What goes around comes around-a proof.

Fleming was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog.

There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.

The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.

"I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved my son’s life."

"No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the Scottish farmer replied waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel.

"Is that your son?" the nobleman asked.

"Yes," the farmer replied proudly.

"I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy if the lad is anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of." And that he did.

Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in time, graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.

Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia.

What saved his life this time? Penicillin.

The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill ... His son’s name?

Sir Winston Churchill.

Someone once said: What goes around comes around.

Moral of the story: Work like you don't need the money.

Note: This is a guest post by my friend Revathi.

How to pray to get what you want?

A voyaging ship was wrecked during a storm at sea and only two of the men on it were able to swim to a small, desert like island. The two survivors, not knowing what else to do, agree that they had no other recourse but to pray to God. However, to find out whose prayer was more powerful, they agreed to divide the territory between them and stay on opposite sides of the island.

The first thing they prayed for was food. The next morning, the first man saw a fruit-bearing tree on his side of the land and he was able to eat it's fruit. The other man's parcel of land remained barren!

After a week, the first man was lonely and he decided to pray for a wife. The next day, there was a woman who swam to his side of the land. On the other side of the island, again there was nothing!

Soon the first man prayed for a house, clothes, more food. The next day, like magic, all of these were given to him. However, the second man still had nothing!

Finally, the first man prayed for a ship, so that he and his wife could leave the island. In the morning, he found a ship docked at his side of the island. The first man boarded the ship with his wife and decided to leave the second man on the island. He considered the other man unworthy to receive God's blessings, since none of his prayers had been answered.

As the ship was about to leave, the first man heard a voice from heaven booming, "Why are you leaving your companion on the island?"

"My blessings are mine alone, since I was the one who prayed for them," the first man answered. "His prayers were all unanswered and so he does not deserve anything."

"You are mistaken!" the voice rebuked him. "He had only one prayer, which I answered. If not for that, you would not have received any of my blessings."

"Tell me, O God," the first man asked the voice, "What did he pray for that I should owe him anything?"

"He prayed that all your prayers be answered."

For all we know, our blessings are not the fruits of our prayers alone, but those of another praying for us.

This is too good not to share...

My prayer for you today is that all your prayers are answered. Be blessed.

"What you do for others is more important than what you do for yourself"

This was shared with me by a friend; I hope you will share with your friends!

Your scrapbook can be a manifesting tool.

Manifesting the desires is everybody's ambition. While there is scientific proof that anyone can manifest what they want by a few methods that include visualization, focus thought and re-programming the subconscious mind, not all human beings are aware of this extraordinary, life changing Cosmic Ordering.

With the advent of computer and Internet, there have been a handful of tools to imprint on your subconscious mind a series of images of your desires such as a big luxury car, a palatial bungalow, a rewarding career etc.

For those who have no access to a computer, a simple scrapbook can become their manifestation tool.

How to go about building a scrapbook that would become your tool to get what you want?

Fill up your scrapbook with:
* Affirmations
* Pictures you liked in newspapers and glossy life magazines
* Images of abundance like vast lake, oceans, sprawling golf course etc
* Beautiful looking birds
* Stunning faces of models and celebrities
* Healthy babies

The idea behind this affordable exercise is very simple. You keep focusing on things that make you happy.

Let your scrap booking be a life long hobby. You need not give it up when you start seeing things that you wanted. After all we all keep changing our desires-don't we?

Seek the help of Rose Quartz to calm your mind.

I am an emotionally well balanced woman. Though serious, I take things lightly and move on. None can hurt me or make me feel inferior. Having said all that, most of the people who know me inside out stay at their arms length from me. It is a sign that many men and women in the world can't stand outright honesty and shocking frankness.

I am sure you are wondering why I am saying all these? You see, yesterday, after 10 PM, a stranger rang the door bell, silently handed me a small jewel box and bide adieu.

I gingerly opened it to find a crystal of Rose Quartz. It is said to be an emotional healer apart from curing heart ailments. Another unique quality of Rose Quartz is it helps one release repressed emotional wounds.

What does it all mean? Am I having repressed hurts without my knowledge buried deep in my subconscious mind?

Hmmm... let me see what the Rose crystal brings out of me.

Changes mean opportunities.

I presume you have read my previous post titled, “Change is possible…”. Now, ask yourself, are you resisting changes in your life? How do you react to a change in your life that is about to take place?

Are you afraid of it or do you welcome it?

If you are not willing to cooperate with a change in life situations, do you know that you may miss out something exciting and refreshing? People who don’t allow themselves the luxury of changes stay where they are. They are literally stunting their own growth.

Yes, change means growth and growth is always for the better-right? Experiences hitherto unknown is certainly rewarding and make you mature. If you don’t embrace changes, it will be an unfulfilled life.

Life will be dull without changes. Imagine your own life where you spend at the bottom of your career while witnessing stupendous growth among your friends, relatives and colleagues.

