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| Evolution of Love Part 2 |
| There is an old Hotel/Pub in Marble Arch, London , which used to have gallows adjacent to it. Prisoners were taken to the gallows (after a fair trial of course) to be hung. The horse-drawn dray, carting the prisoner, was accompanied by an armed guard, who would stop the dray outside the pub and ask the prisoner if he would like ''ONE LAST DRINK''. If he said YES, it was referred to as ONE FOR THE ROAD. If he declined, that prisoner was ON THE WAGON. So there you go. More bleeding history. They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot and then once a day it was taken and sold to the tannery. If you had to do this to survive you were "piss poor", but worse than that were the really poor folk, who couldn't even afford to buy a pot, they "Didn't have a pot to piss in" and were the lowest of the low. The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be in England. Here are some facts about the 1500s: Most people got married in June, because they took their yearly bath in May and they still smelled pretty good by June. However, since they were starting to smell, brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odour. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married. Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women, and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water!" Houses had thatched roofs, thick straw piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs." There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom, where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence. The floor was dirt.. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, "dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way. Hence: a thresh hold. (Getting quite an education, aren't you?) In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight, then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme: ''Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot, nine days old''. Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over they would hang up their bacon, to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, "Bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around talking and ''chew the fat''. Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning and death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous. Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or ''The Upper Crust''. Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of ''Holding a Wake''. England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people, so they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realised they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, thread it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift) to listen for the bell; thus someone could be, ''Saved by the Bell'' or was considered a ''Dead Ringer''. And that's the truth. Now, whoever said history was boring ! ! ! So .. . . get out there and educate someone !!! |
| One day a person climbed a mountain where a hermit woman who took refuge in Meditating , and asked: - "What are you doing in such Solitude?" To which she replied: - "I have a lot of Work." - "And how can you have so much work? I don't see anything around here ... - "I have to train two hawks and two eagles, reassure two rabbits, discipline a snake, motivate a donkey and tame a lion." -"And, where do they go that I don't see them?" - "I have them Inside. The Hawks are launched on everything that is presented to me, good or bad, I have to train them to launch on good things. They are my Eyes. The two Eagles with their claws hurt and destroy, I have to teach them not to hurt. They are my Hands. The Rabbits want to go where they want, not to face difficult situations, I have to teach them to be calm even if there is suffering, or stumbling. They are my Feet. The Donkey is always tired, stubborn, does not want to carry his load many times. It is my Body. The most difficult to tame is the Snake. Although she is locked in a strong cage, she is always ready to bite and poison anyone nearby. I have to discipline her. It is my Tongue. I also have a Lion. Oh ... how proud and vain ... he thinks he is the king. I have to tame him. It is my Ego. - As you see, friend, I have a lot of work. And you, what do _you_ work on?" |
1. Take care of your health. Spend time n money on maintaining yourself. 2. Learn to be independent. Its perfectly ok to not earn, but its important to be independent. 3. Learn to ride that bike or drive that car. You don't always need an escort! 4. Learn about investments and taxes. Its not necessary to have someone else manage your savings n earnings. 5. Plan and save for your own gifts n desires. You don't always need a husband or your dad to buy you something you love. Gift yourself! 6. Take equal responsibility of your parents. Its not acceptable to expect everything from your brother every time. 7. Let the father take care of the unwell child once in a while. Your career is equally important and the father is equally responsible. 8. Its ok if the kitchen platform is exceptionally unclean or sink is full of dirty vessels. Relax n take that break! 9. Help the other woman, even if you dont like her. You never know what her battles are. 10. Its ok to get on well with inlaws! Not every family needs to have a saas-bahu drama. 