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The city of New Delhi, which is preparing to host the Commonwealth Games in October of next year, will soon be displaying large billboards along its gridlocked roads and on buses in a bid to embarrass those who urinate in public to end the practice, said Mayor Kanwar Sain.

The signs will feature ...

How to get rich quicker!



Ahmed and Hamid are both beggars at several motorway services.

Ahmed drives a Mercedes, lives in a mortgage free house and has a
lot of money to spend .

Hamid only brings in 2 to 3 pounds a day. Hamid asks Ahmed how he
manages to bring home a suitcase full of £10 notes ...

praise

“My soul preached to me and said, “Do not be delighted because of praise, and do not be distressed because of blame.’”

-Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)

There will always be some who appreciate what we do and others who disparage it. The ego is what gets caught up in this game of needing ...

Purpose


“The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow –
So grow! By doing what is right.”

-Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948)

We know the importance of prayer, meditation, silence, and wisdom. And we have experienced the growth that comes with doing “what is right.”

spirituality

“Although I try
to hold the single thought
of Buddha’s teaching in my heart,
I cannot help but hear
the many crickets’ voices calling as well.”

-Izumi Shikibu (c 1000)

The supreme principle is this:

Never knowingly
Harm anyone at any time in any way.

-Tirukkural 32: 315-317

* Deep down in all of us lies the ocean of kindness and wisdom. Dig deep within to discover your unique gifts. The world needs you to do so.

*Understand that we are not perfect and have unresolved business. We can either worry about our imperfections and unresolved business or we can do something ...

People come and go from our lives. And as we change and grow spiritually, we begin to notice that we draw people to us for special reasons. Maybe we have something to offer a friend that no one else can. Maybe a friend has a gift, or a lesson, for us that we wouldn’t have found on our own. There are ...

I recieved a video of Hazar Imam making a firman, he talks about the fact that life is full of problems, but live through them courageously.. if you wouldl like this video, let me know.. my email is sameer.aziz@gmail.com



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faith

“Any anxious thought as to the means to be employed in the accomplishment of our purposes is quite unnecessary. If the end is already secured, then if follows that all the steps leading to it are secured also.”

-Thomas Troward




personality

"Personality can never develop unless the ...

The beauty we love…
· 5 May 2006

Let the beauty we love, be what we do.

— Rumi

Three Words

People ask me what advice I have for a married couple struggling in their relationship. I always answer: pray and forgive. And to young people from violent homes, I say: pray and forgive. And again, even to the single mother with no family support: pray and forgive.

— Mother Teresa

faith

“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,
Can circumvent or hinder or control
The firm resolve of a determined soul.”

-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Sometimes we want something so badly, yet we're afraid to really go for it. That's when we're told to take a leap of faith. Wow. That leap can be a ...

"The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are."
Thomas Dreier

"Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made."

Barbara Hall

MOTHERS DAY

A Mother loves right from the start.
She holds her baby close to her heart.
The bond that grows will never falter.
Her love is so strong it will never alter.

A Mother gives never ending Love.
She never feels that she has given enough.
For you she will always do her best.
Constantly ...

Always There


Hello God, I called tonight
To talk a little while
I need a friend who'll listen
To my anxiety and trial.

You see, I can't quite make it
Through a day just on my own...
I need your love to guide me,
So I'll never feel alone.

I want to ask you please to keep,
My family safe and ...

A Mother's Love

There are times when only a Mother's love
Can understand our tears,
Can soothe our disappoints
And calm all of our fears.
There are times when only a Mother's love
Can share the joy we feel
When something we've dreamed about
Quite suddenly is real.
There are times when only a ...

The Present

On Arturo Toscanini's eightieth birthday, someone asked his son, Walter, what his father ranked as his most important achievement. The son replied, “For him there can be no such thing. Whatever he happens to be doing at the moment is the biggest thing in his life - whether it is ...

Prayer:

Loving Heavenly Father,

I praise because You are the God of love. Fill my heart with Your love abundantly. Grant me Your grace never to go astray from Your love. Let no trials, suffering, hunger, poverty, sorrow separate me from Your divine and everlasting love. I make this humble prayer ...

“For you, the world is weird because if you're not bored with it you're at odds with it. For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while ...

Communicate with the Death
by: Geoffrey (Jeff) Nickerson



Do you have unresolved issues with one who is no longer in your life? Perhaps that person has passed on? I know from personal experience that this can be a haunting thing. One young woman I know had a fight with her mother just before ...

"Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
Viktor Frankl


"Molecules come together exactly like you, never again will your footsteps be repeated upon this earth ...

"The life of a high achiever is one of give-and-receive. We receive that which we are willing to first give out. Therefore, to grow and achieve we must first be willing to help others grow and achieve, and, in so doing, the light of reciprocal achievement will brightly shine upon us."

Greg Werner

BEAUTIFUL QUOTE



Love anything and your heart will…

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will certainly be wrung, possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping your heart, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it up carefully round with ...

A couple wants a divorce, but first they must decide who will be the main guardian of their child. The jury asks both the man and woman for a reason why they should be the one to keep the child. So the jury asks the woman first. She says, "Well I carried this child around in my stomach for nine ...

"Since karma is meeting self, we acquire karma as we meet self in our many attitudes and emotions; when we serve in loving kindness and patience or hold resentful malicious thoughts… What we do to our fellow man we do to our Maker… our karma or problem is within self."
- Edgar Cayce

"The tragedy in life is not that we aimed too high and did not reach our goal. The tragedy in life is that we aim too low and reach it." - Michelangelo


"We are the custodians of our own breath." - Gandhi


"Anxiety is the currency of the insecure." - Nido Qubein

Says one humorist: "Life is unfair. I lost my car keys at a ball game and never found them. I lost my sunglasses at the beach and never found them. I lost my socks in the washing machine and never found them. I lost three pounds on a diet -- I found them and five more."