Act Blind Sometimes

A man married a beautiful girl. He loved her very much. One day she developed a skin disease. Slowly she started to lose her beauty. It so happened that one day her husband left for a tour. While returning he met with an accident and lost his eyesight. However their married life continued as usual. But as days passed she lost her beauty gradually. Blind husband did not know this and there was not any difference in their married life. He continued to love her and she also loved him very much.

One day she died. Her death brought him great sorrow. He finished all her last rites and wanted to leave that town. A man from behind called and said, now how will you be able to walk all alone? All these days your wife used to help you. He replied, I am not blind. I was acting,  because if she knew l could see her ugliness it would have pained her more than her disease. So I pretended to be blind. She was a very good wife. I only wanted to keep her happy.

Moral:- Some times it is good for us to act blind and ignore one another's short comings, in order to be happy. No matter how many times the teeth bite the tongue, they still stay together in one mouth. That's the spirit of FORGIVENESS. Even though the eyes don't see each other, they see things together, blink simultaneously and cry together. That's UNITY." May the Lord grant us all the spirit of forgiveness and togetherness.

1. ''Alone I can 'Say' but together we can 'talk'.
2. "Alone I can 'Enjoy' but together we can celebrate
3.  'Alone I can 'Smile' but together we can 'Laugh'.

That's the BEAUTY of Human Relations. We are nothing without each other. STAY CONNECTED

The razor blade is sharp but can't cut a tree; the axe is strong but can't cut the hair. MORALS; Everyone is important according to his/her unique purpose, Never look down on anyone unless you are admiring their shoes.

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Anger Management: Monk Theory

A monk decided to meditate alone, away from his monastery. He took his boat out to the middle of the lake, moored it there, closed his eyes and began meditating. After a few hours of undisturbed silence, he suddenly felt the bump of another boat colliding with his own. With his eyes still closed, he felt his anger rising, and by the time he opened his eyes, He was ready to scream at the boatman who had so carelessly disturbed his meditation.

But when he opened his eyes, he was surprised to find that it was an empty boat that had struck his own. It had probably gotten un-tethered and floated to the middle of the lake. At that moment, the monk had a great realization. He understood that the anger was within him; it merely needed the bump of an external object to provoke it out of him.

From then on, whenever he came across someone who irritated him or provoked him to anger, he would remind himself, that the other person was merely an empty boat, the anger was within him. :)

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Failure's a part of the PROCESS

If you were trying a new recipe out for the first time, and whatever you were cooking ended up tasting horrible, you'd have a couple of options: you can curl up into a ball and consider yourself a failure or you can try to figure out what went wrong and try again.

The same applies to anything else in life. Failure isn't the opposite of success, failure is a PART of the process. Whenever we don't get what we wanted from life, there are still many things we gain. We gain experiences, lessons, and new knowledge, but only if we're looking for them (and we're not curled up in a ball). Life is trial and error. Those errors are not failures if they teach us, and we adjust accordingly, then they're gifts.

This is easier said than done when we're talking about relationships, because those errors come with a potential 💔. But that's how the game goes, and there are still lessons to be learned, when we're ready to learn them. Success is a lousy teacher, so have fun failing. The fear of failure paralyses us, and those worse case scenarios are never as damaging as the regret of never trying.

Changing the way we look at failure will change the way we feel about our lives.

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Have Faith on Creater

THE PREGNANT DEER - a beautiful story!!  

In a forest, a pregnant deer is about to give birth. She finds a remote grass field near a strong-flowing river. This seems a safe place. Suddenly labour pains begin. At the same moment, dark clouds gather around above and lightning starts a forest fire. She looks to her left and sees a hunter with his bow extended pointing at her. To her right, she spots a hungry lion approaching her. What can the pregnant deer do? She is in labour! What will happen? Will the deer survive? Will she give birth to a fawn?   Will the fawn survive? Or will everything be burnt by the forest fire? Will she perish to the hunters' arrow? Will she die a horrible death at the hands of the hungry lion approaching her? She is constrained by the fire on the one side and the flowing river on the other and boxed in by her natural predators. What does she do? She focuses on giving birth to a new life.

The sequence of events that follows are:- Lightning strikes and blinds the hunter. - He releases the arrow which zips past the deer and strikes the hungry lion. - It starts to rain heavily, and the forest fire is slowly doused by the rain. - The deer gives birth to a healthy fawn. In our life too, there are moments of choice when we are confronted on αll sides with negative thoughts and possibilities. Some thoughts are so powerful that they overcome us and overwhelm us. Maybe we can learn from the deer. The priority of the deer, in that given moment, was simply to give birth to a baby. The rest was not in her hands & any action or reaction that changed her focus would have likely resulted in death or disaster. Ask yourself, Where is your focus? Where is your faith and hope? In the midst of any storm, do keep faith on creator always. He will never ever disappoint you. Remember, He neither slumbers nor sleeps.

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Power of Subconscious Mind

In the movie Taare Zameen Par, the art teacher tells the rude and cursing father of the dyslexic kid about Solomon Islands. In those islands, the tribal don’t cut down a tree. They surround the tree and curse it for hours every day. Within a few weeks, the tree dries up and becomes dead.

