Life is Short

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Are you looking for me?

Are you looking for me?


Are you looking for me?
I am in the next seat.
My shoulder is against yours.


You will not find me in the stupas,
not in Indian shrine rooms, nor synagogues,
nor in cathedrals:


not in masses, nor kirtans,
not in legs winding around your own neck,
nor in eating nothing but vegetables,


When you really look for me, you will see me instantly -
you will find me in the tiniest house of time.


Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God?
He is the breath inside the breath.
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First I was Dying to Finish My High School

To make money, we lose our health and then to restore our health, we lose money.
We live as if we are never going to die, and we die as if we have never lived’!


“Life is not a rehearsal.


Each day is a new show.


No repeat, No rewind. Only action.


The show goes on, on &; on…


Your best shot in all your worthy acts always


leave a memorable footprints for others to follow!”
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Just Open Your Eyes

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Please teach me, Lord

Please teach me, Lord ...

I want to know

Exactly how to pray.

I need some words

Which ones are right?

Please tell me what to say.

I've bowed my head

I have knelt down,

But ... should I be upright?

I've closed my eyes,

I've raised my hands,

Or ... should I fold them tight?

Do I stand up?

Should I sit down?

Dear Lord ... what do you like?

Are lights turned on

Or are they off?

Maybe ... candle light?

Wear my glasses?

Take them off?

Be at my desk or table?

Should I whisper?

Speak out loud?

Do I quote the Bible?

What do you think

About the time?

Do You prefer the dawn?

Should I pray fast,

Or keep it slow?

Better short ... or long?

I'm new at this

What are the rules?

I want to do it right.

How do I know

You'll even hear

That I am in Your sight?

And while I sat there quietly,

Waiting for some sign,

I heard a gentle voice say,

"Oh, dearest child of mine ...

Do you think I really care

About the time of day,

Or whether you are standing up,

Or kneeling when you pray?"

"I don't care about your posture,

Or about the place you choose;

Just open up your soul to me,

I have no other rules.

Tell me what is in your heart,

And tell me what you seek;

Tell me of your sorrows,

And of those things that made you weak."

"Speak to me in private

About what concerns you most;

I know about your good deeds ...

You have no need to boast.

My child, you don't need lessons,

Just talk to me each day;

Tell me anything you want, dear child,

Anyone can pray."

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Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour,

Splendour, forgiveness, fortitude, cleanliness, absence of malice,

and absence of pride; these are the qualities

of those endowed with divine virtues, O Arjuna.

Bhagavad Gita 16.3

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Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour,

and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice:

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted,

forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Bible

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Be like the sandalwood which perfumes the axe that wounds it.

Dhammapada

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Holding on to anger is like grasping hot coal with the

intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Gautama Buddha

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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

M K Gandhi

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Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

Paul Boese

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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them as much.

Oscar Wilde

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Namasmarana

Namasmarana

 

Namasmarana is the best antidote for all ills. Never be ashamed to sing the name of God. Vemana did not visit any temple for long; for years he was laughing at those who considered the image as a symbol of Divinity. But when his daughter died, he was one day holding her picture in his hand, weeping over the loss. Then it struck him that if the picture could cause sorrow and bring tears, the divine image can evoke positive feelings and bring tears of joy to those who know the beauty and glory of God. The image was a reminder of divine presence.

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Forgiveness is Truth; forgiveness is holiness; and by forgiveness the universe is held together.

Forgiveness is Truth; forgiveness is holiness; and by forgiveness the universe is held together.

Mahabharata

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If you love God, follow me, and God will love you, and forgive you all your sins; God is all-forgiving, all-compassionate.

Quran 3.31

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Where there is forgiveness, there is God Himself.

Adi Granth

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They are great who fast and do penance,/ But they who forgive wrongs are even greater.

Tirukkural

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Forgive, you will have happiness./ Forget, you will have satisfaction./ Forgive and forget,/ You will have everlasting peace/ Within and without.

