When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound. Rebuild those plans and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
- Napoleon Hill
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
Never Ending
How can you tell what the best things in life are? They're the things that never end.
For example, when you use your creativity it doesn't get used up. Instead, it grows even stronger and more creative the more you make use of it. Love is the same way. Give your love, and you'll have even more of it.
Live with integrity, and that integrity will grow stronger. Spread joy to others, and joy becomes even more abundant in your own life.
Consider courage, grace, peace, kindness, faith and friendship. The more you draw from them, the more powerful they become.
Though they are often ignored or foolishly rejected, the best things in life cannot be lost. The more you live them, the more they are.
For example, when you use your creativity it doesn't get used up. Instead, it grows even stronger and more creative the more you make use of it. Love is the same way. Give your love, and you'll have even more of it.
Live with integrity, and that integrity will grow stronger. Spread joy to others, and joy becomes even more abundant in your own life.
Consider courage, grace, peace, kindness, faith and friendship. The more you draw from them, the more powerful they become.
Though they are often ignored or foolishly rejected, the best things in life cannot be lost. The more you live them, the more they are.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Make it yours
Make it yours
Don't wait for someone to give you permission to succeed and achieve. Get yourself busy and do it. Don't wait for someone to tell you how to do it. Take it upon yourself to figure it out. Don't wait for just the right situation. Don't count on being lucky. Do what it takes to make your own good fortune.
Learn from others. Seek the advice, input and feedback of those whose opinions you respect. But don't depend on anyone or anything to do it for you. Make the best of fortunate situations, but don't depend on
luck or chance.
Depend on those things over which you have the most direct control -- your own thoughts and actions, your ability to make the choices which will lead to precisely where you have decided to go.
Your destiny is in your hands. Think like it and act like it with each passing moment. Take hold of that destiny and make it the best it can possibly be.
- Ralph Marston
Friday, January 21, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Quote for Today
We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind with a tender heart.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Flight of Geese
Flight of Geese
If between friends and partners
we were geese...
Ah!
The next season,
when you see the geese migrating,
going to a warmer place,
to sort the winter...
Pay attention that they fly in a "V" formation
Maybe you will be interested in knowing
Why they do it this way...
The whole flock increases the flight efficiency by 71%
Compared to just one bird flying alone
By flying in a "V" formation....Sharing the same direction
and working as a team, get us to the destination quicker and easier.
By helping ourselves, the
accomplishments are greater!.
He feels the resistance of the air and the
difficulties of flying alone....
Then, he quickly comes back to the formation
to take advantage of the the flock’s power
in front of him ..
By staying in tune and united beside those who are going in the same direction, the effort will be less.
It will be easier and pleasing to reach the goals, Everyone will be inclined to accept and give help.
When the leader goose gets tired of flying...
... He goes to the end of the "V" formation.
While another goose takes the lead.
To share the leadership,
There must be mutual respect between us
all the time...
Sharing the hardest problems and tasks..
Gathering our abilities and combining our faculties, talents and resources….
The geese flying on a "V" formation, they quack to encourage to the ones in the front.
In that way, they keep the same speed.
Lesson 4:
When there is courage and encouragement,
the progress is greater..
A timely word of encouragement,
always motivates, helps and strengthens..
It produces the best of benefits...
When a goose gets sick, is injured or gets tired,
And he must leave the formation...
Other geese leave the formation too,
and they fly with him to help him out and protect him.
They remain with him until he dies
or he is able to fly again.
They reach their bevy
or they just make another "V" formation.
Let’s stay beside each other
no matter what the differences.
Specially in times of difficulty and great challenges..
If we bond together and support each other..
If we make true the spirit of teamwork..
Regardless of our differences, we can rise to meet our challenge.
If we understand the real value of friendship..
If we are aware of the feeling of sharing..
LIFE WILL BE EASIER
AND THE PASSING OF YEARS
MORE FULFILLING
MY FRIENDS AND PARTNERS...
LET’S BE LIKE THE GEESE!!!
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Experience
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with
what happens to him."
- Aldous Huxley 1894
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Faith
An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with Krishna. He asks one of his new students to stand and.....
Professor: You are a Hare Krishna devotee, aren't you, son?
Student: Yes, sir.
Prof: So you believe in God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.
Prof: Is God good?
Student: Sure.
Prof: Is God all-powerful?
Student: Yes.
Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to Krishna to heal him.
Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But Krishna didn't. How
is this Krishna good then? Hmm?
(The student is silent.)
Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fella. Is God good?
Student: Yes.
Prof: Is Satan good?
Student: No.
Prof: Where does Satan come from?
Student: From...God...
Prof: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student: Yes.
Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything.Correct?
Student: Yes.
Prof: So who created evil?
(The student does not answer.)
Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible
things exist in the world, don't they?
Student: Yes, sir.
Prof: So, who created them?
(The student has no answer.)
Prof: Tell me, son. Do you believe in Krishna?
Student: Yes, professor, I do.
Prof: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the
world around you. Have you ever seen Krishna?
Student: No, sir.
Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your Krishna?
Student: No, sir.
Prof: Have you ever felt your Krishna, tasted your Krishna, smelt your
Krishna? Have you ever had any sensory perception of Krishna or God for that
matter?
Student: No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.
Prof: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student: Yes.
Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says
your Krishna doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student: Nothing. I only have my faith.
Prof: Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has.
Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Prof: Yes.
Student: And is there such a thing as cold?
Prof: Yes.
Student: No sir. There isn't.
(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)
Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega
heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called
cold. We can hit 273 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go any
further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we
use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy.
Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)
Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?
Student: You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something.. You
can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light.....But if you
have no light constantly, you have nothing and it's called darkness, isn't
it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it were you would be able to make darkness
darker,wouldn't you?
Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man?
Student: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how?
Student: Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is
life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the
concept of God as something finite, something we can measure.
Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism,
but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as
the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as
a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of
it.
Now tell me, Professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a
monkey?
Prof: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of
course, I do.
Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the
argument is going.)
Student: Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and
cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavour, are you not
teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?
(The class is in uproar.)
Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's
brain?
(The class breaks out into laughter.)
Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt
it, touched or smelt it?.....No one appears to have done so. So, according
to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science
says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then
trust your lectures, sir?
(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face
unfathomable.)
Prof: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.
Student : That is it sir. The link between man & god is FAITH. That is all
that keeps things moving & alive
KEEP SMILING AND HAVE FAITH IN WHATEVER YOU DO...........
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