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London Horror Guide 101

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:42:11 +0000

The London Dungeon is portrayed as a museum of simulated horror from history, recalling events of atrocities from the past. One can journey back to the darker side of European history. With over forty exhibits it is not recommended for those of a nervous disposition or unaccompanied children.

Medieval tortures heavy on bloody detail prevail at this site buried beneath paving stones of historic Southwark. London Dungeon brings more than 2,000 years of gruesome history into twisted perspective. The Great Plague's apothecary shop remedies from minced toad and roasted viper skins to hare's feet, bat wings and leeches. Other popular unpleasantly focuses on the Ecclesiastical Section's rendition of Thomas Becket's demise while in prayer at the altar, 1665's Great Fire of London, Jack the Ripper, and the Judgment Day Execution Barge where some 2,000 victims were transported from docks, bound together, and tossed into roiling waters. Gift shop branded merchandise includes perfectly horrible clothing for all occasions and a library of revolting reference books.

The London Dungeon combines real history, horror and humor to bring gruesome goings-on back to life in the 21st century. Live actors, a terrifying boat ride, shows and special effects transport one to London's gory past. The Dungeons are patrolled by over a dozen scary costumed characters, many of whom make themselves known to the visitor by appearing from a dark corner or as an exhibit that suddenly comes to life.

Take a trip on the terrifying Traitor Boat Ride to Hell, lose one in the Labyrinth of the Lost the worlds largest and scariest mirror maze or even bury oneself in the ancient crypt of All Hallows by the Tower while Jack the Ripper, the Great Plague and Great Fire of London and a host of Wicked Women all clamber at your heels. Torture, beheading, plague and murder are the main attractions' at this museum celebrating the deepest, darkest parts of British history. In addition to the jaw-droopingly repulsively real animatronics and waxworks, complete with appropriately gruesome sound effects, there are also few costumed actors who are just dying to give a fright.

The London Dungeon has become one of London's most popular tourist attractions despite the fact that it is filled with over forty of grisly exhibitions and examples of atrocities from British and European history. The museum appeals to morbid curiosity. The museum has been brought right up to date with the latest in multi media displays and modern equipment to aid visual and audio displays.

Sweeney Todd Is one brave enough to cross the threshold of Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street? A short back and sides (1785 style) could be just the thing to round off one's visitbut will one get more than you bargained for? Keep the wits about to make sure that one doesn't become the next filling in Mrs. Lovett'' famous pies.

One gets the best of both worlds at the London Dungeon; a token dash of history to make it all feel like an educational experience, but more importantly full, fascinating and graphic details of the barbarism of the past.

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Attitude is Everything

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 07:08:58 +0000

Bill's sitting in traffic, his attitude stinks, so he feels angry at the other drivers for being in the way. He wishes they'd disappear, they're not even human to him anymore, and he doesn't remember that they've got lives, destinations, concerns, joys, and dreams. He just wants them gone. He knows he did this to himself, by leaving too late to account for traffic. He hates being late, but he's finding himself late more and more often. But, right before he left, he grouched at his family, couldn't find his socks, and then decided he had to take a quick peek at email. So he left no room to spare in his drive time. And now he's looking at a sea of brake lights, waiting through several turns of the traffic light. Fuming. He can feel his pulse on his forehead, a ticking bomb. Finally, he sees the hold-up, an accident. He feels awful because of his selfish impatience, for a moment.

Tracy's sitting in the same traffic jam, even though she left early. But she's listening to an audio book, reading when she's at a standstill, or taking the time to breathe deeply and meditate. She's counting her blessings, taking time to be grateful for all that she is, has, and hopes for. She wonders about the other drivers around her, and notices some really grouchy guy in the car to the right. Looks like he might explode, is that his pulse beating on his forehead? She says a prayer for him and all the other drivers, too. She knows that when she finally gets where she's got to go, she'll be able to cope with any effects of being late from the traffic.

There is a world of difference between these two commutes. And it's all because of attitude. No big surprise, your attitude affects your success in every area of your life, from your relationships to your finances, from your physical health to your appearance, from how long you'll live to how effective you'll be in your business.

An attitude is made of our thoughts, feeling, and ultimately, our actions. It's formed in that order too. Our thoughts create our feelings which direct our actions.

Notice that thoughts come first. It might seem strange, because it certainly seems like our feelings hijack our thoughts and propel us into actions, not the other way around. But you'll see, as we look at how your mind works, that your thoughts are the real powerhouse, the boss, the launch pad that sets everything else in motion. Each thought is powerful, for your good or your harm.

Feelings can be overwhelming, seemingly uncontrollable, driving you toward inevitable actions. It's critical to learn how to control your feelings and actions before anything is set in motion. Either way, for good or for bad results, our thinking and feeling determine how things work out in our lives. Our results are just that, the effects of what's going on inside us.

Before you can really get going on the direction of change, you've got to do an attitude check first. You can read until your eyeballs fall out and your fingers get calloused from turning pages, but without the right attitude in place, you're wasting your time. With a poor attitude, there's no information on Earth that can help you change your life. Take a look at your attitude about yourself, your life, the people in your life, your finances, your health, and your place in the universe. How does it look? There are lots of things in life you really don't have much of a choice about, but your attitude is not one of them. Your attitude is completely up to you. We can tell you right away, that a positive, grateful attitude is the best way to go. Gratitude, for what you've already got, for where you live, who you know, all that you are, and all that you're not, is the place to start. How can you ever expect to receive more in life, to be more in life, without appreciating how far you've already come?

Your attitude is a choice. Success is all about making great choices, and this is the first one you need to tackle. It might take practice. It might take reminding yourself. It might even take a "fake it 'til you make it" stance, but you've got to do it.

Andrew Cocks and Terry Zambri are Certified Bob Proctor Life Success Consultants and Network Marketing Coaches. Their new FREE book, The Life Success Factor, combined with their exclusive 3 step marketing system is creating massive success for their team. Visit: http://www.TheNetworkMarketingCoach.com
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The Man Who Tastes Shapes

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:30:24 +0000

Some people see, taste, hear and feel things the rest of us don' t. James Wannerton tastes words: "New York is runny eggs. London is extremely lumpy mashed potatoes." Carol Steen sees every letter with a color: "Z is the color of beer, a light ale."

For Carol Crane, music is felt: "I always feel guitars on my ankles and violins on my face." Other people experience smells when exposed to shapes, or hear sounds inside taste. And for some, numbers have color, sounds have smell, and words have flavor. Music is not only heard, it's seen and tasted--the list goes on.

Neurologist Richard Cytowic explores this surreal world of "synesthesia" in his book, The Man Who Tasted Shapes. " Synesthesia means joined sensation, and some people are born with two or more of their senses hooked together," explains Cytowic.

The most common form of synesthesia is when a person sees letters in different colors instead of seeing black ink letters as black. Although people differ from each other in what colors the letters are, the colors usually remain the same for each individual throughout their life.

Depending on what food they taste, other synesthetes experience taste as a shape, like a triangle or circle. Another person sees orange when feeling pain.

For New York artist Carol Steen, synesthesia is inspiration. She sees shapes and colors when listening to music or receiving acupunctureimages that she transforms into works of art. "It's like putting on sunglasses and being able to see the world through the sunglasses," she says. Once, when Steen injured her leg while hiking, all she saw was a world bathed in orange.

And, Carol Crane does more than simply hear a concert. She physically experiences each instrument within a different part of her body.

Still another person hears a sound that tastes like pickles. For as long as he can recall, words have triggered the part of Wannerton's brain that responds to tastes and flavors. "I can remember being in a big school assembly hall listening to the Lords Prayer," he says, "and it was while listening to that, I used to get flavor after flavor coming in. It was mostly bacon."

Wannerton says his synesthesia causes him some discomfort in his personal life. "I've had girlfriends with names I couldn't stand saying. Tracey is a very strong flavored name and it's flaky pastry. Whenever I was in her company, that's what I thought of constantly." And at the end of the day, he suffers from sensory overload. But still he doesn't want a cure. "I've had it since I can remember, and taking it awayI wouldn't like the thought of

that," he says.

What's Going on Inside the Synesthete's Brain?

Dr. Vilyanur Ramachandran, a neurologist who studies quirks of the brain, was scanning the brain of McAllister, a man who sees music. During the imaging, the music being played stimulates not only McAllister's audio cortex, but also his visual cortex. "The

visual area lit up in him," says Ramachandran, "so you know there was neurological activity in the visual region of his brain even though he was only listening to music." McAllister describes it as a "Fantasia-like experience: explosions of color all over the place. A bright flash of lavender getting dimmer and dimmer; now we're going over a pink staircase, some lavender violins. It looks very beautiful."

This is all the more surprising since McAllister is blind! He lost his sight when he was 12, the result of a degenerative eye disease. But he never lost his synesthesia.

Are We All Born with Joined Sensations?

Though scientists can prove synesthesia exists physiologically, they still don't know what causes it. Some researchers think cross-wiring in the brain produces the phenomenon. Another theory is that everyone is born with synesthesiathat we, as infants, experience the world as a jumble of interwoven sensations. Then, as most of us mature, our physical senses slowly become distinct and sharply defined, like images being brought into focus by a camera lens. With synesthetes this separation doesn't happen.

For some people, synesthetic perceptions seem to exist outside the body. Carrie Schultz describes how she sees electric guitar riffs in purple swirls that envelop her.

For others, the awareness is internal, in their "mind's eye." When Glenda Larcombe hears a truck backing upmaking a beep- beep-beep soundshe sees the beeps as a series of red dots.

The mingling of senses is often difficult for synesthetes to describe. Larcombe, for instance, said the red dots she sees when she hears beeping are not part of her actual vision. "It's not like I would see a red dot right in front of meit's in my mind's eye" she says in an interview. She also reports feeling her interviewer's voice, "like a wave, like water, with yellow and orange."

Ex-journalist, Page Getz says "God is blue." She describes headache pain as a kind of greenish-orange, music by the rock group Nirvana as having the taste or sensation of Dr. Pepper, and the color after sex as static silver. She quit her job as a journalist because her editors' word changes often disrupted what she saw as a sentence's natural chromatic progression.

Everyone's Got Blended Senses to a Degree

Psychologist Carol Mills says this sensory-blending ability might be a normal part of all adult brains. "It may go on in all of us even if we don't have synesthesia," said Mills. "For

example, if I give you a very high-pitched note and a series of colors and ask you to match one, you are going to pick a light color. If I give you a low bass note, you are probably going to pick a dark color. The difference is when a synesthete hears a low note, they see dark. When they hear a high note, they see a light color."

No firm figures exist for how common synesthesia is. The best estimates range from 1 in 200 to 1 in 20,000 people.

