swami vivekananda

"Whatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow...

"For if there is one common doctrine that runs through all our apparently fighting and contradictory sects, it is that all glory, power, and purity are within the soul already."

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All typos in this blog are actually the author's subtle attempts to alter the English language.

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Chinese New Year in California, circa 1861


A New York Times reporter describes Chinese New Year nearly 150 years ago in San Francisco:

 

CALIFORNIA; New-Year’s Calls in the Chinese Quarter   A deaf man would know it [was New Year] by the universal renewal [...]

You Can't Do Rat on Television!

 

Finally, the Year of the Pig is over. Let’s hope the Rat won’t create the same controversy that Pig endured last year…

 

Chinese New Year

 

The Chinese Calendar is one of the oldest calendars in the world, dating back thousands of years, though it has undergone many changes in that time. 

  

The Chinese calendar is a lunisolar [...]