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| Spirit of wisdom and knowledge | | 2008-08-21 12:08:19 | | Dear Father, God of Mercy and compassion i came before you to day to ask of Financial breaking through in my life. Also grant me spirit of wisdom and knowledge. Amen
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| | Wisdom… From Larry The Cable Guy? | | 2008-08-17 21:20:52 | | A day without sunshine is like night.
On the other hand, you have different fingers.
42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
Remember, half the people you know are below average.
He who laughs last thinks the slowest.
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
The early bird may get the [...]... | | By: The Front Porch View | | |
| | The Free App Store Review XI: The Wisdom of Light Sabers | | 2008-08-10 02:22:48 | | Well shave my yak if it isn’t time for another freebie roundup. It seems the last few days have been a wee bit slow in that department, with only a baker’s dozen new titles to plow through, which means I might actually finish this roundup in a respectable amount of time. Oddly, there’s [...]... | | By: Touch Podium | | |
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| EVAN'S LITTLE GEMS OF WISDOM | | 2008-08-05 17:06:00 | | Evan came out with this beautiful little gem of wisdom when i was cleaning!Evan: 'Mummy i thought you were cleaning the kitchen'Mummy: 'I am but it's hard work'Evan: 'Mummy hard work is telling me that you need a helper, and that helper is me!'This is my little cool dude here in the picture with his brother on holiday.You wouldn't think he is coming 4 this October. He is so grown up!... | | By: Mummy Diaries | | |
| | The wisdom of Ayurveda | | 2008-08-02 04:33:09 | | Amalaki, the great rejuvenator. Central to Zrii is a small fruit that grows at the base of the pristine Himalayas in northern India. Its nutritional profile truly places it in a class of its own—which means it can be an extraordinary source for you to find rejuvenation, vitality, and energy.A formulation that takes nutrition to the next level. Mixed only with fruit juices, amalaki would be a top nutritional drink. But that wasn't enough to ensure that you received the highest level of nutrition possible, so we created a synergistic blend of herbs and fruits to completely unlock the potency of amalaki.Preservative-free. Zrii uses the world's purest whole-food source of amalaki, all grown at the foot of the Himalayas, surrounded by the cleanest air and water on the planet—which means no harmful artificial chemicals or contaminants.Wildcrafted in the Himalayas Our amalaki is wildcrafted, a harvesting technique where the fruit is taken from trees as it is naturally found in nature, han... | | By: Ayurveda in Thailand Blog | | |
| | A Sabedoria das Multidões - "The Wisdom of the Crowds" | | 2008-07-22 14:41:04 | | Um dos maiores "hits" para a geração web 2.0 foi (e é) o livro "A Sabedoria das Multidões", de James Surowiecki. A tese do autor, que os adeptos da web 2.0 compartilham é que existe subjacente à soma das sabedorias individuais, pairando sobre ela, uma sabedoria colectiva que é superior à soma das partes.
Ou dito de outra maneira, reunidas certas condições, quando se consegue subtrair essa... | | By: Web Dois Ponto Zero | | |
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| Adquiriendo sabiduría - The Getting of Wisdom | | 2008-07-17 09:21:08 | | Año de producción: 1978
Dirección: Bruce Beresford
Intérpretes: Julia Blake, Dorothy Bradley, Kay Eklund, Max Fairchild, Jan Friedl, Diana Greentree, Maggie Kirkpatrick.
Guión: Eleanor Witcombe
Fotografía: Donald McAlpine
Duración: 101 min.
Público apropiado: Adultos
Género: Drama
Adaptación de una conocida novela feminista de la escritora Ethel Florence Robertson, que tuvo que editar bajo el pseudónimo de Henry Handel Richardson. Se desarrolla en la [...]... | | By: Soy lo que Quiero Ser | | |
| | Removing Wisdom Teeth | | 2008-07-13 02:09:01 | | One day, a man walks into a dentist's office and asks how much it will cost to extract wisdom teeth. "Eighty dollars," the dentist says."That's a ridiculous amount," the man says. "Isn't there a cheaper way?""Well," the dentist says, "if you don't use an anesthetic, I can knock the price down to $60.""That's still too expensive," the man says."Okay," says the dentist. "If I save on anesthesia and simply rip the teeth out with a pair of pliers, I can knock the price down to $20.""Nope," moans the man, "it's still too much.""Well," says the dentist, scratching his head, "if I let one of my students do it, I suppose I can knock the price down to $10.""Marvelous," says the man, "book my wife for next Tuesday!"
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| | Work at Home with Organized Wisdom Health | | 2008-07-04 04:13:15 | | I'm sending another work at home opportunity your way. A new but reputable company looking for at home workers willing to telecommute and make a living online. As the name suggests, OrganizedWisdom Health is a new human-powered, physician-guided search service for health. Their paid Guides, Reviewers and Physicians hand-craft unbiased search results pages, which are called WisdomCards, contain only high-quality links to the very best expert and user-generated health resources on the Web. Founded by experienced Internet entrepreneurs Steven Krein and Unity Stoakes, the company is designed with a flexible, performance-based, "virtual" structure -- in other words, you can and should work from wherever you like. By building a virtual company, we can bring on the very best talent no matter where they might live or want to work from. Open Positions:1. Guides and Physician Reviewers 2. PHP Developer 3. Web Designer Their office is in New York City but they work primarily online and only want... | | By: Earn Free Money Online | | |
| | True Wisdom by Fr. Moga | | 2008-07-03 04:09:31 | | The search for wisdom has been part of the human life. History would show us how the wise men gave reasons on the every circumstance, phenomenon etc etc. But what really is true wisdom? True wisdom is not merely a matter of a high mental capacity. It is neither a mere factual knowledge nor a knowledge which is connected with a particular human skill. Wisdom is more than these. Fr. Michael D. Morga SJ presents us with ten various descriptions of wisdom.1. Wisdom as sensitivity for mystery.2. Wisdom as the Knowledge of the Ultimate Reasons or Causes.3. Wisdom as the Sense of the Overall Goal of Human Life.4. Wisdom as Sensitivity for Human Life.5. Wisdom as a Broad View of Things.6. Wisdom as Good Judgment.7. Wisdom as a Living in terms of the Religious Dimensions of Life.8. Wisdom as Knowing How to be Happy.9. Wisdom as a Living in terms of What is Truly Important.10. Wisdom as Living in Tune with a Greater Reality.Wisdom itself refuses to be defined, thus, people can only give descript... | | By: The Soliloquist | | |
| | Story of Wisdom from Sufi Master Bawa Muhaiyaddeen | Acknowledging the Real | | 2008-07-02 00:03:53 | | 1.There was a wise man, a great Sufi gnäni (gnostic) who had attained an exalted state. But one day the thought came to him, "Whatever may happen to anyone, I will protect them. I will help them."Now for many years satan had tried to trip him up but never succeeded. However, the day this thought entered the gnäni's mind, satan saw his opportunity and rejoiced, "Oh ho! Now I can finally get this man." So satan clapped his hands and called for his companions.All the satans gathered in readiness. "Why did you call us? What do you want us to do?""This is our chance to catch one of our enemies, a Sufi's gnäni named Ahamad. I want you to change into a snake with fangs containing a very potent poison made from all eight kinds of evil poisons from the eight directions. With this poison in your fangs you must go to the Sufi's gnäni and say, 'O Ahamad Kabïr, I am in danger. Protect me, take care of me.'"He will tell you, 'I will take care of you. I will protect you.'"Then say to him, 'Oh! M... | | By: Inspirations and Creative Thoughts | | |
| | | Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons | | 2008-06-22 07:35:04 | | Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons
by Tim Russert (Author)
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What does it really mean to be a good father? What did your father tell you, that has stayed with you throughout your life? Was there a lesson from him, a story, or a moment that helped to make you who you are? Is there a special memory that makes you smile when you least expect it?
