One Family, One World
Category: We are One
Posted: Feb 12, 2009 at 10:26 AM
By Esther B
Current mood: thankful
Whose heart could you lift right now? Let Me rephrase the question. Whose heart could you not lift right now? Whose heart cannot use some lifting? Who has not had troubles in his life? Who has not been hurt? Who is not still carrying some scars? The need for upliftment is great.
What if you actually believe that everyone is your brother, or your sister, or mother or father, or son or daughter?
What are the changes that such a view would make in you? And if everyone you touched with even a dot of love gave that dot to another, how long would it take before everyone would have felt the touch of your love? How long would it take before everyone would bless everyone?
Then where would the base emotions go? There would be no place for anger, greed, selfishness, insecurity, fear and so on to exist. Everyone would feel the support of loving arms. Think of it, everyone would be brother, sister, mother, father, and child to you. Who would not be your family? Then We would truly have the Family of Man on Earth.
When everyone helps everyone else, who would need help? Where would be the room for suffering? Who could possibly shoot another? Who would not be helped across the street? Who would go hungry when there is food for all?
No one would sacrifice, oh, not at all. When all are welcome and all extend themselves, sacrifice wouldn't exist. Joy would take its place.
Picture a world where love abounds. Picture a world filled with Greatness. In this world of love, every single soul would be Christ, or Buddha, or Mohammed, or Moses. Everyone would be enlightened.
You wouldn't want enlightenment just for yourself. You would want it for everyone. You wouldn't have it any other way. You would want everyone to rise with you. No one would even think of competing. There would be love for all and no need for solace to anyone. There would indeed be One Nation, One Family, One World.
I can think of no better picture than to think of where all would be included. There would be no exclusion, no banishment, no imprisonment, no punishment, no crime, no wrongs. All would be right with the world. Everyone would have a pillow to rest his head on.
All children would be everyone's. No one would be motherless or fatherless. The word orphan would be unknown. There would be no foster parents either because every child would belong to all. There would be no adoptions either because there would be no need to adopt when every child is yours to begin with.
There would be no thieves, for who would even think of stealing from his neighbor or himself? All would be neighbors, and in the fullness of light, you would indeed love your neighbor as yourself. You would know above all that your neighbor is yourself.
You would see Me in everyone, which is to say, you would see yourself in everyone. Words like Thou and I would no longer exist. Words like Thou and I would be preposterous. No one would know what the meaning of such words could possibly be. The concept would be unheard of.
All would be We. We would become so grand and wonderful, that We would inevitably become I again, and We all would know that there is definitely, definitively, only One and how wonderful that One would be.
Savor this world I ask you to picture now, for this picture will manifest itself right before your eyes.
Source : www.heavenletters.org
laughter is Good For The Soul
Category: Funny Stories
Posted: Apr 26, 2008 at 2:29 AM
By star man
Current mood: happy
Please join me in remembering a great icon of the entertainment community.
The Pillsbury Doughboy died yesterday of a yeast infection, and complications from repeated pokes in the belly. He was 71.
Doughboy is survived by his wife, Play Dough, two children, John Dough and Jane Dough, who has one in the oven. He is also survived by his elderly father. Pop Tart.
Doughboy was buried in a lightly greased coffin. Dozens of celebrities turned out to pay their respects, including Mrs. Butterworth, Hungry Jack, the California Raisins, Betty Crocker, the Hostess Twinkies and Captain Crunch. The grave site was piled high with flours. Aunt Jamima delivered the eulogy, and lovingly described Doughboy as a man who never knew how much he was kneaded. Doughboy rose quickly in show business, but his later life was filled with turnovers. He was not considered a very smart "cookie", wasting much of his dough on half-baked schemes. Despite being a little flaky at times, he still, as a crusty old man, was considered a roll model for millions.
The funeral was held at 3:50 for about 20 minute
Sister Babara
Sitting by the window of her convent, Sister Barbara opened a letter from home one evening. Inside the letter was a $100 bill her parents had sent.
Sister Barbara smiled at the gesture. As she read the letter by the window, she noticed a shabbily dressed stranger leaning against the lamp post below.
Quickly, she wrote, "Don't despair. Sister Barbara," on a piece of paper, wrapped the $100 bill in it, got the man's attention and tossed it out the window to him. The stranger picked it up, and with a puzzled expression and a tip of his hat, went off down the street.
The next day, Sister Barbara was told that a man was at her door, insisting on seeing her. She went down, and found the stranger waiting. Without a word, he handed her a huge wad of $100 bills.
"What's this?" she asked. "That's the $8,000 you have coming Sister," he replied. "Don't Despair paid 80-to-1."
Bill & Hillary Clinton and John Kerry are flying on Kerry's wife's
private jet.
Bill looks at Hillary, chuckles and says, "You know, I could throw a
$100.00 bill out the window right now and make somebody very happy."
Hillary shrugs her shoulders and says, "Well, I could throw ten $10.00
bills
out the window and make 10 people very happy."
Kerry says, "Of course then, I could throw one-hundred $1.00 bills out
the
window and make a hundred people very happy."
The pilot rolls his eyes, looks at all of them and says to his
co-pilot, "Such Big shots back there..... I could throw all of them
out the window and make millions happy
THE PERFECT HUSBAND
Several men are in the locker room of a golf club. A cell phone on a
bench
rings and a man engages the hands free speaker-function and beginsto
talk
.Everyone else in the room stops to listen.
