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'Be like the Coffee Beans.......'

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               Once upon a time in a cold sunny day, father and his little son were sitting in a garden. Father in those days was too busy providing their family with money that he couldn’t talk to his son for weeks because of long hour shifts.     So, father while cleaning his glasses asked the boy how everything was going in his life.      “ Everything’s so boring ”, boy gave a dry answer and then proceeded to list a cascade of bad things that had happened to him at school and outside. “ It’s just one problem after the other ”, boy blurted out. Life is so unfair was his bitter conclusion.              Father who worked as a chef in a big Italian restaurant invited the boy to meet him at the restaurant which was not far from his school. “ Come to me after school tomorrow before going home. I have something to show you. But, lets enjoy the beautiful afternoon for today ”, fathe...

Don't focus too much on STUMBLING BLOCK.....

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             Once a teacher came to his class and ordered everyone to prepare for a surprise test.  Every student took their pens out and they were given the text facing down, as usual. Once he handed them all out, teacher asked them to turn over the papers.                   With utter surprise, students found nothing on the paper except a small dot at the center. First, they thought there was a mistake but amazingly, everyone had the same test with dark black dot.               After observing student’s agitation, teacher explained that they had to write whatever they found on the page. “ But there is nothing in it ”, asked a student. “ What you see is totally up to you ”, teacher gave a confusing answer and the students started on the inexplicable task.     After about an hour, teacher ordered to stop writing and collected the tests. Afte...

EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR GOOD........

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              O nce there was a small country, prosperous but surrounded by mighty empires who always fought with each other. But never had those huge nations declared war in this country. People were happy and always gave credit to their king and his sharp diplomatic approach.                                  But king on the other hand knew that without his trusted advisor, he couldn’t have handled the nation properly. King always had his advisor near him and seek wisdom from him but his one thing always saddened and upset the king when he would say, “ Whatever life brings to you is because God wants something better from you”.                            And so, one day king asked from his one of the serving girls to cut his nails and massage his hands. While girl was doing as she was aske...

Buddha and Perception........

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                            Once upon a time while Buddha was sitting with his disciples, an old pupil of his came near to him and  respectfully  asked, “Ha Buddha, here in our town, there came a number of preachers, who are not only creating tensions among people but are also indulge in useless fighting. Some say world is Eternal and never ending. Some say that it's temporary and will end. Some say soul dies with body, other say it lives forever and so forth. So, who should I believe in?”                          Buddha after being silent for a minute replied, “once upon a time, there was a king who ordered his servant to gather in one place four men who were born blind. Servant did what he was asked for. When four bling men reached, a huge elephant was brought in front of them. Now, king ordered to show one part of Elephant to one person and ...

An Interesting life lesson......

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           Once upon a time, there was a young man working in a factory. His mentor, a technician always advised him to work hard and upgrade his knowledge. Time spent fast and on the tenth year, the old man retired and young man became a technician himself.                One day he went to meet his mentor. By his sad expressions, the old man knew that there must be something going on with him. Upon asking, young man said, “Till now,  I  have done everything which you told me to do. I have been working in the factory for 20 years now, have got knowledge about everything in it but sadly, people who don’t have experience like me gets all the promotions and I am doing as little as I was in your time". The old man stood up from his chair and starting walking while thinking about the problem. Then he stopped and said, “you have to take off from your work because you need a break. Tomorrow give whatever excuse yo...

Does Soul Matters?

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                       Once there was a king who had four wives. He was living a happy life but suddenly fell ill. The truth daunted that he had an incurable disease and could only live more than a weak. He sat down and started thinking about his old good times and how he had lived a happy and luxurious life.                                      Being fearful about the loneliness which was coming, he thought of requesting his wives to accompany with him. So, he went to his fourth wife which he loved the most and bestowed gifts upon gifts on her and said, “you are my favorite wife and I love your company, so will you accompany me in the grave”. She replied, “no way”, and left without uttering another word.           He also loved his third wife and showered gift and always showed her to different kingdoms,...

Atomic Habits

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              You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.   Hello guys and welcome.              Every year, millions of people try to build new habits. Some adopt new exercise programs, other pick up some instruments they have been meaning to learn, and still other decides to finally get serious about reading every day.        Some of these people will succeed in getting their new habit to stick, while others quickly give up and fail. But all of them learn the same lesson:     Building a new habit is hard and if you want to adopt a new habit, you better prepare yourself for an uphill battle.         Luckily, one of the things that you can always count on is that when there’s a problem, people will inevitably try to create solutions for it.      Necessity i...

THE ART OF THINKING CLEARLY, Book Review

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                                                                          If you are not part of solution, then you are part of the problem .              Hello guys and welcome. Its your boy Ibrahim.                       Have you ever thought about the treasures that life holds for us? What’s the purpose of our exitance? Do we really know what we are destined to do? What’s the concept of thinking and why we have given the ability of thinking?                   ...