11. Have some friends (men and women) beyond your husband's group, Its ok ! Spend some time away from family with your friends. 12. Its ok to not cry. Not all women need to be sentimental all the time 13. When things go wrong, try to be balanced and find way out of your problems. You don't need to play the victim. 14. Find time to read and keep yourself updated. 15. Raise independent, caring and health conscious kids. Make all family members equally accountable and responsible. 16. Create different girlie groups. Share your problems, seek opinions but finally take your own decision and stick to it. 17. Spend some time doing what you like, even if its just sitting idle. Dont feel guilty because others feel its worthless. 18. Believe in yourself, or noone else will. 19. Remember, you have a voice, use it! 20. Have a dream, and don’t sacrifice it for anyone. |
| A lady who was over 90 years old, had a great flair towards dressing up well, applying makeup and arranging her hair in beautiful patterns. She and her husband had been married to each other for 70 years. After the departure of her beloved partner, having no children and no one in the family to care for her, She decided to move to a nursing home. Even on the day when she vacated her home for good, she dressed up elegantly and looked gorgeous. After arriving at the nursing home, she had to wait patiently in the lobby for hours before room was ready. When an attendant helped her make her way to the room, she gave the lady a visual description of the tiny space that she was meant to occupy. "I love it” The lady expressed with the enthusiasm of an eight year old who had just been presented with a new puppy. "Mrs Jones, you haven't even seen the room yet... Just wait. " The attendant remarked. "Well, My joy has nothing to do with the room, " The lady replied. "Whether I like my room or not, doesn’t depend on how the furniture is arranged, it depends on how I arrange my mind, happiness is something you can decide ahead of time. And I have already decided to love my room, to love the people around me, to love my life. It is a decision that I make every morning when I wake up. You know what, the greatest asset we all have is the power to choose how we feel. " The lady continued speaking, as the attendant listened attentively with her mouth wide open. "I can spend my entire day in bed thinking of the pain I am in, focusing on the parts of my body that no longer work or I can get out of bed and be thankful for those parts that do work. Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes can still open, I will continue to focus on today and all the happy memories I have stored in my mind, just for this time in my life." The attendant was astounded by the positive attitude of the elderly lady, whose life from an external point of view, was only full of problems and hopelessness. Actually, Only problems happen automatically, Happiness is a choice we all have to make. "Hatred" happens automatically "love" is a choice we all have to make. Being negative happens automatically Positive attitude is a choice we all have to make. " Complaining " is automatic " Gratitude" is a choice we all have to make. Let’s choose right and live well. |
| A pensioner drove his brand new Mercedes to 100 mph on the m1 looking in his rear view mirror, he saw a police car behind him. He floored it to 140 , then 150, ... then 155, ... Suddenly he thought, "I'm too old for this nonsense !" So he pulled over to the side of the road and waited for the police car to catch up with him. The officer walked up to him, looked at his watch and said, "Sir, my shift ends in ten minutes. Today is Friday and I'm taking off for the weekend with my family. If you can give me a good reason that I've never heard before, why you were speeding... I'll let you go." The Man looked very seriously at the police man, and replied :- "Years ago, my wife ran off with a policeman, I thought you were bringing her back." !!! The Cop left saying, " Have a good day, Sir "... 😂😂😂 |
| Someone asked the richest man in the world, Bill Gates, “ Is there anyone richer than you in the world ?” Bill Gates replied, “ Yes, there is a person who is richer than me.” He then narrated a story. “It’s during the time when I wasn't rich or famous. I was at the New York Airport when I saw a newspaper vendor. I wanted to buy one newspaper but found that I don't have enough of change. So I left the idea of buying and returned it to the vendor. I told him of not having the change. The vendor said, “ I am giving you this for free.” On his insistence I took the newspaper. Coincidentally, after 2–3months, I landed at the same airport and again I was in short of change for a newspaper. The vendor offered me the newspaper again. I refused and said that I can't take it for I don't have a change today too. He said, “ You can take it, I am sharing this from my profit, I won't be at loss.” I took the newspaper. After 19 years I became famous and known by people. Suddenly I remembered that vendor. I began searching for him and after about 1½ month of searching I found him. Google image I asked him, “ Do you know me?” He said, “ Yes, you are Bill Gates.” I asked him again, “ Do you remember once you gave me newspaper for free?” The vendor said, “ Yes, I remember. I gave you twice.” I said, “ I want to repay the help you had offered me that time. Whatever you want in your life,tell me, I shall fulfill it.” The vendor said, “ Sir, don't you think that by doing so you won't be able to match my help?” I asked, “ Why?” He said, “ I had helped you when I was a poor newspaper vendor and you are trying to help me now, when you have become the richest man in the world. How can your help match mine ?” That day I realised that the newspaper vendor is richer than me because he didn't wait to become rich to help someone.” People need to understand that the truly rich are those who possess a rich heart rather than lots of money. Its really very important to have a rich heart to help others. |