After the publication of Tim Russert’s number one New York Times bestseller about his father, Big Russ & Me, he received an avalanche of letters from daughters and sons who wanted to tell him about their own fathers, most of whom were not superdads or heroes but ordinary men who were remembered and cherished for some of their best moments–of advice, tenderness, strength, honor, discipline, and occasional eccentricity.
Most of these daughters and sons were eager to express the gratitude they had carried with them through the years. Oth... | | By: Store Books Cheap | | |
| | prayer for wisdom | | 2008-06-10 03:49:17 | | Please pray for God to give me the wisdom, faith, grace and courage I need to make the right decisions, take the right actions, speak the right words, and see the path He has chosen for me. Thank you for praying for me.
- Adrienne from Virginia, USA
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| | Interpretation of dreams in Islamic Wisdom Tradition | | 2008-06-10 02:04:06 | | 1.On many occasions Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace, after finishing the morning prayer in the mosque, he would face the companions and ask, "Who amongst you had a dream last night?" So if anyone had seen a dream he /she would narrate it. The Prophet would say: "Ma sha'a-llah" (God has willed it) and he would continue interpreting the dream.Thus dream interpretation, specially in group was practiced from the very time of the Prophet, which tradition is also carried and practiced in many sufi orders and has distinguished place in Islamic wisdom tradition.2.Prophet Muhammad is reported to have said, "Nothing is left of Prophethood except glad tidings." Those with him asked, "What are glad tidings?" He replied, "True dreams / visions."- Sahih Al-BukhariThe Prophet Muhammad mentioned that after he was gone prophecy would come only through true dreams. Based on this and other statements, early Muslims created what might be called a theology of dreams. Dreams were regarded as an importan... | | By: Inspirations and Creative Thoughts | | |
| | Gathered Memory | the spiritual wisdom of Hafez | | 2008-06-10 01:37:08 | | So long as on Earth you live,do value your strength;the wheel of life buriesall weakness in the end.In the school of transformation, in the tavern of alchemy, each seeker has its own course, unique pathway. Still, there are one curriculum common to all of humanity, past and present ... is what mystic philosopher and sufi master Hafez calls, Khater-e-Majmou, the Gathered Memory.The gathered memory is a condition of unity created by weaving disparate thoughts, emotions and personalities into one sharply focused images. It emerges both from within and without, arising in each person as the world of both one's self and one's double - that ancient metaphysical shadow being that is said to be an image of the self as it appears in the spirit world.You sometimes may experience gathered memory as completely relaxed composure. It is a peaceful state obtained through a momentary, yet complete flash of aggregate memory. You know who you are, where you've come from and who and what you are related ... | | By: Inspirations and Creative Thoughts | | |
| | Prayer will Provide you Necessary Wisdom | | 2008-06-07 12:07:08 | | By Brother Carl SternbergIn MyDesert.com There are always some people who say that with the world in such a mess, why do you spend so much of your effort in talking about the importance of spirituality and prayer.You promote "being" above "doing," imageless prayer above discursive thinking. How can you be indifferent to the plight of millions who are in horrible straits?The answer that I would give is simple yet illusive. It is in silent prayer that we get the courage to honestly look with new eyes at the many issues that face our world.Meditation can lead to a profound conversion like that of the Good Samaritan in the Christian scriptures who picked up the poor traveller who was injured on the road.Prayer opens the heart to compassion for every human being who suffers. In prayer, we gain the enlightenment and wisdom to see problems at their roots without the spin that comes from varying ideologies and the media.Prayer can liberate us from discouragement and sadness that often come wh... | | By: Spiritual Village | | |
| | Conventional Wisdom on Player Stocks 6-2-08 | | 2008-06-02 12:30:38 | |
Who's stock is rising and falling in the last couple of weeks? Some Denver players look better than expected, and some are in trouble.
Note: As I was writing this story, Travis Henry lost his job. I had his stock in decline, but was nearly finished with the entire story when Guru published the breaking news.
Let's look at who is is looking good, and who may be in trouble so far...
Travis Henry RB - Major Decline
"There are no more chances for Travis, and he understands that," Shanahan said. "As time goes on, we'll see how he handles that situation. The key is he has to stay healthy and keep his nose out of trouble. If he doesn't, somebody else will come in and do the job. It's not like we don't have the ability to go in different directions."
(courtesy, Denver Post)
When I read this quote from Shanhan I was surprised. It was a pretty harsh statement, and an indication that Henry's time with Denver was in trouble. THen came this:
He wouldn't specul... | | By: Mile High Report | | |
| | The Wit and Wisdom of Barack Obama | | 2008-05-31 23:03:00 | | SMARTER THAN YOUR AVERAGE ….?This is my tribute to Barack Obama. It is a heart-felt piece honoring his apparent victory over Hillary Clinton. I hope it is taken as I intended – as abject sarcasm and farce.... | | By: The Pink Flamingo | | |
| | Words of Wisdom from Gradon Bunker | | 2008-05-18 07:11:31 | | Saint Gradon loves to watch the news. I don’t know why, since all it does is piss him off - I guess he likes being pissed off. Which should be easy, since he lives with me.
Anyway, this morning, he was watching the news while I was upstairs in the “library” and I heard him start [...]... | | By: Maxine's House of Ill Repute | | |
| | Yatharth Geeta | timeless wisdom on work | | 2008-05-02 17:32:11 | | "Man neither attain to the final state of actionlessness by desisting from work, nor does he achieve deva (divine) perfection by just renunciation of work." - Shreemad Bhagwad Geeta Commentary by Swami Agadananda in the book, Yatharth Geeta, The Geeta in its True Perspective . There is a no escape from action. A man cannot achieve the state of actionlessness by not commencing work, nor can he attain to the state of divine perfection by merely giving up an undertaken task. So, whether Arjun prefers, the Way of Knowledge or the Way of Selfless Action, he has to toil alike for each of them. Usually, at this point, seekers on the way to God begin to look for shortcuts and escapes. We have to be on our guard against the common misconception that we become "selfless doers" just because we do not undertake any work. That is why Krishn emphasizes the point that one does not achieve the state of actionlessness by just not beginning work. The point where both good and evil deeds cease completel... | | By: Inspirations and Creative Thoughts | | |
| | Wisdom from Ben Miller | | 2008-04-23 12:01:00 | | Ben Miller is an investment guru and value investor. Below are the word of wisdom from him that will help you as an investor to be a best and successful value investor.1. I often remind our analysts that 100% of the information you have about a company represents the past, and 100% of a stock’s valuation depends on the future.2. The market does reflect the available information, as the professors tell us. But, jut as the funhouse mirrors don’t always accurately reflect your weight, the markets don’t always accurately reflect that information. Usually they are too pessimistic when it’s bad, and too optimistic when it’s good.3. What we try to do is take advantage of errors other make, usually because they are too short-term oriented, or they react to dramatic events, or they over estimate the impact of events, and so on.4. Many value investors ignore technology companies or maintain minimal exposure to them, despite compelling evidence that this sector has had the ability to cr... | | By: the ultimate value investing wisdom | | |
| | Words of Wisdom | | 2008-04-23 10:46:00 | | I truly appreciate all of your suggestions and ideas for helping with my morning sickness.I wish I could say so far something has helped but no...I am still wanting to be put in a coma for the next 3 months. Ugh.Just to let you know, I have severe morning sickness with ALL my pregnancies so this is nothing new to me. I throw up continuously from 6 weeks to 16 weeks with no break. I have tried unisom, not taking prenatals, eating before I get up, ginger in every form, and all the other methods people and books recommend. And not one of them has worked. This weekend the doctor prescribed phenergan which I tried with no success either. Monday she gave me Zofran which is proving to be no good either. I spent all day yesterday throwing up despite taking the medicine. I called her back today to see what she wants to do now. She said in her 2 years of working at this clinic they have only had one mom they couldn't help. I am afraid I am going to be #2. My morning sickness is that bad.So I am ... | | By: Organized Chaos | | |
