I ended up in Africa because the plane ticket there was cheapest. I came and I stayed. For nearly 25 years I’ve lived off and on in Mozambique. Time has passed, and I’m no longer young; in fact, I’m approaching old age. But my motive for living this straddled existence, with one foot in African [...]
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What I Learned In Africa
Posted: 22nd February 2012 by sreejon in Inspirational Stories, Must ReadsTags: Africa, Henning Mankell, Learned, Swedish, Tiina Nunnally
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The old fisherman
Posted: 21st February 2012 by sreejon in Inspirational Stories, Must Reads, Touching StoriesTags: Fisherman, Old
Our house was directly across the street from the clinic entrance of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. We lived downstairs and rented the upstairs rooms to out-patients at the clinic. One summer evening as I was fixing supper, there was a knock at the door. I opened it to see a truly awful looking man. [...]
Be strong and courageous
Posted: 21st February 2012 by sreejon in Inspirational Stories, Moral StoriesTags: Courageous, Deuteronomy, God, Joshua, Lord, Strong, wherever
The LORD gave this command to Joshua son of Nun: “Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the Israelites into the land I promised them on oath, and I myself will be with you.” [...]
Success
Posted: 18th February 2012 by sreejon in Inspirational Stories, Positive ThinkingTags: Air, Breath, River, Secret, Socrates, Success, Water
A young man asked Socrates the secret of success. Socrates told the young man to meet him near the river the next morning. They met. Socrates asked the young man to walk with him into the river. When the water got up to their neck, Socrates took the young man by surprise and swiftly ducked [...]
Happiness
Posted: 17th February 2012 by sreejon in Inspirational Stories, Must Reads, Positive ThinkingTags: Happiness, James M. Barrie
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does. -James M. Barrie
The Kingdom of God
Posted: 17th February 2012 by sreejon in Inspirational Stories, Must Reads, QuotesTags: God, Kingdom, Luke, You
All are Equal in the Divine System of Law and Order
Posted: 17th February 2012 by sreejon in Inspirational Stories, Moral StoriesTags: Al-Sadiq (a.s.), Allah (S.W.T.), Divine, Equal, Islam, Law and Order, Muhammad, Musa Ibn Jaffer (a.s.), Muslims
A man once sat in the presence of the 7th Holy Imam, Musa Ibn Jaffer (a.s.). He saw a friend of his, called Muhammad, from afar and smiled at him. Muhammad smiled back and from the pleasure on both their faces at seeing one another, it was obvious that they were good friends. Seeing this [...]
Mother Dog Doing What She Does Best
Posted: 16th February 2012 by sreejon in Inspirational Stories, Must Reads, ParentsTags: Barn owl, Bramble, Buster, Dog, Jasmine, Mother, Orphaned roe deer, Rabbit, Stray Jack Russell, Stray Lakeland dog, Toby
In 2003, police in Warwickshire , England , opened a garden shed and found a whimpering, cowering dog. It had been locked in the shed and abandoned. It was dirty and malnourished, and had clearly been abused. In an act of kindness, the police took the dog, which was a greyhound female, to the nearby [...]
Bruce Lee, a legendary martial art master.
Posted: 15th February 2012 by sreejon in Inspirational StoriesTags: Bruce Lee, John Little, Legendary, Martial Art, The Art of Expressing the Human Body
“Bruce had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace. We’d run the three miles in twenty-one or twenty-two minutes. Just under eight minutes a mile[Note: when running on his own in 1968, Lee would get his time down to six-and-a half minutes per mile]. So this morning he said to [...]
Valentine’s Day
Posted: 14th February 2012 by sreejon in Inspirational StoriesTags: Day, Photo, Valentine's