The Secret

One day, one friend asked another, "How is it that you are always so happy? You have so much energy, and you never seem to get down."

With her eyes smiling, she said, "I know the Secret!" "What secret is that?" To which she replied, "I'll tell you all about it, but you have to promise to share the Secret with others."

"The Secret is this: I have learned there is little I can do in my life that will make me truly happy. I must depend on God to make me happy and to meet my needs. When a need arises in my life, I have to trust God to supply according to HIS riches. I have learned most of the time I don't need half of what I think I do. He has never let me down. Since I learned that 'Secret', I am happy."

The questioner's first thought was, "That's too simple!" But upon reflecting over her own life she recalled how she thought a bigger house would make her happy, but it didn't! She thought a better paying job would make her happy, but it hadn't. When did she realize her greatest happiness? Sitting on the floor with her grandchildren, playing games, eating pizza or reading a story, a simple gift from God.

Now you know it too! We can't depend on people to make us happy. Only GOD in His infinite wisdom can do that. Trust HIM! And now I pass the Secret on to you! So once you get it, what will you do?

YOU have to tell someone the Secret, too! That GOD in His wisdom will take care of YOU! But it's not really a secret... We just have to believe it and do it... Really trust God!

Newer Ways of Proposals

1. (Walk up behind girl and point fingers shaped like gun into herback) You're under arrest! ; (For what?) For stealing my heart.

2. Hi, my name is Chance, Do I have one?

3. are your legs tired? (Girl: Why?) Because you have been runningthrough my mind all day!

4. I lost my phone number, can I borrow yours?

5. Can you give me directions to your heart? I've seemed to have lostmyself in your eyes.

6. (Take a look at the tag on the girls shirt, jacket, etc.); Shewould say ; What are doing & respond, Oh, just checking to see ifyou were made in Heaven.

7. (Pick up a flower and walk over to girl.)I was just showing thisflower how beautiful you are.

8. Is it hot in here or is it just you?

9. Are you from Greece? she answers. Oh, I thought all the gods werefrom Greece...

10. I could be born in your eye, run down your cheek, and & die on your lips.

11. Did you know they changed the alphabet? They put U and I together.

12. Are you lost? 'cause it's so strange to see an angel so far from heaven.

13. Do you believe in love at first sight, or do I have to walk by you again?

14. What's that in your eye? Oh...it's a sparkle.

15. Do you have a map? I just got lost in your eyes.

16. You can forget about going to heaven because it's a sin to look that good.

17. If I had eleven roses and you, I'd have a dozen.

Buddha's Teachings

Lord Buddha preached: "We will have to find out the cause of sorrow and the way to escape from it. The desire for sensual enjoyment and clinging to earthly life is the cause of sorrow. If we can eradicate desire, all sorrows and pains will come to an end. We will enjoy Nirvana or eternal peace. Those who follow the Noble Eightfold Path strictly, viz., right opinion, right resolve, right speech, right conduct, right employment, right exertion, right thought and right self-concentration will be free from sorrow. This indeed, O mendicants, is that middle course which the Tathagata has thoroughly comprehended, which produces insight, which produces knowledge, which leads to calmness or serenity, to supernatural knowledge, to perfect Buddhahood, to Nirvana.

"This again, indeed, O mendicants, is the noble truth of suffering. Birth is painful, old age is painful, sickness is painful, association with unloved objects is painful, separation from loved objects is painful, the desire which one does not obtain, this is too painful - in short, the five elements of attachment to existence are painful. The five elements of attachment to earthly existence are form, sensation, perception, components and consciousness.

"This again, indeed, O mendicants, is the truth of the cause of suffering. It is that thirst which leads to renewed existence, connected with joy and passion, finding joy here and there, namely, thirst for sensual pleasure, and the instinctive thirst for existence. This again, indeed, O mendicants, is the noble truth of cessation of suffering, which is the cessation and total absence of desire for that very thirst, its abandonment, surrender, release from it and non-attachment to it. This again, indeed, O mendicants, is the noble truth of the course which leads to the cessation of suffering. This is verily the Noble Eightfold Path, viz., right opinion, etc."