Drawing from the wisdom of native and ancient spiritual traditions, Keith Varnum shares his 30 years of practical success as an author, personal coach, acupuncturist, filmmaker, radio host, restaurateur, vision quest guide and international seminar leader with The Dream Workshops. Keith helps people get the love, money, and health they want with his F-r-e-e Prosperity Ezine,F-r-e-e Abundance Tape and F-r-e-e Coaching at
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Online Bible Research Aids

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:35:51 +0000

A lot of websites offer online Bible services. Online Bible research aids are among the most useful Bible-related services on the Internet. Online Bible research aids are now more popular in our modern world today. With these aids, many people can easily access verses, quotes, scriptures, different translations and other religious information to broaden up one's faith. Most online providers feature Bible studies and information such as: ? Prayers ? Doctrine ? Gospels ? Help tools ? News ? Links ? Sermons tracts ? History ? Churches ? Scholars ? Spiritual warfare ? Links ? And photos Below is the most comprehensive list of Bible study aids on the Internet: ? Amazing Bible ? Ancient Hebrew Research Center ? Audio Bible Online ? Bearing Precious Seed ? Bible Basics ? Bible And Church History Resources ? Bible History Online ? Bible Research-Internet Resources for Students of Scripture ? Bible Studies ? Bible Tools ? Bible Web ? BlueLetter Bible ? Canadian Bible Society ? Dead Sea Scrolls ? E-Sword ? Easton's Bible Dictionary. ? Free Bible stories ? Goshen Online Study Library ? Guide to Christian Literature Online ? Linked Word Project (Bob Jones University ? Mega Bible Site ? Free Bible stories ? How to Study the Bible Profitably (R.A. Torrey) ? The EIKON Image Database for Biblical Studies Even kids can enjoy the goodness of on-line religious sites like: Bible-Based Coloring Pages for Kids Bible Word Search Puzzles Bible Cross Word Puzzles Bible Jigsaw Puzzles Other links include the following: 1. Christian Music such as: ? Christian Radio Directory ? 94-FM the Fish Radio ? Totally Acappella Radio ? And WAY-FM Radio 2.For finding books: ? Family Christian Stores ? 21st Century Christian Bookstore ? Gospel Advocate Bookstores ? And LifeWay Christian Stores Popular Online Bibles are as follows: ? 100prophecies. - This site deals with prophecies in the Bible, along with questions and answers about Bible passages and glossaries of different events as well as Biblical people. Their goal is to show people that the Bible is truly the word of God. This is with the 100 prophecies accurately fulfilled. ? About-Jesus - The life and teachings of Jesus Christ and Christianity is explained in this comprehensive site. About Jesus also provides interactive maps, Bible places, words and people. ? Bible Gateway - This is where you can read online Bible verses. It is in different variations such as: 1. King James Version 2. New International Version 3. Young's Literal Translation 4. And many other English translations. Bible blogs are also available, containing posting experiences and forums about religious topics. Thus, it provides advanced searches that allow readers to compare passages in scripture or references. ? Blue Letter Bible - Provides Bible verses with the original Greek and Hebrew texts. Blue Letter Bible Institute presents a new course which is composed of thirty two lessons that can be operated on a stand alone PC. CDs can be requested online. It is even designed for home based study. They also feature 2,700 hymns, maps and image libraries, along with 10,000 topics of dictionaries and Theological FAQs. Online Bible researches are now becoming popular. With these aids, many people can easily access verses, quotes, and scriptures, along with different translations and other religious information. This is in order to broaden up one's faith. Online Bibles also come in different language versions, both modern and ancient in its content. There are also helpful demos on videos about bible study tools and ways to create personal studies online. Newsletters have become a way to connect to the people and to be aware of some religious updates. One can do amazing things such as annotating your Bible, saving Bible reading annotation and preferences used in keeping track of its progress. Study tools include reference materials, daily and weekly devotions to understand and apply God's word in our daily life. Bible research aids are guided by religious groups and churches all over the world so as to witness the importance of the Bible.

For more information on Bible Evidence please visit our website.
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Facebook – the New Frontier of Human Relationship & Interaction

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:37:59 +0000

The World of Facebook...

........and other social not-working sites leave many of us more socially retarded than we were in high school...

Returning to Canada and running into "Facebook friends" of mine has really puzzled, humored--and in some cases annoyed me--enough that I think writing this article is worth my time.

Does anyone else have the following contacts on Facebook?

The brother or sister who is apparently too afraid to talk to you in person, but is chatty on your wall and private messages as if you've been through hell and high water together? Or what about Joe "I went to high school/elementary school with you, but don't answer anything you write me-even though I'm the one who sent you the friend request in the first place?" Or the friend you know "from somewhere", and have not been in touch with for years and years, and you have an initial "entry level communication" with? What I mean by that is, say that you found this person, and added them, and once they accepted your invite, you wrote on their wall or sent them a private message that showed up in their inbox, they responded, and had a follow up question of their own about your life and what is new with them. You respond to this and ask them one or two more details about their life, and the communication ends there with a total of three interactions--entry-level communication, but you remain "Facebook friends", and no doubt keep spying on each other's sites to know the latest news and developments, but otherwise have no real communication whatsoever.

Now, I'm not popular, and never have been--don't get me wrong. I have never been known to have lots of friends in social settings, but this Facebook thing, well everybody seems to be on it! I have almost 700 contacts on it, and yes, I am at the very minimum at least acquainted with all of them--but still accept ones I don't recognize hoping THEY will indicate how we know each other. And I have a handful of fictional characters from TV shows like The Simpsons. I accept any and every invitation I get, even if I don't recognize the person sending me the invite. Unless of course you're some hoochie mama and in your picture you're wearing almost clothes or I recognize your name from my seedy past of internet porn addiction, or I otherwise just simply know your name and pic is bad news and no real fruitful communication will come of it.

I've been on this thing for almost two years now, and I've noticed some peculiar things about human and social interaction from this website, that I realized telling my computer illiterate grandmother about it has helped me see just how ridiculously stupid the world of Facebook is (and of course, MySpace) if you really think about it and try describing to someone on the outside or who didn't grow up with the Internet.

One of those ridiculous observations is in fact the very reason I joined it-how easy it is to stay moderately informed about the latest goings-on in the lives of people in my social network with very little effort involved on my part-or theirs. When I first joined Facebook, the privacy settings were such that everything people did on their page showed up in my mini-feed. This is the part of your page, where once you sign in, there's a list of the latest activity that has taken place on your friends' pages. I LOVED this feature, and have taken full use of it by constantly putting pictures and newsletters, and now audio mp3s of our podcast, onto this social network, to constantly make people reminded of me. That's simply it. I still don't know the balance of how often is too often and becomes annoying, but this website is one of the most brilliant things people have invented for the internet and gotten me "in touch" with way more individuals than I could have on my own effort.

However, many people who joined the site were up in arms that they had so "little privacy" by having all the latest developments show up in their friends' mini-feeds (basically the home page after signing into the site). This is the part that has puzzled me completely: why did people join such a site if they felt that what happens on it is an invasion of privacy? And if they don't want certain people to know their latest updates, then why did they add them as friends on their network? If you don't want someone to see your page, there's boxes you check in your account information.

Myself, I have almost everything checked, and the more people on my account the merrier. I have forged for myself a career path that is public, and my life--generally speaking--is an open book, so the more I can put myself on peoples' minds for prayer and knowledge of my missionary life, the better it is for my interests of keeping people informed--especially those who WANT to be. Most or at least many churches in North America give little time and interest to the Great Commission as it is (other than outreach to the local community-which many churches excel at, in my opinion--but the sending out of missionaries.....?), so missionaries like myself have to keep making sure they come to your attention as much as the local "change the color of the sanctuary carpet" fund. Pictures can say a thousand words, so I put almost all of them on Facebook and you can SEE what I'm doing.

Needless to say, I love Facebook! But probably for different reasons than most who use it.

But allow me to put my emphasis on the word touch in the "keeping in touch" that Facebook allows. You barely have any real interaction with each other on this site. I've known about peoples' marriage and dating developments from their "relationship status" changing and showing up in my mini feed. I've known other people who've found out their girlfriends were dumping them by changing their relationship status on Facebook!

Probably none of you reading this will go out of the way to leave a comment about what you agree or disagree with, since on Facebook most people just lurk and 'face stalk', but you will have read this anyway. This is typical of the online community our generation is becoming--don't you think?

Steve has been a missionary to Europe for over 2 years, and currently lives in Canada while preparing to move to Peru in early 2009. He is a contributing author on the Fire On Your Head Blog, which can be viewed at www.fireonyourhead.org and also co-hosts a bi-weekly podcast with another missionary, Fire On Your Head- The Podcast, at www.fireonyourhead.com Both sites dwell richly in Pentecostal/Charismatic themes within Christianity.
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A Christian View of Reiki

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:25:54 +0000

"Jesus came down the mountain with the cheers of the crowd still ringing in his ears. Then a leper appeared and went to his knees before Jesus, praying, "Master, if you want to, you can heal my body." Jesus reached out and touched him, saying, "I want to. Be clean." Then and there, all signs of the leprosy were gone. Jesus said, "Don't talk about this all over town. Just quietly present your healed body to the priest, along with the appropriate expressions of thanks to God. Your cleansed and grateful life, not your words, will bear witness to what I have done."Matthew 8:2-4 (The Message)Is such healing the stuff of mere Biblical history, performed once and only by Jesus himself, some 2000 years ago? Or is healing (even dramatic healing like in the Bible verse quoted above) meant for us today?Many Christians are hearing about a healing technique called "Reiki". But what is a Christian view of Reiki?As a Christian, I believe that the healing power of God--the healing power of Jesus--isn't simply historic in nature, meant to be a mere "belief"--or an ancient tale to be retold in church on Sundays.The same power that Jesus used to perform his miracles, the same power that raised Jesus from the dead is available to us today, and not just "in theory", or "in principle"--not even "in belief"--but for real. This healing power is available to us in its fullness right now, right here, and right where we are--if we but know how to "tune in" to it and get "in the flow" of it.One of the great challenges Christians find in accepting the possibility of radical healing (especially "energy healing" technologies like Reiki) is many think that if they actively participate in bringing about the healing of body, mind, or spirit, that this fact alone will tarnish the image of Jesus, and will "dumb him down" to being merely a human being with "some healing powers".On the other side of the equation, a Christian view of Reiki (or other energy healing techniques, possibly including acupuncture, acupressure, and chiropractic) may include the belief that one who practices it or participates in it is eliminating the need for Jesus, and is creating a secular theology where God and Jesus are no longer necessary. Sometimes this erroneous belief is expressed as "I can just go ahead and do this healing myself, and I guess I don't really need God anymore to work through me."But, participating in your healing is quite different (in my opinion) than being the Originator and Chief Cause of your healing. God can never be replaced, as God is the Source of all healing. Trying to heal yourself without acknowledging and connecting with your Source is like trying to operate a car with an empty tank of gas--you won't get very far.However, when we take a Christian view of Reiki (or other energy healing techniques) and learn some of the methods through which God's healing Grace can come to us, we become "not merely hearers of the Word, but doers" (James 1:23).Imagine continuously praying to God to heal you of obesity, not realizing that God, in His infinite wisdom, has inspired some of the great books, DVDs, motivational audio, personal coaching programs, and teachers around the world to supply you with all the information you need about healthy diet, exercise, and detoxification. (We merely need to clear the channel of our own consciousness in order to be able to "let in" the presence of the healing answers we are looking for.)But even more than this, God Himself is also always personally available to you as the Inner Voice, Inner Presence, and the deep inner joyful experience of love, peace, and harmony that characterize the experience of communion with God's Holy Healing Spirit. Merely being still and "knowing that I am God" (Psalm 46:10), and relaxing into the deep well of God's Loving Presence can often be enough to bring about the change in consciousness necessary for total personal healing.In a sense, we are partnering with God to help bring about healing. God cannot bring about an end to world hunger, for instance, until we become loving and compassionate enough ourselves (through prayer, meditation, study, service, fellowship, and other ministries) to become a conscious "channel" for God's grace to flow.A Christian view of Reiki thus can include the idea that one of the main purposes of hands-on healing is to help us "clear the channel" of our perceptions so that we may more fully hear, feel, know, and realize the Truth of God's Presence and God's Will. When we are in harmony with the Divine in this way, healing can more easily flow to us and through us, out into the world.Becoming a conscious place for healing to flow really strikes at the heart of what a Christian view of Reiki is all about. Though "energy healing" can seem weird and new-agey to some Christians at first (probably because this type of healing is still not very commonly practiced in the Christian community), I believe that it is one of the many ways Christians can further the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth.

Michael Golzmane is a health educator, raw food enthusiast, and trained Reiki Master/Teacher, who specializes in bringing the "Good News" of Christian healing to individuals and churches worldwide.