Many of us might find that example too difficult to believe. How can intangible and invisible thoughts and words kill a tree.! Well, if you get to read Bruce H. Lipton’s THE BIOLOGY OF BELIEF, you won’t only believe in the Solomon Islands story, but would also think a dozen times before saying something demoralizing to yourself and the people you love.

In this book, Mr. Lipton tells in detail about the power of conscious and subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is million times more powerful than the conscious mind, and decides most of the things in our lives according to the beliefs it has. Many times we fail to change an unpleasant habit despite our will-power and consistent efforts.

It’s because the habit has been so strongly programmed in our subconscious mind that the efforts made by our conscious mind hardly make any difference. Conscious Mind is just a shadow of our Unconscious Mind.

So, when the tribals of Solomon Islands curse a tree, they are actually installing negative and harmful beliefs in the tree’s emotion (yes, trees do have emotions too). Within few days, those negative emotions becomes a belief & eventually changes the molecular architecture of the tree and kill it from inside.

2500 years ago, when the Buddha said that ‘You are what you think', he was not articulating a random philosophical theory. Actually he was telling a scientific fact which is now proved correct by Quantum Physics and Molecular Biology.

While reading the book, you will recall how Buddha had talked about subconscious mind and its unfathomable power over our lives. He called it Alay Vigyan which means stored consciousness. This is the part of mind where all our beliefs and experiences are stored; and they dictate our life from there..

And also be careful of what you keep saying to yourself. Repetition of words and thoughts is the best way to install a belief in your subconscious mind. If you keep saying you are a loser, don’t be surprised if you become one within a few months or years. And if you have friends who keep saying such things to you, there is no harm in saying a quick goodbye to them. May be you value the friendship a lot. But you must value yourself a little more.

So accept all as they are. Love all unconditionally & Always keep saying to yourself "I am healthy, wealthy, happy, successful & prosperous!

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True Friend

Let’s take an analogy to explain what a true friend is. 

True friends are like CAPACITOR! Let me explain you how it is. It’s simple and easy to understand. You are a small resistance, the real friend of yours is a capacitance and other normal friends of you are other resistances. All are connected across voltage source in parallel. The voltage source represents the source of energy, motivation, normalcy in life, good health and things going in right way.

As long as your voltage source is connected across you, everything is going right. What happens when you lose your connection with the voltage source i.e., the switch is opened. You feel low of energy, motivation, depressed, worried and things start going in wrong way. This is the time when you need energy, help and support. But you don’t have voltage source with you anymore. You look towards your normal friends (green resistances) for getting help and energy. But you don’t get it from them because they have characteristic property that they can’t store energy and hence, can’t give it back to you.

But then there is a capacitor in your circuit of life. Observe the direction of current in second circuit. You know what? He (capacitor) will give you the energy at that time and will act like a voltage source for you. Even if he (capacitor) is losing his own energy by giving to you (resistance), he (capacitor) will keep doing so until he loses all his energy. He (capacitor) will help you till his last breath (all energy of capacitor gets exhausted). He will help you at his own cost. He will act like your voltage source when the switch is open. 

Also try to be capacitors yourselves for your good friends!

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Never Give Up

Meet 18 years old girl, "Yusra Mardini" participating in Rio Olympics in 2016 representing, "No Country". Yusra is not representing any country, she is representing the “Refugee Camp”. Yes, you read it right. She has no country and no home of her own!!! She was originally from Syria. She lost everything in the war.

She ran away from the country along with her sister, somehow saving themselves from the prying eyes of the terrorists, police and army. Both of them somehow managed to travel through Damsakas, Beirut, Lebanon and Turkey. They wanted to go to Germany via Greece.

To reach to the coast of Greece they had to travel through a small boat. The boat was small just enough to accommodate 6 persons, but almost 20 persons were boarded on to it. The luck was not in their favor. The engine of the boat stopped working in the middle of the sea and there was no one around to help. To add to their difficulty, only four persons, in the boat knew how to swim – Yusra, her sister and two men.

Four of them took a brave decision; they decided to pull the boat till the coast!!! It was about to get dark, the sea was stormy and the water was freezing cold. Soon the two men and Yusra’s sister got fatigued and they gave up. Yusra, didn’t. She told herself “I am a swimmer, and it’s not right that I die in the water. After all, why did I learn swimming? There can’t be a better time than now to swim. I must swim to save these lives too.”

17 year old Yusra, didn’t give up. In that ice cold water, she swam for 3 hours and reached to the coast. She saved 20 lives. But her troubles were not yet over, she had to reach to Germany. She and her sister didn’t have warm clothes, no shoes, but they didn’t give up. Both of them travelled through Greece, Serbia and Hungary to reach Germany.

She was living in Germany as a Refugee. Her passion for swimming didn’t let her sit quietly. She got hold of a local person who could speak Egyptian and German and managed to get entry in to a local Swimming Club. When the coach there saw her swimming skills, he just couldn’t say NO. Yusra, is now participating in 2016 Olympics at Rio, She is not representing any country. She is a part of 10 member team, playing as “Refugee Camp” under the Olympic flag.

In spite of all odds, even seeing the death in front of her, this 18 years old girl, Yusra didn’t give up. Yusra, is an inspiration to many !!!