Happiness

You will never know true happiness
until you have truly loved,
and you will never understand
what pain really is
until you have lost it.

Be willing to change

Willingness is essential. It’s your life; nobody can change it but you. If you aren’t willing to change, then nothing in this world can make you do so.

To build the willingness to change, first you should realize that your life can be better than it is now. No matter how good your life is, it can always be improved. On the other hand, don’t feel hopeless if your life doesn’t seem good right now. You can always change your life for the better.

Source: http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2009/02/17/tips-to-change-your-life/

Spiritual Meditation

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

Miyoshi Umeki - A Hundred Million Miracles

Attitude

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

- Earl Nightingale

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

- Golda Meir

Friends

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are
and then wait for the answer.

Taking Chances - Celine Dion

Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Positive Possibilities

You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.

~Ralph Marston

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May the stars carry your sadness away, May the flowers fill your heart with beauty, May hope forever wipe away your tears. And, above all, may silence make you strong.

- Chief Dan George

A Tribute to Farrah Fawcett

When those we love have left this earth, we still can feel them near. We’ll see a picture, hear a song, and it’s just like they are here. And when we call upon our faith, when we believe and trust, we know the ones we care about are always close to us.

- Constance Parker Graham

I Believe Everything Happens for a Reason

I believe everything happens for a reason. People change so you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you can appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so that you will eventually learn to trust no one but yourself and, sometimes, good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

Source: http://www.43things.com/entries/view/4109659

Martha Beck at Alternatives

Imagine

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as though it was your last day here. Extend to them all the warmth, kindness and understanding you can imagine, and do it with no thought of any reward. Can you imagine the change you will bring into your life?

- Kaoru

The Lullaby

Add Enjoyment to Your Life

When you talk about your troubles, your ailments, your diseases, your hurts, you give longer life to what makes you unhappy. Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire. Think and talk only about the good things that add to your enjoyment of your work and life. If you don't talk about your grievances, you'll be delighted to find them disappearing quickly.

- Thomas Dreier

Discover the Meaning of Life

We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways:

1. by doing a deed;
2. by experiencing a value and
3. by suffering.

Happiness Is...

Give the World the Best!

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind.
Think big anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack if you help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you might get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you've got anyway.

~Bishop Abel Muzorewa
African Spiritual Leader

A Distraction from What IS

Effort is a distraction from what IS. The moment I accept what IS there IS no struggle. Any form of struggle or strife is an indication of distraction; and
distraction, which is effort, must exist so long as psychologically I wish to
transform what IS into something it IS not.

It is only if you are aware of inward insufficiency and live with it without escape, accepting it wholly, that you will discover an extraordinary tranquillity, a
tranquillity which is not put together, made up, but a tranquillity which comes with
understanding of what IS.

- Krishnamurti

Three Seasons

The magic of life surrounds you, you need only to open your eyes and see what is happening all around you.

Solitude

This is a subject that is one of perception. Think if you will the last time you actually did not have any distractions from the radio or TV or the telephone and you just set still closed your eyes and let the world come to you. A great philosopher said “don’t do something, just sit and let the world come to you”. After all of these years I realize this person meant to let the world come to my inner self, or as Napoleon Hill puts it “your other self”. Your other self consist of those things and dreams that have been buried inside of you because of all the external input that we allow to come at us on a daily basis. The other self is the dreamer who has goals and a vivid imagination of how his or her future will be. The other self directs the subconscious by the words and physiology that we use to maximize our strengths and minimize our weaknesses. To know that the only limits we have are self imposed by us and our references. Be still and know that the inner voice will

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Thoughts really do become things.” Choose 'em wisely until we are gifted with another opportunity; make today and the rest of your life a power packed, love-filled passionate living masterpiece.

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

The Road Not Taken

Would things have really been so different
Would the world really have been so shaken
If when I were a much younger man
I had chosen the road not taken

Would the days have been any the brighter
Or the nights darker than they are
Would I still have lived in such obscurity
Or shined brighter than any star

It does little good to wonder
Of things that might have been
For who, and what I have become
I must live with in the end

Though life could have been much better
All in all I do not feel forsaken
I count the blessings that I have
And cry not of the road not taken

- William Kite

Things That Money Can't Buy

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's equally good to check once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

- George Claude Lorimer

Salutation of the Dawn

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

- Kalidasa

You're Not Alone

Each day offers us the gift of being a special
occasion if we can simply learn that as well as
giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and
a grateful heart.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life, is when men are afraid of the Light.

