Love to faults is always blind,
Always is to joy inclined.
Lawless, winged, and unconfined,
And breaks all chains from every mind

Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.

I love thee, I love but thee
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold
And the stars grow old.

Love is ever where the heart will find it no matter how unlikely seems the place.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

Love much dear friends for love will bring the healing joy and hope of Spring…

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Love is always bestowed as a gift — freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things you lack.
If you don’t have it, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough.

Love isn’t here or there, it isn’t happy,
sad, good or bad. Love is just Love.

Love is a tickle around the heart that you can’t scratch.

When you have nothing left but love, then for the first time you become aware that love is enough.

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

One word frees us of all the weight and and pain of life. That word is love.

-My Life Teacher*

It is impossible to capture in words
the feelings I have for you
I now have the strongest feelings
that I have ever had about anyone
Yet, when I try to tell you them
or try to write them down for you

The words do not even begin to touch
the depths of my feelings for you
And though I cannot explain
the essence of these phenomenally feelings
I can tell you what I feel like
when I am with you…

When I am with you it is as if:
I were a bird
Flying freely in the clear blue sky
I were a flower
Opening up my petals of life

When I am with you it is as if:
I were the waves of the sea
Crashing strongly against the shore
I were the rainbow after the storm
Proudly showing my colors so pure and
vividly

When I am with you it is as if
Everything that’s beautiful
surrounds us…

This is just a small part
of how wonderful I feel when I am with you
Maybe……
the word “Love” was invented
to explain the deep heart felt
all-encompassing feelings we feel and enjoy

But, somehow, it is not strong enough
Yet, since it is the BEST word there is
Let me tell YOU a thousand times that
I Love YOU more than LOVE!!!!

by James L. McHenry

-My Life Teacher*

-MY LIFE TEACHER*

A simple way to make a good impression.
The expression one wears on one’s face if far more important than the clothes one wears on one’s back. Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ” I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.” You must have a good time meeting people i f you expect them to have a good time meeting you. You don’t feel like smiling? Then what? Two things. First, force yourself to smile. If you are alone, force yourself to whistle or hum a tune or sing. Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy. “Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.” -William James. Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions. It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. “There is nothing either good or bad,” said Shakespeare, “but thinking makes it so.” Your smile is a messenger of your good will. Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it. To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds.

Principle 2 : Smile.

If you don’t do this, you are headed for trouble
The average person is more interested in his or her own name than all the other names on earth put together. Remember that name and call it easily, and you have paid a subtle and very effective compliment. But forget it or misspell it-and you have plac e yourself at a sharp disadvantage. Whenever you meet a new acquaintance, find out his or her complete name and some facts about his or her family, business or political opinions. Fix all these facts well in mind as part of the picture, and the next time you meet that person, even if it was a year later, you will be able to shake hands, inquire after the family, and ask about the hollyhocks in the backyard. Sometimes it is difficult to remember a name, particularly if it is hard to pronounce. Rather than even try to learn it, many people ignore it or call the person by an easy nickname. Most people don’t remember names, for the simple reason that they don’t take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. If you don’t hear the name distinctly say excuse me I didn’t get your name clearly. Then, if it is an unusual name, ask how it is spelled. Use the person’s name several times in the conversation; try to associate it in your mind with the person’s featur es, expression and general appearance. Then, when you are alone write the name down on a piece of paper, look at it, and concentrate on it, fix it securely in your mind, in this way you will gain an eye impression of the name as well as an ear impression.

Principle 3 : Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.

An easy way to become a good conversationalist
Listen intently; listen because you are genuinely interested. That kind of listening is one of the highest compliments we can pay anyone. The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener-a listener who will be silent with the irate fault-finger dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system. Be more eager to hear what a person has to say then even they are to tell it. Many people prefer good list eners to good talkers, but the ability to listen seems rarer than almost any other good trait. All we want when we are in trouble is a friendly, sympathetic listener to unburden yourself. That is frequently all the irritated customer wants, and the dissat isfied employee or the hurt friend. If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don’t wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence. If you aspire to be a good conversationalist, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments.

Principle 4 : Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.. .

How to interest people
The royal road to a person’s heart is to talk about the things he or she treasures most. Make an effort to find out what interests the person then get them talking about it. Talking in terms of the other person’s interests pays off for both parties. When asked what reward he got from it, Mr. Herzig responded that he not only received a different reward from each person but that in general the reward had been an enlargement of his life each time he spoke to someone.

