RESPECT THE NATIONAL FLAG

I request to all the citizens of India, please do not show our Nationalism in a single day, keep it also for the remaining 364 days. Indian national flag deserves a much better treatment than this. It needs to be respected all the year round, every day and every moment. If we Indians don’t respect Our National Flag then who will ? Please don’t buy Nation Flag if you cannot handle it.

THE POWER OF YOUR WORDS

Wisdom in Stories - The Power Of Your Words
By Byron Pulsifer, (c) 2011 We may not all be created equal in every attribute but we all have several things in common. So, what are these things?

All of us have the same amount of seconds, minutes and hours in a day to do with as we desire. We also have individual power although some may think not because they live in countries where they are ruled by a strict dictator or military government. But, even these people have power.

This power is in their words, how they say them, what words they choose to use, and when to speak these words. These words can be ones that ridicule, make fun of, chastise, or one that encourage, praise or demonstrate kindness.
I recall a story told to me by a good friend of mine who used to commute to work daily on a go train. Once disembarking the train, he always walked he short distance to his office building along with all the other throngs of people hurrying on their way to their work.

Each morning, he passed a older man who was always at the same spot with cup in hand hoping to get a bit of change by those who passed by. For most people, this person was someone to be ignored as if he didn’t exist, a person who they didn’t want to be bothered with. Invariably, though, my friend would always say good morning to him and bid him to have a good day. The stranger would smile back, say good morning and remain on station until all the commuters had gone on their way.

Occasionally, my friend would drop a dollar or two in his cup on his way by as he said hello. This behaviour went on for several years until one day, his last day on the job before retirement, my friend stopped for a few moments to speak with this man.

He told the man that he would no longer be passing by because this was his last day on the job. The man took his hand and shook it warmly saying that he had always looked forward to seeing my friend pass his way and not because he dropped a few dollars in his cup. He said he would miss my friend because he was one of the few people out of thousands who passed him daily who ever said hello, and was the only one who ever bid him to have a good day. The man also said that his warm words always brightened his day and helped him to continue on despite being ignored by thousands of others who saw him daily.

The message is clear:
we all have power in words and it doesn’t mean, at all, that the most basic of greetings and recognition have no impact. In fact, all our words have impact and so often we do not recognize that some can be devastating to another, others can cause others to give up, or other words can help encourage. Remember your power when you speak for you have more influence

WHAT SILENCE CAN ACHIEVE SPEECH CAN NEVER

There once was a farmer who discovered that he had lost his watch in the barn. It was no ordinary watch because it had sentimental value for him. After searching high and low among the hay for a long while, he gave up and enlisted the help of a group of children playing outside the barn.

He promised them that the person who found it would be rewarded. Hearing this, the children hurried inside the barn, went through and around the entire stack of hay but still could not find the watch.
Just when the farmer was about to give up looking for his watch, a little boy went up to him and asked to be given another chance.

The farmer looked at him and thought, "Why not? After all, this kid looks sincere enough."

So the farmer sent the little boy back in the barn. After a while the little boy came out with the watch in his hand! The farmer was both happy and surprised and so he asked the boy how he succeeded where the rest had failed. 

The boy replied, "I did nothing but sit on the ground and listen. In the silence, I heard the ticking of the watch and just looked for it in that direction."

Moral: Silence is a source of Great Strength.” A peaceful mind can think better than a worked up mind. Allow a few minutes of silence to your mind every day, and see, how sharply it helps you to set your life the way you expect it to be...!

 “Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.” True silence brings answers to so many unanswered questions in life; Silence is golden. In the silence of the heart God speaks. We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.” If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.”