And Then, There Was Light

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Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room.
One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs.
His bed was next to the room's only window.
The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.
The men talked for hours on end.

They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs,
their involvement in the military service,
where they had been on vacation..

Every afternoon, when the man in the bed by the window could sit up,
he would pass the time
by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window.
The man in the other bed began to live for those one hour periods
where his world would be broadened and enlivened
by all the activity and colour of the world outside.

The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake.
Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats.
Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every colour
and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.

As the man by the window described all this in exquisite details,
the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes
and imagine this picturesque scene.

One warm afternoon, the man by the window described a parade passing by.
Although the other man could not hear the band - he could see it in his mind's eye
as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words.

Days, weeks and months passed.
One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths
only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window,
who had died peacefully in his sleep.
She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away.
As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked
if he could be moved next to the window.
The nurse was happy to make the switch,
and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.
Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look
at the real world outside.
He strained to slowly turn to look out the window besides the bed.
It faced a blank wall.

The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate
who had described such wonderful things outside this window.
The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall.
She said, 'Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you.'

GP Editor's Note:
There is tremendous happiness in making others happy, despite our own situations.
Shared grief is half the sorrow, but happiness when shared, is doubled.
If you want to feel rich,
just count all the things you have that money can't buy.

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servant of Merciful Love · Jun 2, 2013

davedajobauk said:

Praise God

davedajobauk · Jun 2, 2013

davedajobauk · Jun 6, 2013

I think quotes have a powerful way of conveying an attitude to you
which sometimes resonates so much that you feel ‘chills’ inside.

Here’s a list of the quotes which have given me the most of these “chills”.

Enjoy!

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.
—Benjamin Franklin

Most people are other people.
Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions.
Their lives a mimicry.
Their passions a quotation.
— Oscar Wilde

Two possibilities exist:
Either we are alone in the universe or we are not.
Both are equally terrifying.
—Arthur C. Clark

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
— Albert Einstein

Of all sad words of mouth or pen, the saddest are these:
it might have been.
— John Greenleaf Whittier

I fear not the man who has practised 10,000 kicks,
but I do fear the man who has practised one kick 10,000 times.
- Bruce Lee

And when you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
— Friedrich Nietzsche

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education
-Mark Twain

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
— John F. Kennedy

It is no measure of health to be well—adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
— Jiddu Krisnamurti

Every man dies, but not every man truly lives.
— William Wallace

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
— Plato

Some cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go.
― Oscar Wilde

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?
— Abraham Lincoln

To love is to recognize yourself in another.
– Eckhart Tolle

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument;
not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.
— Tryon Edwards

If you want to build a ship,
don’t drum up the men to gather wood,
divide the work and give orders.
Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
—Antoine de Saint—Exupery

They that can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
— Benjamin Franklin

Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned
and the last fish been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
— Indian Proverb

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet
and the winds long to play with your hair.
–Kahlil Gibran

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive,
with all your might,
and when you laugh, laugh like hell
and when you get angry, get good and angry.
Try to be alive.
You will be dead soon enough.
– William Saroyan

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me
that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school,
they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down ‘happy’.
They told me I didn’t understand the assignment,
and I told them they didn’t understand life.
― John Lennon

Everybody is a genius.
But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
― Albert Einstein

As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world –
that is the myth of the atomic age –
as in being able to remake ourselves.
― Mahatma Gandhi

The best people possess a feeling for beauty,
the courage to take risks,
the discipline to tell the truth,
the capacity for sacrifice.
Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable;
they are often wounded,
sometimes destroyed.
— Ernest Hemingway

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty,
the only crime is getting caught.
In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
― Hunter S. Thompson

Every gun that is made,
every warship launched,
every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed.
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
– Lao Tzu

Dalai Llama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity,
said: “ Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.
Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.
And then he is so anxious about the future
that he does not enjoy the present;
the result being that he does not live in the present or the future;
he lives as if he is never going to die,
and then dies having never really lived.”
-

I see all this potential,
and I see squandering. *** *** **,
an entire generation
pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars.
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes,
working jobs we hate so we can buy 'crap' we don’t need.
We’re the middle children of history, man.
No purpose or place.
We have no Great War.
No Great Depression.
Our Great War’s a spiritual war…
our Great Depression is our lives.
We’ve all been raised on television
to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires,
and movie gods, and rock stars.
But we won’t.
And we’re slowly learning that fact.
And we’re very, very 'chilled off'
― Chuck Palahniuk

The most dangerous man, to any government,
is the man who is able to think things out for himself,
without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.
Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion
that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable,
and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it.
And if he is not romantic personally,
he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.
HL Mencken

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luba · Jun 9, 2013

Oh my goodness, found another inspiring thread I'm going to love and I've just had a few moments to look a bit of it over.

davedajobauk · Jun 9, 2013

May the light always shine down and light your steps

dave

luba · Jun 10, 2013

davedajobauk said:
May the light always shine down and light your steps

dave

For you, too, Dave!

I've scrolled just a few images and they so touched my heart that I'm brought to grateful tears reading such wisdom and taking it in!

Thank you again, Dave!

davedajobauk · Jun 10, 2013

Hi Luba Sis'

I am SHARING the light

I have faith, that I what I am doing, is
what I am being led, to do
that there is, 'something there', for everyone, to find
~to their needs and, in His perfect timing

The Lord performs His works, in mysterious ways \o/

You are by no means, the first,
to comment ___ re: how these postings have 'spoken' to you

Praise the Lord
To Him, is due all of the praise and the glory

your Bro'

dave

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