In Search of Meaning with Amelia Rose

This episode highlights brief stories of three millionaires who redefined the meaning of riches. Listen and determine if your definition will also change because your heart will change.

A Science Professor used a half glass of water to teach his students a valuable lesson about the weight of negativity; listen and tell us what you think.

Members of the body started a strike to starve one member they thought was lazy. After a few days , all the body parts were hurting and quickly ended the strike. They learned a valuable lesson; what do you think it was?.

The story is about a Crow that thought it could be the happiest bird in the world if only it could be like 3 others birds. It soon discovered that envying the other birds wouldn't really make that happen for him. Listen and learn what the real problem was and what we as human beings can do should we find ourselves in the same predicament.

"Doing good does you good". This episode is about a painter whose Boss asked him to paint his boat, but the painter unbeknown to the Boss also plugged a hole he noticed in the Hull. Listen and discover how this small act made all the difference.

The story is about a man and his associates who headed to the west Coast during the gold rush of 1948. The initial dig showed that gold was present, but disappointment set in when nothing was found along the next 3 feet. I will let you guess what they did next. Another man after hearing what happened tried his luck and discovered gold 3 feet from where the first ones stopped drilling. Ouch!!! What can you learn from this story?

This story is about a man who mistakenly killed his pet dog in a rush to judgment. Listen and consider how you and I might have done the same thing without pulling an actual weapon. Think twice before you act once.

This story is about a group of successful past students who visited their old university professor on evening. However, instead of enjoying his company, they spent most of the time focusing on their coffee cups and complaining about life. The professor used the coffee and the cup to teach them a valuable lesson about life. What lesson did you garner from this brief story?

This is a story set in Germany in 12th Century. It is known by many titles, but more famously as "The Four Musicians of Bremen" and has as its characters a donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster. These animals worked for years on separate farms until their masters felt they were no longer useful and plotted to discard them. They each decided to run away rather than face death; curious to know how things turned out for them? Stay tuned.

Six blind men curious to determine what an elephant looks like agreed to do so by touch. Each reported their thinking, but not after accusing each other of not telling the truth. A sighted man finally described the elephant to the men and they to collaborate to come to a full understand using their mind's eye. One life lesson for for all of us is that we often perceive different animals along our journey, but usually experience the same elephant- let's seek to understand.

This story is about a student who stole an expensive watch belonging to a fellow classmate. The wise teach recovered the stolen watch without exposing the thief, which changed his life for the better. Listen and determine how you would handle your teachable moment.

A young eagle fell from the safety of its nest one day and landed in a farm yard. The farmer picked it up and raised it with his chickens and before long it began to act like a chicken. A naturalist hearing this stopped by the farm to confirm what he heard and you will have to listen to hear what happened next.

A young business man was caught up with his affairs and paid little attention to anything else. One day while driving his brand new car in a neighborhood, someone threw a brick into the car door. Listen to hear what happened next and how his life changed; then tell us what was your brick.

A father laid on his sick bed, but wanted to teach his four sons a valuable lesson before he passed because they were always fighting among themselves. He thought a bundle of sticks would do the trick and called them to his bedside one day. Listen and learn the lesson they learn and what you can learn too.

This episode was set in Istanbul, Turkey and is about an old Caliph, who a young ruler observed planting saplings of date palms. The young ruler engaged the old Caliph in conversation about the sense in planting trees that take years to bear fruits , which he would not even live to eat. Listen and learn the rationale behind this story as the conversation between the two continued.

"The game of life is like a game of boomerang; our thoughts, our words and our deeds return to us with astounding accuracy".  See how this philosophy played out in the life of one couple at different places on the same day; who knows- you could be next.  

The is the story of a blind boy, who sat on the steps of a famous building in his hometown begging.  He carried a sign in his hand that read, " I am blind; please help" and he placed a hat by his feet.  One day, a gentleman passed by a changed the wording on his sign to read, " The day is beautiful, but I cannot see it". Shortly afterwards, the man watched as more people began to stop by and putting more money in the boy's  hat. This simple act by one thought soul changed the direction of the boy's life forever.  Who changed your sign?

A father wanted to teach his four sons the importance of not judging too quickly; he sent them on a trip to a neighboring city in different seasons.  They each returned with a different report about the one tree and your job is to learn the life lesson for you.

Everyone at some point loses something or someone and to each that loss appears the greatest. This story outlines the different losses people have experienced in life, including those due to death, but  when compared to the quote by Norman Cousins, political journalist and renown world peace advocate, " Death is not the greatest loss; it is what dies inside us while we still live".

This is the story about a group of frogs traveling in the woods when two of them fell into a deep pit.  Instead of trying to help , the others discouraged them from trying to get out until one actually defied them jumped out.  The trick was to ignore the negative messages and considering them cheers instead. The moral of the story is that life and death are in the power of the tongue and each one of us must determine for ourselves the positive messages embedded even in the most negative circumstances.