-Plato

Enlightenment - Eckhart Tolle -

www.eckharttolle.com

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

- William Barclay

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

- Carl Jung

"Please" (Original)

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure?

Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

- Alexander Woollcott

Dola Re Dola - Devdas

Mind Power - The Power of Thoughts

Visualize a perfect scene of whatever you want to accomplish.
Put a lot of detail, color, sound, scent and life into these mental scenes.
Repeat them often, with faith and attention, and the subconscious will accept them as real experiences. It does not differentiate between real and imaginary experiences, and accepts them both as real.

Actions, situations and objects that you visualize frequently eventually manifest on the material plane in a natural way. It is as if new software has been installed in the mind, and which affects the outer world. This manifestation does not happen overnight. It needs time, and depends on how ambitious and sincere you are, and how much time and attention you put into this action.

This process can be used for changing, improving or developing any kind of habit, ability or skill, and it is useful for gaining money, possessions and promotion, for building a business, improving health and relationships, changing circumstances and for practically almost everything.

Pay attention to the thoughts you think. Learn to let into your mind only the thoughts that bring good, happy and positive results.

- Remez Sasson

Victimhood is a position of powerlessness, while accountability is a position of power.

Jang Ri'in - Zhang Li Yin

Real Love

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to-letting a person be what he really is.

- Jim Morrison

Clarity

When every single breath becomes important,
when every single moment means something to you,
then there is no sorrow or regret.
There is just a human being that has been dusted off, and all that exists
is clarity.

- Maharaji

Sacred Spirit - Nahanna

You must participate in life before you can experience life's true blessings.

- Kaoru

You can use your life in a very useful and intelligent way. You can very well transform that negative energy into a positive energy that empowers you and makes life meaningful.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Infinite Possibilities

When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.

- Deepak Chopra

"Simple Promises" (Original)

Encourage

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

- Plato

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

Free Hugs London - From Chemistry

From the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

May I be a protector to those without protection
A leader for those who journey
And a boat, a bridge, a passage
For those desiring the further shore.
May the pain of every living creature
Be completely cleared away
May I be the doctor, the medicine
And may I be the nurse
For all the sick beings in the world
Until everyone is healed.
Just like space
And the great elements such as earth,
May I always support the life
Of all boundless creatures.
And until they pass away from pain
May I also be a source of life
For all the realms of varied beings
That reach unto the ends of space.

- Sogyal Rinpoche

Gamelan Gong Kebyar

Everyone born in this world has a unique role that only he or she can fulfill. Were this not the case, we would not be here. The universe never acts without cause; everything invariably has a reason for being. Even the weeds people love to loathe serve a purpose. I might add that every cherry blossom has its own personality, a purpose and meaning in life that is unique to it-as do the plum, peach and damson.

Source: http://www.ikedaquotes.org/life.html

We May Learn Wisdom

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.

- Confucius

Tibet its Beautiful Fairy Land

Flow

I have used the word ‘flow’ at many places without really elaborating its meaning. What is this flow? And what are these joys? I could call them moments of magic. I see an anology between these moments and the high that you experience when you play badminton or go jogging. Flow is a sensation we experience when we act with total involvement. During flow, action follows action according to an internal logic that seems to need no conscious intervention on the part of the worker. There is no hurry, there are no distracting demands on one’s attention. The past and the future disappear. So does the distinction between self and the activity.

- Abdul Kalam

Thought

What thought thinks about is made into a reality but it's not the truth. Beauty can never be the expression of thought. A bird is not made by thought and so it's beautiful. Love is not shaped by thought and when it is it becomes something quite different. The worship of the intellect and its integrity is a reality made by thought. But it is not compassion. Thought cannot manufacture compassion; it can make it into a reality, a necessity, but it will not be compassion. Thought by its very nature is fragmentary and so it lives in a fragmented world of division and conflict. So knowledge is fragmentary and however much it is piled up, layer after layer, it will still remain fragmented, broken up. Thought can put together a thing called integration and that too will be a fragment.


Krishnamurti's Journal
Malibu 38th Entry
3rd April 1975

The Door and Key are in your Hand

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

- Krisnamurti

New Indian Anthem - Inspirational

Life

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.

- John Lennon

Negative thoughts are not who you are. Your true nature is all good. So if by chance a negative thought comes, say to yourself, “These thoughts are not mine, and they do not belong with me. I am all good and I have only good thoughts for myself and everyone!