Quote of the Week

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.  
Nabs Al Busaidy.

On Whining

"One of the things about getting older is that you stop whining. One of the reasons you stop whining is because your experience conveys to you that your trouble is tiny compared to lots of trouble around. Once you feel that clearly, that your trouble is tiny and that there are people at this moment really being tortured, really being strapped tochairs, really having electrodes pasted on their bodies, that there are situations which are truly hellish that thousands, maybe millions of people are in at this moment, then even though you do not wish to deny the truth of your own feelings, once you put your own feelings in perspective, then there is an invitation never again to whine about your own situation. So yeah, I’ve known a little bit of trouble. I’ve experienced the break up of a family. I’ve experienced a few things here and there but that’s "nothing, nothing to what’s really going down in this world. "

Leonard Cohen’s comments from a 1988 CBC broadcast Leonard Cohen: A Portrait in First Person” narrated by Moses Znaimer.

Control Of Your Heart

A wise and understanding heart does not repay a hurt with a hurt. In doing so, the heart is diminished. Fissures form. Love leaks out. Every pain given in return for one received, changes the contents of the heart. It is no longer defined by love, wisdom and understanding. It is redefined by the bearers of hurt and hate, pain and prejudice, meanness and madness, sorrow and sadness. You give away control of your very own heart.

The despair of being hurt is healed by overcoming it, not clinging to the hurt and inflicting more of it on the world. When darkness is added to darkness, no one can see, no one can love. Everyone loses.

Love is not always warm and fuzzy. Sometimes it's the integrity we hold on to when we're tempted to strike back. Sometimes it's the honor that keeps us from exchanging the valuable contents of our heart for the harsh satisfaction of lashing back.

No, the way of love is not always easy, but when night falls, dawn is assured.

The integrity and honor of a wise and understanding heart, rises with the sun of a new day.

"Because you have asked for understanding to discern judgment. I have given you a wise and understanding heart." 1 Kings 3:11-12

Bill Greer

On Hope

As I ate breakfast one morning, I overheard two oncologists conversing. One complained bitterly, "You know, Bob, I just don't understand it. We used the same drugs, the same dosage, the same schedule and the same entry criteria. Yet I got a 22 percent response rate and you got a 74 percent. That's unheard of for metastatic cancer. How do you do it?"

His colleague replied, "We're both using Etoposide, Platinum, Oncovin and Hydroxyurea. You call yours EPOH. I tell my patients I'm giving them HOPE. As dismal as the statistics are, I emphasize that we have a chance."

William M. Buchholz, M.D., Chicken Soup for the Surviving Soul

Quote of the Week

Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.

Paulo Coelho

Just for laughs

Source: http://textfromdog.tumblr.com/

Omens no. 10

A Dog following you home brings good luck

A short story

One evening, I went to an ice-cream parlour close to my house to buy ice cream, once I finished the ice-cream, I realized I was short of money to pay, When I told the vendor, he smiled and said it was okay since I went there often I could come back and pay him later on another day. I thanked him and left.

A few days passed by and I almost forgot about this incident, but suddenly one fine evening I had a strong urge to go and pay back immediately, as I was walking towards the parlour, a car zoomed by and something fell out the car window. 

Reflexively I went to see what had fallen, On going closer I noticed it was an Iphone 4 which had fallen out. 

I switched on the phone to make a call to some contact on the phone so as to let them know the situation but the phone was locked. I waited for a while thinking maybe the car would come back, but it didn’t. So I began to leave with the phone, on my way back I told the street vendors near by that if someone came looking for their phone he should call on it and I’d give it back. 

While I was walking back home with the phone in my hand, a series of thoughts came to my mind. 

It is odd how often so many situations that could affect our lives deeply our at grace of someone else. A simple decision made by someone could affect our lives in such a strong way. 

My decision to either give the phone back or not would make or break his day.

I felt the owners apprehension and anxiety upon realizing the loss of such an expensive phone. I could imagine him praying to his God, hoping that whoever did have the phone would be a god-loving/fearing person and would not be overpowered by the vices of greed. 

I could feel him desperately wanting time to turn back a few minutes, he would be more careful with the phone then. Suddenly realizing all the memories the phone held and how often he must have thrown the phone around.

At that minute someone called on the phone and my thoughts vanished, I picked up and heard a girl’s voice. The hope and fear I heard in her voice made me recognize immediately that this was the owner. I explained what happened and told her where to come so she could pick the phone. She thanked me and hung up, in a few minutes she reached where I was. 

When I gave the phone back she thanked me profusely and left.

When her back was turned to mine I thought, how often do we get an opportunity of doing something for someone without him ever being able to repay us back?

How often to we seize it?

Kaushali Kanakia

Quote of the Week

Alice: “This is impossible.” 

The Mad Hatter: “Only if you believe it is.” 

