Love

A six-year boy was running away from home. Moments earlier, the sound of broken glass could stop the rush of people around the house. There herbalist, artisans vegetables passing, some passersby. They looked around for a while, and said softly, "Ah, the boy again!"

Naughty child behavior was not a new sight for the people who are often around the house. Almost every day, even three times a day, the boy made the noise. And the noise is always going on around her house. Began to sound the broken glass, a door open with a loud, and had just happened, breaking glass windows.

As always, a mother came out shortly after that bad boy ran away from home. Calling the child, the mother did not show anger burning hue. Not really shouting threats, generally keeping an upset. He was just calling her names and two words after, "Come here honey!"


This time, the child is not usual that kept running away. He stopped. He turned to the voice calling his name. "Mother," he hissed softly. Pissed face suddenly turned pale remorse. And he allowed himself was approached by a man whom he called mother.

"My son!" the mother's voice while his right hand grabbed the boy's hair. The hand was gently stroking the child's hair.

"Mom, mom is not angry?" voice of the child while her face looked up at her mother's face. "My son, why she should be angry?" his mother answered curtly.

The boy suddenly clutched her a slightly bent align themselves with his son. "Mom," the boy's voice suddenly. As she continued stroking the hair of the child, the mother's face shows more cool smile on her eyes. "What, dear?" the mother said softly.

"Why mom could be like this? And I've been so naughty?" asked the child who began to loosen her arms.

"My son," said the mother. "This is love!" continued the voice of the mother while still revealing a soft smile to her son.

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So many bad behavior of human children on this earth. So much damage they are putting out so that life becomes noisy. The people who happened to be around, too, feel the noise disruptions.

But, along with naughty behavior, always appeared soft voices of children calling people to return. Like, a call that says, "Go back, dear!"

In fact, the children of men who bad not even slightly comparable to the towering mountain prowess, the magnitude of lightning is ready grabbing, rigidity of the rock composition of the earth that was so easy to squeeze the living creatures on it. Not to mention the brunt of the magnitude of ocean waves that can be changed drastically so scary.

But why, exactly a soft voice that always called from behind away human children are naughty.

Love. That might be an appropriate answer. Spoken like the mother to her child, "Love my son!" Or in another language, as spoken by the Almighty dear, "Warahmati wasi'at kulla sya'i, My love covers all things!" (muhammadnuh@eramuslim.com)

Pygmalion Effect

Pygmalion was a gifted young man sculpture. He was good at sculpting. Hand carved works really good. But it was not skill that makes him known and loved friends and neighbors.

Pygmalion is known as a man who liked to think positively. He looked at everything from a good angle. When the field was muddy town, people grumble. But Pygmalion said: "Fortunately, no other field is sebecek." When a buyer insists on offering statues nawar price, Pygmalion friends whispered, "Stingy right person." But pgymalion said, "Maybe people need to spend money to Another matter that is more necessary. "When the kids stealing apples in his garden, Pygmalion is not cursed. He even felt pity, "Poor, the children were not getting enough education and enough food in the house."

That outlook Pygmalion. He did not see a situation from bad terms, but rather in terms of both. He never thought badly of others. Instead, he tried to imagine the good things behind the bad deeds of others. On a day Pygmalion carves a wooden statue of a woman who is very smooth. The statue was the same size just like a real person. When it was finished, the sculpture looked like a human right. The statue's face smiled sweetly charming, beautiful body attractive. Pygmalion friends say, "Ah, that good-good image, it's just a statue, not a wife."

But the statue Pygmalion treated as a real human being. Again and again staring at the statue and dielusnya. The gods of Mount Olympus in the notice and appreciate these Pygmalion. Then they decided to give the gift to change the statue of Pygmalion into a real human being. Pygmalion lived happily with his wife. It is said that his wife is a beautiful woman in the entire country of Greece.

Pygmalion story is better known as the Pygmalion Effect. The point is what we truly believe will become a reality. As Plato said, "You adalalah what you think." If we always think we are stupid, then this will really happen ourselves to be stupid. It is also important for a manager or leader who often doubted his ability to finish a job. Automatic doubt it will become a reality.

From now on we must begin to build confidence in us and throw all our limiting beliefs so far. Like doubtful, insecure, lazy, pessimistic, passive, lacking in confidence, despair, low self-etc.

Congratulations to prove Pygmalion effect in your life!

THINKIG POSITIVE ALWAYS WHAT EVER happen TO YOU!!

NEVER GIVE UP!!

The Story of a Grasshopper

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A grasshopper has long been locked in a box. One day she got out of the lock box. He happily enjoying jumping freedom.

On the trip he met with a different grasshoppers. But he was puzzled why the grasshopper can jump higher and farther from it.

With curiosity he went to the grasshopper, and asked, "Why are you can jump higher and farther, but we are not much different from the age or body shape?".

