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I've heard that before and think there is some truth to it, but don't you hate admitting when that happens? I do :)
Another good one. Things are never as important as the people in our lives.
If you hate a person, you hate something in
him that is part of yourself. What isn't
part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
---Herman Hesse
Run Through The Rain..
She had been shopping with her Mom in Wal*Mart. She must have been 6 years old, this beautiful brown haired, freckle-faced image of innocence. It was pouring outside. The kind of rain that gushes over the tops of rain gutters, so much in a hurry to hit the Earth it has no time to flow out the spout..
We all stood there under the awning and just inside the door of the Wal*Mart. We waited, some patiently, others irritated because nature messed up their hurried day..
I am always mesmerized by rainfall. I get lost in the sound and sight of the heavens washing away the dirt and dust of the world. Memories of running, splashing so carefree as a child come pouring in as a welcome reprieve from the worries of my day. Her voice was so sweet as it broke the hypnotic trance we were all caught in..
"Mom, let's run through the rain," she said..
"What?" Mom asked..
"Let's run through the rain!" She repeated..
"No, honey. We'll wait until it slows down a bit," Mom replied..
This young child waited about another minute and repeated: "Mom, let's run through the rain.."
"We'll get soaked if we do," Mom said..
"No, we won't, Mom. That's not what you said this morning," the young girl said as she tugged at her Mom's arm..
"This morning? When did I say we could run through the rain and not get wet?"
"Don't you remember? When you were talking to daddy about his cancer, you said, 'If God can get us through this, He can get us through anything!'"
The entire crowd stopped dead silent..
I swear you couldn't hear anything but the rain. We all stood silently. No one came or left in the next few minutes. Mom paused and thought for a moment about what she would say. Now some would laugh it off and scold her for being silly. Some might even ignore what was said. But this was a moment of affirmation in a young child's life..
A time when innocent trust can be nurtured so that it will bloom into faith..
"Honey, you are absolutely right. Let's run through the rain. If God let's us get wet, well maybe we just needed washing," Mom said. Then off they ran. We all stood watching, smiling and laughing as they darted past the cars and yes through the puddles..
They held their shopping bags over their heads just in case. They got soaked. But they were followed by a few who screamed and laughed like children all the way to their cars. And Yes, I did. I ran. I got wet. I needed washing..
Circumstances or people can take away your material possessions, they can take away your money, and they can take away your health. But no one can ever take away your precious memories....... So, don't forget to make time and take the opportunities to make memories every day!
By Bob Perks
One of the students raised her hand..
Professor Murphy stood before his philosophy class and
had some items in front of him. When the class began,
wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty
mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf
balls..
He then asked the students if the jar was full?
They agreed that it was. So the professor then picked
up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He
shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the
open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the
students again if the jar was full. They agreed it
was..
The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured
it into the jar..
Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He
asked once more if the jar was full. The students
responded with a unanimous..
"yes.."
The professor then produced two cans of beer from
under the table and poured the entire contents into
the jar, effectively filling the empty space between
the sand. The students laughed..
"Now," said the professor, as the laughter subsided,
"I want you to recognize that this jar represents your
life. The golf balls are the important things..
your family, your health, your children, your friends, your
favorite passions ~ things that if everything else was
lost and only they remained, your life would still be
full..
"The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, your car..
The sand is everything else ~ the small stuff..
If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued,
"there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls..
The same goes for life..
If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you..
Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness..
Play with your children..
Take time to get medical checkups..
Take your partner out to dinner..
Play another 18..
There will always be time to clean the house, and fix the disposal..
"Take care of the golf balls first, the things that
really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just
sand.."
One of the students raised her hand and inquired what
the beer represented..
The professor smiled..
"I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of beers.."
lol
Wonderful story, Vexari! Thanks for sharing it here :)
Unclear Thinking..
Without us being aware of it, the way we usually think serves to riddle our minds with inconsistencies and irrationalities..
This unclear thinking then leads to Thought Distortions..
