Dale Carnegie's Wisdom

"Are you bored with life?

Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart,

live for it,

die for it,

and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."

Pride Gets You No Where

Most of the time it's best you let others contribute to you. Swallow your pride and expect more surprises.

Most people wants to prove themselves. Like most children of successful business owners they do not like to live on the shadow of their parents. They want to create a name of their own. There is nothing wrong about it. But most of them miss the lessons they can learn from their parents. It may depend on their parents, too. The craft of learning from and dealing with difficult people is n important skill you would prefer to have.

If you are not one of those lucky children that have successful parents, the more you would want to be a beginner, even if it's so hard, if you really want to speed up your experience and knowledge. Most especially if you are talking with a successful person. You don't want to miss in knowing more of their great knowledge and years of experience.

Business success can be achieved more quickly if you are very open in letting others contribute to you. It doesn't mean you use people. It means promoting teamwork. If you work alone, expect more hard work, and it would really be a lonely journey. Just imagine if you become a huge success ad you acknowledge the people who assisted you in your achievement. Isn't it great to share your fulfillment?

Let's say you wanted to start a business. Then you find it hard to get thing going. Then you realized you really need someone to guide you. When you found you business mentor, you became aware that you not only learn from him. But also, his circle of friends and contacts can really help you a lot! Wouldn't that speed up your way to success? Unless you really want to have a hard time, then, this action is not for you. Think about the time you will gain if you can quickly achieve success.

one last chance

n my life I don’t mean much to anyone
I’ve lost my way can’t go back anymore
Once I had everything now it’s gone
Don’t tell me again coz I’ve heard it all before


Some people say that i’m not worth it
I’ve made mistakes but nobody’s perfect
Guess I’ll give it a try


I’ve got one last chance to get myself together
I can’t lose no more time it’s now or never and I’ll try to remember who i used to be
I’ve got one last chance to get myself together


The time has come for me to change again
I can’t carry on like this, I will lose my friends - don’t say that you have given up on me. Just give me the time and space to heal my head


I don’t wanna be misunderstood
I’ve got to take this chance and make it into something good

Anonymous Love

Here are some of the anonymous love quotes and sayings from ...anonymous people:

God gave us two ears to hear, two eyes to see and two hands to hold. But why did God give us only one heart? Because he wants us to find the other one.

Is the word "love" important?
I don't know but for me, you are more important.
Do you know why?
Because how can I say "I love you" if you're not here.

One time I asked you, "why do you love him so much?" you told me, "because we've been together for so long", I got annoyed because you're numb, you didn't even think that the time you were together, it took me longer to have waited for you.

No matter how many times I get hurt because of you, I won't leave you. Because even if I have a hundred reasons to leave you, I'll look for that one reason to fight for you.

An angel asked me "why are you sad?", thinking of you I answered "because I miss her", then I heard the angel giggle...I looked up and began to smile and said "oh, it's you!"

They said that if you are unable to sleep, it's because there's someone thinking about you...surely that person misses you. That's why if you can't sleep, sorry, I can't help it.

St. Peter scold me saying "son, where have you been?" And he saw me with you and asked "why are you with that person?" and I said to him "sorry St. Peter, I though it was heaven."

Back then I thought I was the unluckiest person in the world, then I looked at you and smiled. Why? Because no matter how unlucky I was, it was worth it because of you.

They said love is like a toy. When it's new, it's so loved and don't want to lend it to others, doesn't want anybody touching it and don't want to let go of it. Yes, it's being taken care of, but the down side is, it's being played so many times.

When the time comes for you to leave me, just say so! I can let you go. But let me embrace you while saying, " You'll go back to me, okay! When he leaves you."

In love, the past is not important, but the present. Experience is more relevant than the pain you went through. The only thing that will make it stronger is forgiveness and not the retorting of sin.

God is so good. He knows where a person will be happy, where they can love and be loved, where heaven on earth is. Now I know why he put me near you.

Any guy can love a thousand girls...but only a rare guy can love one girl in a thousand ways

In every girls life there will always be those three guys...the one she loves, the one she hates, and the one she cant get enough of...and in the end...they're all the same guy.

