“Three things never return—time, a word, and an opportunity. Therefore, don’t waste time, choose your words carefully, and don’t miss an opportunity.” Confucius
Nervously thinking about the future, people forget about the present, so they live neither in the present nor for the future. They live as though they would never die, and when they die, they realize that they never truly lived.
Woe to those who loved only bodies, forms, and appearances! Death will take everything away from them.
Learn to love Souls, and you will find them again.
There is beauty in everything that surrounds us,
But not everyone is given the gift of seeing it.
One will appreciate the beauty of a diamond,
Another sees the beauty of a star in the sky.
But the beauty of the soul is beyond all measure,
By changing ourselves, we change the world.
How touching it is when a soul suddenly proves vulnerable,
It needs a master in life—a jeweler.
And what is the soul? What does it mean?
No one can say where it resides.
But everyone knows how it aches and weeps,
When it is lonely and alone.
Elena Ataeva
When Vishnu, reclining in the ocean of milk, wishes to create this universe, a golden lotus grows from His navel. Together with its stem, this golden lotus is the abode of Brahma, called Brahmaloka or Satyaloka.
“Just as a lotus, sweet-scented and pleasing to the mind, can grow on a heap of refuse thrown onto a main road, so the disciple of one who is truly enlightened stands out through wisdom among the blind mediocrities, among beings resembling refuse.”
Buddha Shakyamuni
“Some see the mud at the bottom of a pond, while others see the lotus flower on its surface—it all depends on one’s point of view.”
The 14th Dalai Lama
“A person can change their life simply by changing their point of view.” William James
“Through the eyes of others, I am part of the world. But when I look at the world from my own point of view, I am outside it.” Ergo Proxy
“Our beliefs and ideas are often traps that limit our possibilities. The only knowledge capable of advancing us on the path of development is the knowledge that imagination is capable of anything, and everything possible in our imagination is also possible in reality.” Albert Einstein
Today I attended a Christmas concert of spiritual chants.
Quite unexpectedly, I won a book.
I opened it to Page 155
, thanks to which this Gift came to me, and...
The quote turned out to be just right for the Place. The Time. The Circumstances.
Bravo, Maestro Sri Chinmoy!
"By expressing dissatisfaction with anything or criticizing anyone—for example, the government, government officials, football players, the weather, colleagues, neighbors, loved ones, not to mention children—you project an unattractive image into the mirror of the world and receive a corresponding reality in its reflection." Vadim Zeland
Keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
Trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
“Return is something that exists in our thoughts. If you do not think about it, it does not exist.” Mark Twain
“Thinking about the need to change yourself is a condemnation of yourself.” Osho