| ASK 'WHO AM I?' WITHOUT GIVING AN ANSWER It's like the story of the student who was in a class like this, and he kept asking his teacher, "Teacher, explain it more. I don't understand, tell me more." And this went on and on. And at the end of the class, when all the students left, the teacher told that particular student to stay here, and then he told him, "Follow me," and he took him to the edge of a river. And he said, "Look into the river." The student did, and he pushed him into the water and held his head underneath the water until he nearly drowned. Then he pulled him up by the hair. And he looked in his face and he said, "What is it you wanted more than anything else in the world, while you were under the water?" And all the student was able to do was to gasp for air. And he said, "Air, air, air." And the wise teacher said, "When you want to awaken as much as you wanted air, you will." This is true of all of us. Just take a look at your personal life. Just for today, what did you want more than to awaken today? If you were angry, then you wanted that, more than awakening. You see, whatever you put your feelings into, that's what comes first in your life. If something upset you? Then that became your God. You wanted that more than anything else. If you were in doubt that became your God. Whatever turns you on, whatever turns you off, became your God for that time. And that's what you give your energy to, so you increase that condition. As an example, if you are having problems with somebody, the more you think about it, the more you fuel it. The more you try to take any kind of an action to stop it, or to prevent it, or to change it, the more you are saying, "This is the truth about me." How should you react to something like that? You should not react. Something within you will do what it has to do, and you will be at peace if you will allow it to do so, first things first. "Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and all of it's righteousness, and all of these things will be added unto you," which means first things first. Focus your attention on the Self. Realize that you are pure awareness, that you are aware that I am consciousness, resulting in bliss. Therefore you are a body of bliss. Not as a human body, when I use the term body, I mean the body of the universe. You are a body of bliss. Bliss is your nature, and in that bliss there is nothing wrong. Calm down, mellow out, relax. You are the body of bliss, and your divine nature is consciousness. You can never have anything wrong in your life unless you put your mind on it and make it so. This is why you have to control your thinking. Do not allow your mind to tell you what's going on. If you learn to live in the moment, if you learn to center yourself and stay only in that moment, then you will be expressing consciousness, for consciousness is a moment thing. Consciousness is not yesterday or tomorrow. Consciousness is this moment. It's the gap between yesterday and tomorrow, the fourth stage of life. After waking, dreaming and sleeping, then there is consciousness. So putting first things first will alleviate all of the negative conditions of your life, if you have any. It will awaken you. And as you work on yourself, and your mind brings up all kinds of things, as it will sometimes. In a very gentle way ask yourself, "To whom does this come?" and keep still. And of course the answer will be, "It comes to me. I feel out of sorts, I feel depressed, I feel as if I'm not getting what I want, I feel that somebody is taking advantage of me." Further questioning, "Who is this I? What is its source? Who gave the I birth? Where did it originate from? Who am I?" There is never an answer to the question of, "Who am I?" By doing this process you will immediately feel better. And every time the mind brings up something else, you use the same procedure. "To whom does this come? Who is feeling this? I am?" Just by saying, "I am," it will immediately take you out of your personal thoughts about yourself and lift you higher to what "I am" really is. Yet if you don't feel that, you can ask again, "Then who am I?" And you keep doing this over and over and over. Someone called me the other day and told me, "Robert, I've been practicing for twelve years, and I feel despondent and I feel depressed." So I said, "Why?" And he said,"Because all my friends are enlightened except me." I had to laugh. "How do you know?" "They told me." |