Sri Chinmoy

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To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Alexander Pope

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He who refuses to forgive breaks the bridge over which he, too, must cross.

Confucius

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Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.

Brian Tracy

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To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

Louis B Smedes

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I look upon all creatures equally

I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.

Bhagavad Gita 9.29

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There is only one caste, the caste of humanity. All of us belong to the human race, so everyone is equal. Therefore, love each one equally.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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We created you from a single pair of a male and a female and made you into nations and tribes, that you might know each other not that you might despise each other. Verily the most honoured among you in the sight of God is he who is the most righteous.

Quran 49.13

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Even as the fingers of the two hands are equal, so are human beings equal to one another. No one has any right, nor any preference to claim over another.

Prophet Muhammad

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Light is a living spirit. The most sublime lesson that the sun gives us is his love for all creatures.

Omraam Aivanhov

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Nobody is born or dies at any time

Nobody is born or dies at any time: It is the mind that conceives its birth and death and its migration to other bodies and other worlds.

Yoga Vasishta

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Know that the body is like a garment. Go, seek the wearer of the garment...

You are such that without the material body you have a spiritual body:

Do not, then, dread the going forth of the soul from the body.

Jalaluddin Rumi

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As fire assumes the forms of burning objects, so hath the all-pervading Lord assumed the forms of beings and things.

Srimad Bhagavatam

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The Self existed before the birth of this body and will remain after the death of this body. So it is with the series of bodies taken up in succession.

The Self is immortal. The phenomena are changeful and appear mortal. The fear of death is of the body.

Ramana Maharshi

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There is no coming and going.

For what is coming but going?

Shabistari

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Self-confidence is the Key to success

A business executive was deep in debt and could see no way out. Creditors were closing in on him. Suppliers were demanding payment. He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save his company from bankruptcy.

Suddenly an old man appeared before him. "I can see that something is troubling you," he said. After listening to the executive's woes, the old man said, "I believe I can help you." He asked the man his name, wrote out a check, and pushed it into his hand saying, "Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time." Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come.

The business executive saw in his hand a check for $500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world!

"I can erase my money worries in an instant!" he realized.Nonetheless, the executive decided to put the check in his safe first. Just knowing it was there, would give him the strength to work out away to save his business, he thought.

With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and got extended terms of payment from creditors. Soon he could close some big sales. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.

Exactly a year later, he returned to the park with that uncashed check. The old man did not appear for some time yet the business executive decided to wait for a while more. A while late

the old man came along the way but seemed to be unmindful of the business executive. He stopped the old man and was about the hand over the cheque with a few words of thanks as well as share his success story.

At the same time, he saw a nurse come running up and grabbing the old man. "I'm so glad I caught him!" she cried. "I hope he hasn't been bothering you. He's always escaping from the rest home and telling people he's John D. Rockefeller." And she led the old man away by the arm.

The astonished executive just stood there, stunned. All year long he'd been wheeling and dealing, buying and selling, convinced he had half a million dollars behind him. Suddenly, he realized that it wasn't the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his new found self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after. He understood that Confidence is nothing but the distant vision held positively no matter what comes in between. It comes from one's own commitment and dedication and entirely internal.

"Our duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth"

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Do Not

Do Not

Undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others.

It is because we are different, that each of us is special.

Do Not...

Set your goals by what other people deem important.

Only you know what is best for you..

Do Not...

Take for granted the things closest to your heart

Cling to them as you would your life for without them life is meaningless.

Do Not...

Let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past nor for the future

By living your life one day at a time, you live all the days of your life.

Do Not...

Give up when you still have something to give

Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.

It is a fragile thread that binds us to each other.

Do Not...

Be afraid to encounter risks

It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.

Do Not...

Shut love out your life by saying it is impossible to find.

The quickest way to receive love is to give love

The fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly.

Do Not...

Dismiss your dreams

To be without dreams is to be without hope

To be without hope is to be without purpose.

Do Not...

Run through life so fast that you forget

not only where you have been but also where you are going.

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When we give, we receive

• When we give, we receive.


