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The Real Meaning Of Peace
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Author Unknown
There once was a king who
offered a prize to the artist who would paint
the best picture of peace. Many artists tried.
The king looked at all the pictures. But there
were only two he really liked, and he had to
choose between them.
One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a
perfect mirror for peaceful towering mountains
all around it. Overhead was a blue sky with
fluffy white clouds. All who saw this picture
thought that it was a perfect picture of peace.
The other picture had mountains, too. But these
were rugged and bare. Above was an angry sky,
from which rain fell and in which lightning
played. Down the side of the mountain tumbled a
foaming waterfall. This did not look peaceful at
all.
But when the king looked closely, he saw behind
the waterfall a tiny bush growing in a crack in
the rock. In the bush a mother bird had built
her nest. There, in the midst of the rush of
angry water, sat the mother bird on her nest -
in perfect peace.
Which picture do you think won the prize? The
king chose the second picture. Do you know why?
"Because," explained the king, "peace does not
mean to be in a place where there is no noise,
trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the
midst of all those things and still be calm in
your heart. That is the real meaning of peace."
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The
Perfect Girl
--
Author Unknown
A friend asked
a gentleman how it is that he never married.
The gentleman
replied, "Well, I guess I just never met the right
woman ... I guess I've been looking for the perfect
girl."
"Oh, come on now," said the friend, "Surely you have
met at least one girl that you wanted to marry."
"Yes, there was one girl ... once. I guess she was
the one perfect girl ... the only perfect girl I
really ever met.
She was
just the right everything ... I really mean that she
was the perfect girl for me."
"Well, why didn't you marry her," asked the friend.
"She was looking for the perfect man," he said.
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The
Most Beautiful Woman
-- Author Unknown
There was a man walking on
the beach who looked up and saw the most beautiful
girl he had ever seen.
He was
awestruck, captured, stunned by her beauty.
He could do
nothing but forget everything and follow her. He was
so intrigued by her beauty that he followed her for
hours on the beach.
For a long time she did not notice him following,
but eventually the beautiful woman turned around and
asked the man who he was, and why he was following
her.
The man explained that he was so captured by her
beauty, that he had never seen any woman as
beautiful as she was, that he could not help but to
follow her, that she was the most beautiful woman he
had ever seen, and would she be his.
The woman replied, "I am very flattered at such a
compliment, but surely this cannot be true, for if
you had turned to look behind you, you would have
seen my sister who has been following you, and she
is ten times more beautiful than me."
The man turned to look, and saw a homely looking
girl behind him.
He
turned to the other woman and said, "I'm confused,
your sister is not more beautiful than you.
Why would you
tell me that? You lied to me."
The woman looked at him and said, "And you lied
also, for you turned your head."
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