"When you are happy you can forgive a great deal."
-Princess Diana
SHAKE IT OFF AND STEP UP
SHAKE IT OFF AND STEP UP
A parable is told of a farmer who owned an old mule. The mule fell into the farmer's well. The farmer heard the mule "braying" or whatever mules do when they fall into wells.
After carefully assessing the situation, the farmer sympathized with the mule, but decided that neither the mule nor the well was worth the trouble of saving.
Instead he called his neighbors together and told them what had happened...and enlisted them to help haul dirt to bury the old mule in the well and put him out of his misery.
Initially, the old mule was hysterical! But as the farmer and his neighbors continued shoveling and the dirt hit his back...a thought struck him. It suddenly dawned on him that every time a shovel load of dirt landed on his back...he should shake it off and step up! This he did blow after blow.
"Shake it off and step up...shake it off and step up...shake it off and step up!" he repeated to encourage himself. No matter how painful the blows, or distressing the situation seemed the old mule fought "panic" and just kept right on shaking it off and stepping up!
It was not long before the old mule, battered and exhausted, stepped triumphantly over the wall of that well. What seemed like would bury him, actually blessed him...all because of the manner in which he handled his adversity.
That's life! If we face our problems and respond to them positively, and refuse to give in to panic, bitterness or self-pity...the adversities that come along to bury us usually have within them the potential to benefit and bless us!
Remember forgiveness-faith-prayer-praise and hope.... All are excellent ways to "shake it off and step up", out of the wells in which we find ourselves!
One more thing..."never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the titanic."
Author Unknown
A Thought for Today
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much but Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
– Anonymous
– Anonymous
Thought for Today : Doubt
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
-Buddha Wisdom
Thought for Today
Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you.
~Author Unknown
A Thought for Today
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
– Anonymous
– Anonymous
Thought for Today
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
-Buddha Wisdom
Ramayan : Super-Compressed
Once someone asked Guruji about Ramayan saraansh [summary] and this was his one-liner reply :
"Jab mann roopi Sita, Hiran roopi indriyo se mohit ho jati hai, tab wo Ravan roopi ahankar ke vash me aakar, Ram roopi Atma se door ho jati hai; phir Laxman roopi sajagta aur Hanuman roopi Shwaas ke dwara use Ravan roopi ahankar se mukt karke Ram roopi atma se punah milaya jata hai."
[ When Sita (mind), gets attracted by the Deer (sense objects), it comes under the clutches of Ravan (the ego) and goes away from Rama (the Self); then with the help of Laxman (awareness) and Hanuman (the breath), it is freed from Ravan (the ego) and united with Rama (the Self). ]
Is your Sita with your Rama?
[ When Sita (mind), gets attracted by the Deer (sense objects), it comes under the clutches of Ravan (the ego) and goes away from Rama (the Self); then with the help of Laxman (awareness) and Hanuman (the breath), it is freed from Ravan (the ego) and united with Rama (the Self). ]
Is your Sita with your Rama?
Thought for the Day
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
-Pablo Picasso, painter, and sculptor (1881-1973)
Thought for Today
Smooth roads never make good drivers
Smooth seas never make good sailors
Clear Skies never make good Pilots.
Problem and hassle free Life never makes a strong person
Be Strong enough to accept the challenges of Life
Don't ask Life, "Why Me?" ,
Instead say "Try Me!"
A Thought for Today
"The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance."
Brian Tracy
Thought for Today
You can close more business in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
A Thought for Today
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day.
– Indian Proverb
Look well, therefore, to this day.
– Indian Proverb
Earth Day
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
Be gentle with the earth.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal
is our only legitimate hope of survival.
- Wendell Berry
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,
if the simple things in nature have a message you understand,
Rejoice, for your soul is alive.
- Eleanora Duse
Know that you are one with the earth, with the water,
with the fire, with the air that you breathe, with all living things,
and that all of these are one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thought for Today
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
-Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate (1875-1965)
Happy Earth Day
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
– Mohandas K. Gandhi
There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace.
-Bourke Coekran
HAPPY EARTH DAY
Love the earth: it's the only one we've got.
Home... Sweet Home
We think sometimes that poverty is only
being hungry, naked and homeless.
The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and
uncared for is the greatest poverty.
We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
- Mother Teresa
being hungry, naked and homeless.
The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and
uncared for is the greatest poverty.
We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
- Mother Teresa
Thought for Today
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
A Thought for Today
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
– Anonymous
A Thought for Today
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."
-Paul Boese
Thought for Today
Buddha Wisdom:
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Thought for Today
Do not give any time to your past you can't change what happened 5 minutes ago.
~Unknown
Thought for Today
If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.
-J.B. Phillips, writer and clergyman (1906-1982)
Thought for Today
The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.
~Will Rogers
Thought for Today
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
-Buddha Wisdom
Buddha Wisdom
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker. -Gautam Budda
For Needy Students
Dear All,
If you have come across any bright students coming from poor financial background who have finished their 10th standard this year and scored more than 80%, please ask them to contact the NGO - Prerana (supported by Infosys foundation). The NGO is conducting a written test and those who clear the test will be eligible for financial help for their further studies.
Please ask the students to contact the people mentioned below to get the form:
If you have come across any bright students coming from poor financial background who have finished their 10th standard this year and scored more than 80%, please ask them to contact the NGO - Prerana (supported by Infosys foundation). The NGO is conducting a written test and those who clear the test will be eligible for financial help for their further studies.
Please ask the students to contact the people mentioned below to get the form:
580, Shubhakar, 44th cross, 1st A main road, Jayanagar, 7th block, Bangalore .
Contact numbers:
1. Ms. Saraswati - 99009 06338 /9900926505
2. Mr. Shivkumar - 99866 30301
3. Ms. Bindu - 99645 34667
Contact numbers:
1. Ms. Saraswati - 99009 06338 /9900926505
2. Mr. Shivkumar - 99866 30301
3. Ms. Bindu - 99645 34667
preranabangalore@gmail.com
http://evergreen2060.blogspot.com/2011/05/financial-help-for-poor-bright-students.html
http://evergreen2060.blogspot.com/2011/05/financial-help-for-poor-bright-students.html
We support only Bangalore Urban students. The student has to undergo a qualifying test. Let the parents of the students come and meet us at the below said address. They need to carry few documents with them while coming, Such as
1) Student SSLC Marks card copy
2) Student Parents salary certificate
3) Parents ID proof such as Voters ID, Ration Card, Electricity bill etc.,
4) House rent or Lease agreement.
Our Office address :
#28, Neeladri, 3rd main, Basappa layout,
Gavipuram Extension, Hanumanthanagar,
Bangalore - 560 019
Ph: 080 - 2660 1105 / 6533 7823
1) Student SSLC Marks card copy
2) Student Parents salary certificate
3) Parents ID proof such as Voters ID, Ration Card, Electricity bill etc.,
4) House rent or Lease agreement.
Our Office address :
#28, Neeladri, 3rd main, Basappa layout,
Gavipuram Extension, Hanumanthanagar,
Bangalore - 560 019
Ph: 080 - 2660 1105 / 6533 7823
Try to visit the office and telephone may be busy/out of order
Even if you don't know anyone, please pass on this info, someone might be in need of this help.....
Buddha Wisdom
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
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