Today the country with the largest population in the world stopped for a 3 minute silence

in memory of all the

victims of the earthquake.

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"Our tears are the jewels with which we adorn the memories of those

we have loved and have lost.

Our heartache is the pulse of unfulfilled loving in this life's walk:

and one day

we will know the beauty of the tears

and the infinite joy of the heartache

for in that moment

we shall behold the indestructibility of Love.

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But for now,

let us weep together"

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A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, 'What does love mean?'
The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.
Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.
When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said,
'Nothing, I just helped him cry'

"FREE" WILL

The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said, as Einstein
paraphrased it, that “a human can very well do what he wants,
but cannot will what he wants.”
In short, the conscious brain was only playing catch-up to what the
unconscious brain was already doing.
The writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, once said in an interview with the
Paris Review, “The greatest gift which humanity has received is free
choice. It is true that we are limited in our use of free choice. But the
little free choice we have is such a great gift and is potentially worth
so much that for this itself, life is worthwhile living.”