Ask your most pressing question or leave your most pressing comment about Christian Energy Healing and/or Reiki by visiting:

http://www.ChristianEnergyHealing.com
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Soothe and Relax Your Inner-Self with Spirit Voyage Music

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:06:20 +0000

Music is a new entrant in two age old practices - yoga and meditation. Both these two meditative disciplines have been practiced for the last 5,000 years. Since Vedic era till date, human beings are reaping myriad benefits of the ancient Eastern art, Yoga. Meditation is an intellectual part of this physical practice. When some refer yoga as a physical art, some people say it is a Vedic philosophy. Even for its scientific base, yoga is also perceived as a science of health and healing. In a word, yoga is a boon for the whole human race from every perspective. The main aim of both yoga and meditation is to help an individual reach a higher level of self-consciousness by creating a balance between mind, body and soul. Music only elevates mind sensations with its healing and calming effect.When we are discussing about music for yoga and meditation, it does not encompass every style or genre but only the calm and soothing kind of music, preferably the devotional and spiritual one. Yoga music and meditation music are two such types used respectively for two different practices. In meditation, mind needs to be free from all unwanted thoughts. It is only possible by soothing and relaxing the mind. And this is the sole purpose of meditation music, healing the human mind and body from various emotional and psychological imbalances. This kind of music reduces the stress-level and helps the mind to relax. Thus, it deepens the thought process and awakens the inner-self.So, if you are searching for some really good music for meditation, then Spirit Voyage is probably the best available source. A different online record label company, Spirit Voyage has a remarkable collection where you will find the best of kundalini yoga music cds, yoga mp3 downloads, yoga books, yoga clothes, yoga dvds, yoga retreats, yoga mats and more. The music collection includes Aquarian Sadhana or Kundalini Sadhana Music for daily morning sadhana, music for deep relaxation or Savasana and compiled collection of Japji Sahib and Daily Banis comprised of beautiful recitation of the sacred daily prayer.Sounds of metal and crystal can also be a great instrument in creating the perfect ambiance for meditation. Spirit Voyage's Gongs, Bells and Bowls section includes those instrumental music which has the profound healing effect on the human mind and soul. And its Healing and Massage Therapy Music section is just ideal for a relaxing massage therapy session or a healing reiki session. Relax and rejuvenate your mind, body and soul by listening to such healing tunes in a beautiful spa session.Spirit Voyage's yoga music collection is also great to make your yoga session blissful in true sense. From high energy yoga practicing music to soft and serene yoga music for practicing Kundalini yoga and sacred chanting of Sanskrit mantras. one can find it all here. It also offers percussion-driven albums with beautiful instrumental accompaniment, Downtempo and Chill Music for a hip yogi lounge. The tranquil vocal numbers of these music CDs and albums are some of the soulful contribution of renowned devotional singers such as Snatam Kaur, Deva Premal, Donna De Lory, Gurmukh, WAH!, for evoking the spiritual sense within.Browse through its extensive music collection which has some marvellous latest additions including Gong II by Dr. Hari Simran Singh Khalsa, Mantras from the Soul by Guru Amrit Kaur, Touch of Naam by Gurunam Joseph Michael Levry, Gratitude (Relaxing Native American Flute Music) by David and Steve Gordon, Beautiful Day: The Aquarian Sadhana by Sat Purkh Kaur Khalsa etc. Main aim of this online music company is to help and guide the worldwide yoga aspirants to involve yoga in their daily lives.Its yoga DVD collection is also made to guide yoga practitioners by providing useful information on how to practice yoga properly. The yoga clothes and the different accessories such as yoga mats, yoga rugs, meditation cushions that Spirit Voyage offers are immensely helpful for a yoga practitioner. Yoga along with its different forms like Kundalini yoga, Ashtanga yoga, Vinayasa yoga etc. have been explained with detail audio-visual illustrations on each of these yoga DVDs. Practice a suitable yoga DVD for yourself and start practicing yoga at your home today.

The author writes for Spirit Voyage which is an online yoga music store offering different CDs and DVDs for practicing Kundalini Yoga and other yoga forms. Spirit Voyage also offers different kinds of yoga clothes and yoga accessories such as yoga rugs, meditation cushions and yoga mats.
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Quit Smoking Programs – Why 96.5% Fail

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:10:42 +0000

With 100s of quit smoking programs on the market, it's no wonder almost only 3.5%* of the 37.6 Million** Americans who want to stop smoking each year are successful.

The best way to stop smoking was a mystery, until now! Right now, I will share and compare the top seven most used methods to quit smoking.

The first method I will talk about is Acupuncture. Now this thousand year old art has been reported to assist individuals in stopping smoking. My research at my clinic has revealed a less than 1% of people that try acupuncture to quit smoking actually stop. Although, I was not able to uncover or locate any information on the long-term success rate of acupuncture to permanently quit smoking.

The reasons are probably because acupuncture does not stop the cravings or withdrawal symptoms, causing most people to revert back to smoking within only a few short days.

Going "cold turkey" this is not really a method as it is a prayer, it is also what the vast majority of people who try to quit use and fail with... no wonder 93.5% of millions fail 9 each year.

Clearly just declaring that you are quitting smoking will not change your want, need, or desire for a smoke when the time arises.

And within hours or only a few short days into this method most (that is over 99%) will end in frustration find themselves lighting up once again. Probably while shouting some profanities.

There is no evidence to speak about that herbal supplements will assist or make someone quit smoking, or even if they are safe to take (as they are largely unregulated by the FDA.)

Even if these herbs worked in assisting someone to subside their withdrawals and cravings. They do nothing to help "the smoker" psychologically disassociate with their "smoker" identity.

And naturally, if your identity is one of "a smoker" then naturally you will be lead to smoke because your mind set was exactly the same before you took any supplements.

This can be said for all of the products that I have mentioned above in this article.

Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT)11 has around a 4.8-11.5% success rate in assisting individuals to quit smoking.

With regards to the NRT gums, sprays, lozenges, inhaler and the patch some individuals in my office have said to me that they "got sick" and had to stop the above Nicotine Replacement methods immediately.

Clearly if you get sick from something that is supposed to make you feel better, this might be a big clue to stay away from it.

Also there are numerous dangerous side effects from taking any such nicotine replacement therapy in the form of chemicals or drugs.

Some individuals have found themselves addicted to the nicotine replacement therapies that were supposed to help them to quit smoking.

The drug companies saw this as another means to make your money off of smokers.

ZybanWellbutrin12 was initially designed to help people with anxiety. Some how someone figured that it might work for stopping smoking. What a farce this is...

With all of this said, there is evidence to show about a 6.1-8.1% success rate with the antidepressant pill Zyban.

However like all other drugs people have reported side effects such as anxiety attacks, (wait a minute that is what the pill was initially designed to cure and now it is causing the same issue it is supposed to cure) What's up with that? Other side effects are nausea, insomnia, nervousness, irritability and nervousness and dry mouth just to name a few.

Hypnotherapy is a 25,000 year old Chinese art, that is today clinically prescribed to assist individuals to quit smoking.

Direct suggestion Hypnotherapy 10 has about a 8.0-11.0% success rate to help individuals to stop smoking.

Hypnotherapy is where the Hypnotherapist only uses words to talk directly with and to your nervous system to allow your own nervous system to re-program yourself at your nervous systems level of operation to assist you in becoming a non-smoker.

There are zero side effects. It is 100% safe and effective.

However with that said, recall back to a time when you were around 5 years old and your mother told you to "go upstairs and clean up your room." Only about 5 to 10 % of the time when you were told to clean your room, were you motivated to clean it, right?

This is what is meant as direct suggestion Hypnotherapy.

Indirect Hypnotherapy 10 is a form of Hypnotherapy has about a 66% success rate.

The language used in these sessions, are so specific unlike the lower success rate of direct suggestion hypnotherapy.

There are no side effects. When used to quit smoking, there are no withdrawal symptoms. Cravings are permanently erased.

It is 100% safe. It is all-natural. It is often done in 1 or 2 sessions. Depending on how good the Hypnotherapist is and/or the creator of the audio hypnosis program.

Not only does Indirect Hypnotherapy make changes to your physical dependencies towards smoking, it also erases all emotional issues relating to smoking. This frees up your body and mind to easily and effortlessly let go of smoking permanently.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming is the science of how language affects our lives. Neuro-Linguistic Programming known as (NLP) has a 97% success rate in assisting individuals to permanently quit smoking.

This field is so far reaching and powerful that since the creation of NLP in 1973 any books written about Hypnotherapy have included some material about the field of NLP in them.

Basically most of the skills used in NLP are the same or similar to many hypnotherapy exercises and techniques.

By combing both Indirect Hypnotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming have demonstrated to be the best way to quit smoking in my clinic and with my colleagues.

These two combined techniques, by far produce the most effective method ever invented to assist individuals to permanently quit smoking in only 1 session with over a 97% success rate.

I hope this helps you in uncovering the mystery in evaluating the top methods to quit smoking. If you want to ease your smoking habit, seek out a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and Master NLP Practitioner or an good audio program created by one.

Sources:
1 Surgeon General's Report, 1990
2 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), 2003, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
9 Depending on the study, success rates are variously reported at 2-5%
10 Hammond, D.C. (1990). Handbook of hypnotic suggestions and metaphors. New York : W. W. Norton
11 Nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation, Silagy, Lancaster , Stead, Mant & Fowler, 2002
12 Antidepressants for smoking cessation, Hughes, Stead & Lancaster, 2002

Jarret Kray C.Ht., Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and Master NLP Practitioner. Specializing in helping real people quit smoking for life within 42 minutes with The Best Way to Quit Smoking Program. To get instant access to all Jarret's new habit change technology, 97 benefits of quitting smoking, and quit smoking support groups that he's used to help 1000s of people quit smoking, visit: http://www.Best-Way-Quit-Smoking.com
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Keep the Faith

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:56:26 +0000

Tell It To Your Face, my company, was incubating in my heart for years before it was launched. No one had more doubt and hope in it than me. It died and was resurrected at least 5 times, survived 3 name changes, and was mocked many times (mostly when I was acting obnoxious and not like the founder of a self-development and leadership company). Talk about being the most unlikely, when I think back from where I cameteen pregnancy, welfare recipient, 15 years of part-time night college to graduation, and 20 years of corporate indoctrination, I know it was faith and determination that bought me here. No one was more in a perpetual state of getting ready than me. When Jim Rohn, one of my first business teachers, said youre only as tall as the books you stand on, I ran out to buy self-help books. I have at least 6 feet of books stacked in various places around the house. And, when he said make your car a mobile classroom, I cut off my radio and started listening to audio books, CDs, and tapes. What made me read all of the books; attend all the workshops, sign-up for all the coaching? Back then, I didnt know. I just knew I had to. But, over time, it started making sense because I was becoming what I was feeding myself. Then, something magical happenedI started finishing the sentences of my teachers. I knew what they were going to say before it came out of their mouths and family and friends began seeking me out for help with their personal life situations. At that point, it came to me. I was going to teach. I believe God planted a seed of purpose in me. Theres one in all of us. A lot of times it shows up as your passion and sometimes it shows up as the problem you believe needs fixing. My passion is teaching self-development. It took 6 years of searching and working on me to get here. In fact, I have a vision board (a huge board with words, magazine pictures, photos and mementoes that represent my dreams) in my bedroom. At the top of the vision board, in bold 36 font it says, The Five Year Plan. In 2002, when I created the board, I didnt have Tell It To Your Face in my head. All I knew was I wanted to fix a problem. I had too many people around me (including myself) settling for what they didnt want. Well, 5 years later, I have a business that inspires people to take risks for their happiness! Prayer and that board helped me keep the faith. For any of you out there today nurturing a dream, Im telling you to KEEP THE FAITH. Dont let your dream go! Mark Twain said, 20 years from now youll be more disappointed in the things you didnt do than in the things you did do. Follow your heart! If you have a passion, pursue it. Heres an action item: Start with baby steps. Each day do one activity to move you closer to having your dream. If you are disturbed about something thats wrong, fix it! If one little boy can bring clean water to the massive continent of Africa (see Ryans Well Foundation), surely you can do whatever it is that is in your heart. I believe in you. Now, lets do something amazing together

Charlotte Wood, a sought after motivational speaker and founder of Tell It To Your Face, a self-development and leadership company; Dedicates herself to empowering women so they can realize their highest personal and business goals. Visit http://www.tellit2yourface.com to view her complete library of articles and resources.
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Meditation Explained

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:32:52 +0000

Why Meditate?

Scientists and doctors study meditation and recommend it. Meditation is now proven to be more than just a 'warm and fuzzy' feeling. It works. So there are many reasons why people begin to meditate. Some learn meditation to become more relaxed, for improvement in health, to reduce stress, for clearer thinking, to become more creative, to sleep better and to improve mental strength. There are physical, emotional and spiritual Benefits of Meditation. It's safe, it's simple and it's free.

