Children play on top of an old plane's fuselage at a dump site in Paranaque city, Metro Manila, Philippines January 21, 2017. (Photo by Ezra Acayan/Reuters)
20-year-old women visit the the Meiji shrine in Tokyo, Japan to celebrate Japan's Coming of Age Day on January 6, 2017. (Photo by Aflo/Rex Features/Shutterstock)
On Keo Wa, 25, carries her 9-month-old baby while working at a banana plantation operated by a Chinese company in the province of Bokeo in Laos April 24, 2017. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)
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Nuns light candles during the Catholic Washing of the Feet ceremony during Easter Holy Week in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City on March 28, 2024. (Photo by Ronen Zvulun/Reuters)
"Thought for today" - Kopan Monastery, April 2011
The life as a monk is not one long struggle against oneself, a life of repentence and wishful thinking a partial or stunted life. It is full of rich and brings an inner tranquility comfort that far surpasses any other kind of comfort. I have known before or since..