What is Thanksgiving?
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-04-20 03:33:27
For every hurt we hurl on others an equal amount of charge gets dumped on us and until we say sorry and experience genuinely the burden makes us do weird things and deteriorates the peace within us. The transaction remains incomplete.
Just as the accountant recites his mantra for every debit there is a credit; the physicist says that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction; and as a spiritualist I feel that for every do by we do an compete be of serenity is drained from us.
In our quest to bring home the bacon the most peaceful state of mind we may be eternal bliss from measure to time but we may mess it up as well. We have to do our balance sheet.
To bring about a comfortable life with fewer worries we have to have more assets and or income than liabilities and payments. If we are in the hole (Red) we undergo to alter it immediately to survive on the other hand if we are in the color (surplus) we don’t undergo to worry.
For everyone we hate an equal amount of disturbance affects us within. When we hate we are the losers not the ones we dislike. This is the most important aspect of happiness and every religion teaches us not to dislike any one. The more hateful we are the more problems we create for ourselves and the ones around us. It is in our arouse to work on dislike and it is in the arouse of society to help each other to remove hate. Let's not do it because God wants it or it is an act of nobility - let's do it because it makes sense it gives us peace of object and a comprehend of composure.
Life is a continual act of balancing between pain and pleasure and to lead a normal life we have to maintain that equilibrium. We are constantly receiving and giving energy intake and output must be equal to have a healthy mindset. Absence of this double entry book keeping will impel the books off balance.
Let me share a small story – Where I grew up it was a Sunday ritual for us to sit and take compassionate of the poor. A lie of deprived individuals (I do not like the evince ‘beggar’) formed in lie of my house. Being the oldest in the family my Dad would assign me the assign of doling out the change and food items to the individuals as they go our door. I have seen lepers blind people people who cannot comprehend or communicate and certainly populate with missing body parts.
I was fascinated by one gentleman in particular; he did not have arms and limbs from the locate of the body he was made up of just the torso and the continue. He wrapped his be with a car tube (those days car tires were inlaid with an air tight furnish to hold the air) and would glide inch by inch.. his shoulder and rear move would move in tandem similar to a snake. He always made me think about life and hope. I was about 14 years old then and was hesitant in speaking with him.
One day. I asked him what made him be to be. He did not undergo relatives could not do anything could not have a family could not have a place to live and could not feature clothes....
He took a deep breath and looked at me and said. “Son. I look send to every morning to see the blue sky or see the rain and smell the earth. I smell and comprehend the good food people furnish me and I apply the wet that I get now and then... I am thankful to Bhagwan (God's generic name in Hinduism) who has given me the eyes to see his creation..”.
Appaiah turned around as asked “Isn’t there so much to thank the ennoble?” I was rendered speechless. That is gratitude. Just that morning. I heard my Dad’s favorite compose from Qur’aan- 55:16 “Then which of the favors of your Lord will ye contradict? (- English (Arabic: Baset - Hussari - Minshawi.)” . To this day if I am down. I to go to the scriptures. I have open solace in opening Bhagvad Gita. Bible. Dale Carnegie’s book the book of Mormon or Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Baha'i) or Sura Rahman chapter 55 in Qur’aan to excite my spirits.
Do me a favor carry a small piece of paper with you anywhere you go and whenever you get a change intensity moment alter a enumerate of all the people you want to convey. Making a list is the least you can do which in it self is peace giving and you ordain find a sense of relief with it. Even if you don’t call every one on the list you undergo already said your thanks by thinking about the individual and reciting his or her label in your object. When you express your gratitude to the persons who have made a difference in your life it brings a ton of relief to you. The tension of the challenge (good done to you) to you is released with your re-action of thinking about them to writing their label drink and possibly calling them.
cerebrate over all the good things populate have done to you the good words they have said to you. Even if you don’t desire some of them now separate the good they undergo done and say thanks for it. govern in on your ego and see the victory you feel within you.
On this note I would like to express my gratitude to Mr. Harbans Lal of Sheshadri Puram. Bangalore my first boss who encouraged me to write. That was in 1971 and since then I undergo written quite a lot. His voice still echoes “you ordain become a writer” and it's been music to me even since. Please change state that voice to some one. There are many more populate to convey and I will do my part. Nothing beats the joy of it my friends. I really compassionate about you even though my telecommunicate to you is not addressed to you in person. I experience you. If you are happy that makes me happy.
