Mother Teresa was a Virgo: Happy Birthday Virgos!!

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Mother Teresa was born on August 26, 1920 and died on September 5, 1997 (aged 87)

"The photograph was taken in Oslo, Norway, on the tenth of December, in 1980. This is what happened there:

"A small, stooped woman in a faded blue sari and worn sandals received an award. From the hand of a king. An award funded from the will of the inventor of dynamite. In a great glittering hall of velvet and gold and crystal. Surrounded by the noble and famous in formal black and elegant gowns. The irch, the powerful, the brilliant, the talented of the world in attendance. And there at the center of it all—a little old lady in sari and sandals. Mother Teresa, of India. Servant of the poor and sick and dying. To her, the Nobel Peace Prize.

"No shah or president or king or general or scientist or pope; no banker or merchant or cartel or oil company or ayatollah holds the key to ash much power as she has. None is as rich. For hers is the invincible weapon against the evils of this earth: the caring heart. And hers are the everlasting riches of this life: the wealth of the compassionate spirit.

"Some years later, at a grand conference of quantum physicists and religious mystics at the Oberoi Towers Hotel in Bombar, I saw that face again. Standing by the door at the rear of the hall, I sensed a presence beside me. And there she was. Alone. Come to speak to the conference as its guest. She looked at me and smiled. I see her face still.

"She strode to the rostrum and changed the agenda of the conference from intellectual inquiry to moral activism. She said, in a firm voice to the awed assembly: 'We can do no great things; only small things with great love.'

"If ever there is truly peace on earth, goodwill to men, it will be because of women like Mother Teresa. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away!"


--Robert Fulghum; minister, philosopher, artist, husband, father; author of Everything I Need to Know I Learned In Kindergarten