Dr. Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and founder of the M.K.Gandhi Institute for Non-violence, in his June 9 lecture at the University of Puerto Rico, shared the following story as an example of"non-violence in parenting": "I was 16 years old and living with my parents at the institute my grandfather had founded 18 miles outside of Durban, South Africa, in the middle of the sugar plantations. We were deep in the country and had no neighbors, so my two sisters and I would always look forward to going to town to visit friends or go to the movies. One day, my father asked me to drive him to town for an all-day conference, and I jumped at the chance. Since I was going to town, my mother gave me a list of groceries she needed and, since I had all day in town, my father ask me to take care of several pending chores, such as getting the car serviced. When I dropped my father off that morning, he said, 'I will meet you here at 5:00 p.m., and we will go home together.' After hurriedly completing my chores, I went straight to the nearest movie theatre. I got so engrossed in a John Wayne double-feature that I forgot the time. It was 5:30 before I remembered. By the time I ran to the garage and got the car and hurried to where my father was waiting for me, it was almost 6:00. He anxiously asked me, 'Why were you late?' I was so ashamed of telling him I was watching a John Wayne western movie that I said, 'The car wasn't ready, so I had to wait,' not realizing that he had already called the garage. When he caught me in the lie, he said: 'There's something wrong in the way I brought you up that didn't give you the confidence to tell me the truth. In order to figure out where I went wrong with you, I'm going to walk home 18 miles and think about it.' So, dressed in his suit and dress shoes, he began to walk home in the dark on mostly unpaved, unlit roads. I couldn't leave him, so for five-and-a-half hours I drove behind him, watching my father go through this agony for a stupid lie that I uttered. I decided then and there that I was never going to lie again. I often think about that episode and wonder, if he had punished me the way we punish our children, whether I would have learned a lesson at all. I don't think so. I would have suffered the punishment and gone on doing the same thing. But this single non-violent action was so powerful that it is still as if it happened yesterday. That is the power of non-violence."  

 

 

 

 

Once a student from a far off place approached Mullah Nasiruddin, a Sufi
master, to learn how to attain happiness. The student had a big bag with him
containing clothes, cash and other items. The mullah looked at him and then
suddenly snatched the bag and ran. The student was taken aback. He started
chasing the mullah. But the mullah was fast and disappeared quickly. The
student gave up all hopes of retrieving the bag. What could he do? He
started cursing himself for his foolish pursuit of coming to this teacher.
Suddenly the master appeared and returned his bag. "Here is happiness. Have
you found it now?" The student found his purse inside and was quite
relieved. "Yes, now I am happy," he said. The mullah asked, "When you
desire something and get the same, you become happy, isn't it?" The student
replied, "Yes, it goes without saying." The mullah asked him again. 'Were
you not happy when you were already in possession of the bag? Now since you
have got it back, will you continue to remain happy for ever?' The student
realised that happiness connected to material possessions is short lived.
Its loss can lead to unhappiness, but the possession does not keep one happy
for long either. The mullah explained, "Happiness and unhappiness are two
states of mind subject to loss and gain. But if you want to be in a
perpetual state of happiness, you need to be indifferent to loss and gain
and cultivate even- mindness. The more you can do the same, the happier you
become. This is the only secret."

 

 

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows
that you are slightly cracked. -- Bernard Meltzer.


A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. --
Fr. Jerome Cummings


Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store
nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.
-- Cindy Lew


Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure. --
Jewish Saying



"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and
still likes you."
-- Elbert Hubbard


"Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure."
-- Jewish saying


What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two
bodies. -- Aristotle



Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.-- Albert Camus



"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a
friend.-- Abraham Lincoln



Hold a true friend with both your hands. -- Nigerian
Proverb



"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."
-- Apocrypha


Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some
stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts.
And we are never, ever the same.-- Anonymous



Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find
one good you must one hundred try. -- Claude Mermet



"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides
the evil."
-- Baltasar Gracian (1647)


"Friendship needs no words..."
-- Dag Hammarskjold.


"Friends are the sunshine of life."
-- John Hay (1871)


"The best mirror is an old friend."
--George Herbert

 Best Moments in Life:

              

               -  To fall in love.

              

                - To laugh until it hurts your stomach.

              

                - To find mails by the thousands when you return of the vacations.

              

                - To manage for a vacation at some pretty place.

              

                - To listen to your favorite song in the radio.

              

                - To go to bed and to listen while it rains out.

              

                - To leave the shower and find that the towel is warm.

              

                - To clear your last exam.

              

                - To receive a call from someone, you don't see a lot, but you want to.

              

                - A good conversation with a sweet person.

              

                - To find money in a pant that you didn't use last year from the.

              

                - To laugh at oneself looking at mirror, making faces.:)))

              

                - Calls at the midnight that last for hours.

              

                - To laugh without reasons.

              

                - To hear accidentally that somebody says something good of you.

              

                - To wake up and realize it is still possible to sleep a couple of hours.

              

                - To hear a song that makes you remember a special person.

              

                - To be part of a team.

              

                - To watch the sunset from the hill top.

              

                - To make new friends.

              

                - To feel butterflies! in the stomach every time that you see that Person .

              

                - To pass a while with your best friends.

              

                - To see people that you like, feeling happy.

              

                - To use a sweater of the person that you like and it still smells of their perfume.

              

                - See an old friend again and to feel that the things did not change.

              

                - To take an evening walk along the beach.

              

                - To have somebody who tells you that he/she loves you. 

              

                - To laugh .......laugh........and laugh ......remembering stupid things by stupid friends.

              

              

                .................... are the best moments of life.

 

 

 

IS THERE ANYTHING MISSING PLEASE DO LET ME KNOW      .......====MAYANK

KINDNESS Pays !

 One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from
door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin dime
left, and he was hungry.
 He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost
 his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door.
 Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water.
She thought he looked hungry so brought him a large glass of milk. He
drank it slowly, and then asked, "How much do I owe you?"

 "You don't owe me anything," she replied "Mother
has taught us never to accept payment for a kindness." He said... "Then I thank you from my heart." As Howard Kelly left that house, he not
only felt; stronger physically, but his faith in God and man was strong also. He had been
 ready
 to give up and quit.

 Years later that young woman became critically ill. The local doctors
 were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city,where they called
 in specialists to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard Kelly was called in
 for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from,
 a strange light filled his eyes. Immediately he rose and went down the
 hall of the hospital to her room. Dressed in his
doctor's gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at once. He went back to
the consultation room determined to do his best to save her life. From
that day he gave special attention to the case.

 After a long struggle, the battle was won. Dr.Kelly requested the
 business office to pass the final bill to him for approval.
He looked at it, then wrote something on the edge and the bill
 was sent to her room. She feared to open it, for she was sure it would
 take the rest of her life to pay for it all. Finally,
she looked, and something caught ; her attention on the side as She
 read these words.....

 "Paid in full with one glass of milk." (Signed)
Dr. Howard Kelly.

 Tears of joy flooded her eyes as her happy heart
prayed: "Thank You,
 GOD,
 that Your love has spread abroad through human
hearts and hands."