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Cutting off what? You cut off your anger, your craving, and your ignorance. Another way of saying this is ‘letting go.’ You gradually transform your craving, anger, fear, and delusion. If you don’t have this kind of self-mastery, you can cause yourself and others great suffering, and people will not respect you. We only need to remember the many politicians and leaders whose careers were ruined by sex scandals to see the importance of cutting off the craving for meaningless sex. This is why cutting off brings power. When you encounter someone who has the virtue of cutting off, who is free from her afflictions, you have respect for her and you listen to her. The virtue of cutting off brings liberation and lightness to body and mind. We can’t buy it in the supermarket. We must attain it through our own practice. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Population: 10,000 to 50,000 | Extinction risk: Endangered

Our peace-loving cousins are still a mystery
Bonobos share 98.7% of their genetic code with humans, making them, along with chimpanzees, our closest living relatives. As the last great ape to be scientifically discovered, much still remains unknown about the bonobo.

Poaching: Humans hunt bonobos to eat them, trade them as bushmeat, keep them as pets and for use in traditional medicine. Specific bonobo body parts are believed to enhance sexual vigor or strength. The number of bonobos lost to poaching each year is not known, but the number of bonobo charms available in parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo suggests that poaching may be common.

“Bonobos are fascinating creatures and little understood. They have the only great ape society led by females, with a sophisticated social structure that encourages cooperation and peace.”
~Dr. Richard Carroll, Vice President, Africa Program

Source: www.worldwildlife.org

What the word IMPOSSIBLE says is I M Possible.
So every thing which seems impossible
is itself says that is possible. ~lovelysms

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.  ~ Nelson Mandela

Guinness World Records 2014
The largest rideable bicycle has a wheel diameter of 10 feet.
It was was built by Didi Senft of Germany.

Richard Bradbury/Guinness World Records

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By Simon McCormack, The Huffington
09/01/2014

Feliz cumpleaños, Leandra Becerra Lumbreras.

The Mexican woman thought to be the oldest person in the world reportedly turned 127 on Sunday, according to the Metro.

Lumbreras says she was born on Aug. 31, 1887.

Her family said her secrets to longevity are eating chocolate, sleeping a lot and not getting married.

“She was always a woman who fought. She was still sewing and weaving until about two years ago,’ granddaughter Miriam Alvear, 43, told El Horizonte, according to a translation by Metro.

But as the Telegraph reports, Lumbreras lost her birth certificate during a move 40 years ago.

According to El Horizonte, Lumbreras has 73 great-grandchildren and 55 great-great-grandchildren.

“Her parents were singers,” Alvear said. “She loves to entertain her grandchildren with the old songs they taught her.”

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