You ' r e all loved.....
15 Things You Probably
Never Knew or Thought About

1. At least 5 people in this world love you so much they would die for you.

2. At least 15 people in this world love you in some way.

3. The only reason anyone would ever hate you is because they want to be just like you.

4. A smile from you can bring happiness to anyone, even if they don't like you.

5. Every night, SOMEONE thinks about you before they go to sleep.

6. You mean the world to someone.

7. If not for you, someone may not be living.

8. You are special and unique.

9. Someone that you don't even know exists loves you.

10. When you make the biggest mistake ever, something good comes from it.

11. When you think the world has turned its back on you, take a look: you most likely turned your back on the world.

12. When you think you have no chance of getting what you want, you probably won't get it, but if you believe in yourself, probably, sooner or later, you will get it.

13. Always remember the compliments you received. Forget about the rude remarks.

14. Always tell someone how you feel about them; you will feel much better when they know.

15. If you have a great friend, take the time to let them know that they are great.

Let the power of tolerance be your armor. Without this armor, you become delicate to the storm of obstacles and you lose your happiness, enthusiasm and become disheartened. This armor will be your protection.

It is true that there is much suffering in the world. But do we need to worry about it? If we focus on the negative, that drains us of the strength to help. Goodness and truth are also at work in our world, as well as darker forces. When I switch on my awareness of positive qualities common to humanity, it is like bringing light into the darkness. The past stops haunting me and I stop worrying about the future. I see more clearly what I need to do now, for lasting happiness and health.

The reason angels can fly is that they take themselves so lightly.

The ability to enjoy one's own company is one of the greatest gifts life has to offer. Learning to turn our thoughts away from all our responsibilities at the day's end and take our mind into a state of peace and benevolence enables us to carry greater and greater loads without feeling burdened. When our inner landscape is full of beautiful thoughts, everything we do is a pleasure. Gently, we calm down chaotic situations and offer solace to troubled minds.

Loving you is the second best thing I have done, finding you was the first.

If you don't know what you want in life, a terrible thing happens....nothing. Don't wait for opportunity, make it.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.

A positive attitude is the one characteristic that all successful people have in common.

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse.

A positive thinker learns to knock the "t" off the "can't.

The pleasure you get from your life is equal to the attitude you put into it.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

A positive attitude is like a fire....unless you continue to add fuel, it goes out.

They are able because they think they are able.

When she attains sixteen years of age, even a sow becomes a nymph.
(Any girl seems beautiful in the first blush of youth.)

Even though perched on the pinnacle of a palace, a crow does not become Garuda.
(No matter how high a fool may rise, he remains a fool.)

No matter how well-trained the tumbler's boy, he will never be able to stand on his own shoulders.

Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is husband !

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you, you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.

After lunch; rest; after dinner walk a mile.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows: he breathes but does not live.

Just as female bees gather so much honey little by little that it can fill several pots. Likewise, wise men gather knowledge, religious merit and penance little by little continuously, without ever giving up.

Whenever there is profit to be made then think of honesty.

Only your real friends tell you when your face is dirty.

A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows; he breathes, but does not live.

As the sun is golden at the time of rising as well as setting,
the behaviour of the noblemen is the same during pleasure and disaster.

The hope is a wonderful chain. Those who are tied with it, actually run fast and those who are free from it, live quietly.

“Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life.”

Your intellect follows your sight and your mind runs closely behind. Teachyour eyes to have an elevated vision and your mind will be relaxed.

Two newly married girls are chatting. One says, "My husband is so clever that anybody else can't read what he has written." The other says, "Mine is more clever. He himself can't read what he has written."

Shree

A king is worshipped only in his own kingdom,
But a scholar is worshipped everywhere.