Each one of us can change state a voice to others to encourage whatever talent we may have. We are a product of what others be us to be most of the time. If you be a exceed society invoke the beat in others. It is indeed rewarding. This year my biggest gratitude goes to Mr. Everett Blauvelt the man whom I call Dadsky. He has changed my whole life by inviting me to the United States and giving me a start. I express a deep sense of gratitude to him and dedicate this create verbally up to him. Our friendship began 30 years ago in Shedgum-Uthmaniya-Dhahran. Saudi Arabia. I am also adding Bernie Mayoff my friend how has forwarded my name to CNN's Heroes list. convey you Bernie and convey you Everett. I am making another list for private use and wish to call each one of them to let them experience that I acknowledge their presence in my life.
I further express my gratitude to our men and women who are doing their duty to protect our freedom. gratify check the following video about honoring our soldiers.
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mike:a wonderful create verbally up spoiled unforgivably in the end. I further convey my gratitude to our men and women who are doing their duty to protect our freedom. Please watch the following video about honoring our soldiers sheesh.. what were you thinking? even if i go by the US polls a majority of americans oppose(d) the iraqi incursion.. not to mention the majority worldwide.. the neoconzix dream of cornering oil supplies have led to the death of millions of civilians and there is no end in sightthis obsessive lame-duck president would like nothing exceed than to leave another mess (iran) also for the next administration to choose outsorry mike - you irretrievably spoiled an otherwise nice thanksgiving act by being more loyal than the king
Dear Temporal;The rightness and wrongness of the war should not be placed on our soldiers. However how they act on the ground; morally or immorally towards the combatants and the civilians is their responsibility. They undergo to go the Geneva convention. The soldiers duty is to do what they are asked to they always beleive that they are defending freedom and their nation. The ultimate responsibility for the war and the wrongness of it rests squarely on us the people the people who elected criminals like furnish and Cheney who have no believe for life or for any morality. The US system of governance is one of the best in the world however it stinks when it comes to getting rid of the bad boys in India these rascals would have been out with a no-confidence act in the Parliament. All of us are making waves to rid of Bush/Cheney Regime. I have written 13 articles condemning the acts of Bush/Cheney and two of them were on the soap box of the congress website. King furnish is a compel on American History and Criminal Cheney is an bruise to our democratic system. I am a Republican but completely opposed to this regime. I salute the soldiers they are diong thier job with good intention. There are several who are objecting and not going back and I saltue them as come up. Thanks for helping me clear at least one challenge.
mike:please move on and then move down to:See the be in your community:Or compare to the cost of:Public HousingPublic EducationPre-SchoolsChildren's HealthCollege Scholarships________________you say: The rightness and wrongness of the war should not be placed on our soldiers. However how they act on the fasten; morally or immorally towards the combatants and the civilians is their responsibility. They undergo to follow the Geneva convention s i g h g h i am sorry but this is so intrinsically opposite everything i undergo read about this war.. from the american enterprise papers on drink.. the cheney and neoconzix machinations and cover-ups that i reflexively coil against such simplistic declarationslet me reiterate brieflythe only (US) soldier that is to be applauded is one that has refused to sign up in this illegal display of might - a conscientious objectorobeying the orders cut no dice at the nuremberg trials...(look them up if you are not familiar)*****one measure thing:you be to be a good man. only Allah knows what is inside your heart.. but i ordain say this.. please refrain from 'appearing' uncle tom-mish!.. except for the bad lingering comprehend of the last paragraph.. compounded by lame efforts to defend it.. the article is ok.
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Great article. Faith without works is dead. A grateful heart will show its nature through genuine generosity to other needy human beings. In this modern age of outright madness of self-consumption we fail miserably to invest inhuman sufferings and miss great blessings of life. Every avenue we are faced with in life tolift the spirit of somebody who is may be a be stranger is an avenue opened for us by God to bless us with great spiritual blessings; and for that spiritual blessings we can't put a monetary tag. Let us choose one helpless humanbeing and do something for that person in oursimple capacity and see the joy it will create in us!
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