DreamingAway

"Dear God, Please send a tsunami and clean up the whole of Srilanka or at least one side of it, so that I no longer need to hear the war news from the island" - Yeah, I can pray, but I know my God can't listen. No point in listening to a human who has no knowledge of the wholeness. 12 - LTTE, 35 - SLA. I was so happy to see these numbers in my school days. Now I know that they are not mere statistical data but the lives which wouldn't have burdened the earth, if allowed to live in this world. At times, it hurts! No mercy, God is not of 'human', otherwise, we would have seen a different world. Is it not natural to be attached with 'you', 'your language', 'your caste', 'your religion', ... when grouping is unavoidable? We are not going to be allowed to free of this binding that easily. Perhaps, that is why, like thousands of Tamils, I see Prabhakaran as a hero (hurting is the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi's). Will demolishing ...

src Kovil Pillai P.

The Difference between FOCUSING on PROBLEMS and FOCUSING on SOLUTIONS Case # 1 : When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens would not work at zero gravity (ink will not flow down to the writing surface). Solution # 1 : To solve this problem, it took them one decade and $12 million. They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down, underwater, in practically any surface including crystal and in a temperature range from below freezing to over 300 degrees C. Solution # 2 : And what did the Russians do...?? They used a pencil. ============================================= Case # 2 : One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was the case of the empty soapbox, which happened in one of Japan 's biggest cosmetics companies. The company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soapbox that was empty. Immediately the authorities isolated the problem to the assembly Line, which transported all the packaged boxes ...

Can you be free of thoughts? You may not because otherwise science can create you. You look ahead, you look back, you swim in day’s stream, yet, you don't have the real control over your thoughts because it is so much attached to the things external to you. You know, the person in violet colour dress crossing your eyes in a fraction of seconds could bring you an episode of thoughts about someone else. This binding is the extremity of slavery. Don't expect to be free from it - you will miss the lifefulness of your being. Past is past? Yes? But it never dies. You may not recall a thing but you can't erase anything. How wonderful (?) it would be if we could decide what to remember and what to not! It is a mystery, those old moments, in the form of thoughts, could resurface at any time. Still strange is the emotional turbulence it brings. At times, thinking of the happiest moments in your life could leave you in agony as if a dagger is piercing every bit of flesh in your body. ...

In ancient times, a King had a boulder placed on a roadway. Then he hid himself and watched to see if anyone would remove the huge rock. Some of the kirig's wealthiest merchants and courtiers came by and simply walked around it. Many loudly blamed the king for not keeping the roads clear, but none did anything about getting the stone out of the way. Then a peasant came along carrying a load of vegetables. Upon approaching the boulder, the peasant laid down his burden and tried to move the stone to the side of the road. After much pushing and straining, he finally succeeded. After the peasant picked up his load of vegetables, he noticed a purse lying in the road where the boulder had been. The purse contained many gold coins and a note from the king indicating that the gold was for the person who removed the boulder from the roadway. The peasant learned what many of us never understand. Every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve our condition. src Kovil Pillai P.