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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April 9, 1939

It’s not a holiday, but 70 years ago today, world-renowned opera singer Marian Anderson gave an historic concert on the National Mall in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

When the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to allow Anderson to sing in Constitution Hall because she was African-American, Eleanor Roosevelt suggested an outdoor concert on the National [...]

April 9th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: On this day | Leave a comment

We Gotta Lotta Haggadah

And this day shall become a memorial for you, and you shall observe it as a festival for the Lord, for your generations, as an eternal decree shall you observe it. For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove the leaven from your homes … you [...]

April 9th, 2009 | Category: Jewish, Other | Leave a comment