People who are not familiar with meditation may consider it to be prayer or worship, but this is far from the truth. Meditation can be described as concentrated awareness, so as you overcome distractions and focus your mind on something you are becoming aware; you are meditating when you maintain a continued state of awareness. There are a wide range of disciplines taught for bringing your attention on to some object or thought or awareness. In fact what happens in the process is that meditation moves your brainwaves into an alpha state. This is a relaxed state with a level of consciousness where you are still aware. In the alpha state learning and healing are promoted.

Brainwaves Brainwaves are electrical activity emanating from the brain. There are four categories of brainwaves as shown below: Beta (alert/working): 15 to 40 hertz, Alpha (relaxed/reflecting): 9 to 14 hertz, Theta (drowsy): 5 to 8 hertz, Delta (sleep/dreaming): 3 to 4 hertz, Delta (deep dreamless sleep): 1.5 to 3 hertz *Hertz = cycles per second.

In the alpha state your brainwaves run between 9 to 14 cycles per second or hertz, compared with your normal waking state beta: of 15 to 40 hertz. Deeper states of relaxation move through theta, delta to the deepest delta, which is a highly creative state of relaxation.

In fact you are meditating when you focus on birds singing, to the exclusion of all other thoughts, or staring into the fire, just focusing on that, or concentrating on your breath coming in and out, thinking of nothing else.

Traditionally Eastern cultures have practiced meditation for centuries as part of their spiritual teachings, and until recently, say the last 30 or 40 years, Westerners viewed meditation with a bit of suspicion. Now, the benefits are so well documented and experienced by so many that it has become common practice for many doctors and health practitioners to recommend meditation as part of their healing plan.

There are two basic techniques of meditating and the different practices fall in to either of these two categories, with some variations possible. In mindfulness meditation the meditator sits in a comfortable position and focuses his attention and awareness on an object or activity; such as a candle, breathing, a visualization or a mantra, keeping an open focus and awareness of the present moment as he does so. This method allows for free flowing and observing of his thoughts while using the focus as an 'anchor' he constantly brings his mind back to the focus, when he starts to wander off in to different thoughts.

With concentration meditation which is used by most spiritual and religious traditions, the meditator keeps his attention on a particular object like repetition of a prayer or a mantra to minimize distractions, and continually brings his mind back to the chosen object. Lawrence LeShan defined meditation in 'How to Meditate' as "doing one thing at a time with your whole being".

In some traditions both mindful and concentration meditation are combined.

It is possible to practice meditation even while walking or doing simple repetitive tasks. It is in moments when your mind is clear that you get that 'realization', 'inspiration' or 'BFO' (blinding flash of the obvious). "AHA" you say, as something miraculously pops in to your head.

Learn How to Meditate You can attend sessions somewhere in your city, usually free, to learn how to meditate. There are many books and tapes to help you, most of them excellent aids. It is easy and simple to learn. There are many tools to help you move into a meditative state. The one I absolutely love is the Holosync audio tapes from Centrepointe (centerpointe.com) (I don't lightly recommend products, but this advanced Neuro technology is light years ahead of anything else I have tried and read about. I use it daily).

When you practice meditation regularly you begin to liberate the energy in your mind and the quality of your consciousness will expand. You will become more relaxed and happy, experiencing a sense of control of your life. You tend to approach life in a much more peaceful manner, not stressing in ways you might have done previously. This is not just a generalized statement, but is now being proven by empirical research.

I maintain wholeheartedly that meditation is truly beneficial. Do try it.

Winsome Coutts is co-owner of Global Secrets International and writes stories and articles for personal development, The Law of Attraction and The Secret Movie.
Visit her website for heaps of info, free downloads & self-help tools.http://www.the-secret-dvd.net/
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Believe and Manifest

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:56:53 +0000

Believe and Manifest!

In the movie The Secret, they talk of the Genie that grants wishes, about intention, and among other things about manifesting.

They also talk of Secret Shifters, little triggers that you can use to bring you back into alignment with the law of attraction.

Just as I give thanks for all the coins I find on the street, I like to remember the times that stick out in my mind where I was in perfect alignment and things, real things seemingly appeared out of nowhere!

One day on my way to the market, I was listening to the audio book version of The Secret. I had lost my lighter and intended to get a new one while I was out. I was listening to the chapter where Joe Vitale talks about intention.

I had forgotten all about buying a new lighter and as I was walking down the street with my groceries, I remembered the lighter, after a few more steps, there on the ground in front of me was a brand new lighter just like the one I had lost!

As I bent over to pick it up, I couldnt contain myself from bursting out with laughter and giving thanks for this gift!

This isnt the first time I have had things materialize as I needed them and in The Secret, they speak of things coming as you need them.

One cold winters morning, I was heading off to work. It was still semi dark out and being a Monday, the parking lot across the street had been empty since Friday.

I put on my hat and coat and said out loud, Man, I wish I had a pair of gloves!.

Mine had worn out and I hadnt found time to replace them.

Well, I bundled up and headed to the car which was parked on the street on the opposite side of the empty parking lot. As I crossed through the parking lot, right in the middle of the empty space was a brand new pair of insulated leather gloves!

I squealed with delight as I picked them up!

I looked around, there was no one about. There was fresh snow on the ground but no footprints or tire tracks. I looked up into the heavens and gave thanks!

That was about six years ago and to this day I still have those gloves, they still look new and most importantly, they keep my hands warm and remind me of the abundant planet God has given us!

I have always believed in the power of prayer and wishing and when I am struggling, I like to think of examples like these that happen in my life and the stories I have heard from others on their wishes coming true!

Those are a couple of my Secret Shifters, see if you can think of times in your life where things just appeared out of nowhere and know that that was God answering your prayer! That was the Law of Attraction in action!

Mary Angela is an Author, Philosopher, and Lover of Life! She expects miracles
to happen everyday!
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Master the Skill of Stress Management to Improve Your Health & Wellbeing!

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 23:57:12 +0000

Stress always goes hand in hand with health. Depending to the stress level of a person, the impact of stress in the body can range from minor sweaty palms right through to being fatal and causing death. In order to manage stress and health better, you must first be familiar with the severe effects of stress in the body. *Physical & Behavioral Signs Of Stress* Stressors can be either external or internal. External stressors involve situations in the workplace, death or illness in the family, or by simply becoming angry. On the other hand, most of the stress that people experience is self-generated or internal. A person usually creates his or her own stress but this indicates that the person has the choice or doing nothing or something about it. Your major body systems are all affected by stress. When a person feels stressed, there will be an increase in heart rate, and an elevation in the blood pressure levels. The continuous pressure in the heart can also make a person vulnerable to cardiac arrest and other cardiac-related problems. The digestive system is also affected when you are stressed. Some people can experience diarrhea, constipation, vomiting, dryness of the mouth and the throat. Stress may also cause sleeping disorders, nausea and in some cases even a tightness of the chest, neck, jaw and the back muscles. You may also experience tooth grinding. Often there are also changes in behavioral patterns noticeable in a person experiencing chronic levels of stress. Smokers normally experience an increase in smoking patterns. Aggressive behaviors and hostility towards others and even inanimate objects are sometimes linked to a person being easily startled. A person?s diet can also be affected by the irregular eating habits caused by stress. Some people who cannot handle stress unfortunately resort to increased levels of alcohol and drug use. Additionally, unhealthy compulsive behavior, impatience and carelessness are also the behavioral effects of stress. * Long Term Implications of poor stress management * Long term stress in your life will badly affect your health and wellbeing overall. During stress the body produces hormones that enable the body to cope with the current situation. Short term effects of adrenaline, noradrenaline, and corticosteroids include tense muscles, queasiness and an in increase in breathing and heart rates. The long term implications of these hormones include allergic reactions, digestive disorder, heart disease, fatigue headaches and migraine. Even some cases of impotence and premature ejaculation can occur in men or erratic menstrual cycles for some women. When the body continuously releases these hormones your sleeping patterns can also be affected and can sometimes lead to chronic insomnia. With severe cases of stress, it can cause eczema, ulcerative colitis, mouth and peptic ulcers and recurring muscular aches and pains. * Healthy Lifestyle to reduce stress levels in your life * How a person identifies stress is important to their overall health. When the stress becomes too much to handle, the damage to their physical and mental well-being can be irreversible. Living a healthy life can help a person cope with stress easily. * Tips for Better Managing Your Stress * Although a build up of stress can result in major risks, it can also be a positive catalyst for change in your life. Do not let stress accumulate without making the necessary lifestyle changes, otherwise the result can be fatal. By recognizing the stressors, you can put each of them in place and deal with them one by one. Remember that stress can be a healthy signal that you need to make some positive changes in your life, and that now is the best time to make decisions. * Breathing And Relaxing to Control Stress * Oxygen is obviously very important to the body. Taking a deep breath adds oxygen to the system, which can help you relax. Take a short walk in some fresh air, go get a glass a glass of filtered water and do something that can change your focus onto something positive. Try smiling and take a short moment focusing on something else other than your problem. Watch some funny videos before you start your day or listen to comedy audio tapes when you drive in traffic. By the time you get back to your problem, it would not seem nearly as undefeatable. * Enjoy The Good Things Of Life And Be Positive * When you let stressful events build up, you can forget to enjoy the good things of life. Remember that life offers many more important things other than work. Reserve some time to actually recognize the good things in your life. Practice being grateful for what you have in your life. * Know Yourself and Work on Your Limitations * By recognizing your limitations, you can evade situations that can usually lead to the piling up of work. And you do not need to take responsibility for the work that some one else has left undone. Do not burden yourself with the problems of other people. If you continuously beat yourself up with needless guilt, not only will you be unable to manage your stress but you will instead worsen the situation. There are other several ways to help you manage your stress. If you are into self help books, sometimes taking time reading your favorite book can help you in putting the problem out of your mind, or help you to come up with creative solutions. Taking a warm bath and watching your favorite show on TV can also help you. Always remember that the keyword in better stress management is Relaxation. * Strategies to Use for Avoiding Stress Build Up* Stress build up can pose major health risks to you in the long term if you do not start to deal with it now. Often times, people who do not know how to handle stress find themselves in rehabilitation facilities that offer twelve-step programs that could help them recover. So have a policy that stress avoidance is always better than cure. Learn to avoid stress build up through simple strategies that you could practice in your free time. * Learn To Have Fun * Look into yourself and find something that you are into. There are bound to be some games or fun activities that you can enjoy by yourself or with friends and family. Find the things that you enjoy the most. Hobbies are helpful activities to enhance the overall relaxation process. Drawing and gardening are great stress relievers but you are not limited to these two. You can practically put your hands on anything that you enjoy doing. Maybe start collecting something of interest as a hobby. Take some craft classes, or learn to dance. If there was a sport you enjoyed in school, you might be able to start getting back into shape with that interest again. Learn that it is fine to have a little fun after hard days of work. * Taking Better Care Of Your Health * If you have a predetermined health condition, stress can greatly aggravate that condition. Maintaining a healthy diet and physical activity levels can help you in avoiding the health risks from stress. Healthy eating at home can help you lose some spare pounds around the stomach, since most people who are stressed-out tend to gain more weight than others. Planning ahead is an important step in eating healthy. Do your shopping for weekly groceries, and plan your home meals every week. Keep your cooking simple and fast to reduce your daily stress. Eating healthy does not mean that you need to prepare a four-course meal. A simple balanced meal with the combination of protein, fresh fruits, green vegetables, wholegrain bread and not too much fat is enough to get you going. You can even find healthy recipes online. Eating organic produce also helps to eliminate many of the toxins that can stress your body. Drink plenty of filtered water and reduce your caffeine and soda drinks. Exercising can help you cope with stress easily. You can also enroll yourself in weekly gym classes or dance classes depending on how much free time you have. Through gentle and consistent exercise your body releases more of the endorphins that increase your feelings of wellbeing. It does not have to be overly strenuous, just enough to get a slight sweat and glow to your skin. * Ask For Support When you Need it. * Never blame yourself for the cause of stress as this will only worsen the stress that you are already feeling. Do not build a wall around you whenever you are feeling stressed and never let yourself feel helpless. Ask family or friends to assist you to cope. Stress is an enemy that you can triumph upon with the help of loved ones. * You can use Spiritual Practices For Avoiding Stress * Practicing meditation can help you clear you mind in stressful situations. Seniors use prayers as stress reliever. Prayers can also maintain emotional stability. Learn what you need to maintain your Mind, Body, Spirit Balance for your overall wellbeing.

