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feliciacsl
post Aug 10 2008, 12:46 PM

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BE A LAKE

The Master instructed the unhappy student to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then to drink it. 'How does it taste?' the Master asked.

'Awful,' said the student.

The Master then asked the student to take another handful of salt and throw it in the lake. The two walked to the nearby lake and when the student swirled his handful of salt into the lake, the old man said, 'Now drink from
the lake.'

The student did so and the Master asked, 'How does it taste?'

'Good!' remarked the student.

'Do you taste the salt?' asked the Master.

No, said the young man.

The Master sat beside this troubled young man, took his hands, and said, 'The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount we taste the 'pain' depends on the container we put it into. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things..... Stop being a glass. Become a lake!'
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post Aug 10 2008, 05:54 PM

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QUOTE(MayAnne @ Aug 2 2008, 04:57 PM)
My first story here...
There are two days in every week about which we should not worry.  Two days which should be kept free from fear and apprehension.

One of these days is yesterday, with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains. Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control.  All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot undo a single act we performed.  We cannot erase a single word we said.  Yesterday is gone!!

The other day we should not worry about is tomorrow, with its possible adversities, its burdens, its large promise and poor performance.  Tomorrow is beyond our immediate control.  Tomorrow's sun will rise, whether in splendor or behind a mask of clouds. But it will rise.  Until it does we have no stake in tomorrow, for it is yet unborn.

This leaves only one day: today.

Any man can fight the battles of just one day.  It is when you and I add the burdens of two awful eternities - yesterday and tomorrow, that we break down.

It is not necessarily the experience of today that disturbs one's peace of mind. It is often time the bitterness for something which happened yesterday and the dread of what tomorrow may bring.  Let us therefore live one day at a time.


This is to remind all of us that while we should remember the past and plan and anticipate the future, it is critical that we don’t get paralyzed by either.  By focusing on making the best of the present, we can actually make the past a sweeter learning experience, and make tomorrow’s hopes and dreams closer to reality.

Cheers!  smile.gif
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post Aug 12 2008, 01:50 PM

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QUOTE(MayAnne @ Aug 12 2008, 08:52 AM)
The following pictures are of the same place but taken under different seasons.

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LESSONS ON LIFE


There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away.

The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in summer, and the youngest son in the fall. When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to describe what they had seen.

The first son said that the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted. The second son said no it was covered with green buds and full of  promise. The third son disagreed; he said it was laden with blossoms that smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the most graceful thing he had ever seen. The last son disagreed with all of them; he said it was ripe and drooping with fruit, full of life and fulfillment. The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, because they had each seen but only one season in the tree's life.

He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only one season, and that the essence of who they are and the pleasure, joy, and love that come from that life can only be measured at the end, when all the seasons are up.

If you give up when it's winter, you will miss the promise of your spring, the beauty of your summer, fulfillment of your fall.

Don't let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest. Don't  judge life by one difficult season. Persevere through the difficult patches and better times are sure to come some time or later.

"... eye had not seen, nor ear heard... the things which GOD had prepared for them that love Him."

Have a wonderful morning and a great day ahead!  smile.gif
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what a meaningful piece this is...=) thx!

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post Aug 24 2008, 07:26 PM

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Have a Blessed Day!

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: 'I am blind, please help.' There were only a few coins in the hat.

A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, 'Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?'

The man said, 'I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way.'
What he had written was: 'Today is a beautiful day and I cannot see it.'

Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?

Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?

Moral of the Story: Be thankful for what you have. Be creative. Be innovative. Think differently and positively.

Invite others towards good with wisdom. Live life with no excuse and love with no regrets. When life gives you a 100 reasons to cry, show life that you have 1000 reasons to smile. Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear. Keep the faith and eradicate the fear.

Great men say, 'Life has to be an incessant process of repair and reconstruction, of discarding evil and developing goodness. In the journey of life, if you want to travel without fear, you must have the ticket of a good conscience.'

The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling
And even more beautiful is, knowing that you are the reason behind it!!!

Have a Blessed Day!


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post Sep 6 2008, 07:41 PM

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A nice and meaningful story

A boy was born to a couple after eleven years of marriage. They were a loving couple and the boy was the gem of their eyes. When the boy was around two years old, one morning the husband saw a medicine bottle open. He was late for office so he asked his wife to cap the bottle and keep it in the cupboard. His wife, preoccupied in the kitchen totally forgot the matter.

