The Triple Filter Test !

In ancient Greece, scholar and intellectual, Dr. Socrates was reputed to hold knowledge in high esteem. One day an acquaintance met the great philosopher and said,

"Do you know what I just heard about one of your friend?"

"Hold on a minute," Dr. Socrates replied. "Before telling me anything I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called the Triple Filter Test."

"Triple filter?" asked the man.

"That's right," Dr. Socrates continued.

"Before you talk to me about my friend, it might be a good idea to take a moment and filter what you're going to say. That's why I call it the triple filter test. The first filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?"

"No," the man said, "actually I just heard about it and wanted to tell it to you"

"All right," said Socrates. "So you don't really know if it's true or not. Now let's try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my friend something good?"

"No, on the contrary, it is bad "

"So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him, but you're not certain it's true. You may still pass the test though, Because there's one filter left: the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my friend going to be useful to me?"

"No, not really." Replied the man.

"Well," concluded Dr. Socrates, if what you want to tell me is neither true, nor good, and nor even useful to me, why tell it to me at all . . .

Lessons on Life!

Have a bit of patience to read fully, after going thru the photos....!! The following pictures are of the same place but taken in different seasons...

Lessons on Life
There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away.
The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in summer, and the youngest son in the fall.
When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to describe what they had seen. The first son said that the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted. The second son said no it was covered with green buds and full of promise.
The third son disagreed; he said it was laden with blossoms that smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the most graceful thing he had ever seen.
The last son disagreed with all of them; he said it was ripe and drooping with fruit, full of life and fulfillment.
The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, because they had each seen but only one season in the tree's life.
He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only one season, and that the essence of who they are and the pleasure, joy, and love that come from that life can only be measured at the end, when all the seasons are up.
If you give up when it's winter, you will miss the promise of your spring, the beauty of your summer, fulfillment of your fall.

Moral lessons:
Don't let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest.
Don't judge life by one difficult season.
Persevere through the difficult patches and better times are sure to come some time or later Greetings!

Nothing is impossible.....

When someone tells you that you can't do something...

Look around...

Consider all options...

Then GO for it!

Use all the things God gave you!

Be creative!  & Be Bold!

In the end, you will succeed and prove them wrong!

கடமையை செய்..

Whatever your cross
Whatever your pain
There will always be sunshine,
After rain…
Perhaps you may stumble
Perhaps when fall,
But God’s always ready
To answer your call...
He knows every heart aches,
Sees every tear,
A word from his lips,
Can calm every fear…
Your sorrows may linger,
Throughout the night,
But suddenly vanish
In dawn’s early light
The savior is waiting
Somewhere above
To give you his grace
And send you his love,
Whatever your cross
Whatever your pain
“God always sends rainbows…
after the rain…”

This is a story of Everyone . . .

Long time ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to come and play around it everyday. He climbed to the tree top, ate the apples, took anap under the shadow... He loved the tree and the tree loved to play withhim. Time went by... the little boy had grown up and he no longer played around the tree everyday.

One day, the boy came back to the tree and he looked sad. "Come and play with me," the tree asked the boy. "I am no longer a kid, I don't play around trees anymore."

The boy replied, "I want toys. I need money to buy them."

"Sorry, but I don't have money... but you can pick all my apples and sell them. So, you will have money."

The boy was so excited. He grabbed all the apples on the tree and left happily. The boy never came back after he picked the apples. The tree was sad.

One day, the boy returned and the tree was so excited. "Come and play with me" the tree said.

"I don't have time to play. I have to work for my family. We need a house for shelter. Can you help me?"

"Sorry, but I don't have a house. But you can chop off my branches to build your house."

So the boy cut all the branches of the tree and left happily. The tree was glad to see him happy but the boy never came back since then. The tree was again lonely and sad.

One hot summer day, the boy returned and the tree was delighted. "Come and play with me!" the tree said.

"I am sad and getting old. I want to go sailing to relax myself. Can you give me a boat?"

"Use my trunk to build your boat. You can sail far away and be happy."

So the boy cut the tree trunk to make a boat. He went sailing and never showed up for a long time.

Finally, the boy returned after he left for so many years. "Sorry, my boy. But I don't have anything for you anymore. No more apples for you... " the tree said.

"I don't have teeth to bite" the boy replied.

"No more truck for you to climb on"

"I am too old for that now" the boy said.

"I really can't give you anything ... the only thing left is my dying roots" the tree said with tears.

"I don't need much now, just a place to rest. I am tired after all these years." The boy replied.

