There is an old American Indian saying that goes something like this: “When the student is ready, the teacher appears.” These words of wisdom don’t just apply to book-learning or the young. I find some of my best and most beautiful teachers have shown up in my life in my later years. Some of those…

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Faith is the basis of the path, the mother of virtue; it nourishes all roots of goodness. — Wu-chien I’ve tried but I can find very little on the life of Wu-chien, but the above quote is famous. I used it once when a man asked me on the sidewalk, “Are you a man of…

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