These suggestions are a good start for learning stress management for better health. You can learn many more online tips at http://www.squidoo.com/Manage-Your-Health-And-Stress There are also some really helpful steps to reduce your stress levels covered online here http://www.squidoo.com/Personal-Stress-Management-get-rid-of-stress
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Song of Solomon & Praying in Tongues

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:57:25 +0000

The following is a revelation I received around New Years. I was going through my e-mail folder today, and found this e-mail dated Dec 30th/03. The following changed my life, and I had shared it with a professor at FIRE School who taught on praying in tongues and divine healing. He had made a suggestion to take a book of the Bible and study it every day for a month, and just go over it over and over again and meditate on it, as well as studying with commentaries, concordances, dictionaries, etc...

Well, I had been reading it over and over again, listening to audio Bible mp3s of it on my laptop over and over again on the Song of Solomon. The point of this is that while you're doing that, your prayer life--specifically the praying in tongues part--will work together with your reading and go deeper into an understanding of what the Word says. I had been reading Song of Solomon for over 25 days, every day, sometimes more than once a day, and marking my Bible up, taking notes in a journal, and so on. And what I'm about to share came suddenly while I was in a conversation with a backslidden friend on MSN. I edited and changed it so it would flow better as a blog/journal entry type of reading, rather than an e-mail (for example, all "me" and "you" references removed so it's easier for other readers of this teaching to benefit from it)

First, I need to qualify what happened. I was on the internet that night trying to encourage a backslidden friend to come back to God his Lover and Savior, using the stuff I'd been getting revelation from the Song of Solomon about. Check out the following passage.

"My dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places on the mountainside, show me your face, let me hear your VOICE; for your VOICE IS SWEET, and your face is lovely. Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that ruin the vineyards, our vineyards that are in bloom." Song of Solomon 2:14-15 (NIV)

Man, you have no idea how deep that passage is just from reading it at a first glance. After reading it like twenty times, God was showing me things, like going to the hiding place (place of privacy, intimacy with Him) and letting him hear our voice, hence re-enforcing that you can't only think your prayer, but He wants/needs to hear it out of our mouths. Well, I looked up the Hebrew for the word "ruin" for where it says that the little foxes ruin the vineyard, and you know what the real word is? Chbal: A primitive root; to wind tightly (as a rope), that is, to bind; specifically by a pledge; figuratively to pervert, destroy; also to writhe in pain (especially of parturition). To bind. The King James says spoil, which shows the same concept. So did you catch that? Key words in that definition include to bind, pervert and destroy, withhold. Wow.

The foxes represent or are symbolic of the devil or demons. Anyway, I knew other passages of Scripture that talked about vineyards, but I didn't REALIZE I knew what other passages of Scripture said regarding vineyards. Like, duh, what are vineyards for? Grapes-WINE!!!! Here are some other passages talking about the vineyard God plants.

Luke 13:6-9 - Where Jesus talks of a man planting a vineyard, and expecting fruit to grow, and how after three years of not seeing any fruit he cuts it down because the owner is fed up with it not bearing any fruit. We can tell this is referring to the believer or the church of believers, because the vine dresser acts as a type of intercessor, like Jesus or a shepherd of sheep, pleading with the owner not to cut it down. This passage is rich on its own for tons of other topics. See as well, Isa 3:14 where God enters into judgement with the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem for not tending his vineyard (his people), and two chapters later, in 5:1-7 the song of the vineyard where God prophetically sings about what He expected of his vineyard.

Matthew 20 - the parable of the vineyard workers and some working only the last hour and being paid as ones that worked all day. Psalm 80:15, Deut 24:21 are other good references. Anyway, the vineyard is a type or a symbol of the Church in the NT, Israel in the OT and just in general the people of God. The devil is always seeking to destroy us in anyway he can.

Ephesians 5:18, be not drunk on wine but be filled with the Spirit, and we know one symbol for the Holy Spirit is NEW WINE (fresh just picked grapes), and the passage here in SoS talks about how the foxes ruin the vineyards that are in bloom (young, tender or sensitive)!!!! Man!

So I didn't put two and two together until the very moment I was trying to woo this friend with the heart of God towards him, that God was calling him through this passage to the hiding place in the rock (Jesus) and wanted to see his face and hear his voice, indicating prayer and definitely indicating intimacy. So put these two verses together, and you see that going and being alone with God and praying, you'll wind up "catching those foxes" that ruin the Spirit's work in your life because you're bound to them instead of walking in freedom. And he says in v. 14 that he loves the sound of our voice, so what better thing to be offering up with our voices than tongues since according to Romans 8:26 we don't know what we ought to be praying? When I told my friend Matt that I never ever noticed what it was saying about the vineyard and wine, and as a Holy Spirit symbol, he told me "I'm sure the praying in tongues a lot helps." Then it dawned on me just what it is to walk in that revelation knowledge from praying in tongues that causes the Holy Spirit to just enlighten us to things in God's word that we never noticed before. So praying in tongues to build yourselves up in the inner man helps keep those foxes from spoiling the vine (the Holy Spirit's producing wine in our lives). Ain't that wild?

This goes along with Jude 20 also. Jude was writing to the church to contend for the faith because FALSE DOCTRINE (foxes) had gotten into the church and rendered it powerless. So the remedy to that is verse 20, praying in the Holy Ghost. Praying in the Spirit is our inoculation against false doctrine (the foxes) because it is how the Holy Spirit teaches us. That goes right along with what I saw in the Song of Solomon.

So the application of this teaching? Pray a whole lot in tongues. Not only will it help with your understanding and revelation of the Word of God, but it will help crucify your flesh and overcome the foxes that are holding us back. So pray in tongues a lot. If you don't and have never received the baptism in the Holy Spirit and would like to, then just let me know because it's one of my favorite things to talk about.