| | Filth and Wisdom | | 2008-04-17 19:11:02 | | IFC has secured North American rights to Madonna's directorial debut, "Filth and Wisdom." Article Tools Submit to Digg Bookmark to del.icio.us Give it to Reddit
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| | | Forex Trading Tools: Timeless Forex Trading Wisdom And Strategie | | 2008-04-06 15:22:01 | | The foreign exchange market, or Forex market, is an around-the-clock cash market where the currencies of nations are bought and sold. Forex trading is always done in currency pairs. For example, you buy Euros, paying with U.S. Dollars, or you sell Canadian Dollars for Japanese Yen. The value of your Forex investment increases or decreases because of changes in the currency exchange rate or Forex rate. These changes can occur at any time, and often result from economic and political events. The purpose of this article is to present trading wisdom and strategies from some of the world's trading greats.Trading System - According to Howard Abell: The trading system gives the trader the ability to control his or her emotional states rather than allowing them to control him. A system is a disciplined method for organizing dynamic, ever-changing market phenomena.Risk Control - According to Paul Tudor Jones: If I have positions going against me, I get right out; if they are going for me, I kee... | | By: All About Investiment | | |
| | The Wit & Wisdom of Maya Angelou | | 2008-04-06 06:03:08 | | In April, of last year, Maya Angelou was interviewed by Oprah on her74th birthday. Oprah asked her what she thought of growing older.And there on television, she said it was "exciting." Regarding bodychanges, she said there were many occurring every day...like herbreasts.. they seem to be in a race to see which will reach her waist first.The audience laughed so hard they cried. She also said this...."I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today,life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.""I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/shehandles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangledChristmas tree lights.""I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents,you'll miss them when they're gone from your life..""I've learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as "making alife.""I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.""I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catch... | | By: Tails of Terror from the Black Lagoon! | | |
| | 10 Thoughts and Simple Wisdom to Live By | | 2008-04-05 14:28:39 | | This morning i came across the 10 Thoughts to Live By via youtube video, originally its author is Ruth Carter-Bourdon. Quite simple yet powerful thoughts. As i was watching the video, for each statement, different verses from Quran came to mind which i share here below each thoughts of Ruth Carter.1. Thou shalt not worry, for worry is the most unproductive of all human activities.Be not, faint of heart, and grieve not:for you are bound to rise highif you open your heart to believe!The Quran 3:1392. Thou shalt not be fearful, for most of the things we fear never come to pass.Behold! verily on the friends of Beloved God there is no fear,nor shall they grieve... 10:623. Thou shalt not cross bridges before you get to them, for no one yet has succeeded in accomplishing this.And that human being shall have nothing but what he or she strives for. 53.394. Thou shalt face each problem as it comes. You can handle only one at a time anyway.No soul shall have a burden laid on it greater than it ca... | | By: Inspirations and Creative Thoughts | | |
| | Wisdom from Hopi Elders | on sacred togetherness .. we are the ones we've been waiting for .. | | 2008-03-27 04:56:40 | | You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour.Now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour.And there are things to be considered:Where are you living? What are you doing?What are your relationships? Are you in right relation?Where is your water?Know your garden.It is time to speak your Truth.Create your community.Be good to each other.And do not look outside yourself for the leader.This could be a good time!There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are being torn apart, and they will suffer greatly.Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water. See who is in there with you and celebrate.At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally.Least of all, ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual... | | By: Inspirations and Creative Thoughts | | |
| | Two Wolves - Native Wisdom | | 2008-03-22 12:24:00 | | "One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. 'My son,' he said, 'the battle is between two wolves inside us all...'"One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego."The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.""The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather:"Which wolf wins?""The old Cherokee replied, "The one you feed."I try hard to feed the Good wolf inside me, at times I'm tested and choose the Evil but only when people have shown their Evil towards me. Luckily I always come back to where I feel the best. It's easier for me to live by freely giving my Good to everyone I cross roads with. Live your best life, feed the Good and pass it around freely. www.AreVitaminsSafe.com... | | By: Whole Food And More | | |
| | Acting with Wisdom Amid the Growing Financial Storm | | 2008-03-21 11:14:40 | | For a number of years the writers and editorial board here at Ponder This… have advocated personal due diligence in relation to investment decisions.
We have explained that our economic system had been turned on its head due to extreme bubbles being fomented in the equity markets, the housing market, and the financial and credit markets. [...]... | | By: Ponder This | | |
| | Franz Wright's words of wisdom | | 2008-03-04 22:56:00 | | "Letter" January 1998I am not acquainted with anyone there, if they spoke to meI would not know what to do.But so far nobody has, I knowI certainly wouldn't.I don't participate, I'm not allowed;I just listen, and every morninghave a moment of such happiness, I breatheand breathe until the terror returns. About the timewhen they are supposed to greet one anothertwo people actually look into each other's eyesand hold hands a moment, butthe church is so big and the few who are thereare seated far apart. So this presents no real problem.I keep my eyes fixed on the great naked corpse, the vertical corpsewho is said to be loveand who spoke the worldinto being, before coming hereto be tortured and executed by it.I don't know what I am doing there. I do notice the more I lose touchwith what I previously saw as my lifethe more real my spot in the dark winter pew becomes—it is infinite. What we experienceas space, the skythat is, the sun, the starsis intimate and rather small by comparison.Whe... | | By: Amerikan Turk | | |
| | The Wisdom of Abey | | 2008-03-03 10:37:00 | | 1. Money alone will not make you happy. Living an "authentic life" will. People have more money today than 50 years ago, yet are no more happy.2. Have a financial plan for you, not your money. Those with a financial plan report greater satisfaction with life than those who do not.3. Your plan should be based on your goals, not goals someone else says you should have. Those selling dreams are probably trying to sell you something else.4. Understand the Prize. Over the long term, cash makes a real return of 0%-1%, bonds 1%-3%, property (without leverage) 3%-5% and shares 5%-8%.5. Understand the "enemy within". You are wired to make bad investment decisions, and your financial plan needs to defeat that.6. Beware false accounting. An investment you bought for $100 5 years ago, and sold for $150 yesterday, but cost you $4 to buy, $10 in finance interest costs, and $11 to maintain and insure, made a 25%, not a 50% return.7. Drip feed money into the market so you do not worry about short... | | By: How to be Rich, Happy and Free from Scams | | |
| | Seek wisdom from The Lord... | | 2008-02-21 00:08:00 | | If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.
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| | Over 100 Year wisdom: 50 ways I can improve myself | | 2008-02-20 16:36:30 | | John Patterson founder of the National Cash Register now a days known as NCR, trained his sales force to become better sales people. He had a NCR sales script, “How I sell a National Cash Register” which become known as “The Primer”. First Primer was introduced in June 1887.
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| | | | | The Fear of the Lord brings Wisdom and Life! | | 2008-01-22 01:51:52 | | For thy name's sake, O LORD,
pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.
What man is he that feareth the LORD?
