Thursday, August 30, 2012
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
SOMETHING HAS GONE WRONG WITH MY MANY OTHER BLOGS.. like those 101 EDUCARE, THINK AND BE SUCCESSFUL, SUPERMARKET AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, SPIRITUAL WEALTH & HEALTH, TRAVEL BLOGS, OPP, OPP1, USEFUL ARTICLES.... am still looking into why these blogs have been removed by blogger.. There are more than ten thousand posts and articles there...
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Have been busy preparing for my center's special event with the presence of Emerald Direct Ng Wei Loon and Ice Chan.. on Friday and Saturday. We had great motivational time with this counting month Diamond. 2013.. YOU CAN DO IT! WE CAN DO IT TOO!!!
MC of the night..
To Hokaido, we had all our signatures on this HOKAIDO POSTER...
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Who is near to God?
Who is near to God?
The one who follows God's commands
and manifests Divine attributes.
The secret is to have full faith in God;
then one is a true human.
The word for man is "manaci" (ma-na-ci).
Man is the embodiment of Love.
If we reverse the syllables in manaci,
it becomes "ci- na- ma."
Today's man is a cinema man;
he is artificial and lacks compassion.
But if he would follow the commands of God,
everything else would follow.
Though you have gold (God),
from which you can make any type
of jewellery (receive any Grace), you pray,
"I want Bliss, Grace and Love."
But all of these are ignorant utterances.
The correct goal is in the prayer,
"God, I want You." Everything is nothing without God.
Everything material in the world is really nothing.
Listening and experiencing this
Truth is true Happiness and Love.
From a divine source... spiritual health is the most effective and curing... and spiritual faith is most satisfying our souls and hearts...
I am not asking
For you to change.
On the contrary
I am asking you
To be your Self.
The only thing
You really
Need to change
Is the way
You see your Self.
And if you are
Able to see
As your "Self"
Then there is
Really nothing
To change.
For you to change.
On the contrary
I am asking you
To be your Self.
The only thing
You really
Need to change
Is the way
You see your Self.
And if you are
Able to see
As your "Self"
Then there is
Really nothing
To change.
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Allow your mind no other thoughts, other than MINE alone... Open the door and let GOD enter into your life...
Let your mind have no thoughts,
Other than Mine alone.
The mind is a frog leaping from thought to thought,
Leaving you in an unrestful state.
Allow Me to open the door and enter into your life,
To tame your mind.
Like a circus ring leader,
Let Me train your mind to think of Me,
And elevate your beast-like thoughts..
from a divine source...
Other than Mine alone.
The mind is a frog leaping from thought to thought,
Leaving you in an unrestful state.
Allow Me to open the door and enter into your life,
To tame your mind.
Like a circus ring leader,
Let Me train your mind to think of Me,
And elevate your beast-like thoughts..
from a divine source...
What is a pure heart?
What is a pure heart?
It is a heart that sees only the good...
and knows not that he sees it...
It is a heart that believes that in all strength...
lies the power of God..
and in all faults, that he sees lies his own weakness....
from a divine source..
It is a heart that sees only the good...
and knows not that he sees it...
It is a heart that believes that in all strength...
lies the power of God..
and in all faults, that he sees lies his own weakness....
from a divine source..
Do not despair! what is required is your persistent effort!
A boat may be a small appliance,
but it can take you across the river.
A lamp may be a tiny device,
but it can light your path across a jungle.
A torch may illumine only a distance of two yards,
and you may have to go two miles.
Do not despair.
What is required is your persistent effort!
Hold the torch in your hand and walk on.
With every step, the torch will illumine
a few steps more and you can safely cross the two miles.
But you must walk, without sitting idle by the roadside.
Make the effort, move from one stage to another listening to God's Glory,
recapitulate His sweet messages and concentrate on Him.
Let your every act be saturated with devotion.
Devotion should not be something that adds spice to your life –
it truly must be the very breath of your life.
Devotion should inspire your every act, thought and word...
from a divine source
but it can take you across the river.
A lamp may be a tiny device,
but it can light your path across a jungle.
A torch may illumine only a distance of two yards,
and you may have to go two miles.
Do not despair.
What is required is your persistent effort!
Hold the torch in your hand and walk on.
With every step, the torch will illumine
a few steps more and you can safely cross the two miles.
But you must walk, without sitting idle by the roadside.
Make the effort, move from one stage to another listening to God's Glory,
recapitulate His sweet messages and concentrate on Him.
