There was once a king who had two sons. When he grew old and close to death, he sent for his sons.

"I want you to ride your horse to Jerusalem. The one whose horse arrives last will inherit everything I own."

Birbal was jester, counselor, and fool to the great Moghul emperor, Akbar. The villagers loved to talk of Birbal's wisdom and cleverness, and the emperor loved to try to outsmart him.

One day Akbar, the emperor, drew a line across the floor.

"Birbal," he ordered, "you must make this line shorter. But you cannot erase any bit of it!"

I was driving home late at night when I started to fall asleep. I was roused by a deep male voice coming from behind my right shoulder.

The voice simply called my first name sternly. I felt as if the voice were familiar, but i couldn't quite place it.

I pulled over and rolled down my window as I realized what had just happened. It was a really weird feeling. I felt as if someone very familiar who knew me really well had just saved me from crashing.

I still struggle with believing in God, but the memory of this simple event comforts me.

I'm a 1906 girl born in ireland with seven siblings during the potato famine, but we weren't the only ones who were hungry. We were taught not to eat any food until the other people could get what they needed.

My mother said that if you just be kind and give, you will find happiness.

When I came to America in 1924, I worked at our st. francis day home for children in chinatown. We taught the children how to share and to be kind to another.

I am blessed with truly wonderful friends. Some date back to school, and others from university. Making friends comes naturally but keeping them requires some real work. I call and e-mail them frequently. And every year I write them a simple note that says, "I love you, and I am fortunate to have you in my life. It's my way of keeping the friendships alive.

There are always the things I'm always at risk of losing. The one thing I refuse to lose is my intergrity.
It's the one thing I totally control and one thing you can never replace. for me, that means staying true to my word and myself.

My mother raised me and taught me many lessons. One lesson that remain with me was to always believe in myself and to have good reasons for doing so.

She reinforced the value of personal validation through actions and behaviors over external validations through the accumulation of stuff and rewards.

Full of powerful antioxidants grapes are effetive detoxifiers for liver, kidneys, digestive system.

The term refers to development of material bodies and anything that binds the soul to repeated birth in material bodies. The word is used to identify action or work, the effect of such work, and also the law governing action and its effects.

The Gita describes that karmic reactions can be desirable, undesirable, or mixed. The notion of desirable or good karma is misleading since good deeds also bind the performer to the material world. Someone performing charitable work, for instance, must return in another lifetime to enjoy the results.

Karmic reactions have three stages of growth.

Your heart is about the size of a clenched fist...about 5 inch (12.5 cm) long, 3 in (7.5) thick, and 3.5 in (8.75 cm) across at its widest, although a heart can grow in size, especially in males, for many years.

If you are a woman your heart probably weighs 8 oz to 10 oz (225-280 g), while for men is a little heavier, weighing between 10 oz and 12 oz (280-340 g).