This occurs because language is a representation of human experience and not the experience itself..
Language is an abstraction and in many cases a person will delete, distort or generalise in his verbal thoughts or statements about the actual experience..
THOUGHT DISTORTIONS
1. Tunnel vision
Example: "I expect it'll be another boring party".
It is being stuck in a mental groove. In particular you look for that which confirms your fear or prejudice, remember it from the past and expect it in the future. You ignore other points of view or the possibility of alternative solutions.
2. Awfulising
Example: "I can't bear going on these awful buses".
This attitude is saying that it's unacceptable if things aren't as you would prefer them to be. You take the negative aspect of a situation and magnify it. To handle this, recognise when you use words like terrible, awful, disgusting, etc. and in particular the phrase "I can't stand it". Examine their rationality.
3. Black & White Thinking
Example: "You're either for me or against me".
Things are black or white, wonderful or terrible, a great success or a total failure, brilliantly clever or really stupid, a certainty or a complete mystery, friend or enemy, love or hate - there is no middle ground, no room for improvement, no room for mistakes. Judgements on self and others swing from one emotional extreme to another and are easily triggered. It is important to remember that human beings are just too complex to be reduced to dichotomous judgements, and that all qualities fall somewhere along a continuum, containing elements of either extreme.
4. Generalisation
Example: "I'll never be any good at tennis" after one poor game.
In this distortion you make a broad, generalised conclusion, often couched in the form of absolute statements, based on a single piece of evidence. If something bad happens once, you expect it to happen over and over again. If someone shows evidence of a negative trait, this is picked up on and exaggerated into a global judgement. This inevitably leads to a more and more restricted life and your view of the world becomes stereotyped. Cue words that indicate you may be over-generalising are: all, every, none, never, always, everybody and nobody. To become more flexible use words such as: may, sometimes and often, and be particularly sensitive to absolute statements about the future, such as "No one will ever love me", because they may become self-fulfilling prophecies.
5. Assumption
Example: "Nothing can change the way I feel".
Making an assumption, presupposes knowledge that you do not have. Assumptions are often popular beliefs that have been adopted without examining their basis in fact, such as "I'm over the hill now that I'm forty". Making decisions based on assumptions may lead to disaster, as when an executive assumes that a new product will sell well, having made no market research. Often, taking things for granted causes people to be blind to possible solutions - assuming no-one can help them, a couple's marriage may go on the rocks, when they could seek counselling. Question: What leads you to believe this? Why do it this way? Who says? What alternatives are there? What would happen if you did? What would happen if you didn't?
As a practical matter, all of us must proceed with the business of living by relying on "maps" of the world which we have taken on trust and which we have not tested and often cannot test. To supplement personal experience, we absorb a constant stream of reports, descriptions, judgements, inferences and assumptions coming from a multitude of sources. From this abundance of stored information, you piece together a mental "model" of the world and its workings that literally becomes your world view. However, people do vary considerably in the extent of their misinformation and in the degree to which they actively seek out new information, take opportunities to correct or update their mental models, and expose themselves to new experiences.
6. Projection
Example: "I know he doesn't like me".
Making false assumptions about what other people think depends on a process called projection. It is like mind-reading - putting words into peoples' mouths. You imagine that people feel the same way you do and react to things the same way. If you get angry when someone is late, you assume that another will feel the same way about you or others, in that situation. If you don't like yourself, you assume others also think that way. The answer is not to jump to conclusions about what other people think and feel.
7. Negative thinking
Example: "We haven't seen each other for two days - I think the relationship is falling apart".
You read a newspaper article about some misfortune and wonder if that could happen to you. Predicting negative consequences is a defense, to protect oneself from disappointment by expecting the worst. Consider, what are the realistic odds of that happening?
8. Self-consciousness
Example: "Quite a few people here seem smarter than I am".