Find that guy that will pick up every piece of your shattered heart & put it back together; Replacing it with a piece of his.

I love you not because I need you, I need you because I love you

If you asked me how many times you have crossed my mind, I would say once, because you never really left…

They say love hides in every corner, then I must be walking in circles

Others will say, loving someone is tiring: sometimes happy, sometimes you'll cry!
They said I'd have enough someday.
I said to them, that is not true, you know why? "when does ever a person had enough if his love is true.."

I wish I had never known you. I was happy before even when you were not there yet. Unlike now, you make me suffer, I know that you didn't mean to have known me. Me too, I wasn't planning on loving you.

No matter what words were used or what meaning about love was delivered, love quotes were said and written out of inspiration and to emphasize each person’s purpose for living…and that is to give love.

DO YOU HAVE TIME?

I knelt to pray but not for long,
I had too much to do.
I had to hurry and get to work
For bills would soon be due.
So I knelt and said a hurried prayer,
And jumped up off my knees.
My Christian duty was now done
My soul could rest at ease.....
All day long I had no time
To spread a word of cheer
No time to speak of Christ to friends,
They'd laugh at me I'd fear.
No time, no time, too much to do,
That was my constant cry,
No time to give to souls in need
But at last the time, the time to die.
I went before the Lord,
I came, I stood with downcast eyes.
For in his hands God! held a book;
It was
the book of life.
God looked into his book and said
'Your name I cannot find
I once was going to write it down...
But never found the time'

BANK ACCOUNT

YE - experience - Service facilitator

source: http://remzpamulaklakin.multiply.com/journal/item/7

natapos na ang dating iniintay-intay na event sa ministry....

youth encounter 10!!!!!!

well...very great expirience...one of a kind.....

isa-isahin natin....

DAY 1

madami akong ginawa before ako makapunta ng set-up. di ko na nga naabutan ung mismong paglalabas ng gamit ang tanging inabutan ko na lang ay paalis na sila. hindi ako sumabay sa transpo with the stuffs ,bakit? may mga bagay pa kasi akong kailangang bilihin. i bought stuffs na kakailanganin ko for y.e. while walking nakita ako ni ate rus. medyo napa-usap, nagtanong kasi si ate if musta na yung y.e. and if everyone is ready. going back sa chapel to find someone na makakasabay sa pag-akyat. naabutan ko at that time si apa ,patrick ,and terenz. at dahil mag-coconfess pa si terenz, apa and i need to go na ,at dahil participant si patrick kailangan niyang maghintay sa susundo sa participants. papunta sa venue (LGA) ang transpo namin ni apa ay jeep tapos lakad papunta sa LGA. bakit naman kasi walang jeep na uma-akyat sa LGA? at bakit special pa dapat?.

pagka-akyat...sorry kung hindi ako masyadong nakatulong sa set-up, well i need time pa kasi in order to finalize yung prayers ko. sa first day ng encounter madami pa ding kailangan ayusin buti na lang dahil sa unity natapos din agad.

as usual late pero not like last year na uber late at least this time hindi na ganoon. as the whole event formally starts uber kabado na ko as in gusto kong mawala. hehehe. bakit? alam niyo na yun. hehehe.

well ,madaming ring nakakatawang nangyari. for example: ang uber nakakalitong welcome to the family. aamin ako madami akong mistake sa action song na 'to. lesson learned mag-practice ng maayos...owkie.

sa pagtatapos ng first day, uber pagod ang iba kasi galing sa school at work pero if your serving with full heart and you offer it to the Lord mawawala din ung pagod at mapapaltan ito with joy.