Alice in Wonderland

The Hidden truth behind the Taj Mahal

No one has ever challenged it except Prof. P. N. Oak, who believes the whole world has been duped. In his book Taj Mahal: The True Story, Oak says the Taj Mahal is not Queen Mumtaz’s tomb but an ancient Hindu temple palace of Lord Shiva (then known as Tejo Mahalaya ) . In the course of his research Oak discovered that the Shiva temple palace was usurped by Shah Jahan from then Maharaja of Jaipur, Jai Singh. In his own court ch ronicle, Badshahnama,Shah Jahan admits that an exceptionally beautiful grand mansion in Agra was taken from Jai SIngh for Mumtaz’s burial . The ex-Maharaja of Jaipur still retains in his secret collection two orders from Shah Jahan for surrendering the Taj building. Using captured temples and mansions, as a burial place for dead courtiers and royalty was a common practice among Muslim rulers.

For example, Humayun,Akbar, Etmud-ud-Daula and Safdarjung are all buried in such mansions. Oak’s inquiries began with the name of Taj Mahal. He says the term ” Mahal ” has never been used for a building in any Muslim countries from Afghanisthan to Algeria .. “The unusual explanation that the term TajMahal derives from Mumtaz Mahal was illogical in atleast two respects.
Firstly, her name was never Mumtaz Mahal but Mumtaz-ul-Zamani,” he writes. Secondly, one cannot omit the first three letters ‘Mum’ from a woman’s name to derive the remainder as the name for the building.”Taj Mahal, he claims, is a corrupt version of Tejo Mahalaya, or Lord Shiva’s Palace . Oak also says the love story of Mumtaz and Shah Jahan is a fairy tale created by court sycophants, blundering historians and sloppy archaeologists Not a single royal chronicle of Shah Jahan’s time corroborates the love story.

Furthermore, Oak cites several documents suggesting the Taj Mahal predates Shah Jahan’s era, and was a temple dedicated to Shiva, worshipped by Rajputs of Agra city. For example, Prof. Marvin Miller of New York took a few samples from the riverside doorway of the Taj. Carbon dating tests revealed that the door was 300 years older than Shah Jahan. European traveler Johan Albert Mandelslo,who visited Agra in 1638 (only seven years after Mumtaz’s death), describes the life of the cit y in his memoirs. But he makes no reference to the Taj Mahal being built. The writings of Peter Mundy, an
English visitor to Agra within a year of Mumtaz’s death, also suggest the Taj was a noteworthy building well before Shah Jahan’s time.

Prof. Oak points out a number of design and architectural inconsistencies that support the belief of the Taj Mahal being a typical Hindu temple rather than a mausoleum. Many rooms in the Taj ! Mahal have remained sealed
since Shah Jahan’s time and are still inaccessible to the public . Oak asserts they contain a headless statue of Lord Shiva and other objects commonly used for worship rituals in Hindu temples Fearing political backlash, Indira Gandhi’s government t ried to have Prof. Oak’s book withdrawn from the bookstores, and threatened the Indian publisher of the
first edition dire consequences . There is only one way to discredit or validate Oak’s research.

Open all sealed rooms in front of media. Let experts investigate.

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Quote of the Week

The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.

Phyllis McGinley

Courtesy: Mehul Jhaveri https://www.facebook.com/mehuljjhaveri

Omens No. 9

Meeting Up With A Snake Is another sign of good fortune. Whether in your garden, inside the home, or out trekking, if you meet up with a snake, it means something or someone important is coming into your life.  Never ever try to harm or kill a snake when confronted with one. The more poisonous the snake, the better is the good fortune.  The king cobra is described as a snake of extreme good fortune. Whatever you do, never kill a snake as they are also associated with some spiritual presence. They usually slither away themselves when they sense human presence.

Near Death Experiences

The Father of Analytical Psychology

Carl Jung's near-death experience

In a hospital in Switzerland in 1944, the world-renowned psychiatrist Carl G. Jung, had a heart attack and then a near-death experience. His vivid encounter with the light, plus the intensely meaningful insights led Jung to conclude that his experience came from something real and eternal. Jung's experience is unique in that he saw the Earth from a vantage point of about a thousand miles above it. His incredibly accurate view of the Earth from outer space was described about two decades before astronauts in space first described it. Subsequently, as he reflected on life after death, Jung recalled the meditating Hindu from his near-death experience and read it as a parable of the archetypal Higher Self, the God-image within. Carl Jung, who founded analytical psychology, centered on the archetypes of the collective unconscious. The following is an excerpt from his autobiography entitled Memories, Dreams, Reflections describing his near-death experience.

http://www.near-death.com/jung.html

This is a really cool site I visited, it kind of aids in interpreting your dreams, well somewhat
http://www.dreammoods.com/

Quote of the Week

I know I may end up failing too 

but I also know,you were just like me 

With someone disappointed in you

Linkin Park

Barophobia: The Fear of Gravity

Barophics fear that gravity is uneven and unreliable, and that they may float away at any moment if the big G were to release its grip. Sometimes they worry that the force of gravity will suddenly intensify, crushing them against the surface of the Earth.