The boy saw the bottle and playfully went to the bottle fascinated by its color and drank it all. It happened to be a poisonous medicine meant for adults in small dosages. When the child collapsed, the mother hurried him to the hospital. He died.

The mother was stunned! She was terrified how she was going to face her husband. When the distraught father came to the hospital and saw the dead child, he looked at his wife and uttered just five words.


QUESTIONS:

1. What were the five words?
2. What is the implication of this story?

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ANSWER:

The husband just said "I am with you Darling".

The husband's totally unexpected reaction is a proactive behavior. The child is dead. He can never be brought back to life. There is no point in finding fault with the mother. Besides, if only he had taken time to keep the bottle away, this would not have happened. No one is to be blamed. She had also lost her only child. What she needed at that moment was consolation and sympathy from the husband. That is what he gave her.

If everyone can look at life with this kind of perspective, there would be much fewer problems in the world.

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears. And you will find things are actually not as difficult as you think.

MORAL OF THE STORY
This story is really worth reading. Sometimes we spend time in asking who is responsible or whom to blame, whether in a relationship, in a job or with the people we know. By this way we miss out some warmth in human relationship.
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post Nov 10 2008, 08:06 AM

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Technical Support: Installing Love‏

Tech Support: Yes, how can I help you?

Customer: Well, after much consideration, I've decided to install Love. Can you guide me through the process?

Tech Support: Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to proceed?

Customer:Well, I'm not very technical, but I think I'm ready- What do I do first?

Tech Support: The first step is to open y our Heart. Have you located your Heart?

Customer: Yes, but there are several other programs running now.
Is it okay to install Love while they are running?

Tech Support: What programs are running ?

Customer: Let's see, I have Past Hurt, Low Self-Esteem, Grudge and Resentment running right now.

Tech Support: No problem. Love will gradually erase Past Hurt from your current operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory but it will no longer disrupt other programs. Love will eventually override Low Self-Esteem with a module of its own called High Self-Esteem. However, you have to completely turn off Grudge and Resentment. Those programs prevent Love from being properly installed. Can you turn those off?

Customer: I don't know how to turn them off. Can you tell me how?

Tech Support: With pleasure. Go to your start menu and invoke Forgiveness. Do this as many times as necessary until Grudge and Resentment have been completely erased.

Customer: Okay, done! Love has started installing itself. Is that normal?

Tech Support: Yes, but remember that you have only the base program. You need to begin connecting to other Hearts in order to get the upgrades.

Customer: Oops! I have an error message already. It says, ' Error - Program not run on external components' What should I do?

Tech Support: Don't worry. It means that the Love program is set up to run on Internal Hearts, but has not yet been run on your Heart.
In non-technical terms, it simply means you have to Love yourself before you can Love others.

Customer: So, what should I do?

Tech Support: Pull down Self-Acceptance; then click on the following files: Forgive-Self; Realize your Worth; and Acknowledge your Limitations.

Customer: Okay, done.

Tech Support: Now, copy them to the 'My Heart' directory. The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching faulty programming. Also, you need to delete Verbose Self-Criticism from all directories and empty your Recycle Bin to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back

Customer: Got it. Hey! My heart is filling up with new files. Smile is playing on my monitor and Peace and Contentment are copying themselves all over My Heart. Is this normal?

Tech Support: Sometimes. For others it takes awhile, but eventually everything gets it at the proper time. So Love is installed and running. One more thing before we hang up. Love is Freeware. Be sure to give it and its various modules to everyone you meet. They will in turn share it with others and return some cool modules back to you.

Customer: Thank you, God.

God/Tech Support: You're Welcome, Anytime.