Principle 5 : Talk in terms of the other person’s interests.

How to make people like you instantly.
Ask yourself ” What is there about him or her that I can honestly admire?” That is sometimes a hard question to answer, especially with strangers. You want approval of those with whom you come in contact. You want recognition of your true worth. You want a feeling that your are important in our little world. You don’t want to listen to cheap, insincere flattery, but you do crave sincere appreciation. So let’s obey the Golden Rule, and give unto others what we would have others give unto us. How? When? Where? The answer is all the time, everywhere. Use little phrases such as “I’m sorry to trouble you, ___.” “Would you please ___?” “Won’t you please?” “Would you mind?” “Thank you.” The unvarnished truth is that almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way, and a sure way to their hearts is to let them realize in some subtle way that you recognize their importance, and recognize it sincerely. Talk to people about themselves and they will listen for hours.

Principle 6 : Make the other person feel important-and do it sincerely.

In a Nutshell: Six ways to make people like you Become genuinely interested in other people.
Smile. Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
Talk in terms of the other person’s interests.
Make the other person feel important-and do it sincerely.

-My Life Teacher*

DON’T LET YOUR PARENTS DOWN BECAUSE THEY BRING YOU UP!!!!!

Never be sad for missing what you expected

Never be sad for missing what you expected,
But be happy since God made you realize that,
Those expectations are not worth you.

If a drop of water falls in lake

If a drop of water falls in lake there is no identity.
But if it falls on a leaf of lotus it shine like a pearl.
So choose the best place where you would shine..

Falling down is not defeat

Falling down is not defeat,
Defeat is when your refuse to get up.

When you are successful

When you are successful
Your well wishers know who you are
When you are unsuccessful
You know who your well wishers are

Lies A Fantastic Opportunity

Between Yesterday’s Mistakes
&
Tomorrow’s HOPE,
There
Lies A Fantastic Opportunity
That is
TODAY
So
Live It Lively.

-My Life Teacher*

Love is a smile that never falters.
Love is gentle passion, and fierce lust.
Love is a flower that never dies.
It’s consideration…….

Love is seeing what your lover really looks like for the first time.
It’s truth…………..

Love is saying the perfect phrase to make a solemn embrace dissolve into giggles.
Love is your own name being called out by your soul mate in the heat of passion.
It’s desire……….

Love is a slow kiss good night.
It’s anticipation………….

Love is that simple gesture that means the world.
Love is an Angel that kisses your cheek.
Love is the arms around you tightening their embrace.
It’s ecstasy………….

Love is seeing a new side of a person you thought you knew.
It’s renewal…………..

Love is everything and all things.
Love is telling a person if you have to leave, you will let them sleep, and being told they would rather be woken.
It’s tenderness………….

Love is waking up to find the subject of the dream you were having asleep on your shoulder.
It’s where fantasy meets reality.
Love is being there to wake your lover. Slowly.
Love is forever.
It’s sensuousness…………

Love is two people only taking up a third of a queen-sized bed.
It’s closeness…..

-My Life Teacher*

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried and smelted and polished and glorified through the furnace of tribulation. –CHAPIN.

Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.–HEBREWS 12:6.

In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man’s disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.–LYTTON.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God’s favor.–BACON.

There is healing in the bitter cup.–SOUTHEY.

The lessons of adversity are often the most benignant when they seem the most severe. The depression of vanity sometimes ennobles the feeling. The mind which does not wholly sink under misfortune rises above it more lofty than before, and is strengthened by affliction. –CHENEVIX.

In this wild world the fondest and the best,Are the most tried, most troubled and distress’d. –CRABBE.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.–HORACE.

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. –PROVERBS 24:10.

On every thorn delightful wisdom grows; In every rill a sweet instruction flows.–DR. YOUNG.

The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance. –BOLINGBROKE.

Heaven is not always angry when he strikes,But most chastises those whom most he likes.–POMFRET.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.–WASHINGTON IRVING.

In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity only one.–HORATIUS BONAR.

ADVERSITY.–Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.–COLTON.

Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.–WHIPPLE.

Our acts make or mar us;–we are the children of our own deeds. –VICTOR HUGO.