MAN: "Hello" WOMAN: "Honey, it's me. Are you at the club?"
MAN: "Yes"
WOMAN: "I am at the mall now and found this beautiful leather coat.
It's only $1,000. Is it OK if I buy it?"
MAN: "Sure, go ahead if you like it that much."
WOMAN: "I also stopped bythe Mercedes dealership and saw the new
2004
models. I saw one I reallyliked." MAN: "How much?" WOMAN: "$60,000"
MAN: "OK, but for that price I want it with all the options."
WOMAN: "Great! Oh, and one more thing .... The house we wanted last
year is
back on the market. They're asking $950,000."
MAN: "Well, then go ahead and give them an offer, but just
offer 900,000."
WOMAN: "OK. I'll see you later! I love you!" MAN: "Bye, I love you, too."
The man hangs up. The other men in the locker room are looking at
him in
astonishment. Then he asks: "Anyone know who this phone belongs to?
This has got to be one of the funniest things I've heard of in a long
time.
I think this guy should have been promoted, not fired.
This is a true story from the "WordPerfect Helpline" which was
transcribed from a recording monitoring the customer care department.
Needless to say, the Help Desk employee was fired; however, he is
currently suing the Word Perfect organization for "Termination without
Cause." This is the actual dialogue of a former Word Perfect Customer
Support employee. (Now I know why they record these conversations).
"Rich Hall computer assistance; may I help you?"
"Yes, well, I'm having trouble with WordPerfect."
"What sort of trouble?"
"Well, I was just typing along, and all of a sudden the words went
away."
"Went away?"
"They disappeared."
"Hmmm. So what does your screen look like now?"
"Nothing."
"Nothing?"
"It's a blank; it won't accept anything when I type."
"Are you still in WordPerfect, or did you get out?"
"How do I tell?"
"Can you see the C: prompt on the screen?"
"What's a sea-prompt?"
Never mind, can you move your cursor around the screen?"
"There isn't any cursor: I told you, it won't accept anything I type."
"Does your monitor have a power indicator?"
"What's a monitor?"
"It's the thing with the screen on it that looks like a TV.
Does it have a little light that tells you when it's on?"
"I don't know."
"Well, then look on the back of the monitor and
find where the power cord goes into it.
Can you see that?"
"Yes, I think so."
"Great. Follow the cord to the plug,
and tell me if it's plugged into the wall."
"Yes, it is."
"When you were behind the monitor,
did you notice that there were two cables
plugged into the back of it, not just one?"
"No."
"Well, there are. I need you to look
back there again and find the other cable."
"Okay, here it is."
"Follow it for me, and tell me if it's plugged
securely into the back of your computer."
"I can't reach."
"Uh huh. Well, can you see if it is?"
"No."
"Even if you maybe put your knee on something and lean way over?"
"Oh, it's not because I don't have the right angle it's because it's
dark."
"Dark?"
"Yes - the office light is off, and the only light I have is coming in
from the window."
"Well, turn on the office light then."
"I can't."
"No? Why not?"
>
"Because there's a power failure."
"A power...a power failure?
Aha, Okay, we've got it licked now.
Do you still have the boxes and manuals
and packing stuff your computer came in?"
"Well, yes, I keep them in the closet."
"Good. Go get them, and unplug your system
and pack it up just like it was when you got it.
Then take it back to the store you bought it from."
"Really? Is it that bad?"
"Yes, I'm afraid it is."
"Well, all right then, I suppose. What do I tell them?"
"Tell them you're too dumb to own a computer."
Smart Cat
A man absolutely hated his wife's cat and decided to get rid of him one day by driving him 20 blocks from his home and leaving him at the park.
As he was getting home, the cat was walking up the driveway.
The next day he decided to drive the cat 40 blocks away. He put the beast out and headed home.
Driving back up his driveway, there was the cat!
He kept taking the cat further and further and the cat would always beat him home. At last he decided to drive a few miles away, turn right, then left, past the bridge, then right again and another right until he reached what he thought was a safe distance from his home and left the cat there.
Hours later the man calls home to his wife: "Jen, is the cat there?"
"Yes", the wife answers, "why do you ask?"
Frustrated, the man answered, "Put him on the phone, I'm lost and need directions!"
Actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays :
1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.
5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
7. He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM.
9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.
10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30.
12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.
16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River.
18. Even in his last years, Grandpappy had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.
19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.
21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.
22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
23. The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.
25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.
26. Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in any pH cleanser.
27. She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.
28. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.
A blond goes into a store that sells curtains. She tells the
salesman, "I
would like to buy a pair of pink curtains." The salesman assured her
that
they had a large selection of pink curtains. He showed her several
patterns, but the blonde seemed to be having a hard time choosing.
Finally, she selects a lovely pink floral print. The salesman asked
what
size curtains she needed.
The blonde replies, "Fifteen inches."
"Fifteen inches??", asked the salesman, "that sounds very small. What
room
are they for?"
The blond says, "Oh, they are not for any room - they are for my
computer
monitor."
The surprised salesman replies, "But, Miss, computers do not have
curtains."
The blond says, " Hellooooooooo - I've got Windows."
