Potato Story

A kindergarten teacher has decided to let her class play a game.

The teacher told each child in the class to bring along a plastic bag containing a few potatoes. Each potato will be given a name of a person that the child hates, so the number of potatoes that a child will put in his/her plastic bag will depend on the number of people he/she hates.

So when the day came, every child brought some potatoes with the name of the people he/she hated. Some had 2 potatoes; some 3 while some up to 5 potatoes.

The teacher then told the children to carry with them the potatoes in the plastic bag wherever they go (even to the toilet) for 1 week.

Days after days passed by, and the children started to complain due to the unpleasant smell let out by the rotten potatoes.

Besides, those having 5 potatoes also had to carry heavier bags. After 1 week, the children were relieved because the game had finally ended.

The teacher asked: "How did you feel while carrying the potatoes with you for 1 week?"

The children let out their frustrations and started complaining of the trouble that they had to go through having to carry the heavy and smellypotatoes wherever they go.

Then the teacher told them the hidden meaning behind the game. The teacher said: "This is exactly the situation when you carry your hatred for somebody inside your heart.

The stench of hatred will contaminate your heart and you will carry it with you wherever you go. If you cannot tolerate the smell of rottenpotatoes for just 1 week, can you imagine what is it like to have the stench of hatred in your heart for your lifetime?"

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Moral of the Hatred (Human Vices) story:

Throw away any hatred for anyone from your heart so that you will not carry sins for a lifetime. Forgiving others is the best attitude to take.

"Learn to Forgive and Forget"

Quotes

"In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time."

Anthony D'Angelo

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."

Bertrand Russell.

"Present TIME is the only TIME you can have control on"

"Our Heart and Brain should be in sync to keep us Energetic."

"Saying Sorry does not always mean that you are wrong, it means that you value your relationship more than anything else..."

Ikkumpal

GOD IS.WITH..YOU.. A STORY of two horses

There is a field, with two horses in it.

From a distance, each horse looks like any other horse. But if you stop your car, or are walking by, you will notice something quite amazing. Looking into the eyes of one horse will disclose that he is blind. His owner has chosen not to have him put down, but has made a good home for him.

This alone is amazing.

If you stand nearby and listen, you will hear the sound of a bell.

Looking around for the source of the sound, you will see that it comes from the smaller horse in the field.

Attached to the horse's halter is a small bell. It lets the blind friend know where the other horse is, so he can follow.

As you stand and watch these two horses, you'll see that the horse with the bell is always checking on the blind horse, and that the blind horse will listen for the bell and then slowly walk to where the other horse is, trusting that he will not be led astray.

When the horse with the bell returns to the shelter of the barn each evening, it stops occasionally and looks back, making sure that the blind friend isn't too far behind to hear the bell.

Like the owners of these two horses, God does not throw us away just because we are not perfect or because we have problems or challenges.

He watches over us and even brings others into our lives to help us when we are in need.

Sometimes we are the blind horse being guided by the little ringing bell of those who God places in our lives.

Good friends are like that... you may not always see them, but you know they are always there.

Please listen for my bell and I'll listen for yours.

And remember...be kinder than necessary- everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.

The Window

A young couple moves into a new neighborhood.

The next morning, while they are eating breakfast, the young woman

sees her neighbor hang the wash outside. That laundry is not very

clean, she said,

She doesn’t know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better

laundry soap.

Her husband looked on, but remained silent.

Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, the young woman

would make the same comments.

About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a nice clean

wash on the line and said to her husband: Look! She has learned how to

wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this.

The husband said:

I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows!

And so it is with life:

What we see when watching others, depends on the purity of the window

through which we look. Before we give any criticism, it might be a

good idea to check our state of mind and ask ourselves if we are ready

to see the good rather than to be looking for something in the person

we are about to judge.

Nobody is perfect, Enjoy life to the Fullest!

MEMO FROM GOD

To: YOU

Date: TODAY

From: THE SUPER BOSS

Subject: YOURSELF

Reference: LIFE

I am God. Today I will be handling all of your problems. Please remember that I do not need your help.

If life happens to deliver a situation to you that you cannot handle, do not attempt to resolve it. Kindly put it in the SFGTD (something for God to do) box. All situations will be resolved, but in my time, not yours.

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Once the matter is placed into the box, do not hold onto it by worrying about it. Instead, focus on all the wonderful things that are present in your life now.

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If you find yourself stuck in traffic; Don't despair. There are people in this world for whom driving is an unheard of privilege.

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Should you have a bad day at work; Think of the man who has been out of work for years.

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Should you despair over a relationship gone bad; Think of the person who has never known what it's like to love and be loved in return.

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Should you grieve the passing of another weekend; Think of the woman in dire straits,working twelve hours a day, seven days a week to feed her children.

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Should your car break down, leaving you miles away from assistance; Think of the paraplegic who would love the opportunity to take that walk.

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Should you notice a new gray hair in the mirror; Think of the cancer patient in chemo who wishes she had hair to examine.

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Should you find yourself at a loss and pondering what is life all about, asking what is my purpose? Be thankful. There are those who didn't live long enough to get the opportunity.

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Should you find yourself the victim of other people's bitterness, ignorance, smallness or insecurities; Remember, things could be worse. You could be one of them!

Let us Change our VISION

There was a millionaire who was bothered by severe eye pain. He consulted so many physicians and was getting his treatment done. He did not stop consulting galaxy of medical experts; he consumed heavy loads of drugs and underwent hundreds of injections.

But the ache persisted with great vigour than before. At last a monk who has supposed to be an expert in treating such patients was called for by the millionaire. The monk understood his problem and said that for sometime he should concentrate only on green colours and not to fall his eyes on any other colours.

The millionaire got together a group of painters and purchased barrels of green color and directed that every object his eye was likely to fall to be painted in green colour just as the monk had directed.

When the monk came to visit him after few days, the millionaire's servants ran with buckets of green paints and poured on him since he was in red dress, lest their master not see any other colour and his eye ache would come back.

Hearing this monk laughed said "If only you had purchased a pair of green spectacles, worth just a few rupees, you could have saved these walls and trees and pots and all other articles and also could have saved a large share of his fortune.

You cannot paint the world green.

"Let us change our vision and the world will appear accordingly. It is foolish to shape the world, let us shape ourselves first.

Lets change our vision!

Inspirational E-Mails

I started getting plenty of mails, which I wanted to share with all my friends and relatives. Now, my network has grown extremely big, so I thought of posting those mails on this blog - it will save many bytes of everyone's INBOX. Wherever, I find the original source of the email - I would like to put the reference in my posts.

Hope you will like it! Happy reading!!