Autumn Season


 
 In almost every corner of the world, autumn is a time for harvest, reflection, and reverence for our ancestors, and many fall holidays reveal those very themes.
One of the purposes of the changes of seasons is to notice changes we might not have if everything stayed the same. Each season prompts us to reflect and go inward. It is a time to pause and review our lives. As we take the time to stop and honor the life changes we are experiences, we build a bridge between our everyday existence and the sacred. This year on Oct 3rd the Chinese will celebrate the Harvest Moon Festival by eating special moon cakes and catching the moon’s refection in a bowl of water. A similar holiday is observed in Vietnam-the mid-fall festival of Trung Thu-where people celebrates the beauty of the moon by eating moon cakes, lighting incenses, and making special star lanterns. And in Korea it is called Chu Suk- Korean Thanksgiving.

some signs of good Friends

 Friends will come and go in your life, but more important than how long a friendship lasts, is that a good friend will love you for who you are. The way you can tell the sign of a good friend is by looking at the actions they take –big and small – that show they care.

Some common signs of a good friend include

• someone who will support you no matter what
• someone you can trust and who won’t judge you
• someone who won’t put you down or deliberately hurt your feelings
• someone who is kind and has respect for you
• someone who will love you because they choose to, not because they feel like they should
• someone whose company you enjoy
• showing loyalty
• being trustworthy and willing to tell you the truth, even when it’s hard
• someone who can laugh when you do
• someone who is willing to stick around when things get tough
• someone who makes you smile
• someone who is there to listen
• someone who will cry when you cry.

How to Be a Good Friend

• Be (Genuinely) Happy for Your Friend’s Succes

•  Make Small Gestures    
•  Show a Different Side of Yourself
• stop giving ADVICE

          Good teacher's quotes

• Fear is not a good teacher. the lesson of fears are quickly forgotten. -Mary Catherine Batson.
• one good teacher in a life time may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen. -Philip Wylie.

please read this story.....its a touching story from chinese wisdom...........

The Cracked Pot- Chinese Wisdom

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the end of the pole, which she carried across her neck. One of the pots had crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full. For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and half pots of water.

Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. But poor cracked pot was ashamed of it own imperfection, and miserable that it only could do half of what it had been made to do. After two years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream, “I am ashamed of myself because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house.” The old woman smiled and said “did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot’s side. That’s because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, while we walk back, you water them. For two years, I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house.”

Each of us has our own unique flaw…..but it’s the crack and flaws we each have, that make our lives together very interesting and rewarding. You have just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them. Message to my cracked pots friend, have a great life and remember to smell the flowers on your side of the path. 

have a happy reading............