Quotes 44 - Tomorrow
"The only limit to our realization of
tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Quotes 43 - Every Task in Life
"I long to accomplish a great and noble
task, but it is my chief duty to
accomplish small tasks as if
they were great and noble."
- Helen Keller
Quotes 42 - Your Dreams
"Whatever you can do, or dream you
can begin it. Boldness has genius,
power and magic in it."
- Goethe
Fibonacci Number Sequence in Nature
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Example:
Look at your own hand:
You have ...
- 2 hands each of which has ...
- 5 fingers, each of which has ...
- 3 parts separated by ...
- 2 knuckles
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Fibonacci Numbers and Nature This page has been split into TWO PARTS.
This, the first, looks at the Fibonacci numbers and why they appear in various "family trees" and patterns of spirals of leaves and seeds.The second page then examines why the golden section is used by nature in some detail, including animations of growing plants.
Daddy's Girl
Pastor Rick Warren
Life & God – Rick Warren
Pastor Warren is the same person who prayed for President Obama on the day of the President’s swearing in. You will enjoy the new insights that Rick Warren has, with his wife now having cancer and him having ‘wealth’ from the book sales. This is an absolutely incredible short interview with Rick Warren, ‘Purpose Driven Life’ author and pastor of Saddleback Church in California. In the interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren, Rick said: People ask me, What is the purpose of life?
And I respond: In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were not made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven. One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body– but not the end of me. I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to spend trillions of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act – the dress rehearsal.32 Sunday B Nov 11 - Homilies
Thomas O'Loughlin
Introduction to the Celebration
Introduction to the Celebration
We can gather here because each of us has heard, in some way
or another, the divine invitation to become beloved daughters and son of the
Father. The Spirit has moved our hearts to set out to follow the Lord, and we
have started on a journey towards the Father in the way we live our lives.
However, as we gather today to celebrate this journey, we are also conscious
that we often fail to live life in accordance with this invitation. The gospel
recalls Jesus seeing a poor widow in the temple treasury and his way of looking
at this woman is a challenge to all of us who accept his invitation to follow
him.
Quotes 41 - Accomplishment
"There's a very positive relationship
between people's ability to
accomplish any task and the time
they're willing to spend on it."
- Joyce Brothers
The Old Man and His Son - A Story with a Lesson
A short story with a lesson
An old man, staying in a small south Indian town came to visit his son in Mumbai recently. The son in his early thirties is a successful businessman living with his wife and son. The father, having spent most of his life at his birthplace, hardly understands Hindi English, Marathi. But he doesn’t care. ‘I have come here to spend a few days with my son and his family. I don’t have to go out and socialize with the city people,’ he said.But the son is very excited about his father’s rare visit to Bombay. He wants to make the best of it. He and his wife want to show him around the city. And yes, the son enjoys those evening hours too, when he and his father go out and sit in a good bar, sipping their favourite drink.
Last week he told his father ‘Let’s go to a five star hotel’s bar tonight’. It was a beautiful evening. Talking about everything under the sun they had a few drinks. As usual they were offered some salad, peanuts, wafers etc. as accompaniments with their drinks. The old man being almost toothless was not much interested in eating. But that day when they got up to leave, he simply took a handful of chana (roasted grams) and stuffed it in the fold of his dhoti. He might have thought > about munching on them, sitting in the car.
World's Largest Funerals
Some people touch us in an amazing way. When they pass away their funeral becomes a public affair where people who have often only seen them on TV perform a public outpouring of emotion. I may be lucky to have two or three people attend my funeral. S
ome people have had a few more though. Occasionally around the world there are people whose funeral brings millions of people onto the street to mourn. Here are the biggest ones.
1. Princess Diana
Princess Diana was known as the Princess of the People. The world was shocked by her sudden death and in the UK she turned overnight from an oft ridiculed Princess, into a national heroine. The funeral of Diana was held in London on September 6th 1997. The procession drew an estimated three million mourners, who lined the streets of London to pay homage to their Princess.
ome people have had a few more though. Occasionally around the world there are people whose funeral brings millions of people onto the street to mourn. Here are the biggest ones.
1. Princess Diana
Princess Diana was known as the Princess of the People. The world was shocked by her sudden death and in the UK she turned overnight from an oft ridiculed Princess, into a national heroine. The funeral of Diana was held in London on September 6th 1997. The procession drew an estimated three million mourners, who lined the streets of London to pay homage to their Princess.
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