Dreams
By Unknown

It is not enough to have a dream unless I am
willing to pursue it.
It is not enough to know what is right unless I am
strong enough to do it.
It is not enough to join the crowd, to be acknowledged and accepted, I must be true to my ideals, even if am
left out and rejected.
It is not enough to learn the truth unless I also learn to live it.
It is not enough to reach for love unless I care enough to give it.

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Hi,

I  lust received this beautiful inspiring story by Email :

A man was exploring caves by the Seashore.  In one of the caves he found a canvas bag with a bunch of hardened clay balls.  It was like someone had rolled clay balls and left them out in the sun to bake.  They didn’t look like much, but they intrigued the man, so he took the bag out of the cave with him.  As he strolled along the beach, he would throw the clay balls one at a time out into the ocean as far as he could.

He thought little about it, until he dropped one of the clay balls and it cracked open on a rock .  Inside was a beautiful, precious stone!

Excited, the man started breaking open the remaining clay balls.  Each contained a similar treasure.  He found thousands of dollars worth of jewels in the 20 or so clay balls he had left.

Then it struck him.  He had been on the beach a long time. He had thrown maybe 50 or 60 of the clay balls with their hidden treasure into the ocean waves.  Instead of thousands of dollars in treasure, he could have taken home tens of thousands, but he had just thrown it away!

It’s like that with people.  We look at someone, maybe even ourselves, and we see the external clay vessel.  It doesn’t look like much from the outside.  It isn’t always beautiful or sparkling, so we discount it.

We see that person as less important than someone more beautiful or stylish or well known or wealthy.  But we have not taken the time to find the treasure hidden inside that person.

There is a treasure in each and every one of us.  If we take the time to get to know that person, and if we ask God to show us that person the way He sees them, then the clay begins to peel away and the brilliant gem begins to shine forth.

May we not come to the end of our lives and find out that we have thrown away a fortune in friendships because the gems were hidden in bits of clay. May we see the people in our world as God sees them.

I am so blessed by the gems of friendship I have with you.  Thank you for looking beyond my clay vessel.

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Our thoughts shape and govern our actions. Human brain is a complex but most effective computer, which even the best and fastest chips cannot match. The chief differentiator is its ability to THINK.
While our thought process is shaped by many inputs, which continuously stream into our conscious and unconscious brain segments, one simple thing to be understood is that our total personality, actions and the state of being is resultant of our thoughts.

HOW THOUGHTS ARE FORMED?

- A newborn recognizes touch, smells, sounds etc., which are all stored in the human computer, its brain.

- Children watch and hear their parents.

- They recognize the warm touch of their mothers, even with their eyes closed.

- They note the body language of the family members, sense of well being in the household (or otherwise), the content and tone of conversation of the parents, their behavior with each other.

- The spoken advice and the actual actions of parents are noted and stored-are these in consonance?

- The customs, rituals, prayer (faith in God or otherwise), attitude towards work, material and monetary issues and their handling leave a profound impact.

- The personality, attitude and knowledge of the Teachers and their sense of commitment create a major impact.

- The peer group behavior, the social milieu (urban vs. rural, affluent vs. poor neighborhood) and numerous other societal inputs are stored.

- The literature read and the entertainment visuals watched all have a role to play.

By no means is this list complete as THOUGHTS are formed and stored on a dynamic basis in the human mind. Certain special events, especially traumatic ones do however leave a long-term impact. These thoughts over time are stored in the subconscious brain and have a bearing on our behavior.

OUR THOUGHTS GOVERN OUR ACTIONS.

Most of us want to behave well with others and also want to feel happy. Why is it that we actually behave differently and also feel unhappy or miserable most of the time ?

It is because our own behavior towards others and our expectations from them are not in consonance.

For Example: -

* An individual who does not respect the life partner expects respect from the other partner and the children.

* A foul mouthed and self-serving boss wants to command loyalty of the subordinates through sheer authority.

* An angry person wants to feel cheerful as well.

* A person in the habit of blaming everyone and everything for his life’s woes cannot enjoy even what he has.

* A Teacher who is not committed to his profession wants to train good dedicated students.

If our Personality and Behavior are governed by our thoughts, many of them formed as a result of inputs received in the childhood or while growing up, some of them even painful or traumatic, can we do something to change the BRAIN’S MEMORY or have to live with it as such?

Good News is that the MEMORY can be almost completely re-written and we can do so OURSELVES. The process might take time and patience but the TASK IS DOABLE and the effort is worthwhile.

CONCLUSION

We are what we are because of our THOUGHTS and need to recognize this fact. We can CONTROL the THOUGHT PROCESS and also RE-WRITE on our stored thoughts.
HAPPY THINKING!

ARUN VEDHERA

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There was once a boy who wanted to seek the secret of success. One day he approached a wise man living up in the mountain. When he found the wise man at the hut, he asked, “Wise man, can you tell me the secret to becoming successful in life?” The wise man was silent for a while. After a moment of silence, the wise man led the young lad to a nearby river. They kept walking into the river until the boy’s head was fully submerged in the water. The boy struggled to keep his head above the water. To his astonishment, the wise man did not help him. Instead, the wise man held the boy’s head in the water. After a few minutes the wise man pulled the boy out of the water and they proceeded to walk back to the hut. At the hut the wise man asked the young boy what he desired most when his head was submerged in water. To this the young boy quickly responded, “Of course, I wanted to breathe, you old fool!”

To which the wise man replied, “Son, if you desire success as much as you wanted to breathe, then you would have found the true secret of success.”

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TO RISKS

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams, before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.

But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing.

They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, or live.

Chained by their attitudes, they are slaves, they have forfeited their freedom.

Only a person who risks is free.

Life is a series of seasons. No seasons will last forever and when one season ends it is time to change and move on to the next season with faith and expectation.

William Arthur Ward

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Every human being is unique and different. Our thought process and personality evolves based on hereditary factors, our own experiences, circumstances and a host of other factors.

While we can be in different parts of the world, belong to different religions, genders, age groups, social strata etc., yet we all have the Power to Think.

• It is possible for all of us to look at the brighter side of things, i.e. to see the ‘Glass Half Full rather than Half Empty’

Let us understand a very simple fact that Positive Thinking leads to Positive Action, an Optimistic State of Mind and a Sense of Well Being.

While some of us are either born optimists or turn out to be so, others tend to be pessimists, nay Sayers, doomsday anticipators, chief critics of every person and event, satirical and Negative Thinkers. We are not happy in this state, but are not able to change it. Read more…

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God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.

–Reinhold Niebuhr

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