. You have been doublecrossed by ego.

Excerpted from:

Glimpses of Abhidharma

by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche,

page 26

"The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands." - Leonardo da Vinci

What really matters

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"Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts." - Marianne Williamson

"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world." - Desmond Tutu

"I am not sure exactly what Heaven will be like. But I do know that when we die and if comes the time for God to judge us, He will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' Rather He will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'" - Mother Teresa

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