Let your every act be saturated with devotion.
Devotion should not be something that adds spice to your life –
it truly must be the very breath of your life.
Devotion should inspire your every act, thought and word...
from a divine source
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Your first victory must be over yourself. The conquest of oneself is the only true conquest.
You wish to win your battles.
If you really want to win,
your first victory must be over yourself.
The conquest of oneself is the only true conquest.
your first victory must be over yourself.
The conquest of oneself is the only true conquest.
Can you calm down when you are agitated?
Can you slow your breath when
you are excited and are breathing fast?
Can you silence your chattering mind for a moment
you are excited and are breathing fast?
Can you silence your chattering mind for a moment
so that you can listen to
the intuitive messages
that are waiting to break
through the curtain of mental noise?
If you can answer, "Yes" to these questions,
you have already won your battles.
The happiness within us....
Junior high school students were studying the Seven Wonders of the World. At the end of the lesson, the students were asked to list what they considered to be the Seven Wonders of the World.
Though there was some disagreement, the following received the most votes:
1. Egypt's Great Pyramids
2. The Taj Mahal in India
3. The Grand Canyon in Arizona
4. The Panama Canal
5. The Empire State Building
6. St. Peter's Basilica
7. China's Great Wall
While gathering the votes, the teacher noted that one student, a quiet girl, hadn't turned in her paper yet. So she asked the girl if she was having trouble with her list.
The quiet girl replied, "Yes, a little. I couldn't quite make up my mind because there were so many." The teacher said, "Well, tell us what you have, and maybe we can help."
The girl hesitated, then read, "I think the Seven Wonders of the World are :
1. to touch...
2. to taste...
3. to see...
4. to hear...
(She hesitated a little, and then added...)
5. to feel...
6. to laugh...
7. and to love.
The room was so quiet, you could have heard a pin drop.
May this story serve as a gentle reminder to all of us that the things we overlook as simple and ordinary are often the most wonderful - and we don't have to travel anywhere special to experience them.
HAPPINESS IS WITHIN US!
3. The Grand Canyon in Arizona
4. The Panama Canal
5. The Empire State Building
6. St. Peter's Basilica
7. China's Great Wall
While gathering the votes, the teacher noted that one student, a quiet girl, hadn't turned in her paper yet. So she asked the girl if she was having trouble with her list.
The quiet girl replied, "Yes, a little. I couldn't quite make up my mind because there were so many." The teacher said, "Well, tell us what you have, and maybe we can help."
The girl hesitated, then read, "I think the Seven Wonders of the World are :
1. to touch...
2. to taste...
3. to see...
4. to hear...
(She hesitated a little, and then added...)
5. to feel...
6. to laugh...
7. and to love.
The room was so quiet, you could have heard a pin drop.
May this story serve as a gentle reminder to all of us that the things we overlook as simple and ordinary are often the most wonderful - and we don't have to travel anywhere special to experience them.
HAPPINESS IS WITHIN US!
"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival." - Winston Churchill -
In January 1982, American Steven Callahan set sail from the Canary Islands in a small sailboat he'd built himself, his plan to cross the Atlantic. He was 30 years old, fit, capable and looking forward to the voyage that had been his dream since boyhood. Six days later while he slept co
ntent in his berth, the boat struck something big, most likely a whale, and capsized. Awakened by the collision, Callahan had only a few precious seconds to grab what he could before scrambling to position himself safely aboard a five-foot inflatable dinghy.
Having managed to grab only a bit of food and some bottled water, along with a solar still for making sea water potable and a fishing harpoon gun, Callahan knew from the onset that his chances of survival were not good. He had no way of knowing, however, that he was about to embark on an amazing journey in self-reliance that would last an astounding 76 days and carry him 1,800 miles across a vast and frightening sea.
During his ordeal, Callahan faced death continually, fighting off sharks, exhaustion and the utter hopelessness of watching ships pass without noticing him. But despite the terror presented in every moment, he held tight to his wits and forced himself to think his way through each situation as it presented itself. After losing the launching mechanism to the fishing gun, for instance, he lashed the harpoon to the gun and used it like a spear, often kneeling motionless for hours waiting for an unsuspecting fish to swim into the perfect spot before jabbing it. As his body weakened from hunger and the intense and relentless heat of the sun, he scraped bits of rust from the bottom of metal food containers into his drinking water, hoping the iron would strengthen him.