This is the introverted tendency to relate everything around you to yourself, to think people must be judging you, or to think that everything they do or say is a reaction to something about you. It is the habit of continually comparing yourself to other people, based on the underlying assumption is that your worth is questionable. You are therefore continually forced to test your value as a person by measuring yourself against others. If you come out better you have a moment's relief; if you come up short, you feel diminished. Your worth doesn't depend on being better than others, so why start the comparison gamble?
9. Blame
Example: "It's your fault we're in debt".
If you see yourself as externally controlled, you see yourself as helpless, a victim of fate or "the system". You don't believe you can really affect the basic shape of your life, let alone make any difference in the world, so you try and manipulate others to take care of your interests. Someone else is to blame and is responsible for your pain, your loss, your failure. The truth is that we are constantly making decisions and every decision affects and steers our lives. It is your responsibility to assert your needs, to say no or go elsewhere for what you want. In some way we are responsible for nearly everything that happens to us, including our distress and unhappiness. Taking responsibility means accepting the consequences of your own choices. Ask yourself: What choices have I made that resulted in this situation? What decisions can I now make to change it?
The opposite distortion is also very common - the fallacy that makes you responsible for the pain or happiness of everyone around you. You carry the world on your shoulders. You have to right all wrongs, fill every need and balm each hurt; if you don't you feel guilty and turn the blame on yourself. Blaming yourself means labelling yourself inadequate if things go wrong. With this viewpoint you are very easily manipulated. The key to overcoming this fallacy is to recognise that each person is responsible for himself - taking responsibility doesn't imply that you are also responsible for what happens to others. Remember, part of respecting others includes respecting their ability to overcome or accept their own pains, make their own decisions and be in control of their own lives.
10. Unfairness
Example: "It's not fair, he should take me out more often".
The consideration of unfairness results from resentment that the other person does not want or prefer the same as you, or that events do not turn out in your favour. The person gets locked into his or her own point of view, with a feeling of ever-growing resentment. Be honest with yourself and the other person. Say what you want or prefer, without getting involved in the fallacy of unfairness: that people and situations shouldn't be the way they are.
11. Emotional reasoning
Example: "I feel depressed, life must be pointless".
You believe that what you feel must be true - automatically. If you feel stupid then you must lack intelligence. If you feel guilty then you must have done something wrong. If you feel angry, someone must have taken advantage of you. However, there is nothing automatically true about what you feel - your feelings can lie to you, they can be based on misconceptions. If your feelings are based on distorted thoughts, then they won't have any validity. So be sceptical about your feelings and examine them as you would a used car.
12. Manipulation
Example: "If we had sex more often, I'd be more affectionate".
The only person you can really control or have much hope of changing is yourself. When you pressure people to change, you are forcing them to be different for your own benefit. Strategies for manipulating others include blaming, demanding, withholding and trading - in order to make the other feel obliged. The usual result is that the other person feels attacked or pushed around and resists changing at all, or feels resentful if they do. The underlying fallacy of this thinking style is that your happiness depends on controlling the behaviour of others. In fact your happiness depends on the many thousands of large and small decisions you make during your life.
13. Shoulds
Example: "You should never ask people personal questions".
In this distortion, you operate from a list of inflexible rules about how you and other people should act. The rules are right and indisputable. Any particular deviation from your particular values or standards is bad. As a result you are often in the position of judging and finding fault. People irritate you, they don't act properly or think correctly. They have unacceptable traits, habits and opinions that make them hard to tolerate. They should know the rules and they should follow them. Of course, the answer is to focus on each person's uniqueness: his or her particular needs, limitations, fears and pleasures, and consequently different values. Personal values are just that - personal.
You are also making yourself suffer with shoulds, oughts and musts (or their negatives). You feel compelled to do something or be a certain way and feel guilty if you don't, but you never bother to ask objectively if it really makes sense. Some people beat themselves up constantly for being incompetent, insensitive, stupid, too emotional, etc. They are always ready to be wrong. The psychiatrist Karen Horney called this the "tyranny of the shoulds".
14. Got to be right
Example: "I've been doing this longer than you, so I know what I'm talking about".