• When we forgive, we are forgiven.


• When we love, we are loved.


• When we serve, we are served.


• When we show mercy, we receive mercy.


• When we give peace, we receive peace.


• When we show kindness, we experience kindness.


• When we give God our hearts, He gives us His heart filled with unspeakable love.


We always receive more than we give. Gratitude, generosity, and goodness are the keys to peace. Love is the path.


May you walk in the path of peace today.
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Love often carries with it incredible powers of communion and soulful relations

Love often carries with it incredible powers of communion and soulful relations.

Here the clasping of hands marks the beginning of a journey quite familiar to those who have known profound devotion and passion.

It's like the old song,Days of Wine and Roses, laugh and run away, like a child at play, through a meadowland toward an open door,which some say is the door of nevermore.

This door, by which here are depicted the symbols of love and happiness, the bluebird and the rose, the field of daisies from the summers of our lives,has opened to the great mystery that may lie beyond life as we know it.

Another symbol, the stream of time,lies at the foot of that mysterious path beyond the door. We might be carried up this stream where stones are reflecting the golden light of another realm, giving way to the emergence of forms as though from the ancient clay of matter, that one by one go on into the eternal light as they take shape....

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We Are Made Kind By Being Kind

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. -Dalai Lama

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.-Joseph Joubert

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.- Dalai Lama

No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves. – Amelia Earhart

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.- Lao Tzu

The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.– Julia Alvarez

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Kindness is in our power even when fondness is not.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

~ Samuel Johnson

There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life - reciprocity.

~ Confucius

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

~ Author Unknown

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.

~ Henry Boye

When I was young, I admired clever people.

Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape?

No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable,

for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

~ Mark Twain

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I wish To be Forgiven

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Beginning Today

Beginning Today

Beginning today I will no longer worry about yesterday.

It is in the past and the past will never change.

Only I can change by choosing to do so.

Beginning today I will no longer worry about tomorrow.

Tomorrow will always be there,

waiting for me to make the most of it.

But I cannot make the most of tomorrow without first making the most of today .

Beginning today I will look in the mirror

and I will see a person worthy

of my respect and admiration .

This capable person looking back at me

is someone I enjoy spending time with and someone I would like to get to know better.

Beginning today I will cherish each moment of my life.I value this gift bestowed upon me

in this world and I will unselfishly

share this gift with others.

I will use this gift to enhance the lives of others.

Beginning today I will take a moment

to step off the beaten path and to

revel in the mysteries I encounter.

I will face challenges with courage and determination.

I will overcome what barriers

there may be which hinder my quest for

growth and self-improvement.

Beginning today I will take life one day at a time, one step at a time.

Discouragement will not be allowed

to taint my positive self-image ,

my desire to succeed or my capacity to love.

Beginning today I walk with renewed faith,

Regardless of what has gone before,

I believe there is hope

for a brighter and better future.

Beginning today I will open my mind and my heart. I will welcome new experiences.

I will meet new people.

I will not expect perfection from myself

nor anyone else: perfection does not exist

in an imperfect world .

But I will applaud the attempt

to overcome human foibles.

Beginning today I am responsible

for my own happiness and I will do

things that make me happy . . .

admire the beautiful wonders of nature,

listen to my favorite music ,

pet a kitten or a puppy, soak in a bubble bath . . .

pleasure can be found in the most simple of gestures.

Beginning today I will learn something new;

I will try something

different; I will savor all the various flavors life has to offer .

I will change what I can and the rest I will let go.

I will strive to become the best me

I can possibly be.

Beginning today. And every day.

Just a thought, but as I often think of you

and realize how much God

loves you, sometimes I think we need to also love ourselves through His eyes.

God Bless .

Author Unknown

GOD LOVES US,

WE NEED TO LOVE HIM

AND...

WE NEED TO LEARN TO LOVE OURSELVES SO THAT WE CAN LOVE OTHERS AS OURSELVES!!

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A vessel Of God's Love

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Be Of Good Courage

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