Faced with such formidable odds, giving up would have seemed the only rational thing to do for most, but Callahan was not like most. One of that rare breed of survivors who understands that we all have within us the power to carry on in spite of overwhelming circumstance, Callahan became his own survival coach, talking to himself constantly, convincing himself over and over again that he could make it.
"I tell myself I can handle it," Callahan later wrote in Adrift At Sea, his narrative accounting of the ordeal. "Compared to what others have been through, I'm fortunate."
It's hard to imagine circumstances more unfortuitous than being lost at sea, but perhaps Callahan was thinking of Holocaust survivor Victor Frankl, who as a young Austrian doctor forty years before, had found himself in perhaps even more terrorizing circumstances when along with his young bride, his parents and his brother, he was arrested, stripped of everything he held precious, and taken to the concentration camp at Auschwitz.
In the early days of his imprisonment Frankl kept his mind alert by trying to reconstruct the manuscript he'd been writing prior to his arrest. First recalling it word for word in his mind, and then writing it down on stolen slips of paper, Frankl realized the completion of this task gave him purpose, a reason for holding on to a vision of the future.
Later, when during a particularly grueling pre-dawn march, another prisoner commented on the fate of their wives, Frankl discovered that as long as his memory of his wife remained, he could keep her present with him. Knowing she might already be dead, he accepted the possibility and then told himself that as long as he could keep her in his mind, she would remain alive to him. Later Frankl wrote that it was in that moment that "I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss."
It would be his discovery that meaningfulness can be found in suffering that would most impress Frankl and lead to his life's work.
"Everything can be taken from a man or a woman," he wrote years later, "but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
These two incredible men survived because they simply would not give up, even when everything in each of their circumstances screamed that giving up was the only option. They chose their own way, willingly assuming total responsibility for their lives, refusing to step into victim mode by blaming God, nature or human cruelty for what had befallen them.
There are certain things in life you can't control, such as nature, the past and other people. Steven Callahan and Viktor Frankl understood this. They also understood, as all successful people do, that we can control our thoughts and our actions and when we do that, when we step up and take 100 percent control of our lives. By taking command of what we think and what we do, we become the masters of our fate. We also become undefeatable.
No one succeeds in life by taking the easiest path.We succeed only after we determine that we will, commit ourselves to it, and then insist on keeping our minds positive while we move consistently and persistently toward our goals.
I wanted to tell you about Steven Callahan and Viktor Frankl not only because I personally think their individual stories of triumph are incredible, but also because I know that on any journey toward success you may embark on, you're bound to come up against obstacles that may, for a time, seem impenetrable. When you do, I hope you will spend some time thinking of Callahan and Frankl and reminding yourself that compared to them, your task is really not all that insurmountable, after all. If you are committed you'll find a way. I hope you will remind yourself of this and then follow Frankl's example of returning your full focus and intention to the task at hand.
After that, you'll need only to let your voice be strong as you utter those powerful and life-changing words: "I can handle this. I know I can."
(From : The Blessings Experiment 2007)
Having managed to grab only a bit of food and some bottled water, along with a solar still for making sea water potable and a fishing harpoon gun, Callahan knew from the onset that his chances of survival were not good. He had no way of knowing, however, that he was about to embark on an amazing journey in self-reliance that would last an astounding 76 days and carry him 1,800 miles across a vast and frightening sea.
During his ordeal, Callahan faced death continually, fighting off sharks, exhaustion and the utter hopelessness of watching ships pass without noticing him. But despite the terror presented in every moment, he held tight to his wits and forced himself to think his way through each situation as it presented itself. After losing the launching mechanism to the fishing gun, for instance, he lashed the harpoon to the gun and used it like a spear, often kneeling motionless for hours waiting for an unsuspecting fish to swim into the perfect spot before jabbing it. As his body weakened from hunger and the intense and relentless heat of the sun, he scraped bits of rust from the bottom of metal food containers into his drinking water, hoping the iron would strengthen him.
Faced with such formidable odds, giving up would have seemed the only rational thing to do for most, but Callahan was not like most. One of that rare breed of survivors who understands that we all have within us the power to carry on in spite of overwhelming circumstance, Callahan became his own survival coach, talking to himself constantly, convincing himself over and over again that he could make it.
"I tell myself I can handle it," Callahan later wrote in Adrift At Sea, his narrative accounting of the ordeal. "Compared to what others have been through, I'm fortunate."
