Leave the childhood monsters behind. They can no longer hurt you or stand in your way. Accept others for who they are and for the choices they’ve made even if you have difficulty understanding their beliefs, motives, or actions. Forgive and forget. Grudges only weigh you down and lead to unhappiness and grief. […]
This is a story of the lake and the three big fish that were in it, one of them intelligent, another half-intelligent and the third, stupid. Some fisherman came to the edge of the lake with their nets. The three fish saw them. The intelligent fish decided at once to leave, to make the […]
All our problems originate in the mind. We carry in our minds the fears and phobias, insecurities, anxieties, false concepts and notions, etc., according to the data that has been fed to us right from our birth. We get thoroughly conditioned by these and then find it very difficult to break out of it. Unless […]
Whether we are prepared or not, some day it will all come to an end. There will be no more sunrises and sunsets, no days, hours or minutes left. All the things we collected, whether treasured or forgotten will pass to someone else. Our wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance. It will […]
If we look around the world, we will realize that the design of nature is so very perfect. Everything functions meticulously with mathematical precision in our favor and yet, we have a tendency to complain when we lack certain things in life. This craving for what we do not have is ingratitude. Think about the number […]
We never get what we want, We never want what we get, We never have what we like, We never like what we have. And still we live and love. That’s life… As a rule man’s a fool; when it’s hot he wants it cool, when it’s cool he wants it hot. Always wanting […]
People come into our lives for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When we figure out which one it is, we will know what to do for each person. When someone is in our lives for a reason, it is usually to meet a need we have expressed. They have come to assist us […]
The Pencil Maker took the pencil aside, just before putting him into the box. “There are 5 things you need to know,” he told the pencil, “Before I send you out into the world. Always remember them and never forget and you will become the best pencil you can be.” “1) You will be […]
A little girl went to her bedroom and pulled a glass jelly jar from its hiding place in the closet. She poured the change out on the floor and counted it carefully. Three times even!! The total had to be exactly perfect. No chance here for mistakes. Carefully placing the coins back in the […]
When we find ourselves in times of trouble, we should remember……The Highest!! One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway; […]