Him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
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| | Prophet Muhammad's Advice of Spiritual Wisdom | | 2008-01-17 23:36:57 | | ......................... Abu Dharr al-Ghafari, a famous companion of the Prophet narrated, "I entered one day in the midday in the presence of the Messenger of God in his mosque. I didn't see anyone at all in the mosque except the Messenger of God and Ali who was sitting by his side, so I took the opportunity of the emptiness to approach the Prophet and asked his advice that God will give benefit by it ...". The Prophet gave him advice mentioning that for surely it is the collection of all the paths of goodness."Worship God as if You see Him and if You weren't seeing Him (You must understand that) surely He sees You. Know You that the first of worship of God is (Ma'rifa) gnosis, for He is surely the first before every other thing, so there is nothing before Him, The singlemost without any second, the continuing without an end. He is the Creator of the heavens and earth and whatever is in them and between them and He is the Subtle, the Aware, and He has power over all things; then belief in me and acknowledgment that God sent me to all of humanity as a bearer of glad tidings, a warner, a caller to God by His permission and a illuminating torch of light; Then the love of the people of my spiritual abode and my spiritual successor, those from whom God has removed every impurity and purified them a perfect purification (The Quran 33:33).You must know that God, the Great and Majestic, has made the 'Ahl al Bait' (family and the spiritual successors) in my nation the likliness of the ship of Nuh (Noah) whoever rides it is saved and whoever desires other than it is drowned. He has made them the likeliness of the Gate of Jericho among the Banu Israel, whoever enters the gate is safe.There are two blessings seriously taken for granted (misused) by mankind, health and spare time.Take advantage of five things before five things seize you; Your youth before Your old age, your health before your sickness, Your wealth before your poverty, your spare time before your being ... | | By: Inspirations and Creative Thoughts | | |
| | Wisdom teeth | | 2008-01-16 09:11:36 | | I've been experienced headache for couple of days, I thought it's because I'm so lazy at work lol... but then I realize this headache come at the same time I have pain somewhere at the bottom right side of my mouth.At first I thought maybe the pain caused by something I ate or because I've tried to eat with this side of my teeth (I usually eat with my left side of teeth). And when I change eat with my left side again the pain still there and won't go away arrrghhh....Take a mirror and check on what caused the pain, and there it goes... it turns out my wisdom tooth is about to see the world and it's pushing the gum line (I'm sure the wisdom tooth is screaming to the gum line "let me out of here" :)).I know I should see my dentist because sometimes the wisdom tooth fails to erupt completely through the gum bed and can caused bad condition and never ending pain. The last time I checked with my dentist was almost a year ago when I take off my braces, maybe it's about time to see her again.Was wondering why they call this last teeth as wisdom teeth, and then I found this article from Wikipedia. They are generally thought to be called wisdom teeth because they appear so late—much later than the other teeth, at an age where people are wiser than as a child, when the other teeth erupt.In my case, I don't think my wisdom will come after this wisdom teeth erupt :)... | | By: Pure Thought | | |
| | | | Hedge of Protection & Wisdom | | 2007-12-28 11:44:40 | | for my son - that he would use God’s wisdom when it comes to relationships with others - that he will have the ability to see out in front of him any strategy that the enemy may try to design against him to entrap him or cause him to go off God’s destiny and course [...]... | | By: Prayers Online | | |
| | Strength & Wisdom | | 2007-12-26 23:38:36 | | Lord please give me strength and wisdom in all things. In Jesus name please bless my relationship with Jon and allow it to continue to grow beautifully within your will and within your time. Give me patience in all things. Bring prosperity and much business success to me in 2008! Help [...]... | | By: Prayers Online | | |
| | | nonsense of myriad reality and zen wisdom of buddha | | 2007-12-10 17:55:13 | | Buddha said: "I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake in India as a drop of oil on my foot.I perceive the teachings of the world to be the illusion of magicians. I discern the highest conception of emancipation as a golden brocade in a dream, and view the holy path of the illuminated ones as flowers appearing in one's eyes. I see meditation as a pillar of a mountain, Nirvana as a nightmare of daytime. I look upon the judgment of right and wrong as the serpentine dance of a dragon, and the rise and fall of beliefs as but traces left by the four seasons.". text credit via dis and pandemonium blog. photo credit: MysticLens... | | By: Inspirations and Creative Thoughts | | |
| | Gems of Wisdom from Warren Buffett | | 2007-12-07 12:14:00 | | Warren Buffett started with US$100 in 1956 and turned it to over US$40 billion fortune for himself. Amongst the world's Richest people, he stands out as the one who make it not by being an entrepreneur but by investing in businesses run by great entrepreneur.Below I share with you some gems of wisdom from Warren Buffett.Cheers!Surround yourself with people you trust and you’ll do fine.if you could only make 20 investing decisions you would think harder about those decisions and make more money.You need temperament and discipline not IQ. You need extraordinary discipline. That is the hard thing.Q: What do you look for in a business leader?Focus, Mission, and Projected confidence.Pick good heros (role model). Who your heros are determines who you will be. Your inner score card matters more than your outer score card.The time to do it is today. You may not be doing it in 30 years. Seize the day.Do not do something because you feel the need to do it. Do it because you want to do it.On H... | | By: How to be Rich, Happy and Free from Scams | | |
| | strength and wisdom | | 2007-12-04 08:59:02 | | dear god, please grant my boyfriend the strength and wisdom in this major challenge in his life. he is struggling so much. it hurts my heart every time to see him in so much pain. please let him pass this. i know you are working on him and givin g him an experience to mature. [...]... | | By: Prayers Online | | |
| | | purpose of dialogue between faiths | gandhian wisdom and Quranic appreciation for pluralism | | 2007-11-25 03:55:16 | | "The purpose of dialogue between faiths is not to change the other, but rather to deepen the experience of one's own faith. Through greater understanding and appreciation of each other's faith, the Hindu becomes a better Hindu, the Muslim becomes a better Muslim, the Christian becomes a better Christian, the Jew a better Jew and the Buddhist a better Buddhist."- Mahatma Gandhi (1829 - 1948)O mankind! surely God created you of a male and a female, and made you into nations and races, that you may know each other. Verily the most honored of you in the sight of God is the most righteous of you. And God is the Knower, Aware. The Quran 49.13And to each is disposed a goal toward which one turns; then strive together towards all that is good. Wheresoever you are, God will bring you together. For God has power over all things. The Quran 2.148Proclaim unto the mankind: Call upon as God or call upon as 'the Most Merciful': by whatever name ye call upon Him, it is the same: for to Him belong... | | By: Inspirations and Creative Thoughts | | |
| | what man is all about | Cassidus wisdom | | 2007-11-17 17:33:28 | | 1.This is what man is all about; this is the purpose of his creation and of the creation of all the worlds, sublime and lowly -- to make for God a dwelling in the physical world.2."The soul of man is a lamp of God" (Proverbs 20:27). Just like the flame of the lamp strains upwards, seeking to tear free of the wick and rise heavenward - though this would spell its own demise - so, too, does the Godly soul in man constantly strive to tear free of the body and the material existence and be nullified within its source in God.3.There are two types of pleasure before God. The first is from the complete nullification of evil and its transformation from bitterness to sweetness and from darkness to light by the perfectly righteous. The second [pleasure] is when evil is repelled while it is still at its strongest and mightiest ... through the efforts of the "intermediate man" (beinoni).4.If the human eye were allowed to see the spiritual vitality flowing from the utterance of Gods mouth into ever... | | By: Inspirations and Creative Thoughts | | |
| | Kwan family wisdom | | 2007-11-12 23:45:00 | |
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Kwan family wisdom
(November 12th, 2007 - 9:45PM)
Uncle:"You catch more bees with honey than with vinegar."
Me:"But you don't want bees."
Dad:"Yeah. You want honey."
