Words of Wisdom

“This land is mine, these sons are mine,”-such are the words of the fool who does

not understand that even he is not his.

You never realty possess things,

You merely hold them for a while.

If you are unable to give them away you are held by them.

Whatever you treasure must be held in the hollow of your hand as water is held.

Clutch at it and it is gone.

Appropriate it to yourself and you soil it. Set it free and it is forever yours

Buddha

A short story

A miser had accumulated five hundred thousand dinars and looked forward to a year

of pleasant living before he made up his mind how best to invest his money, when

suddenly the Angel of Death appeared before him to take his life away.

The man begged and pleaded and used a thousand arguments to be allowed to live a

little longer, but the Angel was obdurate. “Give me three days of life and I shall

give you half my fortune,” the man pleaded. The Angel wouldn’t hear of it and

began to tug at him, “Give me just one day, I beg of you, and you can have

everything I accumulated through so much sweat and toil.” The Angel was adamant

still.

He was able to wring just one little concession from the Angel-a few moments in

which to write down this note: “Oh you, whoever you are that happen to find this

note, if you have enough to live on, don’t waste your life accumulating fortunes.

Live! My five hundred thousand dinars could not buy me a single hour of life!”

When millionaires die and people ask, “How much did they leave?” the answer is, of

course, “Everything.”

And sometimes. “They didn’t leave it. They were taken away from it.”

Source: The prayer of the frog, Part 2

Inner Wakefulness

This place is a dream only a sleeper considers it real
then death comes like dawn and you wake up laughing
at what you thought was your grief.

A man goes to sleep in the town where he has always lived and he dreams he's living in another town
in the dream he doesn't remember the town he's sleeping in his bed in
he believes the reality of the dream town
the world is that kind of sleep.

Humankind is being led along an evolving course, through this migration of intelligences
and though we seem to be sleeping
there is an inner wakefulness, that directs the dream
and that will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are.


Rumi

Quote of the Week

People cry not because love ends but because it continues.
Even if it's over.

Anonymous

This is one of my originals.

People always change.

Someone once said, 'change is the only constant.'

Things depreciate, appreciate, disintegrate, integrate there are inventions and destructions but nothing except love remains.

People are very much like things, their status appreciates or depreciates. Relations integrate or disintegrate. Situations can make or destroy people, when such things happen, people change.

Quoting The Bible, Corinthians Chapter 13, 'When I was a child I walked like a child, talked like a child  but when I grew up I left childish ways behind me.

Everything in this world has always evolved and always will. As humans we are no exception.

Bad habits die hard. Bad feelings die harder but it's not impossible to change any of these. 

For the good or for the bad people change.

Some step up, some step down.

The Magical Footsteps exercise.

Albert Einstein understood the power of gratitude.  Magical footsteps is an exercise to really inject gratitude into your life.  Every footstep you take, give thoughts of gratitude and aim to take at least 100 magical footsteps in your day.  Its a great way to lift your spirits, the inspirational Albert Einstein said thank you 100 times every single day - he truly understood the real blessings you could receive if you count your own - daily.

An extract from the book, The Magic by Rhonda Byrne

Quote of the Week

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you everything else, means to fight the hardest battle, which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.

One Tree Hill

On love

When love beckons to you, follow him,

Though his ways are hard and steep.

And when his wings enfold you yield to him,

Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

And when he speaks to you believe in him,

Though his voice may shatter your dreams

as the north wind lays waste the garden. 

For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.

Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,

So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth. 

Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.

He threshes you to make you naked.

He sifts you to free you from your husks.

He grinds you to whiteness.

He kneads you until you are pliant;

And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast. 

All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart. 

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,

Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor,

Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;

For love is sufficient unto love. 

When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, "I am in the heart of God."

And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. 

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:

To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.

To know the pain of too much tenderness.

To be wounded by your own understanding of love;

And to bleed willingly and joyfully.

To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;

To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;

To return home at eventide with gratitude;

And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

Khalil Gibran

Just for laughs

Source: http://textfromdog.tumblr.com/

Tibetan Incantation

The six syllables perfect the Six Paramitas of the Bodhisattvas.
Gen Rinpoche, in his commentary on the Meaning of said:

"The mantra Om Mani Pädme Hum is easy to say yet quite powerful,
because it contains the essence of the entire teaching. When you say
the first syllable "Om" it is blessed to help you achieve perfection in the
practice of generosity, "Ma" helps perfect the practice of pure ethics,
and "Ni" helps achieve perfection in the practice of tolerance and
patience. "Päd", the fourth syllable, helps to achieve perfection of perseverance, "Me" helps achieve perfection in the practice of concentration, and the final sixth syllable "Hum" helps achieve perfection in the practice of wisdom.

So in this way recitation of the mantra helps achieve perfection in the six practices from generosity to wisdom. The path of these six perfections is the path walked by all the Buddhas of the three times. What could then be more meaningful than to say the mantra and accomplish the six perfections?"

The six syllables purify the six realms of existence in suffering.

A young man named Nasreddin planted a flower garden, but when the flowers came up so did a great crop of dandelions among them. Wishing to eliminate the unwanted guests, Nasreddin consulted with gardeners near and far, but none of their solutions worked.

Finally, Nasreddin traveled to the palace of the sheik to seek the wisdom of the royal gardener himself. But alas, Nasreddin had already tried all the methods the kind old man recommended to him for eradicating such troublesome weeds.

Silently they sat together for a good long time. At last, the royal gardener looked at Nasreddin and said, "Well, then, the only thing I can suggest is that you learn to love them."

Source: http://www.citehr.com/69261-nasreddins-flower-garden-traditional-sufi-story.html#ixzz1xY2GaQmE

Omens no. 8

WHEEL- The wheel coming off any vehicle you are riding in means you are to inherit some fortune, a good omen.

A beautiful Prayer.

The prayer of a devotee to the Lord Krsna:

“Lord, I ask you to pardon me for three major sins: first, I went on pilgrimage to

your many shrines, oblivious of your presence everywhere; second, I so often cried

to you for help, forgetting that you are more concerned than I am about my

welfare; and finally, here I am asking for forgiveness when I know that our sins

are forgiven before we commit them.

Quotes of the Week

Evil had to manifest itself and fulfill its role, so that ultimately Good could prevail. If there was no betrayal, there could be no cross. The words of the scriptures would not be fulfilled & Jesus's sacrifice could not serve as example.

Paulo Coelho