In this very common distortion you are usually on the defensive, needing to prove to yourself and others that your views, assumptions and actions are all correct. You never make mistakes! If you've got to be right, you don't listen. You can't afford to - listening might reveal that you are wrong sometimes. Your opinions rarely change because if the facts don't fit what you already believe you ignore them. This makes you lonely, because being right seems more important than an honest, caring relationship.
The key to overcoming being right, is active listening - making sure you really understand what's been said to you, to appreciate the other's point of view and what you can learn from it, which is effort better spent than in devising rebuttals and attacks. Remember that other people believe what they are saying as strongly as you do, and there is not always just the one right answer.
15. Heaven's reward
Example: "I worked and raised these kids and look what thanks I get".
This distorted thinking style accepts pain and unhappiness because "those who do good are rewarded in the end". You expect all your sacrifice and self-denial to pay off, as if there was someone keeping score. You feel hostile and bitter when the reward doesn't come. In reality the reward is now. Your relationship, your progress toward your goals, and the care you give to those you love, should be intrinsically rewarding. If not, you need to rearrange your activities to provide some here-and-now reward, dropping or sharing the activities that chronically drain you - Heaven is a long way off and you can get very tired waiting.
RATIONALISATIONS
The best way to practice identifying Thought Distortions in everyday life is to take particular notice of one of the distortions for one day, and notice whenever it is used - by others or by yourself!
Frequently, several Distortions are combined in a statement, or a statement fits into several categories of Distortion. These are commonly Rationalisations - i.e. seemingly plausible explanations, excuses or justifications, which in fact are ignoring or fudging the real issue. For example. "I don't need to work hard on this job because no one else will," is an assumption, a generalisation, negative thinking, tunnel vision, projection, and so on.
UNCLEAR THINKING
Without us being aware of it, the way we usually think serves to riddle our minds with inconsistencies and irrationalities. This unclear thinking then leads to the Thought Distortions listed above.
This occurs because language is a representation of human experience and not the experience itself. Language is an abstraction and in many cases a person will delete, distort or generalise in his verbal thoughts or statements about the actual experience. We can't speak all of the meaning underlying our thoughts or every statement would be too long and pedantic but there is a danger in simplifying our thoughts too much. This is usually done to avoid confronting the whole truth about a situation. A situation can be seen as final and fixed rather than ongoing and changeable, so that responsibility is avoided and nothing can be done about it.
For example:
"I'm angry". About whom? About what?
"That's not right". What specifically is not right?
"I realize I'm stupid". How specifically do you realize you're stupid?
"I want love". Who do you want loving from?
"Nobody loves me". Who specifically does not love you?
"I have to clean the house before my husband gets home". What would happen if you didn't?
"It's impossible to talk to my boss". What stops you?
"My wife makes me angry". How specifically does your wife make you angry?
"I handled that meeting badly". Badly compared with what?
"I know he dislikes me". How do you know he dislikes you?
"It's wrong to love two people at the same time". It's wrong for whom to love two people at the same time?
"I have a bad memory". What do you have trouble memorizing and how do you go about it?
"I can't relax". What prevents you? What would happen if you did?
"I can't cry". Is that can't or won't?
The idea is to shift one's state of being to at least acknowledge the possibility of choice, and to revise one's fixed ideas. This is not to say one should question one's every word, but if you find yourself feeling dissatisfied, look out for what you are deleting, distorting or generalizing about your experience, and how are you reducing your choices.
Explorations
Each day, take one of the above Thought Distortions and spot when you find yourself or a person you are talking to using the Distortion. Also note on TV when this occurs (nearly all the time on soaps!). Just recognizing it as such - i.e. that it is an irrational thought - will enable you to be free of the Distortion or will enable you to better understand your fellow man.
Peter Shepherd
.."Breakfast at McDonald's"..
I am a mother of three (ages 14, 12, 3) and have recently completed my college degree..
The last class I had to take was Sociology..
