Secret Song

Anger or hatred is like a fisherman’s hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.
~Dalai Lama XIV

Okay, so the first part of this isn't soothing at all (talking about the situation in Tibet), but I could listen to the Dalai Lama laugh all day. The interview with the Dalai Lama starts about ten and a half minutes in.

John Oliver talks to the Dalai Lama:



The Singing
By Patrick Phillips

I can hear her through
the thin wall, singing,
up before the sun:
two notes, a kind
of hushed half-breathing,
each time the baby
makes that little moan—

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