Untold story of a mystery Prophet T.B. Joshua

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:58:25 +0000

Prophet T. B. (Temitope Balogun) Joshua needs no introduction. Everybody has his or her reason for liking or hating the controversial founder of The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations, a Christian religion with a growing fanatical following. T.B. Joshua, the religious leader whom many evangelical church leaders would not want to be associated with, because they believe he should not be in the fold of real born again Christians. Of recent, Prophet Joshua has been the butt of renunciations and denunciations by some leading men of God in Nigeria, who questioned his authority and his authenticity as a man of God. Without any doubt, Joshua is an enigma wrapped in controversy. And it was our desire to unwrap this enigma that took us to The Synagogue, tucked away around the Ejigbo and Egbe axis of Lagos. There we found a huge, unique Cathedral, the type that has not been seen anywhere in the world. Even the legendary King Solomon would marvel at this Temple of God, built by Nigerians, under the inspiration of God as we were told. On our journey of discovery, our family members and even our colleagues were worried about our going to interview T.B. Joshua. So much was their worry that they had to fast and support us with prayers and spiritual casting and binding. To them, it was like entering a spiritual lions den. But we were not deterred. After all, journalism is all about adventure. It is about venturing into the unknown and to report it.There to welcome us at The Synagogue on Wednesday last week was a Briton, who serves as the churchs public relations officer. There were so many white faces everywhere, giving backing to the claim that it is an international church. The young man took us on an excursion inside the church that looked like a huge Roman amphitheatre with pews, carpets, altar and audio-visual facilities that combine to give a colourful and mystical ambience to the church. We visited the churchs Emmanuel TV studio, which broadcasts religious programmes around the world. There were all kinds of studio - for recording and making CDs, audio studios and photo studios. In every studio you saw workers behind computers busy editing films or whatever. After the tour, we were made to watch a short documentary featuring the newly elected President of Ghana paying tribute to God and to T.B. Joshua for helping him to win the election in Ghana. For 30 minutes or more, we watched the Ghanaian President, Prof. Attah-Mills, worshipping at The Synagogue and even going to the altar to share his testimony about how God used T.B. Joshua to make him win the election in Ghana. He told the congregation about how accurately Joshua prophesied that there would be a tie in the Ghanaian election that would drag into January, but eventually he would win. And he won.Around Joshuas living room were pictures of Presidents, heads of state, who either met the prophet or came to worship in The Synagogue. There is the picture of General Andre Kolimba, former President of the Central African Republic (who visited in 2003), Frederick Chiluba, former President of Zambia (who visited in 2001), Prof Pascal Lissouba, former President of Democratic Republic of Congo (who visited in 2006), and Sir Orville Turnquest, former Governor General of The Bahamas whom Joshua visited in 2001. Then there is Omar Bongo, the President of Gabon who visited The Synagogue in 2008.After an hour of the preliminaries, T.B. Joshua sauntered in to welcome us. He was dressed casually in a T-shirt and shorts. He looked amiable. As we started the interview, he grabbed the tape recorder from us and spoke into it directly as we fired our questions at him. It was his own way of ensuring clarity in recording. Our approach was to get something biographical or autobiographical. This is Prophet T.B. Joshuas memoirs, in his own words, with a little editing here and there. T.B. Joshua, as you have never heard or read anywhere. Successful people dont just drift to the top. It takes focus, personal discipline and perseverance to reach the top. As we know, there is what we call mans natural gift and the supernatural gift of God. This church is the outcome of the supernatural gift of God. Mans natural gift is a gift one can begin to boast of, telling you how it all happened. The work of breakthrough is not our work. It is our faith. The work of breakthrough is Gods work. All what you are seeing now is Gods work. If it is to be mans natural gift, then one can begin to say this is how I achieved it; this is how I came about it. Up till now, I look at The Synagogue edifice and ask myself: how did it happen? God just wanted someone to do all these things and He sent me to do it. It is not my work, but the work of God. So let no man boast. All boasting is excluded. The Bible says, there is no room for man boasting of his own ability or power. So glory be to God.My FatherEvery success story started from somewhere. I was brought up from a Christian home. My fathers name is Kolawole Balogun. He was a Christian. He was a farmer who was also the secretary to St. Stevens church in our village. When the white people came to our village, he served as a translator. He was translating English into Yoruba. He was an educated man. He lived with the white people as well as serving as church secretary. I cannot say much about my father because he died when I was a small boy. I know that he loved me a lot. I was his pet. I was the one who suffered most from the effect of his death. Being the last born, anywhere he is going, he would take me along. He would carry me to the church. As a little boy, I would be running inside the church. I would jump from the choir to the catechists table. Some people used to rumour that my father was a Muslim. I dont know where they got that from. My father was a Christian and I am a Christian. When I was very small, I could recall him taking me to church regularly. As a kid attending primary school, my dad would make me to stay after school with a Catholic priest whose house was at the back of the church. I did all the normal things kids do, like running around and playing football. When my father died, my mums brother who became the father figure to me was a Muslim. That does not make me a Muslim. I was brought up in a Christian home. And right from childhood, I was passionate about the Bible. Right from primary school, I was well versed in Bible knowledge. It was my favourite subject and I excelled in it. As a primary six kid, I read the New Testament twice. In my secondary school days, I finished reading the Bible on the average of two months. Every two months, I would have read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. It was the only subject that I believed so much in. It was as if Bible was the only subject that interested me in primary and secondary schools. In exams, I scored 99 percent consistently whereas I performed woefully in other subjects. My excelling in Bible knowledge affected the other subjects where I performed poorly. At school, I was the leader of the Scripture Union. Even though I was second in primary school, I didnt find it easy getting admitted into secondary school. As luck would have it, I got late admission into Muslim College. In that Muslim College, we were restricted from carrying the Bible openly. To read the Bible, we would have to hide under the mango tree or backyard and the Muslim community would begin to chase us. We were all 20 in number then. Like the early Christians, we would read the Bible in secrecy because they never allowed us to do it openly. I was the leader of the Christian team in the school, at Ansar-Ud-deen Grammar School, Ikare. And because of the pressure, I couldnt finish a year in that school. It was obvious I couldnt fit into this dominantly Muslim setting. So I left the school. I left because my life was in danger. I could sense that since I was doing this thing secretly, one day something could happen to me. To avoid that I had to leave. From Ikare, I came to Lagos.I spent 15 months in my mothers wombBack to my early beginnings, I was the last born of the family. When I was born a lot of strange things happened. Seven days after I was born, I was told that I was put on a mat and a big stone nearly crushed me but miraculously I escaped. How did it happen? White people used to come to do borehole in our village. And in our village, its all stone under. When they are drilling, they would be hitting stone and stones would be flying out dangerously. Before any drilling, they would publicly announce that everybody must stay at home to avoid the danger of being hit by a flying stone. The stone used to fly because of the nature of the machine they use. It was on the seventh day when they wanted to name me that they put me on the mat and a big stone flew from where they were drilling, pierced the roof where people were celebrating and landed where I was placed. But it missed me, narrowly. The stone is still being kept till now. Nobody has ever heard this story from me. The other mysterious story about me is that a normal pregnancy is nine months. But I spent more than that in my mothers womb. My mother was taken to Egbe, which had the best hospital in those days. Egbe is in Kogi State. It was probably the best hospital in the whole of Nigeria then. My mother was carried there for operation. After nine months, she started labouring. She ended up spending three months in the hospital. My grandmother had money and my mum is the only child. At the level of the village, granny was a very rich woman. So she could afford the hospital bills for that lengthy period of time. Each time the doctor wanted to operate my mummy, the doctor would say: I am not comfortable with carrying out this operation.My mother told me this story. She remembers that in that Egbe, some Christians used to come to the hospital to preach to the sick. She said she was just lying down on the bed and a pastor just walked in and said she should not be operated. He said to my mum: God is busy preparing this child. So, please, they should not operate you. Go back home. If you attempt the operation, the opposite would happen.My mum called the doctor and the doctor met the pastor who repeated the message to the doctor. My mum left the hospital after three months back home again to continue the labour. She laboured and laboured. Instead of nine months, she spent 15 months labouring. But one night, they delivered me without operation. So this made the villagers and the whole community to say they must celebrate my birth. And they now gathered on the seventh day to name me and celebrate. It was that seventh day they were doing the drilling and the big stone flew like a missile, heading to my direction, but miraculously missed me. Where the stone passed is still there. Where they laid me on the floor is still there. Because I said they should not touch it. The stone that fell is still with them. The story began to go round the village about this mysterious child that was born after 15 months, a child they carried to Egbe Hospital and they could not do operation, they came back home, they delivered him safely. Now after delivering him, this stone fell and a mysterious hand carried this baby from the mat. Nobody saw me being carried. They only saw me in another direction, crying: Choo, choo, choo. The stone was supposed to fall on me, but a mysterious force moved me into safety within the same room. It was a narrow miss. The cloth and everything burnt into ashes. And my mummy fainted. And she was carried to hospital. My mummy was in the hospital for good two days. The ram and everything were all there. The rice, they could not eat it. Because everybody was rushing to the hospital to revive my mum. Nobody did any ceremony again. But eventually I got named. I was named Temitope Olutope Oluwasheun Oluwarotimi Opeyemi; I have plenty names. On the day I was named, I was given 30 names. But I just chose Tope out of the plenty names. My mother one day called me and said: Your names are almost 30 and they are written down. And I just chose Temitope. I just picked Temitope. My mummy woke up after two days in the hospital. My mums name is Adesiji Kolawole Balogun. Her fathers name is Kolawole. My mummy is late, my father is late. My father died first when I was a kid and my mother was left with the responsibility of training me and sending me to school. But she was handicapped financially. She told me: You this boy, I cannot finance your education. You would have to wait until your brothers finish their university education. They would be the one to sponsor your education. Mum was the secretary to the union of daily savings collector - what it is called in Yoruba: Aya ni lowo fowo pa mo. I remember her going out to collect daily savings from her clients. She used those things to train her children. Now that she was no longer into that business, and was hoping my brother, who was attending secondary school in Gbongan would be the one to send me to college. That was the only hope that I had to go to school. Based on the hostility and the religious intolerance at Ansar-Ud-Deen Grammar School, I decided to leave Ikare for Lagos. I met some people who used to carry cassava from the village to places like Ibadan and Lagos. I approached them and explained my predicament to them. They would spend four days on the road transporting the cassava to Lagos on the trailer. The trailer would be loaded with stuff like cassava and cocoa while the owners would sleep on top. I decided to join them. I did not tell my parent I was going to Lagos. I stayed inside the vehicle for four days before getting to Ibadan. From Ibadan we landed in Mile 12 in Lagos. They dropped me there and told me: This is where we can carry you. For five days, I was in Mile 12. It was during the rainy season. The job I was doing was washing the feet of people coming out of the muddy market. I would wash feet and be paid little money with which I fed. I was washing feet until one day I heard two women conversing in my native dialect. I interrupted their conversation and asked if they were from Arigidi, my hometown, and they said yes. I told them I was in Lagos to trace my sister whose whereabouts I dont know. Luckily, I was able to trace my sister to Egbe area of Lagos. After 10 days, I traced her and started to live with her. That is how I started my life. Today, I have an NGO for motor park boys, because I have also been one myself. I realized my sister had her own family and I should not be burden to her. I do not like inconveniencing people. If I visit your house and you give me a bottle of soft drinks, I would make sure I put something in the envelope, because I believe we make a living by what we give and we make a life by what we receive. This is what I believe in. In life, you dont just have to collect and collect. It destroys ones life. You have to give and give. Because the Bible says, you must see giving as an assignment from God. I carried shit to make a livingI left my sister to live with a friend. From there, I got a job as a poultry farm attendant. The poultry is still there now. Not long ago, I traced the poultry to somewhere in Ikotun. The job they gave me is to carry shit. Fowl shit. And fowl shit smell is more terrible than human faeces. I was doing this job with many Ghanaians. There were so many Ghanaians in Nigeria then. I was the only Nigerian in that poultry farm. And I never let people know I was a Nigerian. I declared myself a Ghanaian too, because nobody would believe a Nigerian would do that kind of job. I did the job for three days and my body odour changed. When Im moving about, people would perceive odour and flies would be hovering around me because I was smelling very badly. There was no amount of soap I would bath that would remove this odour from my body. As you are working in the poultry farm, the fowl shit would be dropping on your head. I did this for one good year. At the same time, I enrolled in an evening school. New State High School is the name of the school. I attended many schools in Lagos. I would attend one school for two months, only to be sent away because of school fees. I attended New State High School, Ansar-Ud-Deen Grammar School, Isolo, and another school called Metropolitan. Because I was very good in athletics, I was given what looked like scholarship. I won gold, silver and bronze in athletics. But I needed to work to support myself at school. That was why I took the poultry job. I was using it to pay my school fees. In those days, evening schools were like full, normal schools. You could easily attend evening school to do your WAEC and GCE. We even received better lessons in the evening than in the day school in those days. I was sending myself to school and at the same time teaching children Bible studies. My athletics took me to Baptist Academy. When I was running they picked me. Under one year, I attended 15 schools here in Lagos. And I did not finish one year. I dont remember the year, because I cannot keep records. But its all in the documentary on my life. I was born 1963. At least, I remember that one.I confronted a mad man at schoolMy first attempt at discovering Gods spirit in me was when a mad man came to my school. In those days, I used to be called Small Pastor. One morning a madman came to our school with a cutlass and everybody was running helter-skelter. The teachers all fled and the classroom was empty. I came and saw this mad person. The spirit of God spoke to my heart, not to my ear. I hear the voice of God in my heart and not in my ears. I heard the voice of God telling me: Go there and collect the cutlass. Just tell the madman to bring the cutlass. When I was moving towards the madman, everybody was concerned for my safety. They were saying something like: This is boy, he wants to die. I just went to the madman and commanded him: Give me this cutlass, in the name of Jesus. The madman gave me the cutlass. I collected it and gave it to a teacher. It was from there they started calling me Small Pastor. From there, they would call me in the assembly and ask me to pray for them. Every time I would pray for them. If they want to play football, I would pray for them. They began to come to me individually for prayers. It was pray for me, pray for me, pray for me all the way. They asked me how I was able to overcome the madman and I told them I was surprised myself to see what happened. You see, God Almighty is awesome. He can use any medium to express Himself. He can use sand, water, stone, rod, he can use anything. When Moses was asking God, what should he do, God asked him: What is in your hand? He said rod. Then God said: Use it to divide the sea. Or are you talking about Paul and Silas in the prison yard? They were there and they never said: Hey, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus. They just sang praises to God. The used the medium of sound. Or are you talking of Joshua. He said to his people to just shout Alleluia and the walls of Jericho fell. God uses any medium to express Himself. The ministry started from St. Stevens Primary School where I collected the cutlass from the madman and where I started leading the Scriptures Union, teaching the Bible and everything. This is where the awareness of Gods presence in me started. It continued. Everything big starts little. If everything big starts big, it calls for concern.I was in Bahamas with the President of Bahamas, very close to Florida when my mother died. This is the picture. I was with him when they called me. Synagogue had already come into being. I was with him when they said my mother was a bit down, that they brought her from the village. They said my mother wanted to see me and have a word with me. Before I came back home, my mummy was gone. My mummy was late. It was too late for me. That was how I missed my mum.She was a wonderful mother. The only little problem I had with my mum is that she wanted to see everybody succeed in life. I used to tell my mum: success is a two-sided affair. I have a role to play, God has His own role. It is not all up to God and certainly its all not up to me. Success is a kind of partnership between man and God. I cannot define failure, because I dont believe in failure. There is no failure in my book. All I see is success, directed by the spirit of God. But as human beings, we cannot be perfect. Perfection eludes every human being. God is perfection.

