....THE ESSENCE OF GIVING AND TAKING.... “If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.” - Idries Shah Idries Shah (16 June, 1924 – 23 November, 1996) , also known as Idris Shah, né Sayed Idries el-Hashimi, was an author and teacher in the Sufi tradition who wrote over three dozen critically acclaimed books on topics ranging from psychology and spirituality to travelogues and culture studies. .(continue your acquaintance with one of  kind life-journey of Idries Shah by clicking here.... .....TODAY'S INSPIRATIONAL ANECDOTAL SHARING OF  HOW WE CANNOT SEE WITH OUR EYES "THAT LIFE IS A SACRED GIFT TO BE SHARED WITH GIFTS THAT CAN BE ONLY GIVEN AND NOT TAKEN..." There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She told her boyfriend, 'If I could only see the world, I will marry you.' One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. When the bandages came off, she was able to see everything, including her boyfriend. He asked her, 'Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?' The girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that he was blind. The sight of his closed eyelids shocked her. She hadn't expected that... ...The thought of looking at them the rest of her life led her to refuse to marry him..... Her boyfriend left in tears and days later wrote a note to her saying: 'Take good care of your eyes, my dear, for before they were yours, they were mine.' This is how the human brain often works when our status changes. Only a very few remember what life was like before, and who was always by their side in the most painful situations Life Is a Gift. Today before you say an unkind word - Think of someone who can't speak. Before you complain about the taste of your food - Think of someone who has nothing to eat.. Before you complain about your husband or wife - Think of someone who's crying out to GOD for a companion. Today before you complain about life - Think of someone who went too early to heaven. Before whining about the distance you drive Think of someone who walks the same distance with their feet. And when depressing thoughts seem to get you down - Put a smile on your face and think: you're alive and still around.. . The above life giving and taking anecdote showing how frail life generally is....even when sacredness of life is experienced ....was shared on this knowledge sharing PVAF website by Mrs. Taraben Jivanbhai Mistry from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from an unknown original author's sharing being circulated on internet....The meaning of "frail" is: easily led into evil; morally weak, easily led from one's chosen course; lacking in general strength of character or purpose; easily broken ; easily destroyed; likely to fail or die quickly ; unusually susceptible to disease or other infirmity ; lacking even normal strength or force; weak and small ; lacking significant substance;  tenuous and thin - as in "how frail the barrier between civilization and the primal jungle" (Oscar Handlin) and "the love of truth is pitifully frail" (M.R.Cohen) Please click on the next line to continue receiving more on today's PVAF sharing about life and its true meaning....

....PVAF'S AIM OF SHARING KNOWLEDGE WITH HUMANITY  AS A FRIEND AMONG FRIENDS....   Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. - George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950)[1] was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his writings address prevailing social problems, but have a vein of comedy which makes their stark themes more palatable. Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege.   “Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,  for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things, but above all,  the power of going out of one’s self, and  appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.” ~Thomas Hughes Thomas Hughes (20 October 1822 – 22 March 1896) was an English lawyer and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown's School Days (1857), a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. It had a lesser-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford (1861). PVAF PRAYS TODAY'S SHARING OF KNOWLEDGE ON GIVING AND TAKING MOVES AROUND THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE....  .....just copy-paste the web address of this page on your email going out to all you know and know you through giving and taking in life of that is sacred....

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