DAY 2

halos iilang oras pa lang ang mga tulog. all of us need to start na. on the record si mariel ang pinaka-unang nagising at second ako. kuya carlo ang saya ng naisip mong exersice. ok back to reality after ng exercise.

pagkatapos ng lunch... dahil mga walang magawa at ayaw pang mag-siesta. PICTORIAL muna. hehehe ang ganda kasi ng view eh. okay after the pictorial chever siesta na pero dahil hindi makatulog kwentuhan time muna. about what? SECRET! hehehe. pagkatapos ng siesta back on track sa mga dapat gawin.

before celeb night medyo nagkagulo pa kaming mga sponsory kung sinu-sino ang gaganap buti na lang at naayos din. (sponsory next time na lang yung musical. siguro next year... auxies presentation.) napakaganda ng whole presentation night todo effort. joy ,faith ,and ate jaja madami ang uber nagulat. kuya jerard madaming na-inlove kay armando. sa iba pa ang masasabi ko lang ay ASTIG!

DAY 3

last day na. mariel ang aga pa ding gumising. core ang hirap gisingin. hay, sa day na ito magtatapos na ang youth encounter. madami ng new youth ang mas nakilala si Lord.

well, wala na kong masyadong masasabi...confidential kasi...basta uber saya ng y.e. at madami akong natutunan sa expirience na nangyari in this days.

WHO IS FR. PING MOLINA

Who Can Fill the shoes of aGood Fisherman

International, national and local issues about priests’ infidelity to their priestly vows rock the heart of many devout Catholics. This infidelity is not only confined to priests but also to the elders or bishops. The feet of a good fisherman must fit-in the shoes of master fisherman to correct the situation. But how about if the good fisherman is already dead? Is there another good fisherman who can fill-in the shoes of the dead good fisherman? I will not give my opinion because it is the work of the Holy Spirit, and surely He will not abandon his church. But I am tempted to give my humble opinion, none will be able to fill-in the shoes of the good dead fishermen. But I pray that one will fit in.

Whom shall I am referring? He is the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Jose B. Molina the Vicar General of the Diocese of Virac.

One way or another shaped my life although he was not my rector nor formator in the seminary, you can not but notice this good priest because of eloquent sermons that he delivered in pulpit. The words/ idea he profound was like hypnotic spell to the parishioners, because they are all listening. Yes this good fisherman has impressive scholastic records that will be the reason of a good sermon, but if the speaker forgot the true element of a good sermon all will be a noise to the listeners. This element can be unraveled in an anecdote that involve Saint Agustine of Hippo that the good saint said to deliver sermon but what he did was only to waived his hand to the crowd of the catholics without uttering a single word, the reactions are different some are crying, others are smiling and others are astonished by the charism of the Holy Saint. Words are dead if the priest will not live to what he is preaching. He live by the words He preaches, that is the secret of the good fisherman. That is the reason why he was loved by many priests, laymen, seminarians and ex-seminarians.

I was then in the seminary when this story happened, Yes maybe I was the only one who can still remember this. Cardinal Jose T Sanchez visited the Diocese of Virac, Bishop Sorra as the Bishop then of Virac gave him a welcome party as part of party the good cardinal will give a talk to the priests and seminarians. The consensus of the whole priest for him to use the local dialect but the cardinal forgot already the local tongue that he can not anymore speak the dialect of Pandan, He was compared to Archbishop Teopisto V Aberto the bishop maker who always give talk in Bagamanoc dialect, Mamo Ping shouted jokingly ibingan four times maybe Cardinal Sanchez was familiar to the word but forgot the meaning. It is a profane word but to us in the circle of seminarians at the time it is only a word used which lost the original meaning, rather it denotes that we are from Pandan, he faced at our directions and he asked us what is ibingan. Instead of facing the cadinal he hid himself beside the post of the octagon in Fiat, the way I saw him he was like a child who was scolded by his father, he never talked again. I kept it for a decade but now he is already dead, I come to analyze the situation. The first thing that come to my mind is that Mamo Ping recognized the authority of the good Cardinal although what he uttered for him is only a joke. He readily recognized that he was wrong. A virtue of a good bishop material, submission to the will of the church the mater magistra.

Last thing that I remember about him when he vigorously opposed the STL (small time lottery) franchised in Catanduanes. Here again he delivered a well prepared speech that showed the bad effect of gambling in every Catandunganon. There he has proven that the powerful Catholic Church is ready to defend morality. That Rt. Reverend Msgr. Jose B Molina will not stop protecting his church. All listened to him.