Remember, changes bring opportunities to explore new vistas, experience blissful relationship and so on.

Your body changes (grows) without your consent. On the other hand, your mental growth purely depends on your volition.

I like this inspiring quote by Milton Berlinger, the American comedy actor:
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

Change is Possible-have faith.

The miseries and maladies that we are forced to experience longer than necessary stem from one single fact which we refuse to believe that change is possible. When something bad happens to us, we expect or believe it will last for ever. We resist them.

Remember, when you resist something, you prolong the experience.


All (seemingly) good or bad things happen in our life to teach a lesson. Once you have learnt it, you are ready for a new experience which is again (seemingly) good or bad. This just proves that nothing is constant which alone is a constant.

Changes occur and will always. Trust in this fundamental law of universe and you will lead a blissful life.

Godly qualities:
Godly or divine qualities such as patience, forgiveness, compassion, wisdom, and gratitude don't embrace us in a minute or over night. We are given myriad experiences from which we are expected to gain these qualities.

That is the beauty of human life.

How to banish unwanted thoughts?

Most of the time statistics mislead us but they reveal something. We can take it as a base to elaborate further on.

For example, the mental health field says that 3% of us suffer from Unwanted Thoughts. It may be more as the time goes. Before checking the veracity of the figure, let us examine the various natures of ‘unwanted thoughts’.

· Shameful thoughts

· Crazy thoughts.

· Destructive thoughts..

While most these thoughts might have their origin within us, some of them might appear from nowhere. In this blog post, I would like dwell on the thoughts that appear from nowhere which the psychologists call as Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD).

It is a kind of anxiety induced by thoughts which appear to have no connection at all to our daily life routines but still, they are of intrusive nature. These intrusive thoughts fill us with extreme uneasiness which when further analyzed would reveal residual worry or fear.

Symptoms of OCD:

· An urge to oppose anything what we hear or read

· Fear of forgetting something important though actually we have not forgotten such as locking the door

· Unable to spend even for our essential due to fear of going broke

· Unreasonably intolerant towards other religions

An obsession to get rid of these unwanted thoughts would even lead to a sort of temporary insanity.

The other day, I was reading about this particular mental ailment when I stumbled on a solution for this by a leading psychology expert named Bradley Thompson.

He claims that he has found out an effective method of eliminating all Unwanted Thoughts from the source. Asked whether his method would seize recurrence, he assures they never occur again.

Naturally, his method of eliminating unwanted negative thoughts has worldwide attention.

When it is wise to lose your ego?

We read so many interesting things daily (not you?) but all are not thought provoking instantly. However, when it does, it remains etched in our memory for ever. Can you think of something like that now?

Today, I read this following:
WHY WE HAVE SO MANY TEMPLES, IF GOD IS EVERYWHERE ?
A WISE MAN SAID: AIR IS EVERYWHERE, BUT WE STILL NEED A FAN TO FEEL IT.

Here is one more:
IT’S BETTER TO LOSE YOUR EGO TO THE ONE YOU LOVE. THAN TO LOSE THE ONE YOU LOVE....... BECAUSE OF EGO.

Don't ever say "no time".

Don't ever regret for the things that you did not enjoy in your life because you spent your working days by saying you have no time. That might have been true but you said it with a sense of pride instead of feeling sad.

Most of us in out life would find life almost too much to handle, when 24 Hours in a day is not enough. Read further if it makes sense to you, at least show this to your children before it is too late. The following content is received by me through email from my sister.

Quote begins:
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, He picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar And proceeded to fill it with golf balls.

He then asked the students, if the jar was full.

They agreed that it was. The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open Areas between the golf balls.

He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was. The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else.

He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous 'yes.'

The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively
filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.

'Now,' said the professor, as the laughter subsided,
'I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life.
The golf balls are the important things - family, children, health, Friends, and Favorite passions – Things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, Your life would still be full.

The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, house, and car.

The sand is everything else --The small stuff.

'If you put the sand into the jar first,' He continued,
there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls.
The same goes for life.

If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff,
You will never have room for the things that are important to you.

So...

Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.
Play With your children.
Take time to get medical checkups.
Take your partner out to dinner.

There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal.

'Take care of the golf balls first --
The things that really matter.
Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.'

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented.

The professor smiled.
'I'm glad you asked'.

It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem,there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend.' Quote ends.

Man's quest and search would indicate who he thinks he is.

Two conversations that I read and heard made immense sense to me. I wish to share them with you here.

1 What are Godly qualities?
It is only the atmosphere that you create when you enter a place where others are present. How do you think the atmosphere would be if God enters with all his bliss and benevolence?

2. Your search and quest in life is a strong indication of who do you think you are.
I heard this meaningful sentence from Sri. Velukkudi Krishnan swamigal in his religious discourse.
"If you you are a cow, you would look out for lands to graze.
Tigers would hunt for other animals.
Man would always work for money and food if he thinks he is just a body.

Man's quest would be to enhance his soul if he realizes that he is a soul in a body."