When our souls shall leave this dwelling, the glory of one fair and virtuous action is above all the scutcheons on our tomb, or silken banners over us.–J. SHIRLEY.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.–COLTON.

It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God’s heaven as a God-made man that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero.–CARLYLE.

Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver’s issue, as by prince’s son.
–DRYDEN.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.–LOWELL.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Finds us farther than to-day.
* * * * *
Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, act, in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o’erhead!
–LONGFELLOW.

My Life Teacher*

AFFECTATION

We are never rendered so ridiculous by qualities which we possess, as by those which we aim at, or affect to have.–FROM THE FRENCH.

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the small-pox. –ST. EVREMOND.

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich.–LAVATER.

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. –HORACE MANN.

AFFECTION.–A loving heart is the truest wisdom.–DICKENS.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. –COLOSSIANS 3:2.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained love will die at the roots.–HAWTHORNE.

Affection is a garden, and without it there would not be a verdant spot on the surface of the globe.

Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.–BEECHER.

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.–WILLIS.

AFFLICTION.–God sometimes washes the eyes of his children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments. –T.L. CUYLER.

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all for him to bear; but they are so, because they are the very ones he needs.–RICHTER.

Affliction is but the shadow of God’s wing.–GEORGE MACDONALD.

Affliction appears to be the guide to reflection; the teacher of humility; the parent of repentance; the nurse of faith; the strengthener of patience, and the promoter of charity.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.–MATTHEW HENRY.

If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.–BURGH.

Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.–JOB 5:7.

With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn.–MOLINOS.

No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.–HEBREWS 12:11.

AGE.–No wise man ever wished to be younger.–SWIFT.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more indulgent. I see no fault committed that I have not committed myself.–GOETHE.

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.–CICERO.

We must not take the faults of our youth into our old age; for old age brings with it its own defects.–GOETHE.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.–JAMES A. GARFIELD.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.–VICTOR HUGO.

Remember that some of the brightest drops in the chalice of life may still remain for us in old age. The last draught which a kind Providence gives us to drink, though near the bottom of the cup, may, as is said of the draught of the Roman of old, have at the very bottom, instead of dregs, most costly pearls.–W.A. NEWMAN.

Begin to patch up thine old body for heaven.–SHAKESPEARE.

My Life Teacher*

He asks one of his new students to stand and…..

Prof: So you believe in God?

Student: Absolutely, sir.

Prof: Is God good?

Student: Sure.

Prof: Is God all-powerful?

Student: Yes.

Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him.

Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn’t. How is this God good then? Hmm? (Student is silent.)

Prof: You can’t answer, can you? Let’s start again, young fellow. Is God good?

Student: Yes.

Prof: Is Satan good?

Student: No.

Prof: Where does Satan come from?

Student: From…God.. .

Prof: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?

Student: Yes.

Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it? And God did make everything. Correct?

Student: Yes.

Prof: So who created evil?

(Student does not answer.)

Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?

Student: Yes, sir.

Prof: So, who created them?

(Student has no answer.)

Prof: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son…Have you ever seen God?

Student: No, sir.

Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?

Student: No, sir.

Prof: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?

Student: No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.

Prof: Yet you still believe in Him?

Student: Yes.

Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?

Student: Nothing. I only have my faith.

Prof: Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has.

Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?

Prof: Yes.

Student: And is there such a thing as cold?

Prof: Yes.

Student: No sir. There isn’t.

(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)

Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat,

But we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold.

Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.

(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)

Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?

Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?

Student: You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light….But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t.

If it were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?

Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man?

Student: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.

Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how?

Student: Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure.

Sir, science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one.

To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?

Prof: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.

Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?

(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument is going.)

Student: Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?

(The class is in uproar.)

Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?

(The class breaks out into laughter.)

Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, sir.

With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?

(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face unfathomable. )

Prof: I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.

Student: That is it sir… The link between man & god is FAITH.

That is all that keeps things moving & alive……. ……… ..

My Life Teacher*

Even the dried flowers become.

more fragrant ??
Even the wild storm become..

..tiny pat on me??

When I dream of you..

The sharpen stones on my ways

become shining sands..

The broken pieces of my mind

..become glittering stars.

The tiny hut of mine become

glazing shrines…..

When I touch you

The shining dimples in your cheek

..become golden clues

The greedy rosy lips become

shivering peg of wines

And I can’t!!!, I can’t tell you more

and more, I want to keep.

Those very close to my mind..

My Life Teacher*