This man authored “Youth Encounter” the program which is being used in the entire Philippines for the formation of youth and the New Evangelization Pastorele which is being adopted in our Diocese. He founded also the “Marriage Encounter” in the Island of Catanduanes.

Who can therefore fill-in the shoes of a goodfisherman? Let us pray and hope that someday someone from the ranks will follow the footsteps of our beloved Mamo Ping Molina.

SOURCE: http://www.catanduanes.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=342

YE-Experience - bohol

source: http://ubcmsca.webs.com/apps/profile/profilePage?id=43395673

Hello everyone.. ahm my name is Rey Pelpinosas ..newly inducted nga scan...batch 195 ko...wala jud ko magmahay kung nganong miapil ko ani nga oraganization...dili lang ni organization kundili it is a movement. Thank you God for guiding my feet towards this movement... bisan sa mga kalisud nga ahong nabati during the training, sa mga kakapoy nga akong naaguman, sa kapig-ot sa oras nakapadayon japun ko sa pag-uban sa panon. hangtod nga miabot nako ani...i'm so very blessed! Dili jud ko makalimot especially during Y.E. didto jud naho na-encounter si God... Nakaingun jud ko sa akong kaugalingon nga dili na kinahanglan nga naa pay Y.E. nga mahitabo aron lang ma-bag-o ang imung kinabuhi... Daghan kaayo ko nga nahibaw-an during sa Y.E namo.. nakabalo ko nga kabalu diay ko mohilak...huhuhuhu..kay sukad2x kadto pa jud ko naka hilak ug taman2x!.., garbeh...wala jud ko magdahum adto kay kung naay mga recollection nga akong ma-atenan dili man jud ko kahilak...bisan unsaon pa ug lugod ang ahong mga mata dili jud ko kahilak...didto ra jud sa Y.E.

YE-Experience - jeffoy

source : http://www.bukaspalad.com/board/showthread.php?t=4938


One of my best experience being youth ang YE. Know what naka-dalawang beses akong sumali dito nung una nung maging participants kami sa gagawing WYD95 tapos nung naisipan namin na mag-YE din ang choir ko. Pero naging facilitator na rin ako nito after WYD hanggang mag-migrate kami. Napakasarap na experience ang YE, masaya, malungkot, madaming kantahan, sayawan, tawanan at iyakan. tama si blueforgetmenot, para ma-experience nyo ang YE.. COME AND SEE!

YE-Experience - tagaytay

Kakaibang "Retreat" experience ever!

source: http://joycegalvz.livejournal.com/

Hay! Napaka-HAPPY naming mga OLICians kasi naging KAKAIBA, MEANINGFUL, at NAPAKASAYA ng last retreat namin.

January 7, 8, 9, 2009 is unforgettable moment/s for me.

Ishi-share ko lang po sa inyo yung onting HIGHLIGHT sa retreat experience ko.

First, kakaiba yung place syempre, Villa Sta. Luisa, Tagaytay City. Eh, super lamig kaya! Parang 5 aircon na sabay-sabay bunuksan at grabe, umuulan pa! San ka pa? Oh di ba, masaya?! Kakapal pa ng ,ga jackets namin...Hehe!

Second, ATTACK! Attack yan.......................sa pagkain! Hehe! Yan yung natutunan namin kapag time na kumain...Hehe! Pasaway!

Third, yung facilitator namin. Kulet nilang 2 ever! Yung una, parang si FRANZEN daw ng PBB.. kasi kamukha nya tas yung isa, DINGDONG DANTES look-alike daw! Nakuu! Cheness ever! Eh ang kamukha nya naman eh si GABE MERCADO o kaya si MICHAEL V... Pero pinakanagustuhan namin kay "Dingdong Dantes look-alike" kuno eh yung panggagaya nya kay Michael V. na "YARI KA...HAHAHAHAHAH!" Pati yung pagkanta ng rap songs...galing nya kaya...astig!

Fourth, yung session hall kung san kami nagse-session then yung mga lectures. Biruin nyo yon, tinatamaan ako sa mga lectures kasi na-experience ko na yung iba... Nakakainis nung una kasi grabe! :) Basta, yun na yon!

