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Post by Barrow-wight aka MELLON on Dec 13, 2003 18:14:18 GMT
Well, this one is supposed to be inspiring / positive ... Can anyone explain its hidden meaning ? ;D ;D "Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands--and then just eat one of the pieces. - Judith Viorst " But anyway, this one I like 
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
- Brendan Gill
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Post by Paulo on Dec 19, 2003 16:20:55 GMT
Happiness is a healthy mental attitude, a grateful spirit, a clear conscience, and a heart full of love.
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Post by Paulo on Dec 21, 2003 15:11:47 GMT
Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the mansion's guest room. Instead the angels were given a small space in
the cold basement.
As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it. When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied, "Things aren't always what they seem."
The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but very hospitable farmer and his wife. After sharing what little food they had, the couple let the angels sleep in their bed where they could have a good night's rest.
When the sun came up the next morning, the angels found the farmer and his wife in tears. Their only cow, whose milk had been their sole income, lay dead in the field.
The younger angel was infuriated and asked the older angel how could you have let this happen? The first man had everything, yet you helped him, she accused. The second family had little but was willing to share everything, and you let the cow die.
"Things aren't always what they seem," the older angel replied.
"When we stayed in the basement of the mansion, I noticed there was gold stored in that hole in the wall. Since the owner was so obsessed with greed and unwilling to share his good fortune, I sealed the wall so he wouldn't find it."
"Then last night as we slept in the farmers bed, the angel of death came for his wife. I gave him the cow instead. Things aren't always what they seem."
Sometimes that is exactly what happens when things don't turn out the way they should. If you have faith, you just need to trust that every outcome is always to your advantage. You just might not know it until some time later.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people become friends and stay awhile, leaving beautiful footprints on our hearts.
And we are never quite the same because we have made a good friend!
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That's why it's called the present!
I think this is special ... live and savor every moment. This is not a dress rehearsal!
TAKE THIS LITTLE ANGEL AND KEEP HER CLOSE TO YOU.
SHE IS YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL, SENT TO WATCH OVER YOU.
THIS IS A SPECIAL GUARDIAN ANGEL.
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Post by Paulo on Dec 22, 2003 9:49:53 GMT
"I am for the positive peace which is attained by living to the maximum." Osho
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Post by Barrow-wight aka MELLON on Dec 28, 2003 16:53:31 GMT
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity.
- Oprah Winfrey
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Post by Paulo on Dec 30, 2003 16:47:02 GMT
Deeply Refreshing Sleep
by Osho
You may not be sleeping well in the night. Very few people are sleeping well, so when you have not slept well in the night you are a little tired during the day. If that is the case, then do something with your sleep. It should be made deeper. Time is not much of a question — you can sleep for eight hours, and if it is not deep you will feel hungry for sleep, starved — depth is the question.
Every night before you go to sleep do a small technique, and that will help tremendously.
Put the lights off, sit in your bed ready to sleep, but sit for fifteen minutes. Close your eyes and then start any monotonous nonsense sound, for example: la, la, la — and wait for the mind to supply new sounds. The only thing to be remembered is those sounds or words should not be of any language that you know. If you know English, German, Italian, then they should not be of Italian, German, English. Any other language is allowed that you don't know — Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese. But if you know Japanese then it is not allowed, then Italian is wonderful.
Speak any language that you don’t know. You will be in a difficulty for few seconds only for the first day, because how do you speak a language you don’t know? It can be spoken, and once it starts, any sounds, nonsense words, just to put the conscious off and allow the unconscious to speak....
When the unconscious speaks, the unconscious knows no language.
It is a very, very old method. It comes from the Old Testament. It was called in those days glossolalia and a few churches in America still use it. They call it “talking in tongues”. And it is a wonderful method, one of the most deep and penetrating into the unconscious. You start by saying “la, la, la,” and then anything that comes you go on. Just for the first day you will feel it is a little difficult. Once it comes, you know the knack of it.
Then for fifteen minutes, use the language that is coming to you, and use it as a language; in fact you are talking in it. This will relax the conscious so deeply. Fifteen minutes — and you then just simply lie down and go to sleep. Your sleep will become deeper.
Within weeks you will feel a depth in your sleep, and in the morning you will feel completely fresh.
Meditation from "Yoga: The Science of the Soul"
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