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post Dec 3 2008, 03:26 PM

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QUOTE(flyguy @ Dec 3 2008, 12:25 AM)
I just wanna share wf you what i wrote in my blog some time ago. This article was written after an event which caused me to almost tear apart. I was on the edge of dying.. until my frens snap me back to reality. until God reach me out. until i finally realized life is worth more than what we can think.
I hope it helps. (:
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Life is more than just a game. Life is something very distinctive and very subjective. I would like to stress on the importance of life itself to every single being in this earth. Sometimes we may experience downfall. Sometimes it seems like the whole world is crashing on you, and when things seems to be sailing smoothly, that is when things goes out of hand. I personally experience it myself. And for a moment, it seems like my life is useless. But it came a point in time where i sat down and think about the possibilities of what happens now is partly the work of God, or perhaps things happened because it is meant to be that way. I know that sometimes life itself may fail to you to a point you are thinking that what is the use of you being born in this world. But allow me to say this, IT IS NOT ABOUT THE PURPOSE OF YOU LIVING IN THIS WORLD, IS WHAT YOU DID WHILE YOU ARE LIVING THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE TO THE WORLD.

You may think that the statement only applies to certain people who feels positive about the whole idea of living, but again, you are wrong. Everyone has a part to play in life. Every single being in this world has a part to play either directly or indirectly. And yes the fact that one feels bad about them self is affected by the choices you made. The choices which reflects what personality you posses. Is you who determined whether you are sad, happy, emotional or even depressed. Its you who choose on how you look on that matter itself. If you choose to look it on a smaller scale, the only thing you will see in it is depression, sadness, anxiety, stress. But if you look on a bigger picture, you will see that it isn’t bad after all.

We all experience downfall. But its how we handle it that makes us stand out from the crowd. I admit, as a human myself, i dont do as i what i speak. My emotions take over all logics. My heart tells me to do things that is out of this world, when the fact that my brains tells me what i am doing is wrong. But that’s how it is. We all tend to follow what our heart says. But the main point here is, how do we handle this kind of situation? Recently, i went into a lot of problems that test my patience and my ability to handle things consciously. For a moment, i went into a state of depression. I isolate myself. I do things that is silly. I hurt myself. I was in an autopilot mode. But as things were going the way it is, people came to me and snap me back to reality. That is when i started to think back and review all my actions. I started to reflect back at the problem and find where did i go wrong. The problem i recently face was a problem which i lay blame on others but myself. Although i know deep down, i am not a fault, but everyone has a part in every problem. That is when i realized, instead of blaming others, i should start thinking of how to correct myself. You see, the funny thing about human is, we only learn from mistakes. If we never do mistakes, and even if we did but no one corrected us, we will never know it is wrong. So yeah, i started to think about the future. How do i correct it? How will i handle such situation if it were to occur again? And how do i overcome it if it happens? And after all that process of ’metamorphosis’ , i finally realized what happened isn’t bad after all. During the downfall period i had, I found out who my real friend are and who are just a bunch of pain in the ass people. I saw the true behaviour of certain people and during this period also, i realize a lot of things.

Many things are beyond our control. As a human, we can only pray to God for things to work out smoothly. The things i realize in this isolation and metamorphosis period changed me a lot. I became stronger and mature. Although right now i may still fell the pain, I am glad and proud to say i am slowly recovering from it. Its hard but life goes on. Any matter in this world can be overcome with time. Time is the most essential medication to any problem. No matter what problem we face,patience is the key to everything. During the time where the problem arise, I also realized that i was pushy. I kept pushing things to the limit when finally someone came and tell me that i am irritating. The truth sucks, but that’s the whole point. The truth is there for us to wake up and changed. I woke up. I glad i did. And now, i am slowly changing. I do not what to repeat what had been the becoming of me.

Today, i share my story with you readers for you to realize that ; LIFE ISN’T THAT BAD AFTER ALL. Its how we look on it that determines how well are we going to live in this world. I just want to stress again that it is not the problem you face that matters, its how you overcome it. I dont want to see others going through the pain i did before this. I want to live and see everyone facing every problem with confidence and maturity. No matter what we do, problems are sure to arise. So why face it with gloomy and negative attitude? Since there is problem no matter what we do, then face it positively. Learn to handle it and learn from it. We dont need to care what others think about us. We dont need to care what message we sent to others due to our behaviour and choices we made. What others think doesn’t matter, its what you think you are doing is right that matters. We cannot please everyone in this world. So let others think what they want to think because only God knows what is happening to you and only what HE knows that matters most.

I really hope that my personal experience i share with you all, my dear readers will play a part in the society by changing and sending out a clear message to every single one out there, that life is full of hope and joy. Although there maybe ups and downs, it is not the end of the world. If those part that makes living interesting. No matter what happens, do not give up. As long as there is God, there is hope. May God Bless You Guys and Good Luck in everything you do. Remember, face live positively and with God’s grace, things will turn out just fine. Amen.
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thank you. =)
Perseverance does matter!