Fiftth, S.O.P.....The SIGN OF PEACE (SOP nga!) Ayan yung YAKAPAN MOMENTS naming lahat.... kada matatapos yung isang lecture.

Sixth, COME & SEE!!!! Eto yung lecture na gusto ko kasi maganda....tsaka sabi ng mga facilitators namin, kapag once na nagtanong yung mga lower levels or yung mga ibang sections sa 4th yr. kung ano yung ginawa namin....sasabihin lang namin na, "SECRET!!!! COME & SEE!!!" Hehe! Pasaway!

Seventh, yung theme ng retreat namin...YOUTH ENCOUNTER, Virac Model....Galing daw ito sa Virac, Catanduanes kaya sya tinawag na ganun.

Eight, sa dorm! Hehe! Igay namin dung mga girls, ingay talaga super! Hehe! Basta yun na yon! Private kasi yung iba! :)

Ninth, yung pinaka-FAVORITE ko sa lahat.... "CIRCLES OF LOVE"...kasi dito lahat sasabihin yung pinakamagandang description mo about my classmates. Nagulat na lang kasi ako sa mga sinabi nila about sa akin. Kasi di ko ine-expect na sabihin nila yung mga bagay-bagay na di ko nakikita sa sarili ko.....at narealize ko na..."Ah, dapat ko pala 'tong pagpatuloy, kasi yun pala yung nakikita nila sa kin." Kasi akala ko, puro negative yung nakikita ko sa sarili ko at pati nila yun pala ayun, sa nagpapasalamat ako sa ka-group ko. :)

And lastly, yung ONE BIG GROUP SHARING. siempre di mawawala yan. Natuklasan ko lasi yung mga sikreto ng mga classmates ko na napakabigat nilang problema pati yung mga masasayang expereinces nila kasi yung iba,di nagsasalita kung ano yung mga problema, tas yun. grabe!

Grabe talaga yung retreat na 'to kasi last year na namin sa GCS, kailangan na naming magpaalam this March 31. Graduation na!

Tumindi yung bonding namin as group and at the same time, mas lalo naming nakilala ang isa't isa and dami namin natutunan.

Kaya, Salamat IV-OUR LADY OF IMMACULATE CONNCEPTION (OLIC) SY 08-09...

• Location:Tagaytay City, PH

Friends: Gifts We Give Ourselves

Good friends enrich our lives in so many ways. Through a magical combination of similarities and differences, friends offer us the opportunity to know ourselves as we are and help us grow into who we want to be. Our similarities attract us to each other, comforting us with familiarity when we see ourselves in them. When we are drawn to those we admire, the same recognition is at work, unconsciously acknowledging that these people possess qualities that we ourselves possess. By acting as mirrors, friends help us define who we are by reflecting our selves back to us.

Friends also help us know ourselves through our differences. Differences allow us to see other options and make choices about who we want to be. Sometimes we are drawn to those who appear to be our opposites, and we learn to accept the parts of them we love and the parts of them that don't resonate with us, thus allowing us a valuable learning experience. By expanding our understanding to include others-- experiences, friends help us accept others. By understanding when someone's life differs from our own, we can learn about ourselves in contrast. There are times when we see in friends what we don't like about ourselves. That mirror reflection may be hard to take, but a good friend helps us find ways we can change and supports us in that choice.

Part of the joy of friendship is the feeling that we are accepted just the way we are, with no need to change. It is a gift they give us, and one we can give back every day. Ultimately, we choose friends because they make us feel good about ourselves and life. Through tears and difficulties, friends help us find the laughter. When we find those special people who offer us that perfect combination of comfort and stimulus to grow, we are very fortunate. Friends, those wonderful companions that walk with us through life, help us define and refine who we are and who we choose to be every day.

Overcome Your Fear of Rejection - Royane Real

Do you hold back from trying to start new relationships because you often worry that you will be rejected?

If a fear of rejection is holding you back from forming new friendships or relationships, there is help available. You can learn to greatly overcome your fear of getting rejected.