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| | John Bogle shares his wisdom | | 2007-10-23 19:05:00 | | Cheryl Allebrand If you can't beat the market, be the market: That's the logic behind index funds. More than 30 years ago, John Bogle set up shop to help investors capture market returns at minimal cost. He had realized a quarter-century earlier that complex mutual fund investing strategies don't consistently outperform market returns.At a glanceName: John C. BogleHometown: Valley Forge, Pa.Education: Magna cum laude economics degree from Princeton in 1951 Career highlights: Founded Vanguard in 1974 Voted one of the "world's 100 most powerful and influential people" by Time magazine in 2004 Institutional Investor's Lifetime Achievement Award (2004) Named one of the investment industry's four "Giants of the 20th Century" by Fortune magazine in 1999 Received the Woodrow Wilson Award from Princeton University for "distinguished achievement in the Nation's service" (1999)Even Bogle's detractors have had to admit that the wisdom of his investing model has been borne out by time. Somewhat uncomfortable in his status as a present-day folk hero, Bogle remains an ardent defender of the common investor, and his zeal shines through in his latest work, "The Little Book of Common Sense Investing," published earlier this year by John Wiley & Sons.At age 78, the founder and former CEO of The Vanguard Group is still going strong. When he's not traveling to teach at a college seminar or to deliver a speech, he works 60 hours a week running Bogle Financial Markets Research Center, a unit of Vanguard that's funded by the company. He took time out of his hectic schedule to talk about investing with Bankrate.History of the index fundYou wrote your senior thesis 55 years ago on index funds. Did you understand their potential back then, or have you been surprised with the developments since you founded Vanguard in 1974? It was just a thought that I had in my thesis, not about index funds, but about outperforming the market by managed funds. I'm quite happy I wrote it down, this little kid, one year out of his teens. In that thesis, I wrote: "Mutual funds may make no claim to superiority over the market averages."We didn't have as much data as we do today, but I looked at performance of a great number of funds and found that they couldn't beat the market. That was the seed that was planted that by 1974 had burst into flower when I created the first index mutual fund.Simplicity is keyWhat is the most important piece of advice you have for someone who is new to investing? Rely on simplicity; own American or global business in broadly diversified, low-cost funds.Do you think the average person could safely invest for retirement and other goals without expert advice -- just by indexing? Yes, there is a rule of thumb I add to that. You should start out heavily invested in equities. Hold some bond index funds as well as stock index funds. By the time you get closer to retirement or into your retirement, you should have a significant position in bond index funds as well as stock index funds. As we get older we have less time to recoup. We have more money to protect and our nervousness increases with age. We get a little bit worried about that nest egg when it's large and we have little time to recoup it, so we pay too much attention to the fluctuations in the market, which in the long run mean nothing.Switching to indexingShould someone who does not currently hold index funds sell their actively managed funds and move the money to index funds, or should they hold those and start investing their new money in index funds? A lot depends on the kinds of funds they own. We've got an industry that makes life very complicated for investors because we've got dozens of different types of funds, different investment styles, different market capitalizations, specialty funds that are in telecommunications, gold, technology or whatever it may be, and a whole variety of international funds, including some that invest in just a single country. The more concentrated those investments are, say, in a single country or a single industry, I'd say the answer is generally yes, move to an index fund -- but watch out for taxes. If the funds are in your retirement plan, you can ignore taxes, but if they're in your own account you want to take into account the tax cost involved.Another factor to consider is how much it's costing you. The record is very clear: High-cost funds do considerably worse than low-cost funds. How could it be otherwise?Think about diversification when you're deciding what to do, and think about cost.Costs add upThat brings me to my next question. You've made the point time and again that costs dramatically impact investor returns. No-load funds are preferable to load funds, naturally, but how important is the expense ratio?Let's take the question a little bit differently, if I might. There are three costs that are involved in mutual funds. The one that we talk about the most and the one that is the easiest to calculate is the fund's expense ratio. That averages about 1.5 percent for an equity fund and about 1 percent for a bond fund. That's a heavy drain on your returns, unless the money manager has superior ability, which over the long term very few do. People look good in the short term and then they fade in the long term. Working with low-expense ratio funds -- as I call it, fishing in the low-cost pond -- is one way to make sure your returns are improved.There's a second cost that we don't pay nearly as much attention to and which we don't quantify very often and that's the impact of a sales commission -- if you buy a fund with a load. For example, if the load is 5 percent, which is the typical load today, and you hold the fund for five years, that has cost you 1 percent a year. If you hold it for 10 years, it's a half a percent a year. Think about three-quarters of 1 percent a year, the combination of those two, as cost No. 2 after the expense ratio.The third cost is hidden, but we know it exists, we just don't know exactly how large it is. That's the portfolio turnover cost. Mutual funds turn over their portfolios at an astonishing rate, averaging about 100 percent per year. By my estimates, any fund that turns its portfolio over at that rate is costing you an extra 1 percent per year: a half percent to buy all those securities, including market impact costs, and a half percent to sell them. A 100 percent turnover means a billion-dollar fund buys a billion dollars' worth of stock and sells a billion. That's our definition of 100 percent, but that's $2 billion of transactions. You have to take into account that cost.If you find lower-turnover funds, and very few funds turn over at lower than 30 percent per year, you're talking about not 1 percent per year, but about a three-tenths of 1 percent cost per year -- in other words, the turnover rate with the decimal point moved over two places (0.003). So 100 percent turnover would cost 1 percent roughly. And a 30 percent turnover would cost three-tenths of 1 percent. So let's call it an average of seven-tenths of 1 percent per year for portfolio turnover.So adding costs together, we have a 1.5 percent expense ratio, if you're paying a sales commission, another 0.7 percent on average for a seven-year holding period plus another 0.7 percent for turnover costs if you're average, so that adds up to roughly 3 percent. That's an astonishingly high cost and investors are almost oblivious to nearly all of it, but totally oblivious to the second and third costs. We've got to pay attention, or as we say in "Death of a Salesman," "Attention must be paid."I usually estimate total costs at 2.5 percent; if someone wants to argue that's too high, say a minimum of 2 percent paid by the typical fund investor. If you don't like my estimates, knock them down a little bit.How much to payWhat's the highest expense ratio that one should pay for a domestic equity fund?I'd say three-quarters of 1 percent maybe.For an international fund? I'd say three-quarters of 1 percent. For a bond fund? One-half of 1 percent. But I'd shave that a little bit. For example, if you can buy a no-load bond fund or a no-load stock fund, you can afford a little more expense ratio, because you're not paying any commission. You've eliminated cost No. 2.One of the ironic things about this is if you want to eliminate turnover cost, the third cost I mentioned, it's like rolling off a log -- it's the easiest thing in the world: Buy an index fund.If you buy a no-load index fund, with an expense ratio of, say 0.15 percent a year, you've taken that typical 2 (percent) to 3 percent cost and reduced it by about 95 percent a year. And it's there for the taking. In the long run it's really quite certain, because the data show us that only about 5 percent of the managers will outperform the market over an investment lifetime.Bogle's portfolioDo you own any actively managed funds? I'm largely indexed, 85 (percent) to 90 percent in my equity funds, but I've hung onto some of my, what I call "legacy funds" that I'd been investing in over the years that I was running Wellington Management Co. That would include Wellington Fund, Windsor Fund, Explorer Fund, Primecap Fund; other funds like that. I've owned them, and they're going to give me more or less a market return because they're very diversified, but that's 20 percent of my funds and I don't intend to change that.I should say that on the bond side, in my retirement plan account, which is my largest investment -- because I never owned Vanguard, which is sad to relate because I'd be a billionaire, multibillionaire -- but I don't own that, so my retirement plan is my largest investment, and in my personal account I own 100 percent municipal bond funds, which are very indexlike in their nature.Money market investingYou have said that most people hold five different funds, and that people should hold equity index funds and bond index funds. How much, if anything, should people hold in money market funds? In general I look at investing as having no money market funds. If you're concerned about risk you're better off holding a short-term bond fund. While the returns will be a little jagged if you draw them on a chart, they're upward about 95 percent of the time. Where a money market fund, if you put it on the same chart, will go in a straight line but will end up at a lower level, because that reduction in risk comes with a reduction in return.When investing, do not own money market funds. In saving for your emergency