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BREATH OF LIFE

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D. THOREAU- Things do not change, we change. DANIEL WEBSTER-Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labour of man. DANIEL WHOYT If you have a friend worth loving, Love him. Yes, and let him know that you love him, ere life's evening Tinge his brow with sunset glow. Why should good words ne'er be said of a friend till he is dead? DANISH PROVERB- The road to friends house is never long. DANISH PROVERB- Who is ashamed of asking, is ashamed of learning. DANNY DE VRRO- There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull. How do you hang on to some one who wont stay? And haw do you get rid of some one who wont go? DANNYAINGE When you're playing it as a business... your livelihood depends on winning and losing and so some- times sportsmanship is lost, as in the process of billion dollar companies. DANTE Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions. DANTE Getting Things done the secret of getting things done is to act. DANTE What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That? DANTE ALGHIERI- There is no great sorrow than to recall happiness in the time of misery. DANTE ALIGHIERI Midway upon the journey of our life/I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost. DANTE GABRIEL ROSETTE Look in my face, my name is might-have been, I am also called no more, Too-late, Farewell. DANTE, DE MONARCHIA Unity in wills cannot be unless there is one will dominating and ruling all the rest to oneness... wills of mortals have need of a directive principle... therefore for the well-being of the world, there should be a monarchy. DANTE, II CONVITO Everything is virtuous in its nature that fulfils the purpose for which it was ordained; and the better it does this, the more virtuous it is. That is why we call him a good man who leads the on depletive or the active life for which his nature fits him; we call the horse good that runs fast and far, which he is created to do; we call the sword good that cuts hard things with ease, for which end it is made. Thus language, being ordained to express human conceptions, is good when it does this; and the more perfectly it does it the better it is. DARA SHIKOH Paradise is there where no mulla existswhere the noise of his discussions and debate is not heard. May the world become free from the noise of the mulla, and none should pay any heed to his decrees! In the city where a mulla resides, No wise man ever stays. DARRIN WEINBERG It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose. DARRYL F ZANUCK If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree, then both are useless. DASHAVAIKALIKA The very first principle of religion laid down by Lord Mahavira is ahimsa non-injury to living beingswhich must be observed very scrupulously and thoroughly, and behaving towards all living beings with proper restraint and control. DAVE BARBT The Internet: Transforming Society and Shaping the Future Through Chat. dave barry In those days, most people read newspapers, whereas today, most people do not. What caused this change? One big factor, of course, is that people are a lot stupider than they used to be, although we here in the newspaper industry would never say so in print. DAVE BARRY YOU CAN ONLY BE YOUNG ONCE. BUT YOU CAN ALWAYS BE IMMATURE. DAVE MEURER A great marriage is not when the perfect couple comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. DAVE PELZER Hate is a cancer that spread on cell at a time. DAVE THOMAS In the beginning there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still nothing but everybody could see it. DAVE TYSON GENTRY True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. DAVID A WYSS If one tries to stamp out a bubble in one place, it resurfaces in another. DAVID ARMISTEAD Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware. DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also are able to go into a garden and turn over stone and see a worm and see a slug and see an ant. DAVID ATTENBOROUGH It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. DAVID ATTENBOROUGH People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. DAVID BATCHELOR Colour is uncontainable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it... To work with colour is to become acutely aware of the insufficiency of language and theory which is both disturbing and pleasurable. DAVID BATCHELOR -Colour is uncontamable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it... To work with colour is to become acutely aware of the insufficiency of language and theory -which is both disturbing and pleasurable. DAVID BISSONNNETTE I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. DAVID BOHM In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe. DAVID BOWIE- A man may be so much of every thing that is a nothing of anything. DAVID BOWIE- Time may change me, but I cant trace time. DAVID BRIN It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. DAVID BRIN It's said that 'power corrupts', but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable. DAVID BRIN When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else. DAVID BRINKLEY A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. DAVID BROWER Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their unimprovable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done. DAVID BROWER We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations. DAVID BYRNE Sometimes its a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. DAVID GRAYSON Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. DAVID L. WEATHERFORD When faced with a challenge, look for a way not a way out. DAVID LETTEBMAN Humans are the only animal who can have sex over the phone. DAVID LETTERMAN- Keep in mind that your individual vote doesnt mean anything. DAVID LEVESQUE You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE Dont be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You cant cross a chasm in two small jumps. DAVID LODGE- Literature is mostly about having seen and not much about having children. Life is the other way round. DAVID MYERS For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile. DAVID NIVEN Ultra competitive people who always need to win end up enjoying things less. DAVID OGILVY A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself. DAVID OGILVY The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. DAVID OWEN- We are fed up with fudging and mudding with mush and shush. DAVID R HAWKINS Why give the ego more power by resisting and opposing it? DAVID SCHWARTZ Every big accomplishment is a series of little accomplishments. DAVID SCHWARTZ Think little goals and expect little achievements, think big goals and win big success. DAVID SLAWSON Names are an important key to what a society values. Anthropologists recognise naming as 'one of the chief methods for imposing order on perception'. DAVID STARR JORDAN The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. DAVID STEEL To listen to some people in Politics, you'd think-nice-was a four-letter word. DAVID STEINDL-RAST Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual. DAVID VISCOTT To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. DAVID W JOHNSON There are no speed limit on the road to excellence. DAVID WILCOX Sometimes the people you love in the night/ The morning will choose to forget/ This is my last cigarette. DAVID. R. HAWKINS Prayer: Holding in mind what you desire, but without adding desire to it. DAVIS BEN-CURION- Courage is the knowledge of how to fear, what ought to be feared and how not to fear, what ought not to feared. DAVIS NAPIER- There is of course absurdity in every act of faith. DE MAGISTRO If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me? DE STAEL Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them. DEAN INGE The enemies of freedom do not argue, they shout and then shoot. DEAN MARTIN Id hate to be a teetotaler the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day DEAN WILLIAM R INGE What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. DEBORAH MCGRIFF- Treat failure as practice shorts. DECLARATION OF THE BAB Let your reliance be on the remembrance of God, the most Exalted, the Most Great. He will, erelong, bring to naught all the things ye possess. Let Him be your fear, and forget not His covenant with you, and be not of them that are shut out as by a veil from Him. Purify thou, first, thy soul with the waters of renunciation, and adorn thine head with the crown of the fear of God, and thy temple with the ornament of reliance upon Him. DEEPAK CHOPRA As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm, As is the atom, so is the universe, As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind. DEEPAK CHOPRA Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you've made in the past. DEEPAK CHOPRA If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control the need to be approved and the need to judge. DEEPAK CHOPRA In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance: of the universe. DEEPAK CHOPRA Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It's a way of entering into the quiet that's already there buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day. DEEPAK CHOPRA Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that comes from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. DEEPAK CHOPRA The all-pervading energy source of existence or Shakti manifests itself as creation. Shakti is the divine mother who gives birth to and nurtures the newbornwhether it is a newborn babies a brand new relationship, a fresh idea, or a magical manifestation. Although Shakti is beyond the boundaries of gender, form or color, we call It Mother because of its mothering and creative qualities. DEEPAK CHOPRA The body must be credited with an immense fund of know-how. DEEPAK CHOPRA The coexistence of opposites stillness and dynamism makes you independent... When you quietly acknowledge this exquisite coexistence of opposites, you align yourself with the world of energy the quantum soup, the non-material non-stuff that is the source of the material world. This world energy is fluid, dynamic, resilient, changing, forever in motion. And yet it is also non-changing, still, quiet, eternal and silent. DEEPAK CHOPRA -The first spiritual law of success is the law of pure potentiality This law is based or the fact that we are, in our essential state pure consciousness Pure consciousness is pure potentiality; it is the field of all possibilities and infinite creativity Pure consciousness is our spiritual essence Being infinite and unbounded, it is also pure joy Other attributes of consciousness are pure knowledge, infinite silence, perfect balance, invincibility simplicity, and bliss. This is our essential nature. Our essential nature is one of pure potentiality. DEEPAK CHOPRA The less you open your heart, the more your heart suffers. DEEPAK CHOPRA The way to fill your life with love is very simple: if you want more love, give more love. DEEPAK CHOPRA There are no accidents there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood. DEEPAK CHOPRA To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for truth, even before the first scrap has been found. DEEPAK CHOPRA When awareness is completely balanced, communicating with the outside world is instantaneous and automatic. It happens with the touch of thought. DEEPAK CHOPRA You and I are infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices. Some of these choices are made consciously, while others are made unconsciously. But the best way to understand and maximize the use of karmic law is to become consciously aware of the choices we make every moment. DEEPAK TANDON Soaring, Where perception, from wherever, is correct in itself, Where the horizon spreads to all directions, Where merger, defies the theories of opposite forces, Where separation, is reduced to just an illusion, Where 'the abstract force', breaks all barriers of disputed views, Where the issue, is not even the issuelessness, Where the beauty of a lush green meadow and a desert is the same, Where colour is not bound by a significance, Where merger, even merges the difference between duality and oneness, Where wholeness is love, Where love in its description, goes abstract, Where 'The abstract', manifests wherever to enjoy wherever, Where, wherever amazes himself with himself, Where this phenomena may be expressed as 'life'. Where there 'is', thus, "The Joy of Life". DEMOCRITUS Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. DEMOPHILUS It is with youth as with plants, from the first fruits they bear we learn what may be expected in future. DEMOSTHENES Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. DENG MING-DAO Eventually, the time of action must come. When this happens, be a winner! Don't settle for mediocre results. Don't try to stay even. Go for it all! DENG XIAOPING If the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it. DENIS DIDEROT The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. DENIS WAITLEY Belief is the ignition switch that Gets you off the launching pad. DENIS WAITLEY Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, remove yourself from the unacceptable. denis waitley chase your passion, not your pension. DENIS WAITLEY Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. DENIS WAITLEY Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take; but by the moments that take your breath away. DENIS WAITLEY Look within for value and look beyond for perspective. DENIS WAITLEY Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. DENIS WAITLEY There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. DENIS WAITLEY View life as a continuous learning experience. DENNIS GREEN The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching. DENNIS WEAVER It's not an if we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone. DENVER, AUG 1993 Precisely when science and medicine are achieving a greater capacity to safeguard health and life, the threats against life are becoming more insidious. DEREK WALL How to be green? It's really very simple and requires no expert knowledge or complex skills. Here's the answer: consume less, share more. Enjoy life. DEREKE BRUCE In order to keep a true perspective of ones importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him. DESI ARNAZ It became a ritual that at each of our anniversaries i sang a song and sent her red and white carnations. DESMOND MORRIS- The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. DESMOND TUTU Children are a wonderful gift... They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are. DEUTERONOMY And the Lord will make you abound in prosperity in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground... And the Lord will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall tend upward only, and not downward; if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God. DEVI BHAGAVATAM 0 Saraswati, goddess of learning, grant me knowledge, grant me memory, grant me learning, reputation and poetry, and the power to enlighten disciples. DEVI MAHATMYAM At dawn, I bow to Chandi. Her play-act deludes Brahma, Indra, Rudra and munis and she has innumerable forms. DEVOTEE'S CONFESSIM I asked for strength and God gave me difficulties to make strong. I asked for wisdom and God gave me problems to solve. I asked for Courage and God gave me dangers to overcome. I asked for Love and God gave me troubled people to help. I asked for favours and God gave me opportunities I received nothing I wanted. I received everything ineeded. DEXTER Let the chain of second causes be ever so long, the first link is always in God's hand. DEXTER The demand of the human understanding for causation requires but the one and only answer, God. DH LAWRENCE I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly and my blood is part of the sea. DH LAWRENCE It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and Second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. DH LAWRENCE Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. DH LAWRENCE The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, I or a tiger into lustre. DH LAWRENCE This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. Those gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognise and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed. DH LAWRENCE Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting and waiting to be admitted by the present? DHANI RAM CHATRIK Let us bury caste and creed, Let us erase this sorrow indeed, You a Sayyid, I a Brahmin, let us finish this foolish din. We have to bear each other, say We are not here for eternal stay, Let there be laughter in our meeting, Let our hearts be one this evening. DHU I-NUN Dim I-Nun: How can one attain the state of the wise? The Bedouin Sheikh: By giving up undertakings and genealogies, by cutting short all relations. DHU I-NUN I perceived that God takes in hand the affair; of them that put then- trust in Him and does not let their tribulation come to naught. DIANA Call me Diana, not Prineess Diaiia... Don't call me an icon. Im just a mother trying to help Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back... I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams. DIANA L ECK In Montana, every mountain and river has a name, and our Montana culture speaks these names with familiarity and reverence the Gallatin and Madison, the Bitterroot and BIackfoot. Nature does indeed reveal both the glory and terror of the Divine. But most of us in the Christian tradition have not let the icons of nature become a powerful part of our theological language. There is no part of nature that carries for Christians the cultural power and mythic energy of the Ganges, as much ; as i love the Madison, the Gallatin, and the BIackfoot rivers. Why not? Perhaps those of us in the western prophetic traditions have been afraid that ; we will worship nature and not God. DIANA RANKIN It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success. DIANA RANKIN It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success. DIANE Youth lasts much longer than young people think. DIANE ARBUS Love involves an unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. DIANE ARBUS My favourite thing is to go where I have never gone. DICKENS- Its over, and cant be helped, and thats one consolation, as they always say in Turkey. DIETRICH BANBOEFFER 0 merciful God, forgive me all the Sins I have committed against you, andagainst my fellow men. I trust in your grace and commit my life: wholly into your hands. So do with me as seems best to you and as is best for me. Whether I live or die, I am with you, and you are with me, my God. Lord, I wait for your salvation. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The test of the morality as a society is what it does for its children. DIGHA NIKAYA Brethren, if outsiders should speak against me, or against the Doctrine, or against the Order, you should not on that account either bear malice, or suffer resentment, or feel ill will. If you, on that account, should feel angry and hurt, that would stand in the way of your own self-conquest. DIGHA NIKAYA He who says: "It is too hot, too cold, too late!" Leaving the waiting work unfinished still, Lets pass all opportunities for good. But he who reckons heat and cold as straws And like a man does all that's to be done, He never falls away from happiness. DIGHA NIKAYA In five ways should a child minister to his parents: 'Once supported by them, I will now be their support; I will perform duties incumbent on them; will keep up the lineage and tradition of my family; I will make myself worthy of my heritage. In five ways parents thus ministered to, by their child, show their love for him; They restrain him from vice, they exhort him to virtue, they train him to a profession, they contract a suitable marriage for him, and in due time they hand over to him his inheritance. DIGHA NIKAYA The friend who always seeks his benefit, The friend whose words are other than his deeds, The friend who flatters just to make you pleased, The friend who keeps you company in wrong, These four the wise regard as enemies: Shun them from afar as paths of danger. The friend who is a helper all the time, The friend in happiness and sorrow both, The friend who gives advice that's always good, These four the wise see as good-hearted friends And with devotion cherish such as these As does a mother cherish her own child. DILLON LAUGHTON Do good things for others and people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright. For Jesus Christ, your saviour was born this happy night; along the hills of Galilee the white flocks sleeping lay. When Christ, the child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas Day. DINAH SHORE Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. DIOGENES Education is a controlling grace to the young, consolation to the older, wealth to the poor, ornaments to the rich. DIONYSIUS This Universe... is both One and Many. DIONYSIUS Trinity Higher than any being, any divinity, any goodness. Guide of Christians in the wisdom of heaven! Lead us up beyond unknowing and light, up to the farthest, highest peak of mystic scripture, where the mysteries of God's Word lie simple, absolute! And unchangeable in the brilliant darkness of - a hidden silence with treasures beyond all beauty. DIONYSIUS We must be transported wholly out of ourselves and given unto God... This Foolish Wisdom, which hath neither reason nor intelligence... is the cause of all intelligence and reason, and of all wisdom and understanding, DISRAELI We make our fortunes and call them fate. DISRAELI Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age, a regret. DIXY LEE RAY It is no coincidence that our reawakening to the special nature of our world and to its uniquely balanced environment and its limitations coincided with our first glimpse of earth from outer space, through the eyes of astronauts, television cameras and photographic equipment. DN PANDEY Since local knowledge systems in India are still being practised among communities, they can contribute to address the challenges of forest management, sustainable water management, biodiversity conservation, and mitigation of global climate change. Ecological consequences of climate change require that we access all stocks of knowledge for mitigation strategies. DOC SEUERINSEN Music and the arts are not just something to make people feel good. They elevate the soul and broaden the entire personality. DOCTRINE OF THE MEAN In the Book of Songs it is said, He makes no show of his moral worth, yet all the princes follow in his steps. Hence the moral man, by living a life of simple truth and earnestness, alone can I help to bring peace and order in the world. DOCTRINE OF THE MEAN It matters not what you inquire into but when you inquire into a thing, you must never give it up, until you have thoroughly understood it. It matters not what you try to think out, but when you once try to think out a thing, you must never give it up until you have got what you want. DOCTRINE OF THE MEAN Only those who are absolutely sincere can fully develop their nature. If they can fully develop their nature, they can fully develop the nature of others. DOLLY PARTON If you want the rainbow you've got to put up with a little rain. DOLLY PARTON Storms make trees take deeper roots. DOLLY PARTON The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. DOM MORAES- I shall leave in ways we believed, impossible in our youth. A little tired, but in end, not unhappy to have lived. DON DE LILLO There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. DON GALER In the heroic organizations, people mentor each other unselfishly. DON HAROLDS Dont ever slam a door, you might to go back. DON JUAN DE MARCO There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying fort The answer to each is the same. Only love. DON MARQUIS Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. DON MARQUIS I have often noticed that when chickens quit quarrelling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race. DON MARQUIS When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him, whose? DON MORQUIS- Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. DON WARD Enthusiasm is contagious. Start an epidemic. DON WARD Others can stop you temporarily; only you can do it permanently. DON WARD Take your job seriously but learn to laugh at yourself. DON WIIIIAMS JR God talks incessantly. But, as it turns out, mankind is deaf. DON WILLIAM JR God, despite his casual silence, still exists. Of that I haven't a single doubt. DON WILLIAMS JR On an altar of prejudice we crucify our own, yet the blood of all children is the colour of God. DONALD H. ME CANNON Leadership is action, not position. DONALD LAIRD To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. DONALD LATUMAHINA 1. Be observant. 2. Never let any idea go uncaptured. 3. Try to learn something from the people you meet. 4. Take a book or magazine wherever you go. 5. Allocate a minimum of 30 minutes to read a book. 6. Meditate. 7. Take time to reflect on your day. What have you done right? What have you done wrong? What can you do to improve yourself? 8. Drink water a lot. 9. Exercise. 10. Read a collection of quotes. 11. Choose a quote of the day to ponder and apply. 12. Take notes of every expense you make. 13. Do something for the first time. 14. Effectively read online articles. 15. Use timer to help you actually do what you need to do. 16. Learn to use a tool, either to improve your skill with a familiar tool or to learn a new tool. 17. Take time to review your life purpose and goals. 18. Rise early 19. Listen to educational or motivational audio programme when you are doing activities which do not need full concentration. 20. Be grateful for your day 21. Read a random article to expose you to new things. 22. Have fun. Be passionate about life. DONALD LATUMAHINA There is no such thing as instant improvement in life. And as you know in agriculture, growth can only happen little by little over time.... The things that you do daily may seem small and insignificant, but over time people will be surprised to learn how much you have grown in life. Focus on the small things you do daily The key word here is daily If you do not have the persistence to do these small things consistently, you won't be able to see the results over the long term. DONALD LUPTON- "The best news is when we hear no news. DONALD TRUMP - As long as youre going to think anyway, think big. DONALD TRUMP You have to think anyway, so why not think big? DONNA A FAVORS Being nice is one of many bridges on the road to Happiness. DORIS DAY Killing an animal to make a coat is a sin. It wasn't meant to be and 'we have no right to I do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful. DORIS DAY The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge. DORIS LESSING Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous. DORIS LESSING Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. DORIS MORTMAN Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. DOROTHEA KENT A man 90 years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said with a twinkle in his eye, "because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried." DOROTHY BERNARD Courage is fear that has said its prayers. DOROTHY F GURNEY Kiss of fhesurt for pardon. Song of the birds for mirth you're closer to God's heart in a garden than any place else on earth. DOROTHY NORMAN -Are cosmic creation myths in microcosm. They depict, in no matter how subtle variation, the eternal battle we wage to release the creative energies within ourselves and in the world. DOROTHY NORMAN -Myths of the heroes are cosmic creation myths in microcosm. They depict, in no matter how subtle variation, the eternal battle we wage to release the creative energies within ourselves and in the world. DOROTHY PARKER - If you want to know what God thinks of money, just looks at the people he gave it to. DOROTHY PARKER I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn. DOROTHY PARKER Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts. DOROTHY PARKER Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart. DOROTHY SERPES If you remember just the roses Forgetting all the thorns The memory of a harsh word Should not linger on I Remember all the kisses That swept those words away/ And the smiles and. laughter And the sunshine of the day I Recall all those moments You treasured once before And keep them in your treasure chest Now and forever more Life's sunset is so beautiful It can make you smile If you recall sweet memories Just for a passing while The world is yet so beautiful It hasn't changed at all; You can hear the nightingale/ You can hear the koel call The roses are still fragrant/ As they were in years gone by The birds still sing as sweetly And there are white clouds in the sky It's up to you to freshen up i Before the curtain falls For Death is not the end of life? It's the Beginning for us all. DOROTHY THOMPSON Fear grows in darkness; if you think theres a bogeyman around, turn on the light. DOUG LARSON To err is human; to admit it, superhuman. DOUGIAS P WHEEIER To halt the decline of an ecosystem it is necessary to think like an ecosystem. DOUGLARSVN A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes. DOUGLAS ADAMS - Gods final message to creation: Sorry for the inconvenience. DOUGLAS ADAMS - In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. DOUGLAS ADAMS- Any one who is capable of getting himself into a position of power soul on no account is allowed to do the job. DOUGLAS ADAMS If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. DOUGLAS ADAMS In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea. DOUGLAS ADAMS It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination. DOUGLAS ADAMS l may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. DOUGLAS ADAMS Nothing travels faster than the speed of the light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. DOUGLAS ADAMS This is obviously some strange usage of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of. DOUGLAS EVERETT There are some people, who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. DOUGLAS JERRDD Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. DOUGLAS JERROLD A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects another's weakness. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away DOUGLAS MALLOCH You have to believe in happiness, Or happiness never comes. DOUGLAS PAGEIS A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best thing you can be. DOUGLAS YATESS People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. DR BENDRE Age after age, Millennium after millennium, Yugadi returns. Bringing with it new joy of the New Year and of a new life. DR SEUSS And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore./Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before./ What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store./ What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. DR TED KAPTCHUK Health is an episode between two illnesses. DR. LEONARD BACON- This country is inhabited by Saints, Sinners and Beechers. DRAUPADI, SABHA Go, and ask that gambler present in the assembly, whom he hath lost first, himself, or me. DREW BARRYMORE Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time! DRIES SHAH It is not enough that there is a collection of people with the common aim of working in unison towards an objective... Aspiration and desire only are not enough. DRYDEN Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace. DRYDEN Mark her majestic fabric; she's a temple. Sacred by birth, and built by hands divine. DRYDEN There are three effects of doting age: Vain doubts, idle cares, over caution. DUDLEY MOOKE The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. DUE DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD However brilliant an action may be, it should not be accounted great when it is not the result of great purpose. DUE DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are all enough to bear the misfortunes of other. DUKE OD EILINGTON Love is indescribable and unconditional; I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. DUKE OF WINDSOR- The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. DULICHAND JAIN One has to understand that non-violence and equality constitute eternal dharma. DULICHAND JAIN Perhaps more than any other religious tradition, Janism is imbued with its commitment to self-reliance. In the soul's tormented struggle to free itself from its beginningless, and possibly endless - worldly bondage, neither fate nor the gods can be of any help. Even the Jinas cannot relieve him of his karmic debts; however, it is their teaching which facilitates the soul's journey towards perfection. DUMBLEDORE Dark and difficult times lie ahead, Harry. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right... and what is easy. DUMBLEDORE His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof. DUMBLEDORE The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone One does not do well to dream and forget to live. DUMBLEDORE What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does. DUMBLEDORE Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. DUNCAN JOHNSTONE First published shortly after his death in February 1940, 'Memory Hold-the-door' is not an autobiography in the fullest sense, but rather a collection of reminiscences about people and places John Buchan had known. In the first sentence of the preface he wrote: This book is a journal of certain experiences, not written in the experiencing moment, but rebuilt out of memory'. DUNYA MIKHAIL The Wright brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas and values together Bill Gates It no longer overlooks the river No longer is in the city No longer on the map The bridge that was The bridge that we used to cross every day The bridge The war tossed it into the river Just as that lady aboard the Titanic Tossed her blue diamond. DURGA ASHTOTRAM A tiger symbolises unlimited power. Durga riding tiger indicates that She possesses unlimited power and uses it to protect virtue and destroy evil. DURGALAKSHMI, V It is God, His being, His seeing, which make the whole world seem a never ending beauty in bliss. This beauty, this bliss is born of love divine. To grant man this beauty, this true bliss of love, God comes down and walks the earth, as a sage, as a saint, a mahatma or a guru divine. His mystic divine vision now, is for one and all, to see, to drink in and feel sweet ecstasy Man then dances singing thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks my dear lord, for revealing to me You and I can be one in sweet godly seeing. Truth, love and beauty are an eternal reality to me now, as I know You are me and I You. dustin hoffman Life stinks but that doesnt mean you dont enjoy it. DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Well, its hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesnt have equal rights. DWIGHT D ELSENHOWER Plans are nothing; planning is everything. DWIGHT D ELSENHOWER We, the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve. DWIGHT EISENHOWER Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. DWLGHT D. EISENHOWER I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. DYLAN THOMAS Though lovers be lost love shall not/And death shall have no dominion. LORD GEORGE-BROWN It is difficult to go on strike if there is no work in the first place. SMITH If to be old is not to be wise, then it is simply to be obsolete. please
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