The teacher was absolutely inspiring with the qualities that I wish every human being had been graced with..
Her last project of the term was called Smile..
The class was asked to go out and smile at three people and document their reactions..
I am a very friendly person and always smile at everyone and say hello anyway, so, I thought this would be a piece of cake, literally..
Soon after we were assigned the project, my husband, youngest son, and I went out to McDonald's one crisp March morning..
It was just our way of sharing special playtime with our son..
We were standing in line, waiting to be served, when all of a sudden everyone around us began to back away, and then even my husband did..
I did not move an inch... an overwhelming feeling of panic welled up inside of me as I turned to see why they had moved..
As I turned around I smelled a horrible dirty body smell, and there standing behind me were two poor homeless men..
As I looked down at the short gentleman, close to me, he was smiling..
His beautiful sky blue eyes were full of God's Light as he searched for acceptance..
He said, Good day as he counted the few coins he had been clutching..
The second man fumbled with his hands as he stood behind his friend. I realized the second man was mentally challenged and the blue-eyed gentleman was his salvation..
I held my tears as I stood there with them..
The young lady at the counter asked him what they wanted..
He said, Coffee is all Miss because that was all they could afford.(If they wanted to sit in the restaurant and warm up, they had to buy something. He just wanted to be warm)..
Then I really felt it .. the compulsion was so great I almost reached out and embraced the little man with the blue eyes..
That is when I noticed all eyes in the restaurant were set on me, judging my every action..
I smiled and asked the young lady behind the counter to give me two more breakfast meals on a separate tray..
I then walked around the corner to the table that the men had chosen as a resting spot. I put the tray on the table and laid my hand on the blue-eyed gentleman's cold hand..
He looked up at me, with tears in his eyes, and said, Thank you..
I leaned over, began to pat his hand and said, I did not do this for you. God is here working through me to give you hope.
I started to cry as I walked away to join my husband and son. When I sat down my husband smiled at me and said, That is why God gave you to me, Honey, to give me hope..
We held hands for a moment and at that time, we knew that only because of the Grace that we had been given were we able to give..
We are not church goers, but we are believers..
That day showed me the pure Light of God's sweet love..
I returned to college, on the last evening of class, with this story in hand..
I turned in my project and the instructor read it..
Then she looked up at me and said, Can I share this?.
I slowly nodded as she got the attention of the class..
She began to read and that is when I knew that we as human beings and being part of God share this need to heal people and to be healed..
In my own way I had touched the people at McDonald's, my husband, son, instructor, and every soul that shared the classroom on the last night I spent as a college student..
I graduated with one of the biggest lessons I would ever learn.. UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE..
Much love and compassion is sent to each and every person who may read this and learn how to LOVE PEOPLE AND USE THINGS .. NOT LOVE THINGS AND USE PEOPLE..
If you think this story has touched you in any way, please send this to everyone you know..
There is an Angel sent to watch over you..
In order for him to work, you must pass this on to the people you want watched over..
An Angel wrote..
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart..
To handle yourself, use your head..
To handle others, use your heart..
God Gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest..
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."
- - Goethe
"What you don't feel, you will not grasp by art,
Unless it wells out of your soul
And with sheer pleasure takes control,
Compelling every listener's heart.
But sit - and sit, and patch and knead,
Cook a ragout, reheat your hashes,
Blow at the sparks and try to breed
A fire out of piles of ashes!
Children and apes may think it great,
If that should titillate your gum,
But from heart to heart you will never create.
If from your heart it does not come."
(from Faust I)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/goethe.htm
(from a post by ThePennyKing)
#msg-2157472
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
Epictetus, 50-120, Stoic Philosopher
You gotta dance like nobody's watching, dream like you will live forever, live like your going to die tomorrow and love like it's never going to hurt. -Meme Grifsters
"Happiness ... typically came from spending quality time with loved ones and from good health," the study found.
it's official... money can't buy happiness.