"Good..! Old tree roots is the best place to lean on and rest. Come, Come sit down with me and rest." The boy sat down and the tree was glad and smiled with tears . . .


The moral of the story................This is a story of everyone. The tree is our parent. When we were young, we loved to play with Mom and Dad...

When we grow up, we leave them... only come to them when we need something or when we are in trouble.

No matter what, parents will always be there and give everything they could to make you happy.

You may think the boy is cruel to the tree but that's how all of us are treating our parents . . .

The Carpenter's House

An elderly carpenter was ready to retire.
He told his employer-contractor of his plans to leave the house building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family.
He would miss the paycheck, but he needed to retire. They could get by. The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor.
The carpenter said yes, but in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to end his career.When the carpenter finished his work and the builder came to inspect the house, the contractor handed the front-door key to the carpenter.
"This is your house," he said, "my gift to you."What a shock! What a shame! If he had only known he was building his own house, he would have done it all so differently. Now he had to live in the home he had built none too well.
So it is with us.
We build our lives in a distracted way, reacting rather than acting, willing to put up less than the best. At important points we do not give the job our best effort. Then with a shock we look at the situation we have created and find that we are now living in the house we have built. If we had realized that we would have done it differently.
Think of yourself as the carpenter.
Think about your house.
Each day you hammer a nail, place a board, or erect a wall. Build wisely.
It is the only life you will ever build. Even if you live it for only one day more, that day deserves to be lived graciously and with dignity.
The plaque on the wall says, "Life is a do-it-yourself project." Your life tomorrow will be the result of your attitudes and the choices you make today.

Echo's and Reflections

A son and his father were walking on the mountains. Suddenly, the son falls, hurts himself and screams: "AAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"
To his surprise, he hears a voice repeating, somewhere in the mountain: "AAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"
Curious, he yells: "Who are you?"
He receives an answer: "Who are you?"

Angered at the response, he screams: "Coward!"
He receives the answer: "Coward!"

He looks to his father and asks: "What's going on?"
The father smiles and says: "My son, pay attention."
And then he screams to the mountain: "I admire you!"
The voice answers: "I admire you!"

Again the young man screams: "You are a champion!"
The voice answers: "You are a champion!"

The boy is surprised, but still does not understand.

Then the father explains: "People call this ECHO, and it really is an imitation of LIFE. It gives you back everything you say or do. Our life is simply a reflection of our actions.

If you want more love in the world, create more love in your heart.
If you want more competence in your team, improve your competence.
This relationship applies to everything, in all aspects of life; life will give back to you everything you have given to it."

YOUR LIFE IS NOT A COINCIDENCE. IT'S A REFLECTION OF YOU!

Human Relationship - A story to share . . .

Sometimes we spend time asking who is responsible or who to blame, whether in a relationship,
in a job or with the people we know. We miss out some warmth in human relationship to give each
other support. Treasure what you have.
Just a little story for you . . .

A boy was born to a couple after eleven years of marriage. They were a loving couple and the boy
was the apple of their eyes. When the boy was around two years old, one morning the husband saw a medicine bottle open. He was late for work so he asked the wife to cap the bottle and keep it in the cupboard. The mother, preoccupied in the kitchen totally forgot the matter.

The boy playfully went to the medicine bottle and, fascinated with its color, drank it all. It happened
to be a poisonous medicine meant for adults in small dosages. When the child showed signs of poisoning the mother took him to the hospital, where he died. The mother was stunned. She was terrified how to face her husband. When the distraught father came to the hospital and saw the dead child, he looked at his wife and uttered just four words.

QUESTIONS:
1. What were the four words ?
2. What is the implication of this story ?
Check with the answers only after you have tried to come up with your own.
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ANSWER:
1. The husband just said "I Love You Darling” . . .
The husband's totally unexpected reaction is proactive behavior. He is indeed a genius in human relationships.

2. The child is dead. He can never be brought back to life. There is no point in finding fault with the mother. She had also lost her only child. What she needed at that moment was consolation and sympathy from the husband.

That is what he gave her.

If everyone can look at life with this kind of perspective, there would be much fewer problems in the world. To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must understand her a lot and love her with all your heart. "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears & you will find things are actually not as difficult as you think."

கத சொல்றேன்...

ஒரு இன்ஸூரன்சு ஏஜண்டு ஜோசியகாரங்கிட்ட ஜாதகம் பாக்க போனான், அவரு உனக்கு சாவு நெருங்கிகிட்டிருக்கு எங்கேயும் வெளியே கிளிய போவாதப்பான்னு சொன்னாரு.

