We Need A Frnd

We need friends for many reasons, 

all throughout the four seasons. 

We need friends to comfort us when we are sad, 

and to have fun with us when we are glad. 

We need friends to give us good advice. 

We need someone we can count on to treat us nice. 

We need friends because we are social in nature 

and having friends makes us feel secure. 

We need friends to remember us once we have passed 

sharing memories that will always last. 

That's why I need YOU! 

The Touchiest Story

One of The Touchiest Story.........

From the very beginning, girl's family

objected strongly on her dating this guy,

saying that it has got to do with family

background, that the girl will have to

suffer for the rest of her life if she were to

be with him.

Due to family's pressure, the couple

quarrelled very often. Though the girl loved

the guy deeply, she always asked him: “How

deep is your love for me?"

As the guy is not good with his words, this

often caused the girl to be very upset. With

that the family's pressure, the gal often

vents her anger on him. As for him... he

only endured it in silence.

After a couple of years, the guy finally

graduated decided to further his studies

overseas. Before leaving, he proposed to the

gal:

"I'm not very good with words. But all I

know is that I love you. If you allow me, I

will take care of you for the rest of my life.

As for your family, I'll try my best to

talk them round. Will you marry me?"

The girl agreed, with the guy's

determination, the family finally gave in 

agreed to let them get married. So before he

left, they got engaged.

The gal went out to the working society,

whereas the guy was overseas, continuing

his studies.

They sent their love through emails phone

calls.

Though it was hard, but both never thought

of giving up.

One day, while the gal was on her way to

work, she was knocked down by a car that

lost control.

when she woke up, she saw her parents

beside her bed. She

realized that she was badly injured. Seeing

her mum cry, she wanted to comfort her.

But she realized that all that could come out

of her mouth was just a sigh. she had lost

her voice....

The doctor says that the impact on her brain

has caused her to lose her voice. Listening

to her parents' comfort, but with nothing

coming out from her, she broke down.

During the stay in hospital, besides silent

cry. It’s still just silent cry that accompanied

her. Upon reaching home, everything

seems to be the same. Except for the ringing

tone of the phone which pierced into her

heart every time it rang. She does not wish

to let the guy know 

not wanting to be a burden to him, she

wrote letter to him saying that she does not

wish to wait any longer.

With that, she sent the ring back to him. In

return, the guy sent millions millions of

reply and countless phone calls... all the gal

could do besides crying is still crying....

her parents decided to move away, hoping

that she could eventually forget everything 

be happy.

With a new environment, the gal learnt sign

language started a new life.

Telling her every day that she must forget

the guy. One day, her friend came told her

that he's back. She asked her friend not to

let him know what happened to her. Since

then, there wasn't any more news of him.

A year has passed her friend came with

an envelope, containing an invitation card

for the guy's wedding. The gal was

shattered. When she opened the letter, she

saw her name on it instead. When she was

about to ask her friend what was going on,

she saw the guy standing in front of her....

He used sign language to tell her, “I’ve

spent a year to learn sign

language. Just to let you know that I've not

forgotten our promise.

Let me have the! chance to be your voice. I

Love You."

With that, he slipped the ring back into her

finger.

The girl finally smiled.....

Remember Choose to Forgive

Most Winners. Not Quitters

The Perfect

A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a large celebration. All of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony and to partake of the festivities and celebrations. A wonderful time was had by all.

The bride was gorgeous in her white wedding gown and the groom was very dashing in his black tuxedo. Everyone could tell that the love they had for each other was true. A few months later, the wife comes to the husband with a proposal: "I read in a magazine, a while ago, about how we can strengthen our marriage." she offered. "Each of us will write a list of the things that we find a bit annoying with the other person. Then, we can talk about how we can fix them together and make our lives happier together."

The husband agreed, so each of them went to a separate room in the house and thought of the things that annoyed them about the other. They thought about this question for the rest of the day and wrote down what they came up with.

The next morning, at the breakfast table, they decided that they would go over their lists. "I'll start," offered the wife. She took out her list. It had many items on it enough to fill 3 pages, in fact. As she started reading the list of the little annoyances, she noticed that tears were starting to appear in her husbands eyes. "What's wrong?" she asked.

"Nothing" the husband replied, "keep reading your lists." The wife continued to read until she had read all three pages to her husband. She neatly placed her list on the table and folded her hands over top of it.

"Now, you read your list and then we'll talk about the things on both of our lists." She said happily.

Quietly the husband stated, "I don't have anything on my list. I think that you are perfect the way that you are. I don't want you to change anything for me. You are lovely and wonderful and I wouldn't want to try and change anything about you."

The wife, touched by his honesty and the depth of his love for her and his acceptance of her, turned her head and wept.

In life, there are enough times when we are disappointed, depressed and annoyed. We don't really have to go looking for them.

We have a wonderful world that is full of beauty, light and promise. Why waste time in this world looking for the bad, disappointing or annoying when we can look around us, and see the wondrous things before us?

