Thought of the day

If there were no GOAL posts in place, what one word would you use to describe the behaviours of 22 people chasing one small round object on a playing field? As a popular quote emphasising the benefits of setting specific, achievable and self-empowering goals goes, "If you don't know specifically where you're going, then you'll never get there. And if you don't set the bar high enough, you'll never live up to your potential." A goal gives you something to aim at. It also lets you know how you are doing.

Thought of the day

Happiness is a feeling you cannot enjoy alone. To experience real happiness, the people around you must be happy too. That is why they say, "Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it."

Thought of the day

To live without the knowledge of one’s past history, origin and culture is to exist like a tree that has no root. To borrow a quote by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the author of “The Phenomenon of Man, "Each thing extends itself and pushes its roots into the past, ever farther back, by that which makes it most itself.” To know yourself, you must know where you came from.

To Open The Pandora's Box

The following story tells of the origin of the phrase, "The Pandora's Box." It comes from a Greek myth encouraging mankind to think carefully before doing anything:

In most of the ancient Greek myths, man was created first, then woman. The first mortal woman was created by Hephaestos from earth and sea. She was named Pandora, on account of the fact that she was endowed with every gift, including beauty, grace, sweetness, persuasiveness, perceptiveness, intelligence and, generally, all the positive elements of womanhood. However, after that, Hera added curiosity while Hermes added craftiness and lies to the endowment.

Zeus sent Epimitheas to Pandora as a gift and won by her charms, he married her. At the wedding, along with other gifts, Pandora was given a beautiful gift box by the immortals, locked, with a key, and she was commanded never to open it, if she wanted to remain completely happy.

So the couple lived many years together, in bliss, until Pandora's curiosity got the better of her and she opened the box. What flew out from it were all the misfortunes of the world: sickness, pain, calamity and whatever else. The last to emerge, however, was a little bird, "hope," which gives solace and courage to mankind.

Source: Greek Mythology - Gods, Heroes, Iliad, Odyssey

Thought of the day

There are three possible places you can live at any point in your life: You live in the past. You can live in the present. You can also live in the future. You cannot live in the three places at the same time. You cannot live in the past or in the future and experience the present. To be a present moment being is to become aware that it's all you have n7ow!

Thought of the day

You cannot postpone experiencing happiness to the future. You cannot return to the past and pick up. It is something designed to be experienced in the present moment. Happiness is finding something to be grateful for on a daily basis.

Quote of the day

According to Lao Tzu, "A journey of a thousand miles starts with one step." The first faulty step is not a reason to step back. But it is a reason to step aside and ask, "What happened?"

Thought of the day

A person whose steps have been ordered by God can never take a wrong step even when it has to be unavoidably taken backward. That is why we hear such words as, construction, destruction and reconstruction. Remember the quote by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, in "The Phenomenon of Man: "What is gained on one side is lost on the other. Nothing is constructed except at the price of an equivalent destruction."