reserves, yes, own money market funds. An important caution: Money market funds are pure commodities. What differentiates the highest- and lowest-yielding money market funds is cost. The correlation between high cost and low return or low cost and high return in money market funds is 0.99 -- almost perfect. Avoid high-cost money market funds at all costs in your emergency account.ETFs vs. index fundsRecently we published a profile on Ben Stein and he mentioned you. Basically he said that you might disagree as to which are ultimately better -- index funds or exchange-traded funds -- but that he finds them equally attractive. You have been critical of ETFs. What don't you like about them? It is not the idea of ETFs that I find unpersuasive. After all, if someone wants to buy the Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF compared to the Total Stock Market fund directly, or to that point buy the SPDR, which is an S&P 500 ETF, compared to the Vanguard 500 (Index Fund), I don't have a bone to pick with them. I would tell smaller investors who are dollar averaging: Don't touch the ETF, because every time you touch them you pay a commission.In fact, I wouldn't buy the Vanguard ETF because you pay a commission. What's the matter with that? The answer is nothing. So Stein and I are on the same square. What troubles me and troubles me deeply is: What are ETFs? They are index funds that you can trade all day and they are index funds you pay a commission on. Those two things strike me as a great disadvantage.Trading is your enemy, because it's based on emotion. People do trade them with great rapidity. So I have a problem with trading ETFs, which you are lured into doing if you watch the market all day long, and also, the types of ETFs we have.There are now 690 types of ETFs and only 12 are broad-market ETFs, like the S&P 500 or the World Stock index or similar total-stock indices. That leaves 678 funds that are vehicles for speculating. Whether it's in emerging cancer shares or the Taiwanese stock market, or the Nasdaq, those are speculative things to do. I can't tell you they won't work, but I can tell you that when you have a speculative instrument that you can trade all day long, I would bet an awful lot of money that you would be better off instead of doing a lot of trading over the next 10 years in those narrow, specialized, undiversified and, in terms of commissions, costly instruments -- you don't have a fighting chance of beating the kind of index strategy that I just described.Investing for everyoneYou were the first to introduce index funds in the form of mutual funds for everyday investors. Would you say that this was your greatest contribution to the investing public?Vanguard 500 Index Fund is unequivocally the first index mutual fund. I don't dwell on my contributions such as they may be to the investing public. I've tried to do my best to build a better world for the average investor and, for that matter, for pension funds and institutional investors, too. Central to that was the creation of Vanguard, which was and is the only truly mutual mutual fund organization.The management company is owned by the funds; its profits, now running about $12 billion a year, are largely rebated -- 98 percent or something -- to our fund shareholders in the form of lower expenses. Without that kind of structure, it would be very difficult to bring out an index fund.We went no-load around the time the index fund was introduced. We then focused on being a low-cost provider in the mutual fund industry. And therefore following, when we became effective operationally in May 1975, the first thing on my agenda was to start an index fund, which depended on low cost to work. The chicken-and-the-egg is that Vanguard was the chicken, and the index fund, the egg. But which was the most important?We've been the most innovative company in this industry. And, I would argue quickly, soundly innovative. I don't give you points for innovation if you bring out an Internet stock fund at the height of the stock market boom in early 2000. That's bad innovation. In terms of good innovation, I think it's pretty clear we've led the way.... | | By: How to be Rich, Happy and Free from Scams | | |
| | Strength, Wisdom | | 2007-10-13 08:26:14 | | Heavenly Father I bow before you and ask that you continue to provide me with the Strength and Wisdom to be a better Husband and Father. Lord I also know that Strength and Wisdom comes through situations in which you build me stronger and wiser. Please provide those for me so that I [...]... | | By: Prayers Online | | |
| | Buddha's wisdom and Islamic teaching of 'renounce evil with good' | | 2007-09-27 19:13:24 | | 1.Once someone came to Buddha and started abusing him. He went on and on, abuse after abuse in a loud voice. He kept looking at Buddha for a reaction, but Buddha was as he was - calm, serene, smiling.This further agitated him and he hurled more abuses. Buddha again was calm, serene, smiling, looking more peaceful than ever. Then this person stopped for a moment. and said, "I have been going on and on, abusing you, but there is no reaction from your side. You remain in peace. How come!?!"Now Buddha finally spoke: "It is like if someone offers you sweets, what would you do?". The man replied, "Well, I like sweets so I would eat them and enjoy them".Buddha continued, "Okay, now if someone offered you something bitter, what would you do?". The man replied quickly, "Ofcourse, I would not accept it, I would return it to the one who has given it."Buddha said, "So I choose not to accept your abuses, you may take them back". At this, the man realised the wisdom and greatness of Buddha. May peace be upon Siddhattha Gautama Buddha, the enlightened teacher of humanity.2.Nor can goodness and evil be equal. Repel evil with what is better: lo! then between whom and thee there was enmity will be transformed as though he was a bosom friend. And no one shall be granted such goodness except those who exercise patience and self-restraint ... The Quran 41.34,35Renounce evil with that which is best. The Quran 23:96Those who patiently persevere, seeking their Lord's Countenance and are regular in prayer and spend in charity secretly and openly of that which We bestow upon them, and overcome evil with good. Theirs will be the final attainment of blissful abode. Gardens of perpetual bliss they shall enter. Quran 13:22,23... | | By: Inspirations and Creative Thoughts | | |
| | The Lamp of Wisdom | Yoga Vasistha | | 2007-09-26 20:52:09 | | To all who long and strive to realize the Self,Illumination comes to them in this very life.This divine awareness never leaves them,And they work unceasingly for the good of all.When the lamp of wisdom is lit within,Their face shines, whether life brings weal or woe.Even in deep sleep they are aware of the Self,For their mind is freed from all conditioning.Inwardly they are pure like the cloudless sky,But they act as if they too were like us all.Free from self-will, with detached intellect,They are aware of the Self even with their hands at work.Neither afraid of the world, nor making the world afraid,They are free from greed, anger and fear.When the waves of self-will subsideInto the sea of peace that is the Self,The mind becomes still, the heart pure,And illumination comes to us in this very life.When this supreme state is attained,They neither rise nor fall, change nor die.Words cannot describe this supreme stateFor it is fuller than fullness can be.- From the Yoga Vasistha (3:23-30), a dialogue between young lord Rama,a divine incarnation and his spiritual teacher,the sage Vasistha who explains to him the depth and importance of Self-realization.:: Yoga Vasistha:: Introduction to Yoga Vasistha:: Siddha Gita from Yoga Vasistha:: Yoga Vedanta Satsanga | Swamiji's podcast... | | By: Inspirations and Creative Thoughts | | |
| | Some words of wisdom from entreprenures | | 2007-09-25 12:36:00 | | Some words of wisdom that I have heard or picked up around the world, enjoy:"Without customer service, you've got nothing. To me, customer service means that when people call our toll-free number with a problem, you solve it - whatever it takes. Make sure they go home happy and tell 10 other people.""You have to build relationships with companies at all different levels. If you don't have that team networking, one day you could end up dead.""Effective negotiating is accomplished with the ears, not the mouth.""Hold the pen." (i.e, control negotiations to ensure your points are heard)""Good ideas don't come from the top all the time. They come from the guy that's making it work at the ground level.""We're not controlled by the amount of people we have or the money we've got. We're controlled by opportunity.""Technology is not a product problem, but a design problem. Buying technology can't solve a problem any more than buying two-by-fours will build a house.""Bad news travels 10 times as fast as good news, so you want to make sure a customer is always promoting your good name.""Marketing is wonderful because it's about listening to clients and being responsive to them and letting them know what you can do for them.""Everyone's born an entrepreneur, but it's crushed out of them before adulthood. You're lucky to survive with your enthusiasm intact." Slainte GordonThe daily challenges of an Entrepreneur living in the North East of England... | | By: Gordon Whyte's Blog of the daily challenges of an | | |