One of the reasons why rejection can cause us so much difficulty is that in our minds we often tie rejection to so many other ugly words that cause us even more pain. Humiliated. Inadequate. Useless. Loser. Not good enough. Pathetic.

The more we dwell negatively upon an instance of rejection, the harder it becomes to get up the courage to face another occasion when we might get rejected again.

Rejection is often much more troubling to those people who are very emotionally sensitive, who have low self-esteem, or who have had a very dysfunctional or abusive childhood.

There is good news though. Even if you are very emotionally sensitive or shy, even if you didn’t get much emotional support as you were growing up, you can still learn to change the way you talk to yourself about the experience of rejection.

You will have to practice a lot to change the way you think about rejection, and you may need the help of a good therapist to point out new, more supportive ways of thinking.

If you have decided to continue interacting with other human beings and try to make some of them your friends, you must be prepared to accept this fact: occasionally some people will reject you.

As terrifying as this may seem, you can take steps to reduce the likelihood that rejection will occur, and you can actually learn to make rejection a less painful experience for you.

Here is a brief summary of steps you can take to overcome your fear of rejection:

- Remind yourself why you want to overcome your fear of rejection. Remind yourself that your goal is to have a happy social life.

- Change what you say to yourself about rejection. Don’t tie your self worth to whether or not you get accepted or rejected by other people.

- Take a series of baby steps when developing new relationships.

- Look for signs of receptiveness in the other person.

- Deliberately set out to collect as many rejections as you can

- When you are out making approaches to other people, tell yourself that it’s just practice, it doesn’t count.

- Make many, many social approaches to other people.

One way that you can lessen the likelihood and frequency of rejection is to allow your relationships to develop slowly. Take baby steps. When relationships develop slowly, you must still make efforts to approach the other person, but your efforts will be low key and casual, rather than intense.

During each interaction with the person you wish to befriend, notice that person’s body language and facial expressions. Are you getting encouraging smiles and nods? Is that person’s body posture open or closed? Do you sense an eagerness to continue the conversation?

If the other person shows signs of enjoying your company and seems eager to continue your conversations, then he or she will probably be receptive to any overtures you make and any invitations you extend.

Although it may sound terrifying, one of the best ways to overcome a fear of rejection is to deliberately put yourself into situations where you get rejected a lot. This strategy is actually used by some therapists who specialize in the treatment of shyness.

If you actually confront the situations in which you feel anxious, your anxiety may lessen as you become more used to dealing with the feared event. But you may need help from a therapist to show you how to subsitute new ways of thinking about rejection in the place of your previous negative and self attacking thoughts.

By proving to yourself that you can face up to your fears, they will eventually lose their power over you.

If you are terrified of rejection, you may have thoughts like, “My self worth depends totally on whether other people approve of me and accept me. If people do not approve of me, I’ll be completely devastated and feel horrible because it means I’m worthless. If anyone rejects me it means that probably everyone will continue to reject me my whole life.”

We can become so completely overwhelmed by the negative emotions that follow this sort of thinking that we don’t notice what distortions we have introduced into our thinking processes.

If you persist in developing the habit of making many social overtures to other people, you will come to realize that occasional rejection is simply a part of life. It does not mean you are a flawed human being.

Even though we can’t control whether or not other people reject us, we can control how we react to rejection.

We don’t need to condemn ourselves when we are rejected, and we don’t need to stop interacting with other people just because there is a chance they might reject us.

When we give up interacting with others, not only do we give up some occasional pain and discomfort, but we also miss out on all the potential warmth, comfort, fun and excitement that other human beings can offer us.

Remember, if you never put yourself in a situation where someone can say “no” to you, you will also never be in a situation where someone can say “yes” to you.

The more often you put yourself in situations where you interact with others, the more you will face the likelihood that some of those people will reject you.

But you will also increase the odds that some of those people will accept you.

The main person whose acceptance you really, really need, is YOU!

World's oldest Christian Bible digitized

By NARDINE SAAD, Associated Press Writer Nardine Saad

LONDON – The surviving pages of the world's oldest Christian Bible have been reunited — digitally. The early work known as the Codex Sinaiticus has been housed in four separate locations across the world for more than 150 years. But starting Monday, it became available for perusal on the Web at http://www.codexsinaiticus.org so scholars and other readers can get a closer look at what the British Library calls a "unique treasure."

