The Iranian Ambassador to the UN had just finished giving a speech, and
walked out into the lobby where he met President Bush.

They shook hands, and as they walked the Iranian said, "You know, I
have just one question about what I have seen in America. President Bush
said, "Well, anything I can do to help you, I will."

The Iranian whispered "My son watches this show 'Star Trek' and in it
there is Chekhov who is Russian, Scotty who is Scottish, and Sulu who is
Chinese, but no Arabs. My son is very upset and doesn't understand why
there aren't any Iranians on Star Trek."

President Bush laughed, leaned toward the Iranian ambassador, and
whispered back, "It's because it takes place in the future."
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DISCOVER YOURSELF
--from the Times of India

We come to this world to experience our own reality to learn who we are
by being what we thought would be best for us. Eventually, most of us
reach a place where we are not so content with doing our lives in the
old ways.

Most people may never recognise this state when it happens. They may go
on doing life as they always have until they die discontented. This is
not the way life was intended to be lived here.

But it is the way many people live their lives. Life is intended to be
lived here in great joy, with great wisdom, and with energy abounding.

Why then do so many people live in a state of fear, or exhaustion, or
depression? I believe it's often because they are not living the true
life they came here to live and their mind and body know it. They know it
on such a deep level that they can't keep themselves from feeling
discomfort and discontentment.

I know that for me there were many years in which I sensed that I
wasn't doing my life exactly as I needed. I was either in the wrong
profession, living in the wrong place, or with the wrong people, or trying to
convince myself that I was happy.

It wasn't working. I knew in my heart that I didn't have time to
continue living that way, that if I did I would never be happy or fulfill my
life's purpose. Today, I've reached a place where I feel relatively
content with my human life, though many people living in the old ways
might be prone to wonder.

I am living so far outside the box of typical human existence that I
imagine I make no sense to them. Because now I see my life as a joyous
walk through a beautiful land, encumbered only by my own ability to
express joy and give and receive love.

If I learn to do these things to the best of my ability, then there is
no more for me to do here. When we first come here, I believe many of
us don't believe we know how to relax and be ourselves. We may be
following someone else's mandates or beliefs.

Do you see what I mean? Have you found your life blocked or
unrewarding? Can you see new ways in which you may enjoy your life, if you gave
yourself the chance? Look deeper inside yourself and discover where your
joy may lie dormant.

Look until you find the things which bring you joy and then begin doing
them. You may not find your truth entirely the next moment. It usually
takes years for one to open fully to one's self, after years of
self-denial. But you can begin to discover the things which have always
brought you joy and allow yourself to begin doing them.

This is a time to be who we are. It's a time to allow that to be
enough. It's not a time to seek ourselves in the external world, for that
world holds no answers for us. Our truths are within us, deep inside where
we place them for later discovery.

Many of us are now at the place where we have no alternative but to be
true to ourselves. This is the way we planned it when we came here. If
you are like me, you've found that you can no longer pretend that the
old ways are serving you.

You know that you must go forward into a new reality which may be
unknown and may be more than a little bit frightening. We're often afraid to
move into the light, to be someplace we may know is real but we can't
quite remember.

This is the nature of this new energy, this new reality, which is
coming to this planet. We have no choice but to follow it if it is our path
yet we may fear the letting go of old things which have been part of
our lives. We may fear the very thing that we must experience if we are
to become our true selves.

One must move into the light in baby steps until one is ready to run
with it. But holding back from it entirely brings great pain. The pain
you feel in your soul may be from holding yourself back from experiencing
joy and love.

How does one find oneself? Look inside where the answers are buried. Be
who you are to be the best of your ability each moment.

Don't worry if some of the things you're still doing don't feel
entirely enlightened. Allow yourself to experience your reality as fully as
possible, as if you then discover there are places which are not in
alignment with your truth, allow them to slowly dissolve, to release from
your being.

As you become more aligned with your truth, you become happier with
your life even though you're letting go of many aspects of your former
self. Your life comes more into balance; you become the being you came
here to be, in spite of all the ways you may have formerly done life.

You may have been told how to act and how to be here. You may have been
told that you were this or you were that. But whatever you were told,
it wasn't who or why you are.

Only you can know why you're here. Only you can find happiness inside
of you. Only you can discover your own truth. And only you can learn how
to be happy here. No one outside you has any of the answers you seek.
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ANOTHER ARAB JOKE

An Arab, fleeing the Taliban, desperate for water, was plodding through
the Afghanistan desert when he saw something far off in the distance.

Hoping to find water, he walked towards the image, only to find a
little old Jewish man sitting at a card table with a bunch of neckties laid
out on it. The Arab asked, "I'm dying of thirst, can I have some
water?" The Jew replied, "I don't have any water, but why don't you buy a
tie? They are only $15.00. Here's one the at goes very nicely with your
robes."

The Arab shouted,"I don't want an overpriced tie, you idiot, I need
water!" The Jew replied, "OK then, don't buy my ties. But to show you what
a nice guy I am, I'll tell you that over that hill there, about four
miles, is a nice restaurant. Walk that way; They have all the water you
need."The Arab begrudgingly thanked him, then staggered away towards the
hill and eventually disappeared.

Four hours later the Arab came crawling back to where the Jewish man
was sitting behind his card table. The Jew said, "I told you, about four
miles over that hill. Couldn't you find it?"

The Arab rasped, "I found it all right. Your brother wouldn't let me in
without a tie!!"
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THE DASH - THE MOVIE

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