I believe that WE ARE HAPPIEST WHEN we see and praise the good and try our best to forget the bad. Nobody's perfect but we can find perfectness in them to change the way we see them

Always remember that you can never find a Perfect partner to love you the way you wanted, only a person who’s willing to love you more that what you are. Someone who’ll accept you for what can and can’t be. And that’s even better than perfect…

The Great Quotes

1. You cannot change what you refuse to confront.


2. Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can

fall together.


3. Don’t think of cost. Think of value.


4. Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things

clearly.


5. Too many people buy things they don’t need, with money

they don’t have, to impress people they don’t

know. Read Rich Dad, Poor Dad.


6. No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow

you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who

isn’t trying.



7. If a person wants to be a part of your life, they will make

an obvious effort to do so. Think twice before reserving

a space in your heart for people who do not make an

effort to stay.



8. Making one person smile can change the world – maybe

not the whole world, but their world.



9. Saying someone is ugly doesn’t make you any prettier.



10. The only normal people you know are the ones you don’t

know very well.



11. Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you

react to it.



12. The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process

of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are

special too.



13. It’s better to be alone than to be in bad company.



14. As we grow up, we realize it becomes less important to

have more friends and more important to have real ones.



15. Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is

to make a single friend who will stand by your side even

when hundreds are against you.



16. Giving up doesn’t always mean you’re weak, sometimes it

means you are strong enough and smart enough to let go

and move on.



17. Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the

same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller,

Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci,

Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, etc…



18. If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you

don’t, you’ll find an excuse.



19. Don’t choose the one who is beautiful to the world; choose

the one who makes your world beautiful.



20. Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is.



21. True love isn’t about being inseparable; it’s about two people

being true to each other even when they are separated.



22. While you’re busy looking for the perfect person, you’ll

probably miss the imperfect person who could make you

perfectly happy.



23. Never do something permanently foolish just because

you are temporarily upset.



24. You can learn great things from your mistakes when you

aren’t busy denying them. Read The 7 Habits of Highly

Effective People.



25. In life, if you don’t risk anything, you risk everything.



26. When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the

right things a chance to catch you.



27. Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is

preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.



28. There isn’t anything noble about being superior to

another person. True nobility is in being superior to

the person you once were.



29. Trying to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.



30. You will never become who you want to be if you

keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.



31. People are more what they hide than what they show.



32. Sometimes people don’t notice the things others do for

them until they stop doing them.



33. Don’t listen to what people say, watch what they do.



34. Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being

lonely does not mean you are alone.



35. Love is not about sex or showing off.

It’s about being with a person who makes you happy in

a way nobody else can.



36. Anyone can come into your life and say how much

they love you. It takes someone really special to stay

in your life and show how much they love you.



37. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy

suiting. Don’t save it for a special occasion; today

is special.



38. Love and appreciate your parents. We are often so

busy growing up, we forget they are also growing old.



39. When you have to start compromising yourself and

your morals for the people around you, it’s probably

time to change the people around you.



40. Learn to love yourself first, instead of loving the idea

of other people loving you.



41. When someone tells you, “You’ve changed,” it might simply

be because you’ve stopped living your life their way.



42. Someone else doesn’t have to be wrong for you to be right.



43. Be happy. Be yourself. If others don’t like it, then let them be.

Happiness is a choice. Life isn’t about pleasing everybody.



44. When you’re up, your friends know who you are. When you’re

down, you know who your friends are.



45. Don’t look for someone who will solve all your problems;

look for someone who will face them with you.



46. If you expect the world to be fair with you because you

are fair, you’re fooling yourself. That’s like expecting the

lion not to eat you because you didn’t eat him.



47. No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each

day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is

desperately fighting for theirs.



48. The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the

grandest intention.



49. Many people are so poor because the only thing they

have is money.



50. Learn to appreciate the things you have before time

forces you appreciate the things you once had.



51. When you choose to see the good in others, you end

up finding the good in yourself.



52. You don’t drown by falling in the water. You drown

by staying there.



53. It’s better to know and be disappointed than to never

know and always wonder.



54. There are things that we don’t want to happen but have

to accept, things we don’t want to know but have to learn,

and people we can’t live without but have to let go.



55. Happiness is not determined by what’s happening around

you, but rather what’s happening inside you. Most people

depend on others to gain happiness, but the truth is, it

always comes from within.



56. If you tell the truth, it becomes a part of your past.

If you lie, it becomes a part of your future.



57. What you do every day matters more than what you

do every once in a while. Read The Power of Habit

58. You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep

re-reading your last one.



59. Things turn out best for people who make the best out

of the way things turn out.



60. If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t

change it, change the way you think about it.

Daily Positive Thoughts Change Life

Skydiving over Miami

New Eyes

It is easy to create new things, change places or do something different. To keep that sense of newness that creates enthusiasm is more difficult. The secret of newness in life is not to do new things constantly, but to see everything you do with new eyes, new insights and a new perspective.

Where there is truth there is victory.

As the saying goes, 'the boat of truth may rock but it will never sink.' When you are truthful you might temporarily experience dissatisfaction, but you will ultimately attain victory. When you are going through a time which is difficult for you, remind yourself that the truth within you will ultimately get you victory. This faith will make you face all situations with a cheerful face.

