Not everyone who drops **** on you is your enemy.



I love doing these PR's, they give me an opportunity to go over the many stories, anecdotes, quotes etc, that I have  in a scrap book, a collection that motivates, encourages and teaches me to live life to the fullest one day at a time! Not surprisingly, these 'snippets' never lose their value, and each time I read them they always take on a different meaning - a relevance to the circumstance that I may be facing or thought for the day that propels me forward. They have also been instrumental in renaming the defining moments of my life. I have reproduced one of my many favourites here it is:

A Bird Story
 
A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold; the 
bird froze up and fell to the ground in a large field. 
While it was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on it.  
As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, it began to 
realize how warm it was. The dung was actually thawing him out!  
He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy.
 
A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate. 
Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of 
cow dung, and promptly dug him out and ate him!
 
The morals of this story are:
 
Not everyone who drops **** on you is your enemy.
Not everyone who gets you out of **** is your friend.
And when you're in deep ****, keep your mouth shut!

Life gave me the opportunity to learn all three lessons. I owe the 
people who taught me these lessons, my gratitude for helping me be 
the person I am today. Wherever you are, my brother/sister. 

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At PetesPlace, all students of the current batch have been successfully place in Hotel 
Green Park and Minerva Grand.
Two returned back to complete their final year of graduation after 
successfully completing the course.



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Are you Still Treasure Hunting or are you Tapping into Your Own Treasures



Everything I write and you read here is written to emphasize y/our strengths. I am reminded of the story of Russell Herman Conwell. He was born in 1843, became an editor, a teacher, a clergyman. One day some young people came to him and asked him to offer them some college-level coaching-classes, because they couldn't afford to go to college. He envisioned that it would be wonderful to start a college for capable, willing, yet financially indigent youngsters. So he went around the country giving talks in order to raise the money, which eventually was used to build Temple University, in Philadelphia.

This is a reproduction of one of his stories on his lecture tour:

A farmer in Australia heard that other farmers had sold their little farms, gone off prospecting for diamonds, and had become very wealthy. He couldn't wait to do the same. Finally he found a buyer, took the money, and started prospecting for diamonds. At the end of one month, nothing happened, then three months, fruitless, then six months, no success. Finally after a year of fruitless effort, he became so despondent that he jumped off a bridge and committed suicide.

Meanwhile, back on the farm, the man who bought the acreage from the farmer invited a friend over for dinner one night. His friend was admiring a rock that was on the mantelpiece. He was astounded. It was the largest diamond he had ever seen. The farmer said, "I just found that in the stream on our property. We have acres of them all over the place!" The diamonds were unrecognizable because they were in rough, uncut form.

The moral of the story is simple. The first farmer went in search of diamonds everywhere, whereas he was sitting on them at home all the time. Also, even if he saw them, he wouldn't recognize them because they were in a form he wasn't familiar with. They were uncut. 

(Courtsey:http://www.barnesandnoble.com)

I liken the work I have started, something similar to this. I see a great future for PetesPlace, something fantastic is what I see. I have asked the Universe to help me get it and I am confident it is on its way. The only reason I have'nt got it yet is because there's someone out there who needs it more, at this moment, than I do. From the shelter of my mind, through the windows of my eyes I see the big picture. A visual and a projection , both running concurrently, on the same screen. One full of life, love and laughter, the other exhibting pictures of self-doubt and failure and I choose Life, love and laughter. "Behiold I put before you Life and Death, Blessing and Curses (self-doubt and failure) - Choose Life!" 

I need to start giving talks, Career Counselling In High Schools and Junior Colleges, in order to raise the money, which will eventually be used to build PetesPlace, bigger, better, stronger. 

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For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.

One of Tony De Mello’s favorite stories was about the two monks who were about to ford a river.

A beautiful young woman, dressed magnificently, was standing by the edge of the water worrying about how to stay dry.  She appealed to the two monks for help and one decided to take her up in his arms and carry her across.

Safely on the other side, she thanked the monk and continued on her journey.

The two monks also proceeded on their pilgrimage but, after a couple of miles, the second monk began to scold the first one for carrying the woman across the ford because it was against all their rules and regulations which forbade a monk to touch a woman.

At the end of the second monk’s lecture, the first replied, “I set her down on the other side of the river but, apparently, you’re still carrying her!”

 

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning. And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.

For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.

 

At PetesPlace, Where Education is for Living and for Making a Living, we are committed to bringing change into the lives of children, giving them Education for Living and for Making a Living. Skill sets to help bring about a socio-economic change in their lives.

 

The previous batch successfully completed with 100% placement. The Next batch commenced the first week of April.

 

 

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If you like to lend a helping hand, follow the link below to make a donation - You can do something, I can do something. Together we can do great things!

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Say your thing, sing your song, dance your dance and get out of here.

Once, a musician came to town — a musician of great but unknown talent. He stood on a street corner and began to play.