It's hard to imagine circumstances more unfortuitous than being lost at sea, but perhaps Callahan was thinking of Holocaust survivor Victor Frankl, who as a young Austrian doctor forty years before, had found himself in perhaps even more terrorizing circumstances when along with his young bride, his parents and his brother, he was arrested, stripped of everything he held precious, and taken to the concentration camp at Auschwitz.
In the early days of his imprisonment Frankl kept his mind alert by trying to reconstruct the manuscript he'd been writing prior to his arrest. First recalling it word for word in his mind, and then writing it down on stolen slips of paper, Frankl realized the completion of this task gave him purpose, a reason for holding on to a vision of the future.
Later, when during a particularly grueling pre-dawn march, another prisoner commented on the fate of their wives, Frankl discovered that as long as his memory of his wife remained, he could keep her present with him. Knowing she might already be dead, he accepted the possibility and then told himself that as long as he could keep her in his mind, she would remain alive to him. Later Frankl wrote that it was in that moment that "I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss."
It would be his discovery that meaningfulness can be found in suffering that would most impress Frankl and lead to his life's work.
"Everything can be taken from a man or a woman," he wrote years later, "but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
These two incredible men survived because they simply would not give up, even when everything in each of their circumstances screamed that giving up was the only option. They chose their own way, willingly assuming total responsibility for their lives, refusing to step into victim mode by blaming God, nature or human cruelty for what had befallen them.
There are certain things in life you can't control, such as nature, the past and other people. Steven Callahan and Viktor Frankl understood this. They also understood, as all successful people do, that we can control our thoughts and our actions and when we do that, when we step up and take 100 percent control of our lives. By taking command of what we think and what we do, we become the masters of our fate. We also become undefeatable.
No one succeeds in life by taking the easiest path.We succeed only after we determine that we will, commit ourselves to it, and then insist on keeping our minds positive while we move consistently and persistently toward our goals.
I wanted to tell you about Steven Callahan and Viktor Frankl not only because I personally think their individual stories of triumph are incredible, but also because I know that on any journey toward success you may embark on, you're bound to come up against obstacles that may, for a time, seem impenetrable. When you do, I hope you will spend some time thinking of Callahan and Frankl and reminding yourself that compared to them, your task is really not all that insurmountable, after all. If you are committed you'll find a way. I hope you will remind yourself of this and then follow Frankl's example of returning your full focus and intention to the task at hand.
After that, you'll need only to let your voice be strong as you utter those powerful and life-changing words: "I can handle this. I know I can."
(From : The Blessings Experiment 2007)
SEE GOD IN EVERYONE, BECAUSE HE IS IN ALL OF US... read this story...
There once was a little boy who wanted to meet God. He knew it was a long trip to where God lived, so he packed his suitcase with Twinkies and a six-pack of root beer, and he started his journey.
When he had gone about three blocks, he met an old woman. She was sitting in the park, staring at some pigeons. The boy sat down next to her and opened his suitcase. He was about to take a drink from hi
s root beer when he noticed that the old lady looked hungry, so he offered her a Twinkie.
She gratefully accepted it and smiled at him. Her smile was so pretty that the boy wanted to see it again, so he offered her a root beer. Once again, she smiled at him. The boy was delighted. They sat there all afternoon eating and smiling, yet they never said a word.
As it grew dark, the boy realized how tired he was and he got up to leave. Before he had gone more than a few steps, he turned around, ran back to the old woman and gave her a hug. She gave him her biggest smile ever.
When the boy opened the door to his own home a short time later, his mother was surprised by the look of joy on his face.
She asked him, "What did you do today that made you so happy? He replied, "I had lunch with God." But before his mother could respond, he added, "You know what? She's got the most beautiful smile I've ever seen!"
Meanwhile, the old woman, also radiant with joy, returned to her home. Her neighbor was stunned by the look of peace on her face, and she asked, "What did you do today that made you so happy?" She replied, "I ate Twinkies in the park with God." But before her neighbor responded, she added, "You know, he's much younger than I expected."
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring. All of which have the potential to make someone's day a very special one, or even turn someone's life around.
- Author Unknown -
She gratefully accepted it and smiled at him. Her smile was so pretty that the boy wanted to see it again, so he offered her a root beer. Once again, she smiled at him. The boy was delighted. They sat there all afternoon eating and smiling, yet they never said a word.
As it grew dark, the boy realized how tired he was and he got up to leave. Before he had gone more than a few steps, he turned around, ran back to the old woman and gave her a hug. She gave him her biggest smile ever.
