ANGEL

How can we serve those around us?

By making our lives inspirational
and interacting with tact and wisdom.
Even if there isn't the chance
for actual conversation,
we can learn to take in
each other's presence
in a positive way,
homing in on their goodness and
making their specialities our own.
This creates an atmosphere
of love and regard,
which makes it easy then
to share spiritual experiences.
We should be so cheerful,
and our lives such examples,
that they say,
"Here is an angel."

(By: Dadi Janki, Companion of God)

Irish Blessing

May you have warm words on a cold evening, 

a full moon on a dark night and a smooth road all the way to your door.



- Irish Blessing -

REFUSE THEM

Has someone offended you?

Has someone insulted you?

Remember, insults and unjust criticism
are like bad coins.
You cannot avoid getting them,
but you can always refuse
to accept them.

(By : J P Vaswani, 108 Thoughts on Success)

THE EDGE

When you come to the edge

of all the light you know,
and are about to step off into
the darkness of the unknown,
faith is knowing
one of two things will happen :
There will be something solid to stand on
or you will be taught how to fly.

(By : Barbara J Winter)

Graces

The best portion of a good man's life -
his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.



- William Wordsworth (1770-1850), England

ANYBODY CAN SERVE

Everybody can be great...

because anybody can serve.
You don't have to have
a college degree to serve.
You don't have to make your subject
and verb agree to serve.
You only need a heart full of grace.
A soul generated by love.

(By : Martin Luther King Jr)

WORLD PEACE

If there is light in the soul,

There will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person,
There will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house,
There will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation,
There will be peace in the world.

(Chinese Proverb)

Love Is A Force

Love is a force more formidable than any other. 

It is invisible, it cannot be seen or measured, 

yet is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, 

and offer you more joy than any material possession ever could.

- Author Unknown -

PERFECT LIFE

If I could wish for my

life to be perfect, it would be
tempting but I would
have to decline, for life
would no longer teach
me anything.

(From : A Hallmark Shoebox Greeting Card)

ARMS OF LOVE

Someone asked me : -

"What makes your life beautiful?"
I said :-
"I have a friend."

Yes, - He protects me.
He guards me in illness.
He blesses me every day.

And He stretches forth
His Arms of Love
to enfold me in silence
and darkness of the night.

He is your Friend, too.
Indeed, He is the Friend of friends.

And may your faith in Him
shine and shine
and make your crowded life truly divine!

(By : Sadhu Viswani, Thus Spake Dadaji, pg 32)

WHATEVER JOY

Whatever joy there is in this world

All comes from desiring others to be happy,
And whatever suffering there is in this world
All comes from desiring myself to be happy.

(By : Shantideva, A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, pg 110)

Awareness

With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), USA

HAPPINESS

If you want happiness...

For an hour - take a nap
For a day - go fishing
For a month - get married
For a year - inherit a fortune
For a lifetime - help someone else.

(Chinese Proverb)

When You Think

When you think everything is someone else’s fault, you will suffer a lot. 

When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, 

you will learn both peace and joy.” 



– the Dalai Lama -

UNIVERSAL FORCE

Friendship is a great universal force.

When your desire for friendship
is strong enough,
though an unknown person
who is spiritually attuned to you
be living at the South Pole,
the magnetism of friendship
will nevertheless draw you together.
Only selfishness can destroy
this magnetism within us.
He who thinks of himself
all the time wrecks friendship.
Such persons cannot attract friends,
because they are unable to expand
and receive the good in life.

(By : Paramahansa Yogananda, Man's Eternal Quest, pg 158)

NOBODY LOVES ME

Very often we hear some people

complaining that "nobody loves me".
The world is full of love.
But generally our hearts are not open
for the love to gush into us.
And the door of your heart
ever remains closed.
Nobody other than you
can ever throw it open,
for the door of your heart
cannot be locked from outside;
and it can be opened only from within.
You alone are in your heart.
You unconsciously got locked in
and you cry out to others
to open up and release you.
Nobody can.
Stop crying.
Find the handle and turn.
Lo! It has opened,
and you get immediately
a blast of life-giving,
reviving breeze of fragrant cool love
from all around.
Open up and receive all love.

(By : Swami Chinmayananda, His Messages

Haste

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

- Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855), Denmark -

The Inner Self

He is the inner self of all,
Hidden like a little flame in the heart.
Only by the stilled mind can he be known. 
Those who realize him become immortal.

- From the Upanishads (600-100BCE), India

Kindness

Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.

- Lao Tzu (c.604-c.531BC), from the Tao Te Ching, China

Look for God

Look back and thank GOD

Look forward and trust GOD

Look around and believe in GOD

Look within yourself and find GOD

- Author Unknown -