This post has been edited by feliciacsl: Dec 3 2008, 03:27 PM
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post Dec 31 2008, 10:00 AM

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Glass Of Milk

One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry.

He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door.

Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry so brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it so slowly, and then asked, "How much do I owe you?"

"You don't owe me anything," she replied. "Mother has taught us never to accept pay for a kindness."

He said ... "Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart."

As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, but his faith in God and man was strong also. He had been ready to give up and quit.

Many year's later that same young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where they called in specialists to study her rare disease.

Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes.

Immediately he rose and went down the hall of the hospital to her room.

Dressed in his doctor's gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at once.

He went back to the consultation room determined to do his best to save her life. From that day he gave special attention to her case.

After a long struggle, the battle was won.

Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it, then wrote something on the edge and the bill was sent t o her room. She feared to open it, for she was sure it would take the rest of her life to pay for it all. Finally she looked, and something caught her attention on the side of the bill. She read these words .. "Paid in full with one glass of milk"

(Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly.

Tears of joy flooded her eyes as her happy heart prayed: "Thank You God, that Your love has spread broad through human hearts and hands."

There's a saying which goes something like this:
Bread cast on the waters comes back to you. The good deed you do today may benefit you or someone you love at the least expected time. If you never see the deed again at least you will have made the world a better place - And, after all, isn't that what life is all about?!

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which -- To burn

p/s Happy New Year, people!!! Let us all come together and Kiss Year 2008 Goodbye.
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post Mar 1 2009, 10:34 AM

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Years ago, a farmer owned land along the Atlantic seacoast.
He constantly advertised for hired hands. Most people were
reluctant to work on farms along the Atlantic . They dreaded the
awful storms that raged across the Atlantic , wreaking havoc on the buildings and crops.
As the farmer interviewed applicants for the job, he received
A steady stream of refusals.

Finally, a short, thin man, well past middle age, approached
the farmer. 'Are you a good farm hand?' the farmer asked him.
'Well, I can sleep when the wind blows,' answered the little man.

Although puzzled by this answer, the farmer, desperate for help,
Hired him. The little man worked well around the farm, busy from
dawn to dusk, and the farmer felt satisfied with the man's work.
Then one night the wind howled loudly in from offshore.
Jumping out of bed, the farmer grabbed a lantern and rushed
next door to the hired hand's sleeping quarters. He shook the
little man and yelled, 'Get up! A storm is coming!
Tie things down before they blow away!'
The little man rolled over in bed and said firmly, 'No
sir. I told you, I can sleep when the wind blows.'

Enraged by the response, the farmer was tempted to fire him on
the spot. Instead, he hurried outside to prepare for the storm.
To his amazement, he discovered that all of the haystacks had
been covered with tarpaulins. The cows were in the barn, the chickens were in the coops, and the doors were barred.
The shutters were tightly secured. Everything was tied down.

Nothing could blow away. The farmer then understood what his
hired hand meant, so he returned to his bed to also sleep while
the wind blew.

When you're prepared, spiritually, mentally, and physically,
you have nothing to fear. Can you sleep when the
wind blows through your life?
The hired hand in the story was able to sleep because he
had secured the farm against the storm.
We secure ourselves against the storms of life by
grounding ourselves in the Word of God.
We don't need to understand, we just need to hold
His hand to have peace in the middle of storms.

A friend of mine sent this to me today,
and I enjoyed it so much, that I wanted to send it to you.
I hope you enjoy your day and you sleep well.

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post May 11 2009, 12:02 PM

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Ducks Quack, Eagles Soar‏

"If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to
laugh at when you are old."



Ducks Quack, Eagles Soar........ ......... ....

No one can make you serve customers well.

That's because great service is a choice.

Harvey Mackay, tells a wonderful story about a cab driver that proved
this point.

He was waiting in line for a ride at the airport. When a cab pulled up,
the first thing Harvey noticed was that the taxi was polished to a
bright shine. Smartly dressed in a white shirt, black tie, and freshly
pressed black slacks, the cab driver jumped out and rounded the car to
open the back passenger door for Harvey .