Money doesn't buy happiness: study
Tue Aug 26, 4:05 AM ET
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - The Beatles said it, so did Cuban singer Silvio Rodriguez: money can't buy happiness, a fact now confirmed in a scientific study by the University of Southern California.
What's more, people don't get happier by getting richer, according to the USC study titled, "Explaining Happiness," available later this week on the web site of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (news - web sites).
In fact, contrary to theories supported by many psychologists, the study found no internal "setpoint" of happiness to which people revert to despite job loss, divorce, serious injury or other events, nor did it confirm that a person's wellbeing grows with increased wealth.
"Many people are under the illusion that the more money we make, the happier we'll be," said Richard Easterlin, a USC economist who analyzed data in the General Social Study, a yearly survey of 1,500 people conducted since 1975.
"We put all of our resources into making money at the expense of our family and our health ... The problem is we don't realize that our material wants increase with the amount of money we make."
"Happiness ... typically came from spending quality time with loved ones and from good health," the study found.
And people who appeared to be happy tended to be friendly and optimistic in nature, with plenty of self-control, a deep sense of ethics and high self-esteem.
The study can be found at www.pnas.org.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1517&e=17&u=/afp/us_health
The snow melts on the mountain
And the water runs down to the spring,
And the spring in a turbulent fountain,
With a song of youth to sing,
Runs down to the riotous river,
And the river flows to the sea,
And the water again
Goes back in rain
To the hills where it used to be.
And I wonder if life's deep mystery
Isn't much like the rain and the snow
Returning through all eternity
To the places it used to know.
For life was born on the lofty heights
And flows in a laughing stream,
To the river below
Whose onward flow
Ends in a peaceful dream.
And so at last,
When our life has passed
And the river has run its course,
It again goes back,
O'er the selfsame track,
To the mountain which was its source.
So why prize life
Or why fear death,
Or dread what is to be?
The river ran
Its allotted span
Till it reached the silent sea.
Then the water harked back
To the mountain-top
To begin its course once more.
So we shall run
The course begun
Till we reach the silent shore.
Then revisit earth
In a pure rebirth
From the heart of the virgin snow.
So don't ask why
We live or die,
Or whither, or when we go,
Or wonder about the mysteries
That only God may know.
W. R. Hearst
Interesting man, I hadn't heard of him before this article.
Thanks for contributing.
This elaborate quarup, or traditional Indian ceremony of lamentation for those of noble lineage, has been performed in the splendid isolation of the jungle for time uncounted. The farewell ceremony is normally an insular event performed before members of the community in honor of one of their own.
But the departed friend this time was Orlando Villas Bôas, who died eight months ago at the age of 88 and was buried in São Paulo.
As the eldest survivor of four brothers who devoted their lives to contacting and documenting the native peoples of the Brazilian Amazon and protecting them from the onslaught of modern civilization, he became an especially revered figure here.
"This is the biggest quarup we have ever had, and maybe our last one ever for a white man," said Aritana, 54, the village chief. "It is hard to imagine that any other white man in the future could be a friend of ours as wise and courageous and dedicated as Orlando was."
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/26/international/americas/26AMAZ.html
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
Albert Einstein
There is many a one whose eye is awake
but whose heart is asleep.
What, in truth, should be seen
by the eyes of creatures of water and clay?
The one who keeps her heart awake,
though the eye of her head may sleep,
her heart will open a hundred eyes.
--Jelaluddin Rumi
He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
-Confucius, BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way
of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants
and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the
end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS.
-Mahatma Gandhi
(originally posted by alexed on poets board)
some excerpts from a JFK speech. I took out the comments inserted by reporter... for full article, see link below.
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"What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave."
"I speak of peace ... as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize that the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war -- and frequently the words of the pursuer fall on deaf ears. But we have no more urgent task."
"Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable -- that mankind is doomed -- that we are gripped by forces we cannot control. We need not accept that view. Our problems are man-made -- therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants."
"Genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts. It must be dynamic, not static, changing to meet the challenge of each new generation. For peace is a process -- a way of solving problems."
"Let us examine our attitude toward peace and freedom here at home. The quality and spirit of our own society must justify and support our efforts abroad."
"The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1316&ncid=742&e=12&u=/030624/226/4hs...
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart"
Helen Keller, 1880-1968,
American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist
"When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others." -Peace Pilgrim {1908-1981 American Activist}
I Never Knew
I never knew how bad it was;
I heard it did exist.
I was appalled at this crime
That robbed youth
Of their "special" time.
I never knew how bad it hurt;
The bruises and scars aren't seen.
And why somewhere along life's way,
The brutality of abuse
Has made you pay.
I never knew how you felt;
Your self-esteem so low.
I only knew you crept away,
And never let your feelings show.
I never knew what I could do;
That I could help somehow.
That all you needed was a friend;
Just someone to be your pal.
But now I know that I can help;
I can make a difference too.
I'll stand with you; I'll shout with you,
And the rest can't say, "I never knew."
Cindy M. Adams
from A Child Called "It"
by Dave Pelzer
I think it is really cool that the grub was on the peace board and about Mother Teresa. How's that for divine providence!
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Gustav Jung
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Rene Descartes
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes
Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
Harriet Nelson
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Samuel Johnson
Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom;you will have everything.
Benjamin Franklin
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau
Buddha on Handling Criticism
A man met him on the street one day and began to call him mean and ugly
names. Buddha listened quietly and thoughtfully until the man ran out of
epithets, and had to pause for breath.
"If you offer something to a man and he refuses it, to whom does it
belong?" asked Buddha.
The spiteful man replied, "It belongs, I suppose, to the one who offered
it."
Then Buddha said, "The abuse and vile names you offer me, I refuse to
accept."
The man turned and walked away."
"You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into
safety." - Abraham Maslow
Buddhists hold key to happiness
LONDON (Reuters) - Buddhists really are happy, calm and serene people -- at least according to their brain scans.
Using latest scanning techniques, neuroscientists have discovered that certain areas of the brain light up constantly in Buddhists, and not just when they are meditating, which indicates positive emotions and good mood.
"We can now hypothesise with some confidence that those apparently happy, calm Buddhist souls one regularly comes across in places such as Dharamsala, India, really are happy," Professor Owen Flanagan, of Duke University in North Carolina, said on Wednesday.
Dharamsala is the home base of exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama.
The scanning studies by scientists at the University of Wisconsin at Madison showed activity in the left prefrontal lobes of experienced Buddhist practitioners. The area is linked to positive emotions, self-control and temperament.
Other research by Paul Ekman, of the University of California San Francisco Medical Centre, suggests that meditation and mindfulness can tame the amygdala, an area of the brain which is the hub of fear memory.
Ekman discovered that experienced Buddhists were less likely to be shocked, flustered, surprised or as angry as other people.
Flanagan believes that if the findings of the studies can be confirmed they could be of major importance.
"The most reasonable hypothesis is that there is something about conscientious Buddhist practice that results in the kind of happiness we all seek," Flanagan said in a report in New Scientist magazine.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=857&e=9&u=/nm/oukoe_health_buddhists
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Robert H. Schuller
Thanks Original!
I had no idea there was a whole board dedicated to grubbing. I'm honored : )
Congrats Sarals!
For being the writer of post #1,000,000 here on iHUB....
Be sure to click on the post for guessing when post 1,100,000 will happen!
You are immortalized on the following board.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=1594
Thank you Rick :)
Congrats on getting the one million grub with such a beautiful post.
One heck of a grub.
Musta been some of that Boblogic code. Conspiracy against Derfie!
done :) see iBox.
Matt....I wish to complain about IHub service. My computer froze up at just the precise time. I would like a full and complete investigation.
maybe there is something to the saying...
give peace a chance :)
I think you should dedicate it to her memory. I wonder how she'd look in an IHub t-shirt? hmmmmmmmmmm
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