• While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, and every deed. (Mattie Stepanek)
• A poor man celebrates the New Year once a year. A rich man celebrates each day. But the richest man celebrates every moment. ( Sri Sri Ravi Shankar)

I have learned that no experience and no material loss are important to anyone as long as he remains in contact with Infinite Intelligence and keeps sufficient faith in himself to be guided by this Divine source of power. ( Napolean Hill)

• Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
• To do something which is beyond your capability and the results surprises you is called Miracle. A feel good factor follows after that....
• By letting it go, it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you cling, the world is beyond winning. (Lao-Tzu)

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as idea.
(Gautam Buddha)

• Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. ( Gautam Buddha)
• Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you leave your work and sit at the gate of a temple and take alms of those who work with joy. ( Kahlil Gibran)
• Life is a reward, and it is given only to those who have earned it, who deserve it. It will be against existence if you don't beautify it, if you leave it just as you have found it. So leave it a little happier, a little more beautiful, a little more fragrant.

When we obsess about our problems and the things we lack, that is  what will manifest in our reality. By imagining the possibilities-our positive intentions-clearly, then letting them go and having faith in the benevolence of the Universe, we remove the barriers of our limited thoughts and open the path for wonderful things to come our way.

When a plan comes through to your conscious mind while you are open to the guidance of Infinite Intelligence, accept it with appreciation and gratitude and act on it at once. Do not hesitate, do not argue, challenge, worry, fret about it, or wonder if it's right. Act on it !
( Napoleon Hill)

There are things that are brought into our lives to lead us back to the true path of our personal legend. Other things arise so we can apply all that we have learned. And ,finally, some things come along to teach us.

At this moment, many people have stopped living. They do not become angry, nor cry out; they merely wait for time to pass. They did not accept the challenges of life, so life no longer challenges them. You are running that same risk; react, face life, but do not stop living.....(Paulo Coelho)

Prison-house to Playground

It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer. Do you want to live life as puppet, or become master of the universe? Discover your own power. The universe will then transform from a prison-house to a playground. You will enjoy every moment of your life and gain access to the transcendental as well. As you think so shall you be. Most people change their lifestyles, clothing and food. Some might relocate to an ashram or go away to Himalayas-but pay scant regard to their thoughts which are still focussed on the world. The only thing you need to change is your thoughts. Nothing else. Elevate your thoughts to the spirit and the world will be at your feet. The fringe benefit of spiritual life is material success.
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways.
(Source: The Speaking Tree from TOI)

Summary of " When Bad Things Happen to Good People"

The author is a rabbi of Jews ( Clergyman) in the USA. When he was young, he had a son who was bright and happy child. The family was a very happy one but suddenly the child was detected for a very strange disease. His hair started falling out after he turned one-year-old and stopped growing. Doctors called this phenomenon 'Progeria'. They told the author that th child would never grow beyond three feet of height, would have no hair on his head or body, would look like a little old man while he was still a child and would die in his early teens.

How does one handle news like that ? Like any other common man, the author felt deeply shocked and questioned God's fairness. He was a good man doing all that a good person is supposed to do. The question ' Why did it happen to him only ?' came to his mind again and again. He started searching for answers to it and the book is result of that search. The boy, of course, died at the age of fourteen as predicted but the thinking of the author reduced the agony of the reality to a great extent and changed his life altogether in the time to come.

The general attitude is the assumption that we get what we deserve and we always try to find reasons for justifying whatever happens to us. At times we also try to establish that the tragedy has happened for our good. While there is no harm in taking this line of thought, the problem with this reasoning is that it does not really help the sufferer or explain his suffering. It is primarily, to defend God, to use words and ideas to transform bad into good and pain into privilege. In a way, we also try to establish that God is the cause of our suffering and also make ourselves feel guilty in addition to the burden of tragedy. 

The author has taken altogether different view of the situation. He cannot imagine of a God who can be cruel at any time. He has tried to establish that life consists of good and bad things. And happening of bad things is as much a matter of chance, as those of good things in anybody's life. God does not want bad things to happen but perhaps it is not in his hands. He also does not want bad things to happen as much as we want. Some are caused by bad luck, some are caused by bad people and some are inevitable consequence of our being human and being mortal, living in a world of inflexible natural laws. 

The painful things that happen to us are not punishment for our misbehaviour, nor are they in any way part of some grand design on God's part. Because the tragedy is not God's will, we need not feel hurt or betrayed by God when tragedy strikes. Instead, we can turn to Him for help in overcoming it because God is as outraged by the tragedy as we are. 
And this is how bad things have a meaning in the lives of good people. It turns them to God all the more. The question we should be asking is NOT " why did this happen to me ?" or "what did I do to deserve this ? ". That is really an unanswerable, pointless question. A better question would be ' Now that this has happened to me, what am I going to do about it ? ".