He handed my friend a laminated card and said:

'I'm Wally, your driver. While I'm loading your bags in the trunk I'd
like you to read my mission statement.'

Taken aback, Harvey read the card. It said:

Wally's Mission Statement:

To get my customers to their destination in the quickest, safest and
cheapest way possible in a friendly environment.

This blew Harvey away. Especially when he noticed that the inside of the
cab matched the outside. Spotlessly clean!


As he slid behind the wheel, Wally said, 'Would you like a cup of
coffee? I have a thermos of regular and one of decaf.'

My friend said jokingly, 'No, I'd prefer a soft drink.'

Wally smiled and said, 'No problem. I have a cooler up front with
regular and Diet Coke, water and orange juice.'

Almost stuttering, Harvey said, 'I'll take a Diet Coke.'

Handing him his drink, Wally said, 'If you'd like something to read, I
have The Wall Street Journal, Time, Sports Illustrated and USA Today.'

As they were pulling away, Wally handed my friend another laminated
card. 'These are the stations I get and the music they play, if you'd
like to listen to the radio.'

And as if that weren't enough, Wally told Harvey that he had the air
conditioning on and asked if the temperature was comfortable for him.
Then he advised Harvey of the best route to his destination for that
time of day. He also let him know that he'd be happy to chat and tell
him about some of the sights or, if Harvey preferred, to leave him with
his own thoughts.

'Tell me, Wally,' my amazed friend asked the driver, 'have you always
served customers like this?'

Wally smiled into the rear view mirror. 'No, not always. In fact, it's
only been in the last two years. My first five years driving, I spent
most of my time complaining like all the rest of the cabbies do. Then I
heard the personal growth guru, Wayne Dyer, on the radio one day.

He had just written a book called You'll See It When You Believe It.
Dyer said that if you get up in the morning expecting to have a bad day,
you'll rarely disappoint yourself. He said, 'Stop complaining!
Differentiate yourself from your competition. Don't be a duck. Be an
eagle. Ducks quack and complain. Eagles soar above the crowd.''

'That hit me right between the eyes,' said Wally. 'Dyer was really
talking about me. I was always quacking and complaining, so I decided
to change my attitude and become an eagle. I looked around at the
other cabs and their drivers. The cabs were dirty, the drivers were
unfriendly, and the customers were unhappy. So I decided to make some
changes. I put in a few at a time. When my customers responded well, I
did more.'

'I take it that has paid off for you,' Harvey said.

'It sure has,' Wally replied. 'My first year as an eagle, I doubled my
income from the previous year. This year I'll probably quadruple it.
You were lucky to get me today. I don't sit at cabstands anymore. My
customers call me for appointments on my cell phone or leave a message
on my answering machine. If I can't pick them up myself, I get a
reliable cabbie friend to do it and I take a piece of the action.'

Wally was phenomenal. He was running a limo service out of a Yellow
Cab. I've probably told that story to more than fifty cab drivers over
the years, and only two took the idea and ran with it. Whenever I go
to their cities, I give them a call. The rest of the drivers quacked
like ducks and told me all the reasons they couldn't do any of what I
was suggesting.

Wally the Cab Driver made a different choice. He decided to stop
quacking like ducks and start soaring like eagles.

How about us?


Smile, and the whole world smiles with you.....The
ball is in our hands!



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post May 31 2009, 07:38 PM

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Love & Distance

'Why do we shout in anger?' A saint asked his disciples, 'Why do we

shout in anger? Why do people shout at each other when they are

upset?'


His disciples thought for a while, one of them said, 'Because we lose

our calm, we shout for that.'


'But, why do you shout when the other person is just next to you?'

asked the saint. 'Isn't it possible to speak to him or her with a soft

voice? Why do you shout at a person when you're angry?'


Disciples gave some other answers but none satisfied the saint.


Finally he explained, 'When two people are angry at each other, their

hearts distance a lot. To cover that distance they must shout to be

able to hear each other. The angrier they are, the stronger they will

have to shout to hear each other through that great distance.'


Then the saint asked, 'What happens when two people fall in love? They

don't shout at each other but talk softly, why? Because their hearts

are very close. The distance between them is very small...'


The saint continued, 'When they love each other even more, what

happens? They do not speak, only whisper and they get even closer to

each other in their love. Finally they even need not whisper, they

only look at each other and that's all. That is how close two

people are when they love each other.