| | Tips Of The Month - Ancient Wisdom That May Change Your Life | | 2007-09-22 05:13:00 | | Courtesy of EmailCashPro! Join EmailCashPro now! The Best Paid to Read Emails on the Internet! And...you know what? It's totally FREE to join!Recently, I heard a story from a self-made multimillionaire. The moral of the story is profound. I hope you can learn something from it. Here's the story...... A sage challenged his students with a question. The question is "Assuming that you have piece of land full of weed, propose what you would do to get rid of the weed." One student suggested to pull out the weed by hand. One said use a shovel is faster. Another said why not we just burn the weed. "The answers are all wrong," said the sage. "The answer is to farm the land." The moral of the story...... We all face problems everyday. Problems are just like weed. They will grow regardless of how you remove them. When facing problems, most people will think of ways to solve the problem, just like the sage's students who proposed to use hand, shovel and fire to remove weed. Regardless of what they do, new weed will continue to grow and there is no end to this. Instead of focusing on how to solve the problem, we should focus on how to ADVANCE from the problem. As what the sage said, the solution to get rid of weed is to farm the land. What he meant was to develop the land. Once the land was developed, weed would no longer be a problem. He didn't solve the problem directly, but the problem would no longer be a problem when he developed the land. In other words, instead of solving the problem, he made good of the entire situation so that he didn't even have to waste time solving the problem, which was just a trivial matter. This is what I mean by ADVANCE from the problem, i.e. making good of the entire situation so that the original problem is no longer a problem. For example, let's say you are in debts. What most people would do is to think of ways to clear the debts. However, instead of focusing on how to clear your debts, you should focus on how to get rich! Once you become rich, your existing debts will no longer be a problem. You may argue that clearing debts and getting rich are the same. This is not true. The strategies to clear debts are very different from the strategies to get rich. Just like the strategies to make extra $1000 and $100000 are very different. Thinking of strategies to make extra $1000 to clear your debts may solve your current problem. But the same problem will arise again. On the contrary, once you get rich, your existing debts will become trivial. Another example. A friend of mine is presently running a loss-making business and he is spending most of his time chasing after bad debts to pay his bills. The total amount of bad debts is about $30000. However, instead of spending his time chasing after the bad debts, he should focus on changing his business model. Once he gets the right business model, he can easily make extra $30000 and many times more. By then, the $30000 bad debts would just be a lesson he has paid to learn. Ask yourself, how often did you focus on solving your problems. Stop solving problems but advance from the problem. If you take every problem as an opportunity for you to grow or to advance, you will realize that once you advance, you will no longer have to solve the problem. Look around for the weed in your life now....... How would you get rid of your weed?... | | By: How to be Rich, Happy and Free from Scams | | |
| | guidance and wisdom | | 2007-09-21 17:02:13 | | Lord, Thank YOU for everything, especially your love and patience. You know I am foolish and unwise. I am TOTALLY unclear as to the direction I am headed, if the decisions I have made are right or wrong. I hope in you and trust you, and ask, even though I have before, that you not [...]... | | By: Prayers Online | | |
| | What is Fana? What is Baqa? | Sufi Wisdom | | 2007-09-19 16:30:29 | | Remembrance of the saints causes God’s mercy to descend.:: The Funeral of Khwaja BaqibillahOne of the mureeds (disciples) of Khwaja Baqibillah, may God sanctify his secrets, asked him the meanings of the Sufi terms ‘fana’ [annihilation in God] and ‘baqa’ [Everlasting subsistence in God]. The Shaykh said, "When I die, ask this question to the person who reads my funeral prayer." The Shaykh had left a condition that only a person who has never missed a single tahajjud prayer (a superogatory prayer in the middle of the night in addition to the five canonical prayers a Muslim must perform in a day) in his life should read my funeral prayer (namaz-e-janazah) and when this condition was read out during his funeral everyone present lowered their heads and no one dared to come forward to read his namaz-e-janazah.Finally a man, his face veiled, came forward and read the funeral prayer. After the prayer as the veiled man walked off the mureed remembered his Shaykh's answer and ran to t... | | By: Inspirations and Creative Thoughts | | |
| | Salvation protection and wisdom | | 2007-09-13 20:17:09 | | Desparately need Esther to be protected in dire circumstances - via a naive bad decision she has made. She needs salvation, deliverence and healing. She needs to be protected from a lecherous old man who has lured her out into the darkness to meet his needs in the wee small hours of the morning.- T... | | By: Prayers Online | | |
| | | Twelve Qualities of Spirit - Wisdom | | 2007-09-02 21:09:12 | | Scientists now confirm that we are living within an “intelligent quantum soup.” When we tap into that soup we move beyond the facts we have acquired along our individual time lines. We actually shift our perspective from a solo linear viewpoint to an expanded more connected vision where a wide range of insights and intuitions [...]... | | By: Online Business Alliance & Niches | | |
| | The Journey of Sulook (Mysticism) | Pearls of Wisdom | | 2007-08-30 19:25:16 | | Hadrat Abu Anees Muhammad Barkat Ali, Baabaajee Sarkaar, QaddasAllaahu Ta'alaa Sirruhul 'Azeez. May God bless his soul. I so love this picture of the master in samadhi, lost in remembrance and contemplation of the Beloved. May your glance at the face of the master bring baraka (blessings and magnetism) for you.Blessed birth: Thursday, 27th Rabee'uth Thaanee, AH 1329, 27th April, 1911. His blessed wisaal (going behind the curtain): Sunday, 16 Ramadaan-ul-Mukarram, AH 1417, 26th January, 1997. creditThe Journey of Sulook (Mysticism) has three land marks:1. (To know and believe) that everything good and evil is from Allaah (with His permission)2. All that has been mentioned above is based on Divine Wisdom.3. (All that happens to me) is for my welfare only.Till such time as one accepts with a sincere heart these fundamental rules (laws), one cannot find tranquility. Accept with complete faith – with a true heart every good and evil is from Allaah (and) taking place under the total contr... | | By: Inspirations and Creative Thoughts | | |
| | | Wisdom Is Year Round | | 2007-08-12 21:08:37 | | Wisdom Is. Wisdom is something to be practiced day in and day out. Wisdom is Not seasonal, it is Year Round. Wisdom is to Be and to Be. Without Wisdom one is condensed in their thinking and being. With Wisdom one is growing in detail of one’s purpose.
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| | friend’s mom, job, wisdom, unspokens | | 2007-08-12 04:24:22 | | Anita
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God bless you for praying. My friend Nancy’s mom is dying and is lost - please pray for her salvation and for God to comfort Nancy. Please pray for my friend Amy to find a job. Please pray for God to give me the wisdom I need and for Him to meet some unspoken needs [...]... | | By: Prayers Online | | |
| | Wisdom of Love | | 2007-08-09 21:47:00 | | People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blindSex is meaningful only when out of lust, love is born. Love is meaningful only when out of love, prayer is bornLove more and you will be more; love less and you will be less. You are always in proportion to your loveLove is the first step towards the divine, surrender is the last. And two steps is the whole journeyLove can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift. It is not a bargainLove is not manageable, it is simply something that happens, and the moment you try to manage everything misfiresLove dispels fear just as light dispels darknessLive, Love, LaughLove is Mutual Exploitation... | | By: NANDA | | |
| | Challenge the Status Quo & Conventional Wisdom | | 2007-08-05 16:44:00 | | STATUS QUO – HECK NO!CONVENTIONAL WISDOM – WHY?by qgIf one does not challenge Conventional Wisdom then how does one get to the next level of knowledge or understanding? I am not content with the Status Quo, why should I believe that everything is, is what everything will/or should be? What is important is that one continues to build on what/was is so that one can say what’s next.Religion and Philosophy are examples of not asking What’s Next, they are content with what was, is. Spirituality allows one to continue the quest of What’s Next with Religion and Philosophy being held back by man.Other Related Posts/Quotes by qg - http://qualityg.blogspot.com/2007/06/us-supre-court-did-not-challenge.html"Challenge Conventional Wisdom with Profound Knowledge to seek Creativity and Innovation." - qg ... | | By: qualityg says ... | | |
| | Some steps of wisdom from Bill Burnham on raising VC money | | 2007-07-13 08:17:00 | | 10 Pragmatic Steps To Raising Venture CapitalThis 10 step method is to help you get your foot in the door of a high probability VC. Once you get in the door, the rest is up to you, I would like to thank Bill Burnham from for summarising his wisdom and putting this list together, Bill is running a hedge fund called Inductive Capital, and before that was a major VC, so he knows what he is talking about first hand. 1. Prepare a 10-15 page power point presentation and a 1-2 page executive summary. That’s it. Don’t bother with a 100 page business plan, no VC is going to read it. Make sure the documents cover: stage, location, team, market, market size, business, business model, capital structure, and capital required.2. Get a list of VC funds. There are many association that are on the web for your own geographical location3. Go through the raw list and identify those VC firms that make investments in your sector, stage, and city. You can do this by going to each firm’s website and re... | | By: Gordon Whyte's Blog of the daily challenges of an | | |
| | On Remembrance of the Divine | Sufi Wisdom | | 2007-07-11 11:44:00 | | . If the name of the Divine is uttered even once with the tongue, it is the remembrance of the tongue; if the Divine is remembered once with the heart, then that is equal to thirty five million utterances (dhikr, remembrance) of the tongue. Such is the dhikr of the heart. There are 35 million blood vessels in the body, and all are connected to the heart. If the Divine’s name is uttered even once (with the heart) then all the vessels utter it too.. In a river, a boat travels on the water and the greater the amount of water, the more at ease the boat will be. However if that very water enters the boat, it will capsize. The heart is as the boat and the sorrows and heartaches of the world are the water; everyone’s boat has sunk except that of the people of God - those who keep the remembrance - which always stays afloat.. God the Most High has created the heart for His remembrance, and has not created it for worries.. The body has been given to use, and not to nourish and make fat: You... | | By: Inspirations and Creative Thoughts | | |
| | | The wisdom of toothpaste | | 2007-07-06 03:38:57 | | My toothpaste thinks I’m stupid.
