Each day should be approached with amazement, wonder, gratitude.
After all, what have you done to earn the inconceivable gift of life?
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Some thoughts on old age
If I’d known I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself
(Leon Eldred)
Old age is like waiting in the departure lounge of life. Fortunately we are in England and the train is bound to be late (Milton Shulman)
Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative. (Maurice Chevalier)
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age. (Lucille Ball)
(Leon Eldred)
Old age is like waiting in the departure lounge of life. Fortunately we are in England and the train is bound to be late (Milton Shulman)
Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative. (Maurice Chevalier)
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age. (Lucille Ball)
JEAN KERR
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it is possible you haven’t grasped the gravity of the situation.
OSCAR WILDE
Don’t say you agree with me. Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
ANON
Be content with what you have.
Rejoice in the way things are.
When you realise there is nothing lacking -
The World belongs to You !
Rejoice in the way things are.
When you realise there is nothing lacking -
The World belongs to You !
ANNE FRANK
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
LAO TSU
Live a simple life, be free, be yourself and be close to nature.
Do these things and you will be wise and happy.
Do these things and you will be wise and happy.
BUDDHA
Believe nothing because a wise man said it.
Believe nothing because it is generally held true.
Believe nothing because it is written.
Believe nothing because it is said to be divine.
Believe nothing because someone else believes it.
But believe only what you yourself judge to be true.
Believe nothing because it is generally held true.
Believe nothing because it is written.
Believe nothing because it is said to be divine.
Believe nothing because someone else believes it.
But believe only what you yourself judge to be true.
MARK TWAIN
Always acknowledge a fault frankly. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you the opportunity to commit more.
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember what you said.
I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember what you said.
I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.
Monday, February 20, 2006
MAHATMA GANDHI
Seven Blunders of the World -
1. Wealth without work
2. Pleasure without conscience
3. Knowledge without character
4. Commerce without morality
5. Science without humanity
6. Worship without sacrifice
7. Politics without principle
1. Wealth without work
2. Pleasure without conscience
3. Knowledge without character
4. Commerce without morality
5. Science without humanity
6. Worship without sacrifice
7. Politics without principle
ANON
He who asks is a fool for five minutes,
But he who doesn’t ask remains a fool for ever.
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid 100 days of sorrow.
Man who says it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it.
Do not torment yourself about tomorrow.
There’s no tomorrow.
It’s all here and now.
But he who doesn’t ask remains a fool for ever.
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid 100 days of sorrow.
Man who says it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it.
Do not torment yourself about tomorrow.
There’s no tomorrow.
It’s all here and now.
THE DALAI LAMA
This is my simple religion -
There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is - kindness.
Don’t try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist. Use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are.
In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.
There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is - kindness.
Don’t try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist. Use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are.
In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.
DAVID GERRARD
No beliefs are true.
A belief system is something you have faith in, regardless of the evidence.
That’s why all belief systems are equally valid. They’re equally invalid.
Therefore they’re all deserving of equal respect, little or none.
Which is why simple human courtesy outweighs the value of any belief system.
Even if a belief system is accurate to the way the universe works, it’s still a belief system. That’s the trap.
A belief system is something you have faith in, regardless of the evidence.
That’s why all belief systems are equally valid. They’re equally invalid.
Therefore they’re all deserving of equal respect, little or none.
Which is why simple human courtesy outweighs the value of any belief system.
Even if a belief system is accurate to the way the universe works, it’s still a belief system. That’s the trap.
Sunday, February 19, 2006
THICH NHAT HANH
Breathe ! You are alive !!!
Everything we do is an act of poetry or painting, if we do it with Mindfulness.
To meditate does not mean to fight with a problem. To meditate means to observe. Your smile proves it. It proves that you are being gentle with yourself, that the sun of awareness is shining in you, that you have control of your situation. You are yourself, and you have acquired some peace.
Everything we do is an act of poetry or painting, if we do it with Mindfulness.
To meditate does not mean to fight with a problem. To meditate means to observe. Your smile proves it. It proves that you are being gentle with yourself, that the sun of awareness is shining in you, that you have control of your situation. You are yourself, and you have acquired some peace.
ANON
Work like you don’t need the money,
Love like you’ve never been hurt,
Dance like no one is watching.
Love like you’ve never been hurt,
Dance like no one is watching.
MARY OLIVER
When it’s over, I want to say -
All my life I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom taking the world into my arms.
When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular and real.
I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument.
I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.
All my life I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom taking the world into my arms.
When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular and real.
I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument.
I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.
JONATHAN SWIFT
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to
Make us love one another.
Make us love one another.
WILLIAM BLAKE
If the doors of our perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
from www.dailyenlightenment.com
If you find Truth in any religion, philosophy, science or whatever, accept that Truth without any prejudice.
Truth is after all universal, though in bits and pieces at times, disguised, hidden, not unlike traces of gold mixed with pure minerals.
Use your Wisdom to distil.
Truth is after all universal, though in bits and pieces at times, disguised, hidden, not unlike traces of gold mixed with pure minerals.
Use your Wisdom to distil.
ANON
Today is the absolute day, the only day in the eternity of time.
Every day is fresh and new, just as one’s life is new every day.
Every day is fresh and new, just as one’s life is new every day.
HAKUIN
Not knowing how near the Truth is, people seek it far away.
What a pity!
They are like one who in the midst of water cries out in thirst so imploringly.
What a pity!
They are like one who in the midst of water cries out in thirst so imploringly.
ANON
Every day must come to you as -
a new hope,
a new promise,
a new aspiration,
a new energy,
a new thrill, and
a new delight.
a new hope,
a new promise,
a new aspiration,
a new energy,
a new thrill, and
a new delight.
HORACE
Learn to be wise, strain out the wine and prune lavish hopes to the quick. While we converse, envious time will have vanished. Harvest today, placing the least credence on what is to come.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR
May I have the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
PIET HEIN
The soul may be a mere pretence,
The mind makes very little sense.
So let us value the appeal
Of that which we can taste and feel.
The mind makes very little sense.
So let us value the appeal
Of that which we can taste and feel.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
MARIE CURIE
Nothing in life is to be feared - it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
GOETHE
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
SIDDHA
You exist - you always will exist. You are the eternal spark of life only temporarily in this mortal frame. The body will die, but you never will die.
SIDDHA
Who are you?
You are the spark of God, the life particle, the eternal spirit soul. Understanding this truth is the beginning of self-realisation.
You are the spark of God, the life particle, the eternal spirit soul. Understanding this truth is the beginning of self-realisation.
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