The most beautiful language

Have you wondered which language is the most beautiful and that anyone can appreciate?

Time and Time again, I feel I lack communication skills and I find myself asking how can I express my thoughts lucidly and whether it brings joy when I intend to share it.

I found the breed of real masters of communication. When they express joy , everyone around them rejoice and reciprocate. They communicate with such innocence, guilelessness and purity that the world around cannot stop themselves from communicating with them. When they are expressing their pain, the neighbors jump in to console them.

Do you wonder who they are? I found one at Church last sunday.

I was sitting in church listening to a sermon, in my front row was one master of communication. She was intensely expressing her joy in her own language, all the people who heard her and looked at her, were completely distracted and were showing their glee in response to her.

The master of communication I refer was a baby on her mother's shoulder.She was playing. She was giggling with all kinds of sounds. The whole row behind her was distracted from the sermon and was responding to her antics...

Her vocabulary is nil.
She can't even utter one complete word.
Her fragile smile without knowing any language makes any person to respond.

In one word to describe her language: 'Beautiful'

Man, I wonder what appeals to us in their language. It is not skills or vocabulary.

Its their innocence, fragile vulnerability, their wholesome frankness & honesty in displaying their feelings, absolute expression with all their being with innocuous movements of hands and feet, Not a single agenda hidden in their mind,............

Man, I cannot stop when I start to reflect......

Teach me more, Baby! O Baby!

90% of our life is....

We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our attitudes.
- Rev. Charles Swindoll

One profound quote - How true!

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.
Chuck Palahniuk

O me! O life!

O me! O life! of the questions of these recurring.
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill'd with the foolish.
Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew'd.
Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,
Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,
The question, O me! so sad, recurring -- What good amid these, O me, O life?
Answer That you are here--that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

-WALT WHITMAN
-1819-1892

Excerpt: Conversation with God!

Man: Tell me, why has life become complicated now?
God : Stop analyzing life. Just live it. Analysis is what makes it complicated.

Man: why are we then constantly unhappy?
God : Your today is the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday. You are worrying because you are analyzing. Worrying has become your habit. That's why you are not happy.

Man: But how can we not worry when there is so much uncertainty
God : Uncertainty is inevitable, but worrying is optional.

Man: But then, there is so much pain due to uncertainty. .
God : Pain is inevitable able, but suffering is optional.

Man: If suffering is optional, why do good people always suffer?
God : Diamond cannot be polished without friction. Gold cannot be purified without fire. Good people go through trials, but don't suffer. With that experience their life become better not bitter.

Man: You mean to say such experience is useful?
God : Yes. In every terms, Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.

Man: But still, why should we go through such tests? Why cant we be free
from problems?
God : Problems are Purposeful Roadblocks Offering Beneficial Lessons (to) Enhance Mental Strength. Inner strength comes from struggle and endurance, not when you! are free from problems.

Man: Frankly in the midst of so many problems, we don't know where we are heading..
God : If you look outside you will not know where you are heading. Look inside. Looking outside, you dream. Looking inside, you awaken. Eyes provide sight. Heart provides insight.

Man: Sometimes not succeeding fast seems to hurt more than moving in the right direction. What should I do?
God : Success is a measure as decided by others. Satisfaction is a measure as decided by you. Knowing the road ahead is more satisfying than knowing you rode ahead. You work with the compass. Let others work with the clock.

Man: In tough times, how do you stay motivated?
God : Always look at how far you have come rather than how far you have to go. Always count your blessing, not what you are missing.

Man: What surprises you about people?
God : when they suffer they ask, "why me?" When they prosper, they never ask "Why me" Everyone wishes to have truth on their side, but few want to be on the side of the truth.

Man: Sometimes I ask, who am I, why am I here. I cant get the answer.
God : Seek not to find who you are, but to determine who you want to be. Stop looking for a purpose as to why you are here. Create it. Life is not a process of discovery but a process of creation.

Man: How can I get the best out of life?
God : Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence.Prepare for the future without fear.