"(The book) offers a window into the development of early Christianity and firsthand evidence of how the text of the Bible was transmitted from generation to generation," said Scot McKendrick, head of Western manuscripts at the British Library.

As it survives today, Codex Sinaiticus comprises just over 400 large leaves of prepared animal skin, each of which measures 15 inches by 13.5 inches (380 millimeters by 345 millimeters). It is the oldest book that contains a complete New Testament and is only missing parts of the Old Testament and the Apocrypha.

The 4th-century book, written in Greek, has been digitally reunited in a project involving groups from Britain, Germany, Russia and Egypt, which each possessed parts of the 1,600-year-old manuscript.

They worked together to publish new research into the history of the Codex and transcribed 650,000 words over a four-year period.

The Codex was both a key Christian text and "a landmark in the history of the book, as it is arguably the oldest large-bound book to have survived," McKendrick said.

Codex Sinaiticus, which loosely translated means "the book from Sinai," was discovered at the Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai by German Bible scholar Constantine Tischendorf in the mid-19th century. Much of it eventually wound up in Russia — just how exactly the British Library won't say, citing lingering sensitivity over the circumstances surrounding its removal from the monastery.

The British Library bought 347 pages from Soviet authorities in 1933. Forty-three pages are at the University Library in Leipzig, Germany, and six fragments are at the National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg. And in 1975, monks stumbled on 12 more pages and 40 fragments stashed in a hidden room at the monastery at Mount Sinai.

Juan Garces, the Codex Sinaiticus project manager, said putting the book online was a "definitely a historical moment."

"It's special because it's the oldest almost completely preserved bible," Garces said.

Garces said the only other Bible that rivals Codex Sinaiticus in age is the Codex Vaticanus, which was written around the same time but lacks parts of the New Testament.

"It's such an important book — that's why it should be accessible," Garces said. "If you would have liked to see it before you would have had to travel to four countries in two continents. If you want to see the manuscript right now all you have to do is go online and experience it for yourself."

On the Codex parchment leaves is written around half of the Old Testament and Apocrypha, the whole of the New Testament and two early Christian texts not found in modern Bibles. Most of the first part of the Bible manuscript — containing most of the so-called historical books, from Genesis to 1 Chronicles — is missing and presumed to be lost.

Garces said Codex Sinaiticus was handwritten by four scribes. Experts had previously believed there were only three, but researchers at the British Library looked at the script with high quality digital imaging that revealed the hand of a fourth penman.

"From Parchment to Pixel: The Virtual Reunification of the Codex Sinaiticus," an exhibit about the Bible's reunification process, opened at the British Library on Monday and runs until Sept. 7.

The digitized manuscript includes more than 800 pages and fragments, including the pages discovered in 1975 — published for the first time.

"There's a high demand," Garces said. "Our Web site has crashed because people want to look at it."

" The Golden Rule not the Rule of Gold "

Baha'i

"Blessed is he who preferreth his brother before himself."
...Baha'u'llah, Tablets of Baha'u'llah,71...

Buddhism

"Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful."
...Udana-Varga,5:18...

Christianity

"All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them."
...Matthew7:12...

Confucianism

"Do not unto others what you would not have them do unto you"
...Analects 15:23...

Hinduism

"This is the sum of duty: do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you."
...Mahabharata 5:1517...

Islam

"No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself".
...Sunnah...

Jainism

"In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self"
...Lord Mahavira, 24th Tirthankara...

Judaism

"What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man. That is the law: all the rest is commentary"
...Talmud, Shabbat 31a

Native American

"Respect for all life is the foundation."

Sikhism

Don't create enmity with anyone as God is within everyone."
...Guru Arjan Devji 259, Guru Granth Sahib...

Zoroastrianism

"That nature only is good when it shall not do unto another whatever is not good for its own self."
...Dadistan-i-Dinik, 94:5...

Quotes from Mohandas K. Gandhi

To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one that must be loved is not a friend

Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.