Churning Spiritual Knowledge (cont.)

We had discussed a few benefits of churning spiritual knowledge yesterday. Some more are as follows:

3. The knowledge that we have becomes more real: and so can give more effectively to others. We can use the jewels of knowledge in serving others. This knowledge will have much greater power and be of much greater help to others than any form of scholarly or bookish knowledge.

4. Our personality changes: Limited views and thought patterns which give birth to various obstacles can be finished by churning. Our outlook towards life becomes very broad and we become completely content internally so that name, fame, respect, insult, etc. don't affect us, they seem totally insignificant.

5. Natural bliss: By churning, spiritual knowledge becomes a source of bliss. Because of the spiritual happiness and intoxication that comes from churning, our faces will become radiant and we become instruments to attract other people towards spirituality.

6. Our concentration power increases: By acknowledging and not suppressing impure thoughts we will easily clear negative thoughts within a short period of time. Our concentration power will increase. We will be able to clear and burn impure or waste thoughts, and easily become an embodiment of positivity.

Soul Sustenance 

The Power To Transform Emotions 

As with feelings, when emotions are aroused, there are physical changes inside the body in the form of chemical and electrical activity. In fact, strong emotions don’t just affect the body; they also have an impact on the soul. When the soul suffers emotional trauma, from which there is lasting impact, the emotional trauma brings about an immense strain on the brain and body. Brain chemical production is likely to be affected, and there may also be feelings of depression and tiredness. But the real trauma at the root of these physical effects is at a deeper level within the soul itself, and the resulting emotional sensitivity will also arise from the soul. 

e.g. I suffer a series of losses or setbacks in my business that causes a lack of confidence and self-respect inside me. A ‘sanskara’ of low self-esteem is created inside. As a result I become emotionally unstable and sensitive. I'll show a tendency to react emotionally with extreme sorrow (may be in the form of depression) or extreme anger (sometimes in the form of an outburst) whenever there is a similar setback that touches this sensitivity. A person who has not suffered similarly in the past and does not have a ‘sanskara’ of low self esteem, and as a result does not have this tendency, will not react in a similar fashion under similar circumstances. 

(To be continued tomorrow …) 

Message for the day

To be a donor means to give at each step and increase one's own stock.

Projection: Usually it seems very difficult to be a donor - to give from whatever resources we have. The thought often arises in the mind that we cannot give because we are ourselves not complete or full. We find ourselves constantly trying to fill ourselves and we then have no time or thought for giving to those around us. 

Solution: We have a lot of treasures within us which we can give to those around us, our virtues, our specialities etc. Even if we have just a little and give to the others, we will find ourselves benefitting. For having given from whatever we have, we find that these treasures begin to increase within ourselves too.

Amazing Useful Facts

Encyclopedia of The Hinduism Vs US

Encyclopedia of Hinduism unveiled in US

Hundreds of scholars, dignitaries, students, Hindu leaders and the public converged on the University of Southern California campus to witness the release of much anticipated and definitive 11-volume guide conceived, compiled and produced by the India Heritage Research Foundation

25-year quest by nearly 1,000 scholars to document and present one of the world's oldest living traditions came to fruition when the 'Encyclopedia of Hinduism' was unveiled here today.

Hundreds of scholars, dignitaries, students, Hindu leaders and the public converged on the University of Southern California campus to witness the release of much anticipated and definitive 11-volume guide conceived, compiled and produced by the India Heritage Research Foundation.

Those present on the occasion included South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, Indian Consul General in Atlanta Ajit Kumar and Gandhian Anna Hazare.

The two-day event coinciding with the release featured some of the top Indian scholars who discussed the significance of the encyclopedia and the richness and diversity of Indian culture that binds more than one billion people worldwide.

The event is the launch of the international edition of the Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama had launched the Indian edition in 2010 in Rishikesh.

Dr Harris Pastides, President of University of South Carolina, said that he was humbled to see the encyclopedia being launched in his campus. "It is a deep honor to be participating in the American release of the Encyclopedia of Hinduism. This is a remarkable work of scholarship and research. I hope that many in academia and in everyday life will turn to it as a resource to better understand the characters, the tenets, and the impact that Hinduism has had, and is having in the world," he said.

Consul General Kumar said India and Hindus all over the world are grateful to the University of South Carolina for the launch of the monumental work.

The comprehensive encyclopedia has 11-volume work and it covers Hindu spiritual beliefs, practices and philosophy, and is the culmination of a 25-year academic effort. The encyclopedia is written in English and includes about 7,000 articles on Hinduism and its practices.

The work also deals with Indian history, languages, art, music, dance, architecture, medicine, and women's issues. It contains more than 1,000 illustrations and photographs. The encyclopedia's volumes run from 600 to more than 700 pages. Some 3,000 copies are being printed in first edition.

Hinduism is the world's third-largest religion, with 1 billion followers, according to a Pew Research Center study. Christians number 2.2 billion and Muslims 1.6 billion.

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