| LIFE - A FEW MORE LEARNINGS..... 1. " The Fears We DON'T Face - Become Our LIMITS......" 2. " LOVE Those - Who Will Love You When You have NOTHING To Offer But YOUR COMPANY........" 3. " MEDITATE - Because Some Questions CANNOT Be Answered by Google........" 4. " You are Free to Choose But Not Free from The CONSEQUENCES of Your Choices......." 5. " Just Because You're Breathing DOES NOT Mean You are Alive - Make Your Life COUNT......." 6. " If You want to FLY, You have to Give Up the things that Weigh You Down........" AND DO ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS - REMEMBER..... 6. " See How Beautifully GOD has Added One More Day to Your Life NOT BECAUSE You May Need It BUT BECAUSE Someone Else May NEED You....." The Biggest Lesson of LIFE....... |
| President Xi Jing Peng of China said:* As a small child , I was very *selfish*, always grabbing the best for myself. Slowly, everyone left me and I had no friends. I *didn’t think* it was my fault and I criticize others. . But my father gave me 3 sentences to *help* me in life. . One day, my father cooked 2 bowls of noodles and put them. on the table. One had an egg on top while the other bowl had none on top. Then he asked me to choose a bowl of noodles . Because eggs were hard to come by those days.... I chose the bowl with egg! I was congratulating myself on my wise choice/decision and decided to wallop the egg....to my surprise as my father's bowl of noodles had *two* eggs at the bottom of his bowl beneath the noodles ! With much regret, I scolded myself for being too hasty in my decision. My father smiled and *taught* me to remember that *what your eyes see may not be true . He added that *If you make a habit of *taking advantage of people, you will end up losing . The next day, my father again cooked 2 bowls of noodles: one bowl with an egg on top and the other bowl with no egg on top. Again, he asked to choose the bowl I wanted This time I felt smarter so I chose the bowl without any egg on top. Hmmmmmm to my surprise, there was not even a single egg at the bottom of the bowl! Again, my father smiled and said to me, *My child, you must not always rely on experiences because sometimes, life can cheat you or play tricks on you*. Never be too annoyed or sad, with situations, *just treat experience as learning a lesson experience that cannot be gotten from any textbooks. . The third day, my father again cooked 2 bowls of noodles, one bowl with an egg on top and the other with no egg on top. He asked me to choose the bowl I wanted . But this time, I told my father, *Dad, you choose first, you are the head of the family and you contribute the most to the family*. My father was happy to and choose for me He chose the bowl with one egg on top, but as I ate my bowl of noodles, to my surprise! There were *two* eggs at the bottom of the bowl. . My father smiled at me with love in his eyes, he said *my child, you must remember that when you leave the Choice to God or your parents, they will always choose the BEST for you when you think for the good of others, good things will always naturally happen to you. I always remember these 3 sentences of my father Xi Jing Peng |
A merchant on a casual jaunt through a market, came across a fine specimen of a camel for sale. The merchant and the camel seller, both skilled negotiators, struck a hard bargain. The camel seller pleased with his skill of worming out what he felt was a very good price, parted with his camel and the merchant chuffed that he had struck a fantastic bargain, proudly walked home with the latest addition to his large livestock. On arriving home, the merchant called to his servant to come and help him take out the camel's saddle. The unwieldy heavily padded saddle being too difficult for the servant to manage on his own. Hidden under the saddle, the servant found a small velvet pouch which on opening he discovered to be filled with precious jewels!! The servant was overexcited!!! "Master, you bought a camel.....but see what came FREE along with it!!!" The merchant was astonished as he looked at the jewels in his servants' palm. They were of extraordinary quality sparkling and twinkling in the sunlight. "I bought the camel" he said, "not the jewels. I must return them to the camel seller immediately." The servant was aghast.....his master was really foolish. "Master.....no one will know." But the merchant headed right back to the market and handed over the velvet pouch back to the camel seller. The camel seller was very happy, " I had forgotten that I hid these jewels in the saddle for safe keeping." "Here, choose one of the jewels for yourself, as a reward." The merchant said "I paid a fair price for the camel and the camel only, so NO thank you, I do not need any reward." But as much as the merchant refused, the camel seller insisted. Finally the merchant said, sheepishly smiling, " Actually when I decided to bring the pouch back to you, I already took two of the most precious jewels and kept them for myself." At this confession, the camel seller was a bit flabbergasted and quickly emptied the pouch to count the jewels. However he was very confused. "All my jewels are here. What jewels did you keep? "The two most precious" said the camel seller. "My INTEGRITY and my SELF-RESPECT.” How would you explain integrity to a young child? Roger Jenkins explained it as "The ability to do the right thing or choosing to do the right thing when you could get away with doing the wrong thing." |
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