Those who stopped to listen could not tear themselves away, and soon a large crowd stood enthralled by the glorious music whose equal they had never heard. Before long they were moving to its rhythm, and the entire street was transformed into a dancing mass of humanity.

A deaf man walking by wondered: Has the world gone mad? Why are the townspeople jumping up and down, waving their arms and turning in circles in middle of the street?

“Chassidim,” concluded the Baal Shem Tov, “are moved by the melody that issues forth from every creature in God‘s creation. If this makes them appear mad to those with less sensitive ears, should they therefore cease to dance?”

I used to be deaf. I would see people stand up and go through strange gyrations. They called it dancing. To me it looked absurd—until one day I heard the music!

Most often, we relate to things and people based on so many influences and experiences planted deep within us from the time we were born up to our growing years. And if we are courageous enough, we dare to rise above them and allow ourselves to experience beyond the limitations of the belief system imposed on us. To a certain extent, I have mustered enough courage to give myself a chance to who I think is me apart from the encumbrances of the past. I listen to the Lord’s symphony in creation and I dance to the Lord’s dance of life. It does not matter whether others hear the symphony or not. They can dance to their own music as well. Or they are free to not dance at all.

I say to myself: Say your thing, sing your song, dance your dance and get out of here. If they profit thats fine and if they don't too bad, but thats fine too!

 

 

At PetesPlace, Where Education is for Living and for Making a Living, we are committed to bringing change into the lives of children, giving them Education for Living and for Making a Living. Skill sets to help bring about a socio-economic change in their lives.

 

The previous batch successfully completed with 100% placement. Eight of the twelve students in the present batch have alread received their offer letters from the Green Park Hotel & The Minerva Grand.

 

 

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If you like to lend a helping hand, follow the link below to make a donation - You can do something, I can do something. Together we can do great things!

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My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.

A spiritual leader got very tired of her flock arguing about whose sufferings was worse. Week after week, not only did they proclaim the supremacy of their own suffering, but they demeaned their neighbors as not being justified in their personal suffering.

They each thought, "If my pain was as little as theirs, I could laugh and be joyous, rather than be forced to go about with this pained look in my eye."

The leader called her flock together around a gnarly little tree one winter day and handed each person a pencil and an envelope with a string through a hole in the corner, and a blank piece of paper inside.

"I have been very troubled that many of you feel that Spirit has given you a more severe burden to carry than your neighbors. I took this heartfelt concern to prayer with me, and Spirit has offered a solution.

We will each take the blank paper out of the envelope, write down our personal suffering, and put the paper back in the envelope. Write your name on the front of the envelope and find a limb to tie your envelope on.

This is our suffering tree. When you tie your envelope, your suffering, onto the tree, the Spirit has promised that you will be free of it. However, as you have left a suffering on the tree, you must take one from the tree. Every person will be allowed to exchange their suffering for any other that they pick off this tree as we walk around it. Once all the sufferings have been taken back from this tree, we will be done, and the Spirit promises that each of us will then be more content with the suffering we bear."

It took quite a long time of walking around the tree before anyone took any suffering to be their own. But eventually, the first envelope was claimed. Little by little, every envelope came off the tree, each person claiming the suffering of their choice.

And each person claimed the very same suffering they had hung on the tree... but the Spirit was correct. Each one was more content with what was theirs to bear.

It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.

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We develop and discover a great self-worth by doing  something for others – not to ourselves!  
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Turning Interruptions into Opportunities

Wishing to encourage her young son's progress on the piano, a mother took her boy to a Paderewski concert. After they were seated, the mother spotted a friend in the audience and walked down the aisle to greet her. Seizing the opportunity to explore the wonders of the concert hall, the little boy rose and eventually explored his way through a door marked "NO ADMITTANCE."

When the house lights dimmed and the concert was about to begin, the mother returned to her seat and discovered that the child was missing. Suddenly, the curtains parted and spotlights focused on the impressive Steinway on stage. In horror, the mother saw her little boy sitting at the keyboard, innocently picking out "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."

At that moment, the great piano master made his entrance, quickly moved to the piano, and whispered in the boy's ear, "Don't quit. Keep playing." Then leaning over, Paderewski reached down with his left hand and began filling in a bass part.

Soon his right arm reached around to the other side of the child and he added a running obbligato. Together, the old master and the young novice transformed a frightening situation into a wonderfully creative experience. The audience was mesmerized.

For all his traditional ways, the Master had scant respect for rules and for traditions.

A quarrel once broke out between a disciple and his daughter because the man kept insisting that the girl conform to the rules of their religion in the choice of her prospective husband.

The Master openly sided with the girl.

When the disciple expressed his surprise that a holy man would do this, the Master said, “You must understand that life is just like music which is made more by feeling and by instinct than by rules.”

At PetesPlace, Where Education is for Living and for Making a Living, we are committed to bringing change into the lives of children, giving them Education for Living and for Making a Living. Skill sets to help bring about a socio-economic change in their lives.
The previous batch successfully completed with 100% placement. The Next batch commences the first week of April.
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