Her Supple Demand

After a wife had continuously nibbled on her husband’s ear that woke him from a deep slumber, she whispered, “Honey, guess what?” And when the husband asked, “What,” she excitedly said, “I have just had a dream that you bought me a diamond necklace with a pair of diamond ear rings!” And he said, “Very well, darling! Now, you can go back to sleep and wear them!!”

On Love

Love is not just an emotional titillation, for there is the dutiful responsibility of love as well. Unlike in our modern cultures where we tend to use the word love univocally, ancient Greeks stratified the definition of love. They understood and practiced the definition of love in terms of responsibilities and configurations of relationships. So they had a term for friendship love, another for parental love, for sexual love, and for love of the gods. The word “Philadelphia” came from the Greek stratification of love. It means “brotherly.” The word erotic came from the Greek word “eros,” which refers to sexual love. The Greek word for parental love was “storge.” And the word for love of the gods was “agape.”

All the above four ancient Greek definitions of love come into play in marriage. There’s friendship love in marriage. It’s why you go to movies together, play together, and chat together. There’s parental love in marriage. It’s why you take care of each other. It’s the love of care and protection. There’s of course erotic love in relationships. It’s what governs sensuality, sex and its eroticism. But then, there’s the love of the gods called agape. It’s unconditional love. The whole concept about agape is that the gods are so far removed from us they’re unmoved by what we do. The agape type of love is very critical in relationships. It’s being able to accept people despite themselves. And so, all four Greek notions of love have to be present in a relationship if it’s to succeed. There has to be care, friendship, sex and unconditional acceptance in relationships.

A Better World Made Easy

Isn’t making a better world easy, interesting? It sure is, and it is surely achievable using our power of thought; considering the fact that all and every creation in and including nature, are the results of thought. Yes, it is easy; and just as it is easier for you to think of raising a finger and then raising it, than making others raise theirs. Every day and everywhere you go, you hear people say, “I want a peaceful world, I want honest people, I want truthful people, I want a good, caring and loving woman, and I want a good, caring and loving man.” Beautiful requirements you have, yes? But have you thought of being a peaceful, honest, truthful, good, caring and loving person; that you may meet the requirements of your requirements?

Some Random Facts_18

1.       Lobsters eat each other.

2.       Paper cuts hurt so much because they bleed very little, if at all, leaving the skins pain receptors open to air.

3.       For several months in 1969, the torrent of water rushing over American Falls, one of three waterfalls that make up Niagara Falls, was reduced to almost nothing.

4.       NASA recovered metal from the WTC and used it on Martian rovers as a tribute to those fallen on the 9/11 attacks.

5.       Babies have accents. French babies cry will end with a rising note, while German babies have a dropping note at the end of theirs. They pick up on this in the womb.

6.       The first recorded speculative economic bubble was the Tulip Mania, in the Dutch Republic. At its peak in 1637, a single tulip bulb sold for more than 10 times the annual income of a skilled crafts worker.

7.       There's a 10 ft (3m) wall in Lima, Peru, that separates one of the wealthiest neighbourhoods from one of the poorest.

8.       If you count the number of seconds that pass between a flash of lightning and the crack of thunder that follows it, and divide it by five, that's how many miles away you are from where lightning just struck.

Having Thank You Thoughts

Denise P. Kimbro  said, “Life is 10% what happen to us and 90% how we react to it“

Life is more meaningful when we always link our thoughts to good purposes, while discarding all those thoughts of no goodness; because there are so many things to be thankful for. To start with, we should be thankful that every day we have a golden opportunity to wake up to another new day. We should be thankful for all the good things that are happening in our lives, and all around us. Similarly, we should also be thankful for all the bad things happening in our lives and all around us, for they give us the opportunity to learn what went wrong, that we may work on improving them.

When our thoughts are always filled with goodness and thankfulness, there shall be no room for negativity; and we shall be able to make this world a better place as envisaged by our Creator. So start being thankful to our Creator, all those who are there when you need them, all those who came to your life to make you who you are today, all those who care to listen, all those who make you feel worthy, and even all those who dislike you, for that has made you or will make you be a stronger and better person.

The Power Of Thought

Dalai Lama XIV said, “One small positive thought in the morning, can change your entire day.”

Thought is an imaginary thinking within us that is projected outside, and has a force and energy to vibrate and form a will that evolves. Thought is therefore the ability to use our minds to consider something, and process it into an idea that can become the product of what we are thinking about. And by extension, thought is cause, experience and effect. And that also means, “If we don’t like the results in our lives, we have to change the way we think.”

Although thinking is considered an essential action in every human, there is no set rule on how to use our power of thought. According to some other definitions, thought underlies many human actions and interactions in understanding its physical and metaphysical origins, and the  processes and effects that  have been longstanding goals in academic disciplines including linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, medicine, arts, biology, sociology and cognitive science. May you be granted the ability to use your power of thought for the good of mankind, and to the glory of your Creator.

A Bad Bet

While a husband and wife were both reading in bed, the husband turned to his wife and said, “Honey, I’ll bet you can’t tell me something that would make me happy and sad at the same time.” And the wife asked, “What?” And the husband repeated, “I’ll bet you can’t tell me something that would make me happy and sad at the same time.” The wife then looked at him and said, “You have the biggest penis out of all your friends.”