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Suatu ketika, ada seorang anak yang sedang mengikuti sebuah lomba mobil balap mainan. Suasana sungguh meriah siang itu, sebab, ini adalah babak final. Hanya tersisa 4 orang sekarang dan mereka memamerkan setiap mobil mainan yang dimiliki. Semuanya buatan sendiri, sebab,memang begitulah peraturannya. Ada seorang anak bernama Mark. Mobilnya tak istimewa, namun ia termasuk dalam 4 anak yang masuk final. Dibanding semua lawannya, mobil Marklah yang paling tak sempurna. Beberapa anak menyangsikan kekuatan mobil itu untuk berpacu melawan mobil lainnya. Yah, memang, mobil itu tak begitu menarik. Dengan kayu yang sederhana dan sedikit lampu kedip diatasnya, tentu tak sebanding dengan hiasan mewah yang dimiliki mobil mainan lainnya. Namun, Mark bangga dengan itu semua, sebab, mobil itu buatan tangannya sendiri. Tibalah saat yang dinantikan. Final kejuaraan mobil balap mainan. Setiap anak mulai bersiap di garis start, untuk mendorong mobil mereka kencang-kencang. Di setiap jalur l...

"SELALU BERPIKIR@N POSITIF" Percaya atau tidak, sikap kita adalah cermin masa lampau kita, pembicara kita di masa sekarang dan merupakan peramal bagi masa depan kita. Maksudnya apa ? Ya, bahwa kondisi masa lalu, sekarang dan masa depan kita dapat tercermin dari bagaimana sikap kita sehari-hari. Camkan satu hal, sikap kita merupakan sahabat yang paling setia, namun juga bisa menjadi musuh yang paling berbahaya. Bagaimana sikap mental kita adalah sebuah pilihan; positif ataukah negatif. W.W. Ziege pernah berkata."Tak akan ada yang dapat menghentikan orang yang bermental positif untuk mencapai tujuannya. Sebaliknya, tak ada sesuatupun di dunia ini yang dapat membantu seorang yang sudah bermental negatif. Jika kita seorang yang berpikiran positif, kita pasti mampu menghasilkan sesuatu. Kita akan lebih banyak berkreasi daripada bereaksi. Jelasnya, kita lebih berkonsentrasi untuk berjuang mencapai tujuan-tujuan yang positif daripada terus sa...

Pertanyaan untuk Refleksi : Apakah anda bekerja untuk hidup atau hidup untuk bekerja? ada dua hal yang harus dicapai dalam kehidupan ini : PERTAMA, UNTUK MENDAPATKAN APA YANG ANDA INGINKAN; DAN SESUDAH ITU, UNTUK MENIKMATINYA. Hanya orang yg sangat bijaksana yang dapat mencapai yang kedua. kekuatiran tidak bisa menghilangkan penderitaan hari esok, hanya bisa menghilangkan kekuatan hari ini. Kebahagiaan tidak tergantung dari berapa banyak yang harus anda nikmati, tetapi bagaimana anda menikmati apa yang anda miliki. "Dan bahwa setiap orang dapat makan, minum dan menikmati kesenangan dalam segala jerih payahnya, itu juga adalah pemberian Allah". Thanks to Rouli M, who sent me this story .. ~cF~

Top Ten Ways to Inspire Others to be Their Best by Michael Angier 1. Be a good example. People watch what you do more than they listen to what you say. Be someone worth emulating. 2. Care about others. People don't care about how much you know until they know how much you care.Ask questions. Take a genuine interest in people. 3. Encouragement. Everyone goes through tough times. When you support people and encourage them through these times, you'll be inspiring them to see the best in themselves and in the situation. 4. Be inspired yourself. Look for people, ideas, environments and knowledge that you find inspiring and motivating. 5. Share from your own experience. You have more to share than you realise. Mine the rich experiences of your life and share your wisdom from your unique point of view. You may be the only one who can touch someone with your inspiring message. 6. Be vulnerable. Be willing to share your failures as well as your successes....

(Quotations from Jalaluddin Rumi) Transitional vs. Permanent Union William C. Chittick's commentary: ... until the traveler reaches the very highest stages of sanctity, the station of union will be temporary, followed by at least a relative separation. The well-known Sufi terms "expansion" ( bast ) and "contraction" ( qabd ) refer to the experience of various degrees of relative union and separation... At the highest stages, "union" is equivalent of "subsistence" in God. Subsistence in turn is the other side of annihilation: Annihilation, or the negation of self, results in subsistence, or the affirmation of Self. Union with God is self-annihilation, so separation from Him is self-existence... ... During the spiritual journey, man undergoes consecutive experiences of separation and union, or death and life. But each time he dies and is reborn, he moves closer to the ultimate station of subsistence and " I am God ....

{Quotations from Jalaluddin Rumi}   Try not to understand the work of the pure saints by comparing them with yourself ... By such comparisons all the world's inhabitants have gone astray... They hold themselves up as equal to the prophets, imagining that the saints are just like themselves. They say, "Look: We are human and they are human, both of us must eat and sleep." Out of blindness they do not know that between them is an infinite difference... This person eats food and gives out filth; the other also eats, but his food is transformed entirely into the Light of God. This one eats and gives birth to avarice and envy; the other eats and gives birth only to love for the One. (The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, p. 144)   No one looks for stars when the sun's out. A person blended into God does not disappear. He or she is just completely soaked in God's qualities. (The Essential Rumi, p. 114)   The lovers {of God} ...

(Quotations from Jalaluddin Rumi) Prayer does not mean that you should be standing, bowing, and prostrating yourself all day long; the object is that the state that manifests itself during prayer should remain with you constantly, whether asleep or awake, whether writing or reading. In no state should you be void of the remembrance of God... Petition Him every moment for your needs and be not without remembrance of Him, for the remembrance of Him is strength; it is a wing to the bird of the spirit. If that goal is fully attained, it will be light upon light (Koran 24:35). If you are mindful of God, little by little your interior will be illuminated and you will attain release from the world. (Signs of the Unseen: The Discourses of Jalaluddin Rumi, pp. 182-183) Anything that can be vocalized and has a beginning and an end is a "form", a "shell"; its "soul", however, is unqualifiable and infinite, without beginning and without end... We know that th...