The Four Recipes
17 May 2010
he key to having a wonderful relationship and family life, as recently shared by a famous Indonesian holistic healer, are very simple things which ironically are often overlooked in today's modern society.
Firstly, it is the continuous undivided attention. In many households in metropolitan cities, every day is usually filled with normal busy schedules and almost endless streams of information hitting the minds. Hence the simple act of giving proper attention alone is often quite a challenge.
Secondly, it is one's ability to give as well as receive love and compassion. When one is in extreme imbalance in just one side, suffering is sure to occur. e.g. when one gives all the time without receiving, then the relationship is doomed. The same applies to the reverse.
Thirdly, it is the ability to listen wholeheartedly. In daily life there are often times when we wish to convey several points across to other people but end up censoring many parts of the message. These end up in our memory as junk which continues to build up and makes one yearn to talk them out to friends in order to feel short-term relief.
In relation to the above, last but not least, we need total complete honesty. Complete and directly understandable honest confessions, while at times may bring out troubles, actually can save one from accumulating many small hidden problems which one day will result in nuclear explosions.
In the series, whilst the young Oshin endured many pain and suffering, and sometimes even torture, the old Oshin enjoyed the fruits of her financial success in her supermarket venture.
“Everyone makes mistakes. That is why, on every pencil there is an eraser.” (Japanese proverb) In this opportunity I would like to share a meaningful story about a pencil being advised on the task whi...
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Generally, the most successful people are those with focused, rather than diversification strategies in place. Hence no wonder that they are usually experts in areas of their choices, hence natural value investing practitioners who are not so affected by bubbles and bursts.
In addition, I observed that as one makes progress from one wealth level to the next, he or she generally comes across new skills, knowledge, or perceptions that are simply unforeseen at the previous stages. The newfound knowledge may or may not be directly related to the wealth creation process itself, but nonetheless is still valuable as a stepping stone to the next stage.
Wealth is an abundance of valuable material possessions or resources. The word is derived from the old English wela, which is from an Indo-European word stem. An individual, community, region or country that has an abundance of such possessions or resources is called wealth.
Complete and directly understandable honest confessions, while at times may bring out troubles, actually can save one from accumulating many small hidden problems which one day will result in nuclear explosions.
The role of parents is to guide them to find their true choice and help them reach there, as opposed to dictating their own set of ideals and goals or impose their own will forcefully onto the children. If the children are guided towards their true destiny in life, they can then find their own happiness and the role of parents is fulfilled on that aspect.
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It’s not the first time we have seen such public display of near nudity. In various occasions, the point such groups made vary. Examples include animal rights, campaign against use of fur. This time it is about vegetarian lifestyle to save the planet.
Doctor fish is the name given to two species of fish: Garra rufa and Cyprinion macrostomus. Other nicknames include nibble fish, kangal fish, little dermatologists and doctorfishen; in non-medical contexts, Garra rufa is called the reddish log sucker.
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Get the important things figured out first, then fit everything else in around them. In other words, know what your priorities are.
You can study, and you can be a master – and just a few hours a day can make the difference. Even a few minutes a day can eventually help make you an expert. Decide what you’d love to master and follow the Law of Study; become a diligent lifetime student.
If one can every now and then pause from the rat race for a while and enjoy some blissful moment, one can find some moments of happiness within and at present while continuing to grow one’s potential with full courage, thus becoming ever more fulfilled in life.
Giving overly dramatic examples sometimes don’t get the message across. Rather, the viewers may simply regard it as another ‘2012’ style of doomsday forecast, and remain skeptics, which in turn is not what the planet needs.
That way, prisons are turned into rehabilitation centers. This idea, quite wild as it sounds, is actually not exactly revolutionary. In fact, Bond University pays staff bonuses based on the employment success of its students. Hence, there is no reason not to re-configure the compensation of the staff handling these inmates in a similar manner.
It is about a group of extremely powerful, influential figures most of whom are from the western world who conduct annual meetings to determine the next world events to their ultimate advantage, often to the detriment of governments even in advanced countries.
Whatever happened in the past, happened for the best; whatever is happening, is happening for the best; whatever will happen in future, will happen for the best. Do not repent the past, do not worry for future, concentrate on your present.
Five kids play a wishing game.
The rule is simple. The kid with the greatest wish wins the game.
This is the prayer Morrnah said to help heal hundreds if not thousands of people. It’s simple but powerful: Divine creator, father, mother, son as one . . . If I, my family, relatives, and ancestors h...