When the boy opened the door to his own home a short time later, his mother was surprised by the look of joy on his face.
She asked him, "What did you do today that made you so happy? He replied, "I had lunch with God." But before his mother could respond, he added, "You know what? She's got the most beautiful smile I've ever seen!"
Meanwhile, the old woman, also radiant with joy, returned to her home. Her neighbor was stunned by the look of peace on her face, and she asked, "What did you do today that made you so happy?" She replied, "I ate Twinkies in the park with God." But before her neighbor responded, she added, "You know, he's much younger than I expected."
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring. All of which have the potential to make someone's day a very special one, or even turn someone's life around.
- Author Unknown -
Let me forget yesterday's anger and resentment. Let me remember that love and understanding free me from resentment.
Let me forget yesterday's anger and resentment.
Let me remember that love and understanding
free me from resentment.
Let me forget all unkind remarks.
Let me remember that what others say
cannot hurt me unless I accept the offense.
Let me forget past injury and injustice.
Let me remember that divine love
works through me to forgive,
and to bless those who have
caused me trouble in the past.
Let me forget the faults and shortcomings
of my friends and companions.
Let me remember that by praising and
appreciating others' commendable traits,
I help them to express their true Inner selves.
Let me forget yesterday's
disappointments and failures.
Let me remember that today offers new
opportunities for success and happiness.
Let me forget the idle gossip
or the scandal that comes to my ears.
Let me remember that all I say about
others should be helpful and constructive.
Let me forget yesterday's aches and pains.
Let me remember that God's
pure life gives me health today.
Let me forget old fears and weaknesses.
Let me remember that God's
almighty presence is ever with me,
and God can work through me to accomplish good.
UNITY SUNDAY-SCHOOL LEAFLET
cannot hurt me unless I accept the offense.
Let me forget past injury and injustice.
Let me remember that divine love
works through me to forgive,
and to bless those who have
caused me trouble in the past.
Let me forget the faults and shortcomings
of my friends and companions.
Let me remember that by praising and
appreciating others' commendable traits,
I help them to express their true Inner selves.
Let me forget yesterday's
disappointments and failures.
Let me remember that today offers new
opportunities for success and happiness.
Let me forget the idle gossip
or the scandal that comes to my ears.
Let me remember that all I say about
others should be helpful and constructive.
Let me forget yesterday's aches and pains.
Let me remember that God's
pure life gives me health today.
Let me forget old fears and weaknesses.
Let me remember that God's
almighty presence is ever with me,
and God can work through me to accomplish good.
UNITY SUNDAY-SCHOOL LEAFLET
Every stepping stone you climb, makes spirit and heart grow strong. Exercising character and faith this road seems painful and long.
The Lord came to me like a dream one day and asked,
why do you sorrow
I answered, Lord my life is so full of pain,
I can’t face one more tomorrow.
The Lord sat down beside me, and gently took my hand.
He said, Let me explain to you and then you’ll understand.
Each sorrow is a stepping stone you must surmount each day,
And every stepping stone you climb is a sorrow that’s passed away.
The road of life is a mountainside, with crevices in which to be caught,
But as you struggle on your way, I, the Rock, will lend support.
Every stepping stone you climb, makes spirit and heart grow strong.
Exercising character and faith this road seems painful and long.
The way is paved with stepping stones, to uplift your heart and soul,
Though difficult they aid your way, to a City paved with gold.
I know that you are tired, for I too have walked this way,
My sorrows did they multiply, but I cleared the stones away.
I left my rock to lift you up, I left behind my story.
To give you strength to make your climb, to that special place in glory.
And never fear, the Rock is here, You’ll never climb alone
Surmount life’s sorrows, continue on,
For they are but stepping stones.
(Shared from a Poembook)
Lord, make me an instrument of your PEACE...
Where there is Hatred, let me sow Love.
Where there is Injury, Pardon.
Where there is Doubt, Faith.
Where there is Injury, Pardon.
Where there is Doubt, Faith.
Where there is Despair, Hope.
Where there is Darkness, Light, and
Where there is Sadness, Joy.
O Divine Master,
Grant that I may not so much
seek to be consoled as to console;
To be understood, as to understand;
To be loved, as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
And it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
(By : St Francis of Assisi)
Where there is Darkness, Light, and
Where there is Sadness, Joy.
O Divine Master,
Grant that I may not so much
seek to be consoled as to console;
To be understood, as to understand;
To be loved, as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
And it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
(By : St Francis of Assisi)