அவனும் சாவுக்கு பயந்துட்டு வீட்டுக்குள்ளயே மொடங்கி கெடந்தான். அடடா இந்த வருச டார்கெட்ட முடிக்க முடியாமயே செத்துவனேன்னு பொலம்பிகிட்டே இருந்தான்.

ஒரு நாள் எமதர்மனோட கிங்கரன் அவன் வீட்டுக்குள்ளயே வந்தான்..

இவன் ரொம்ப பயந்து மூஞ்சியெல்லாம் வெளிறிப்போயி நடுங்கிட்டே.. "தயவுசெஞ்சு என்ன கொன்னுடாதீங்க நானு நெறையா சாதிக்கவேண்டியிருக்கு"ன்னான்.
அதுக்கு கிங்கிரன் சிரிச்சிகிட்டே... "அப்பா! உனக்கு சாவு கிடையாது, நீ தாராளமா வெளியில போயி உன்னோட வேலைகள செய்யி"ன்னு சொன்னான்.

இப்போதா அவனுக்கு நம்பிக்கையே வந்து கிங்கிரனுக்கு நன்றி சொல்லீட்டு, தெகிரியமா வெளிய போனான். கொஞ்ச நேரத்தில எதுத்தாப்பல வந்த லாரி, அவமேல மோதிட்டுது... செத்துப்போயிட்டான்.

அப்போ அவனோட உசுர கொண்டுபோகறதுக்கு அதே கிங்கரன் வந்தான், "வாப்பா எமலோகத்துக்கு போகலாம்"ன்னு சொன்னான்.
உடனே செத்தவனோட உசுரு கேட்டுச்சு "நீ சொன்னத நம்பித்தான நா வெளியில வந்தேன். இப்போ பாரு நான் செத்து போயிட்டேன்"னுச்சு.

அதுக்கு கிங்கரன் சொன்னான் "இதப்பாரு உன்ன மாதிரிதான் நாங்களும் இந்த மாச டார்கெட்ட முடிக்கிறதுக்கு ஒரு உசுருதா தேவப்பட்டுது, சாவுக்கு பயந்தவனத்தா புடிக்கணும்னு எமனோட கட்டள அதனால தான் இப்படி சொல்ல வேண்டியதாப்போச்சு, என்னோட டார்கெட்ட அச்சீவ் பண்ணீட்டேன், வா போகலாம்னு" கூட்டிடு போயிட்டான்.

அதனால சாவு எப்டி வேணா வரும், அதுக்கு பயந்துகிட்டு மொடங்கி கெடக்காம.. போயி வேலயப்பாருங்கப்பு...

How to Keep Fish Fresh !

The Japanese have always loved fresh fish. But the waters close to Japan have not held many fish for decades. So to feed the Japanese population, fishing boats got bigger and went farther than ever. The farther the fishermen went, the longer it took to bring in the fish. If the return trip took more than a few days, the fish were not fresh. The Japanese did not like the taste.

To solve this problem, fishing companies installed freezers on their boats. They would catch the fish and freeze them at sea. Freezers allowed the boats to go farther and stay longer. However, the Japanese could taste the difference between fresh and frozen and they did not like frozen fish.

The frozen fish brought a lower price. So fishing companies installed fish tanks. They would catch the fish and stuff them in the tanks, fin to fin. After a little thrashing around, the fish stopped moving. They were tired and dull, but alive. Unfortunately, the Japanese could still taste the difference. Because the fish did not move for days, they lost their fresh-fish taste. The Japanese preferred the lively taste of fresh fish, not sluggish fish.

So how did Japanese fishing companies solve this problem? How do they get fresh-tasting fish to Japan? If you were consulting the fish industry, what would you recommend?

How Japanese Fish Stay Fresh:

To keep the fish tasting fresh, the Japanese fishing companies still put the fish in the tanks. But now they add a small shark to each tank. The shark eats a few fish, but most of the fish arrive in a very lively state. The fish are challenged.

Have you realized that some of us are also living in a pond but most of the time tired & dull, so we need a Shark in our life to keep us awake and moving? Basically in our lives Sharks are new challenges to keep us active and taste better..

The more intelligent, persistent and competent you are, the more you enjoy a challenge. If your challenges are the correct size, and if you are steadily conquering those challenges, you are Conqueror. You think of your challenges and get energized. You are excited to try new solutions. You have fun. You are alive!