email from Kamalini Kanapathippillai :-
One Sunday morning, a wealthy man
sat in his balcony enjoying the sunshine and his coffee when a little ant
caught his eye which was going from one side to the other side of the balcony
carrying a big leaf several times more than its size. The man watched it for more
than an hour. He saw that the ant faced many impediments during its journey,
paused, took a diversion and then continued towards its destination.
At one point the tiny creature came across a crack in the floor. It paused for
a little while, analyzed and then laid the huge leaf over the crack, walked
over the leaf, picked up the leaf on the other side then continued its journey.
The man was captivated by the cleverness of the ant, one of God’s tiniest
creatures. The incident left the man in awe and forced him to contemplate over
the miracle of Creation. It showed the greatness of the Creator. In front of
his eyes there was this tiny creature of God, lacking in size yet equipped with
a brain to analyze, contemplate, reason, explore, discover and overcome. Along
with all these capabilities, the man also noticed that this tiny creature
shared some human shortcomings.
The man saw about an hour later the creature had reached its destination – a
tiny hole in the floor which was entrance to its underground dwelling. And it
was at this point that the ant’s shortcoming, that it shared with the man, was
revealed. How could the ant carry into the tiny hole the large leaf that it had
managed to carefully bring to the destination? It simply couldn't !
So the tiny creature, after all the painstaking and hard work and exercising
great skills, overcoming all the difficulties along the way, just left behind
the large leaf and went home empty-handed.
The ant had not thought about the end before it began its challenging journey
and in the end the large leaf was nothing more than a burden to it. The
creature had no option, but to leave it behind to reach its destination. The
man learned a great lesson that day.
Isn’t that the truth about our lives?
We worry about our family, we worry about our job, we worry about how to earn
more money, we worry about where we should live – 5 bedroom or 6 bedroom house,
what kind of vehicle to buy – a Mercedes or BMW or a Porsche, what kind of
dresses to wear, all sorts of things, only to abandon all these things when we
reach our destination – The Grave. We don’t realize in our life’s journey that
these are just burdens that we are carrying with utmost care and fear of losing
them, only to find that at the end they are useless and we can’t take them with
us.
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IT IS NICE TO BE IMPORTANT; BUT IT IS IMPORTANT
TO BE NICE !
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TO ERR IS HUMAN; BUT WHEN THE ERASER WEARS OUT
AHEAD OF THE PENCIL, YOU'RE OVERDOING IT !
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NEVER APPROACH A HORSE FROM BEHIND ! NEVER
APPROACH A GOAT FROM FRONT ! AND AN IDIOT FROM NOWHERE !
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PROGRESS IS LIKE CYCLING ! IF YOU DO NOT PEDAL,
YOU FALL !
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LOVE IS LIKE THE MOON; IF IT DOES NOT INCREASE,
IT DECREASES !
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Do not make a promise when you are in joy; do
not reply when you are sad; do not take a decision when you are
angry. Think twice, Act wise.
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Time is like a river. You cannot touch the same
water twice because the flow that has passed will never pass again. Enjoy
every moment of life.
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Don't let someone become a priority in your life, when
you are just an
option in their life..... Relationships work best when they are balanced
!
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Nothing is impossible in this world. Because
'impossible' itself says: I ' M POSSIBLE !
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Making a million friends is not a miracle; the miracle
is to find a friend who will stand by you when a million are against you !
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WHEN THE POWER OF LOVE OVERPOWERS THE LOVE OF POWER,
THERE WILL BE PEACE !
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FRIENDSHIP is like a BOOK. It takes a few seconds to
burn but it takes years to write !
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Give a THOUSAND chances to your enemy to become your
friend, but don't give a single chance to your friend to become your enemy !
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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't
walk behind me, I may not lead; Just walk beside me and be my friend !
FR. WILLIE
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