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REMEMBERING A LEADER WHO WALKED THROUGH MINE FIELDS – PRINCESS DIANA’S LEGACY IN ANGOLA AND BOSNIA

Photo caption January 1997, Reuters – ‘Wearing protective clothing, Diana watched workers from a British-based de-mining organization, Halo Trust, clear some of the 5,000 mines found so far around Kuito, believed to be the most heavily mined city in the world. The minefields of Angola were the focus of worldwide attention when the Princess visited, beginning her work for the cause of banning land mines. She followed up her journey to Angola with a later visit to war-torn Bosnia, championing the anti-mine cause. The princess also visited the International Red Cross’ prosthetic center at Huambo, Angola, where several hundred mining victims have been fitted with artificial limbs and taught how to use them.’ — Words CNN news archives.

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GREATNESS QUOTE – EXPRESSING HUMILITY ON THE UPWARD ROAD

We come nearest to the great when we are in great humilityRabindranath Tagore, Forbes Magazine.

Humility is two things. It is an attitude of spirit worn like a garment, to be conscious and mindful to serve others. Humility is also having no fear to be known for whom you really are as a naked and transparent spirit–recognizing that great gifts that do not belong to us are often haused in our incredibly flawed humanity as people. Where the paradox meets of these two opposite positions of truth and fact with this kind of recognition in life, is where great people and new things (the ledge of launching a precipice of new thoughts and attitudes much better for the world’s future flow) will always be found abundantly. Put succinctly, humility is the shared road of kind people who have transcended what numbers can do, and who seek a balance between IQ, IT & EQRead the rest of this entry »