One of my all time favourties ! An absolute masterpiece of Robert Frost !

The Road Not Taken

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. Have you ever felt that you havent yet found something in you.. Have you thought that there s more to life than just this.. Well.. Have you made your choice yet????

Good oLd ChInEsE WiSdOm !

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole, which she carried across her neck. One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.

For two full years this went on daily with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots full of water. Ofcourse the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to.

After 2 yrs of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream. ''Im ashamed of myself because of this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house.''
The old woman smiled, ''Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side? Thats because i have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path and everyday while we walk back, you water them.''
''For 2 yrs I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table.''
''Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace this house.''

Each of us have our own unique flaw. But its the cracks and flaws we each have that makes our life together so very interesting and rewarding.

You have just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.

To all my crackpot friends, have a great day and remember to smell the flowers on your side of the path !!!! ''

Clarity is power

When a person shrinks his
entire personal world so much that he has just one
relationship to hold on to psychologically, he becomes
possessive of that particular relationship. His entire
emotional strength comes from that one relationship
and hence he does not want to share that relationship
with anybody else. A piece of wood when held too
close to your eyes will block even the sun from your
sight. People hold the relationship they are possessive
of so close to themselves that it makes them oblivious
of the rest of the world. Possessiveness is
psychological suffocation. Every other human being
who walks in is seen as an unwanted trespasser. Every
act gets monitored; motives are assigned; every
gesture is noted; an explanation is demanded for
everything, and every moment gets analysed. Deep
affection turns into desperate longing, and this in turn
creates pain from within. Tears of love turn into tears
of craving. Despite the fact that the relationship is still
on, you often feel alone and left out. When possessed
with possessiveness, you feel like an emotional
orphan. Why? The other person has become your
world; but for the other person, you are one more role
in his world.Remember, the gardener who is overprotective of his
plant will destroy the plant. Your possessiveness will
one day destroy the relationship. Two pillars have to
stay apart to steadily hold the roof; if the two pillars
come too close to each other, the roof will come
crashing down. Relationships flower in freedom, but
shrink in bondage.
Possessiveness and complete trust can never coexist.
Unconditional trust is the only antidote to
possessiveness. Trust your love and believe that
what is yours can never be taken away from you. And
what is not yours will never stay with you. Love,
affection and care have no diminishing value. So,
please do not reduce people into commodities by
saying - if others have you, then I cannot have you.
All of us can bask in the sun and nothing of the sun
will ever be lost. I can tell you with personal
authenticity - what is yours will remain yours even
when it is not with you.

(Fro Frozen thoughts)

Why do we belive what we believe?

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God, The Almighty.

He asks one of his new students to stand and.....
Prof: So you believe in God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.
Prof : Is God good?
Student: Sure.
Prof: Is God all-powerful?
Student: Yes.
Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him.
Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is this God good then? Hmm?
(Student is silent.)
Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fella. Is God good?
Student: Yes.
Prof: Is Satan good?
Student : No.
Prof: Where does Satan come from?
Student:From...God...
Prof: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student:Yes.
Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct?
Student: Yes.
Prof: So who created evil?
(Student does not answer.)
Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they?
Student: Yes, sir.
Prof: So, who created them?
(Student has no answer.)
Prof: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you.
Tell me, son...Have you ever seen God?
Student: No, sir.
Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?
Student:No, sir.
Prof: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?
Student: No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.
Prof: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student:Yes.
Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your GOD doesn't exist.
What do you say to that, son?
Student:Nothing. I only have my faith.
Prof: Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has.
Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Prof: Yes.
Student: And is there such a thing as cold?
Prof: Yes.
Student: No sir. There isn't.
(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)
Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that.
There is no such thing as cold . Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat
We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy . Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it .
(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)
Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?
Student :You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light....But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and it's called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?
Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man?
Student:Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how?
Student: Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one.To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it.
Now tell me, Professor.Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Prof: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.
Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument is going.)
Student: Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher? (The class is in uproar.)
Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain?
(The class breaks out into laughter.)
Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain,sir.
With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face unfathomable.)
Prof: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.
Student: That is it sir... The link between man & god is FAITH . That is all that keeps things moving & alive.