Man: One last question. Sometimes I feel my prayers are not answered.
God : There are no unanswered prayers. At times the answer is NO.

Man: Thank you for this wonderful chat.
God : Well. Keep the faith and drop the fear. Don't believe your doubts and doubt your beliefs. Life is a mystery to solve not a problem to resolve. Trust me. Life is wonderful if you know how to live. "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that took our breath away!"

-Excerpt from the book 'Conversations with God'

Profound Words.

A person asked Confucious :
"What surprises you most about mankind?"

Confucious answered :
They lose their health to make wealth and then lose their wealth to restore
their health. By thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the
present, such that they live neither for the present nor the future and they
live as if they will never die, and they die as if they had never lived..."

Dad to his son

"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!"

Rocky Balboa
Speaking to his son in Rocky Balboa (2006)

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

A friend who cares.

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."
- Henry Nouwen in his book 'Out of Solitude'

A beautiful poem- by Russell Kelfer

You are who you are for a reason.
You're part of an intricate plan.
You're a precious and perfect unique design,
Called God's special woman or man.

You look like you look for a reason.
Our God made no mistake.
He knit you together within the womb,
You're just what he wanted to make.

The parents you had were the ones he chose,
And no matter how you may feel,
They were custom-designed with God' plan in mind,
And thy bear the master's seal.

No, that trauma you faced was not easy.
And, God wept that it hurt you so;
But it was allowed to shape your heart
So that into his likeness you'd grow.

You are who you are for a reason,
You 've been formed by the master's rod.
You are who you are, beloved,
Because there is a God

True Christianity: Wonder what its heart is?

I recently had the chance of reading a book titled,'Meeting Jesus Once again for the First time'- By Marcus.J.Borg, A Jesus scholar. He says, many people have an idea of Jesus that confines itself religious texts, he started to dig in the Jesus outside of the our religious texts and traditions. It's unfortunate for me to leave the book in London for I was devouring its first chapters.Its an amazing read. Some revelations in it are here for your perusal.

When God said, 'Be holy for I am Holy'. The Jews and religious people at that time equated that 'Be pure for I am pure' sensing it as clinical purity in its essence. They turned out to be very meticulous in following the nitty-gritty's of the tradition of sabbath and all other requisites of the religious law loosing the things of heart, God's character etc.. especially the most important ones. They were never able to realise in the centuries till Jesus came in of the error in interpreting the command faultily.

Jesus showed when God said 'Be Holy for I am Holy' as 'Be Compassionate for I am Compassionate'. Never ever they were told that Holiness meant wholeness in heart which is instinctually compassionate. I would encourage anyone who's interested to get and read it.One word for Jesus ministry is compassion- healing sick on sabbath breaking traditional laws, feeding thousands, setting bound set free...
Man, That was quite a revelation for me. I find still so many people who were totally missing out the essence in their religious pursuits and becoming obsessively and dogmatically attached to religious tradition where there is no heart or concern for people.

The word that has to be synonymous with Christianity should be Compassion.
Compassion
1. a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering
2. the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

New year resolution? No. New year Prayer. Yes

Maximus in Gladiator says,'I am a slave,I can die today here in prison or in the arena tomorrow, What difference can I make?'

I think many times like that. Dont you?

Slave to the many imaginary worries,living a prisoner cluttered with unnecessary things,feelings,emotions... What difference can I make?

Pause...

Have you ever seen a dead fish on the waterfalls carried in the direction of a water current? Then a living one,swimming upstream?

As long as your fist sized heart beats, we can......We have the opportunity to change... set sights on new horizons.... Our opportunity stops when our beats stop, till that time.. Lets dance to our heart beats... Lets rock


You never know of the difference you make. Just being the real you, the mere being of you. You though flawed can wipe some tears. touch and inspire some hearts. You never know. Dont allow you to rob you of your better self.

At this year 2007, the first day. My Newyear prayer is 'thank you for 2006,God make me what YOU want me to be...'.