Grasshoppers were also answered with the question, "Where you been living? Because all the grasshoppers that live in the wild must be done as
I do ".

When the locusts had just realized that for this box that makes the jumps are not as far and as high as other grasshoppers that live in the wild.

Reflection:
Sometimes we as human beings, unconsciously, had also experienced the same thing with the grasshoppers.

A bad environment, insults, traumas of the past, successive failures, the words of a friend or neighbor's opinion, as if to make us shut up in pseudo box
restrict our strengths. More often we categorically believe whatever they voniskan to us without ever thinking you are really that bad?
Even worse, we would rather trust them than trust themselves.

Do not you ever questioned the conscience that you can "jump higher and farther" if you want to get rid of "box" is? Do not you want to free yourself so you can achieve something far beyond the limits you consider your ability?

Fortunate as we are given God's man's ability to fight, not just give up on what we experienced. Because of that friend, keep on trying to achieve whatever you want to achieve. Ill indeed, exhausted it, but when you've reached the top, all the sacrifices that must be paid.

Your life will be better if you live with your choice of way of life. Not how to live as they chose for you.

Gateway to Joy and Peace of Mind

For the past few months many of you may be wondering why you have not been receiving our monthly newsletter. We can always put the blame on our server or our web-hosted etc ... but the truth was we have not written any newsletter for the past few months. We have nothing to share, we were experiencing a "writer's block". Anyway the good news is the "writer's block" is now melting down - so we are on once again. Interestingly it is this very newsletter, which melts down the 'block'.

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It occurs to me that most people would put blame on the 'outside' factor when things do not go right or go their way. And when things go right, we tend to claim it as our own doings.

A common example is when one's life is running smoothly and successful we feel proud and tend to claim full responsibility for it but when one's life is full of problems and our business is in a bad shape, we often cry out "Why me?"

We will blame our friends, neighbors, our customers, our Staffs, our boss, our government and even God. The funny thing is how may of us thank our friends, neighbors etc ... when things are going well like a breeze. Here, we can note that most humans prefer only the good side and tend to push away the "bad" side. We just do not like to 'own' the 'bad side'. In fact, ironic as it may seem, it is this non-acceptance of the 'bad' side which is the cause for a lot of our miseries, sufferings and mental anxieties.

If we were to push away something or someone because we do not like it or hate it, we inevitably experience bad feelings and bad mental states, hence suffering! If we can be ONE with that "thing", and not pushing it away or hating it, we will experience a sense of peace and well being.

Through the ages wise we often hear statements like "accept it", "surrender to it", "become one with it", "be one with the universe", all of it means almost the same thing-accept what ever life brings, take it as solely your own responsibility and not blaming others, only then will you be able to transcend the sufferings of life. It's important to note that leaving this responsibility to any outside factor or 'being' would still create a 'separation' or 'alienation' and would not help either. At best it may only give you a temporary relief.

Remember we learn to walk alongside all the fallings. We succeed alongside all the failings. A wise man was once asked, "Master, why do we have to die?" And he answered, "Because we were born".

May you accept all your bad experiences

Your fellow traveler in time.

Billy Lim

Learning From Birds & Worms

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If we are experiencing hardship because of
crush the material needs, then we try to remember
in birds and worms.
We see birds every morning out of the nest
to find food. Not previously imagined where
and where he must find the necessary food.
Therefore, sometimes the evening he came home with a stomach
full and can bring food for his family,
but sometimes it was just enough food for his family,
while he had to "fast". In fact, he often
home without carrying anything for his family so that
he and his family must be "fast". Although birds
more often experience food shortages because not
have "office" that remain, especially after the land
diserobot many people, but that obviously we
have never seen a bird trying to
suicide.


We never saw a bird suddenly
dived banged her head on a rock. We
have never seen a bird that suddenly
immerse themselves into a river. We never
saw a bird who choose to drink poison
end his suffering. We see the birds remain
rizki optimistic about the promise of God.


We'll see, though hungry, every morning he still
Twitter with sweet. Birds seem to realize
true that this life, a time to be
above and on the other slammed into the bottom of time. A
time advantages and shortcomings later. A
satiation and on the other time when famine.

Now let us look weaker animals
of birds, the worms.

If we notice, the animal was as if no
have a reasonable means to survive or
survival. He does not have legs, hands,
horn or perhaps even he did not have
eyes and ears. But he is also living
and, together with other living things, he has
when the stomach is not filled then it will die. But
we see, with all its limitations, the worm
never despair and frustration to find
rizki. We've never seen a worm that
banging his head against a rock.

Now we see the human. If we compare
a bird or a worm, then the facilities owned
people to earn far more sophisticated.

But why people who provided many advantages
This is often lost from the bird or worm?
Why do humans much of the desperate and committed suicide
facing difficulties faced?
And think-think we have never seen a worm
who attempted suicide because of despair.

Apparently we need a lot to learn from the birds and worms.