'MORAL' said the saint: 'When you argue do not let your hearts get

distant, do not say words that distance each other more, else there

will come a day when the distance is so great that you will not find

the path to return!'
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思想轉換 - 心態的力量
The strength of mindset


女兒向父親抱怨,事事都很艱難。
A daughter complains toward the father, everything is difficult.

她不知如何應付生活,好像一個問題剛剛解決,新的問題又會出現,她有些厭倦。
She finds it hard to cope with life, seem a problem just resolve, the new
problem appeared again, she was tired.

父親是一位廚師,把她帶進廚房。
Her father is a cook, bring her into the kitchen.

他先往三口鍋裡倒入一些水,然後放在旺火上。
He goes toward first to pour into some waters in 3 pots, then puts on the fire.

不久,水開了。
Soon, water boiling.

他往第一口鍋裡放一些胡蘿蔔,第二口鍋裡放入雞蛋,第三口鍋裡放入碾成粉末的咖啡豆。
He put some carrots in the first pot, put an egg into the second pot,
put some coffee powder into the third pot.

20分鐘後,父親把火關了,把胡蘿蔔撈出來,放入一個碗內,把雞蛋撈出來,放入一個
鍋內,然後把咖啡舀到一個杯子裡。
20 minutes later, father off the fire, take out the carrot. Go to the
scond pot take out the egg, and then ladling up
the coffee to a cup.

父親轉身問女兒:
The father turned to ask his daughter:

「孩子,你看到了什麼?」
'Kid, what do you come in sight of?'

「胡蘿蔔,雞蛋,咖啡。」她說。
「Carrot, egg, coffee」She say..

他讓她靠近一些,摸摸胡蘿蔔。
He lets her come closer to touch the carrot.

她注意到他它們變軟了。
She noticed the carot become soft.

父親又讓女兒拿一個雞蛋,打破它,剝掉殼,這是一個煮熟的雞蛋。
The father lets the daughter take the egg, breaking it, peel the egg
shell,this is a cooked egg.

最後,父親讓她喝了一口咖啡。
Last, the father lets her drink a mouthful of coffee.

嘗到濃濃的咖啡,女兒笑了,怯聲問道:
Taste to the very thick coffee, the daughter smile, she asked:

「父親,這意味著什麼?」
'Father, what does this mean?'

父親說,三樣東西面臨同樣的逆境----煮沸的開水。
The father says three things face same adverse circumstances-boiling water.

但其反映各不相同。
But its reflection is not same.

胡蘿蔔入鍋前是強壯的、結實的,放進開水,它變軟了、變弱了。
The carrot, before put in to the pot, it is strong and hard, after
putting into the boiled water, it become soft,become weak.

雞蛋原來是易碎的,薄薄的外殼保護著液態的內臟,開水一煮,內臟變硬。
The egg is originally crumbly, the very thin outer shell protects the
internal organs of the liquid, once the boiled water cook, the
internal organs become hard.

粉狀咖啡豆則很獨特,進入沸水,它們便改變了水。
The coffee bean powder then is very special, entering boiling water,
they changed the water then.

在艱難和逆境前,可以學胡蘿蔔、雞蛋和咖啡豆,可以屈服,
也可以變得更堅強----甚至,可以改變環境。
We can learn how carrot,egg and coffee bean react in the difficulties
and adverse circumstances. They can accept defeat, can become
stronger, and even can change environment/surrounding.

父親說:
The father say:

你改變不了環境,但可以改變自己;

Your cannot change the environment, but can change yourself;

你改變不了事實,但可以改變態度;
Your cannot change the fact, but can change an attitude;

你改變不了過去,但可以改變現在;
Your cannot change the past, but can change the present;

你不能控制他人,但可以掌握自己;
You have no command over others, but can control yourself;

你不能預知明天,但可以把握今天;
You can't predict tomorrow, but can hold on today;

你不能樣樣順利,但可以事實盡心;
You can't be doing smooth and well in everything, but can devote your
best effort;

你不能左右天氣,但可以改變心情;
You can't change weather, but can change a mood;

你不能改變容貌,但可以展現笑容;
You can't change facial appearance, but can emerge with smiling face;

是的,心態有時比什麼都重要。
Yes, the mindset sometimes is important compares with others

 

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