How do I know this? Because it tells me, “For best results, squeeze tube from bottom and flatten as you go up.”
Thank you, o great wise toothpaste, for this spark of enlightenment.
Seriously, though, I find this bit of advice totally unnecessary and a bit insulting. With regards to using toothpaste, I humbly hypothesize that most people fall into one of two classes:
1) They care, in which case they’ve already figured this out.
2) They don’t care, in which case… they don’t care.
I certainly hope Crest doesn’t get a lot of fan mail along the lines of, “Thanks so much for telling me how to best use this toothpaste!!! Now brushing my teeth is better than ever, because I know to squeeze the tube from the bottom! You totally saved my life!!!!!!”
These people would belong to a hopefully extinct class of people, specifically, 3) They care, and they are idiots.
On the other hand, humanity never fai... | | By: Circadian Rhythms | | |
| | Meditative Quranic Verse | Wisdom is a Divine grace | | 2007-06-28 02:41:00 | | Yutee al-hikmata man yashao; waman yuta al-hikmata faqad ootiya khayran katheeran; wama yaththakkaru illa oloo al-albabi. transliterationThe Divine grants wisdom to whom The Divine Wills; and to whom wisdom is granted indeed receives overflowing goodness; but none will internalize the message but the realized of hearts.- The Quran 2:269 / translated on the level of inner meaning.The meditative Quranic verses are intended to be used as meditation and thought seed and to help aligning into higher consciousness. read more of the intro to this series.Related post: Quranic verses that encourage Meditation:: Previous posts on this series | Meditative Quranic Verse+ 1: God and Human heart+ 2: Overflowing Love+ 3: Divine Promise+ 4: Exclusive Devotion+ 5: We are in need+ 6: Choose a way unto the Lord+ 7: Life of this world and hereafter... | | By: Inspirations and Creative Thoughts | | |
| | Ganges.. Wisdom of Experience.. | | 2007-06-27 16:43:00 | | Dedicated to my teacher Paulo Coelho and my beloved brother MysticSaint what is the man's nature..vice or virtue..?or the both..?listen..man is man..neither vice nor virtue..but he has potential of (inclination towards) the both..why? to reach the sea.. (completion)what?..listen then!! Photo, originally uploaded by Ania Peach.nature is ..like water..like air..like children..but it can easily be polluted (infilterated).. and it must belike water with mud or fragrance.. to reach the sealike air with smoke or scent.. to be a breezelike children with smile or cry.. to be a manwho can stop infilteration?, while living in this natural world..the world of dust, flowers, rain and smoke.. and many contradicting ideas!experience of every taste must be necessary..for the experience of wisdom.. or the wisdom of experiencefor completion..Photo, originally uploaded by Pathf1nder.water must flow..it has to carry things like dust which lies in it's way..it has to find it's way..it has to mix with d... | | By: Sufism - Mysticism | | |
| | U.S. Supreme Court Did Not Challenge Conventional Wisdom (Michigan High School Sports) | | 2007-06-26 18:33:00 | | U.S. Supreme Court did not Challenge Conventional Wisdom When it Came to Changing Michigan High School Sports Schedules.I once wrote:"Challenge Conventional Wisdom with Profound Knowledge (http://www.deming.org/theman/teachings.html) to seek Creativity and Innovation."This may be old news to some but I still can’t believe the Michigan Supreme Court (http://www.wzzm13.com/sports/sports_blog_article.aspx?storyid=73376) refused to hear the “complete” ramifications of changing Girls High School Sports Seasons.The biggest flaw will be girls basketball will now compete with the boys in winter as opposed to fall.Conventional Wisdom is not always best and to not challenge its premises is to be lazy and ignorant. It takes guts to challenge authority, especially “Blind Respect” when it comes to seeking fairness and truth. Just because the lower courts and some influential people view the rules as sexual discrimination does not make it so and to not analyze the situation which affect th... | | By: qualityg says ... | | |
| | Simpson Wisdom | | 2007-06-19 20:02:00 | | The Simpson’s movies is coming out this summer and I will be one of the first to be in line to see it. I have been a fan most of my life. I was in my early teen when it came out. So I grew up with the Simpsons. Homer is the funnies t person on the whole show . The stuff he does are halarirous and the thing he say are even more funny. So I got some of his Quotes that are my favorite;So here is Homer Simpsons Wisdom:Homer: Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.Homer: How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?Homer: Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel.Homer: Are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon?Lisa: No.Homer: Ham?Lisa: No.Homer: Pork chops?Lisa: Dad, those all come fro... | | By: Cool Looking Stuff | | |
| | Hasidic Sayings and Wisdom | | 2007-06-06 13:17:00 | | Everyone must have two pockets, so that he or she can reach into the one or the other, according to need. In the right pocket are to be the words: "For my sake was the world created," and in the left: "I am dust and ashes."Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him. And then choose that way with all his strength.~ Hasidic sayingAbout Hasidic Judaism | Hasidic Judaism (also Chasidic, from the Hebrew: Chassidus, meaning "piety", from the Hebrew root word chesed meaning "lovingkindness") is a Haredi Jewish religious movement. The movement originated in Eastern Europe (what is now Belarus and Ukraine) in the 18th century.What i like from Hasidic fundamental conceptions is the deeper bonding between God and creation and an effort to see the Glorious Face of Beloved all around.The teachings of Hasidism are founded on two theoretical conceptions: (1) religious panentheism, or the omnipresence of God, and (2) the idea of Devekus, communion between God and man. "Man," says ... | | By: Inspirations and Creative Thoughts | | |
| | Shree Rajneesh Osho | smile and wisdom | | 2007-06-02 16:09:00 | | There are only two ways to live your life, only two ways to be. One is the right way, the other the wrong way. The right is to give, to share, to love. The wrong way is to snatch, to exploit, to accumulate.Love and money are the symbols of these two ways.Money is neurosis, love is ecstasy. Love is the right way and money is the wrong way.. Osho .(1931-1990)... | | By: Inspirations and Creative Thoughts | | |
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