And this where God comes to our help in the form of a good friend, a good relative, a good idea or courage. God inspires some people to help others who have been hurt by life. In the end, the author concludes that his own tragedy had a great meaning. He believes that his son served God's purpose not by being sick or strange looking, but by facing up so bravely to his illness and to the problems caused by his appearance. His friends and schoolmates were affected by his courage and by the way he managed to live a full life despite limitations.
(Source :- Extracts taken from Rakesh K Mittal's Never say no to Life)

There was this interview of a writer, an Indian by birth, presently staying in U.K. He was 35 yrs of age and for 35 years he had never stood on his feet, because he never could. Nor had he ever mad use of his hands because he never could use them either. He was born with a disesase which had made his bones so weak that he had to spend all his life on a wheel chair. God had just kept one thing working for him and that was his brain, and he made use of just that one asset and wrote a book, which became a best seller. But despite of his obvious handicap his book displayed a remarkably positive outlook towards life. The interviewer was most amazed by this fact and asked him ,how did he manage to have such a positive outlook towards life.



The man replied, I have no grievance against god, because atleast he gave me a chance to live. There are millions who do not get even this chance . With each passing day my knowledge grows. My intellect grows and with it grows my determination to fight with life.


He with all his difficulties could still make life meaningful because he had lived every moment of it. Life in any form has to be meaningful. It is only we, who fail to realise its importance.

The creatures that inhabit this earth- be they human beings or animals- are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world.

Quotes By Marilyn Monroe

Quote 1. "I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."


Quote 2. "Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him." :) :)

Slow down

One of Gandhi's most illuminating observations reminds us that "there is more to life than increasing its speed". This is great advice for simplyfying your life- infact, slow everything way down for a few moments right here and now. Slowly read these words. Slow your breathing down so that you are aware of each inhalation and exhalation...When you are in car, downshift and relax. Slow down your speech, your inner thoughts, and the frantic pace of everything you do. Take more time to hear others. Notice your inclination to interrupt and then choose to listen instead. Sit down in a mall and just observe how everyone seems in a hurry to get nowhere.
By slowing down, you'll simplify and rejoin the perfect pace at which creation works.

(Source:- Extracts from the Book -Inspiration -by Dr Wayne Dyer)

Nothing happens before its time, so just wait and relax. Your tension won't help it happen before it's time. Rather, it will harm you. So do relax and pray.

Wisdom from "Old Man"

The Old man continued :
"My greatest regret is not listening to myself. I knew I could do great things in my life. I was a very good writer when I was younger; I had even won some literary prizes during my university days. But my mother wanted me to be an accountant. She said that if I didn't listen to her; it would be the mistake of lifetime. Actually, the mistake of my lifetime was not being true to myself and doing what I felt was meant to do. So now- and you should know that the doctors in here tell me that I probably only have a few weeks left- I am so sad at the choice I made. I feel I've wasted my whole life. Eighty-seven years have gone by in a flash. It feels like it was just yesterday that I got married to my bride, Margaret. It feels like just yesterday that I watched my children being born. Now Margaret's dead and my children have gone off to lead lives of their own. Your life will whiz by quicker than you could ever imagine. The days will slip into weeks, the weeks into months and the months into years. You look pretty young now, but watch out- you'll look like me before you know it. Life's like that. So live the life that you are meant to live. Your life is far too important to wait until you are just about to die to wake up. I lived my mother's life when I should have had the wisdom to live my own. I spent my life trying to please others. But where are they now ? On your deathbed, the only person you'll have to answer to is the person you look at in the mirror every morning. You'd better be true to him. I committed the crime of self betrayal. That's what's really going to kill me. Not the cancer ".


(Source :- Extracts taken from one of the Robin Sharma's best-seller novel)

(Source : Uri-geller.com)

Negative thoughts are invlountary; but it requires effort to implant positive voluntary thoughts ....

The best motivating factor of all, however, is divine intervention, or what I like to call The Magic of Grace.


( By :- Cheryl Richardson)

Prayer Heals, when it's close & personal

Prayer heals when it's close-up and personal, and there's a study to prove it. It's not just any kind of prayer, but "proximal intercessory prayer", or PIP-when one or more people pray for someone in that person's presence and often with physical contact-that was found by a team of doctors, scientists and religious experts to have remarkable results in healing some patients.A team of medical doctors and scientist led by Indiana University professor of religion Candy Gunther Brown found in the study, conducted in rural Mozambique, that prayer brought highly significant improvements to hearing-impaired participants and significant changes to the visually impaired. Fourteen hard-of-hearing and 11 visually impaired study participants were recruited at meetings of Pentecostal Christian groups in Mozambican villages and towns. They were tested with a handheld audiometer or vision charts, depending on their impairment, before and after they took part in a prayer session.
There was a highly significant imrovement in hearing across 18 ears of 11 subjects and significant visual improvements, says the study which will be published next month in the peer-reviewed Southern Medical Journal. Two of the hard-o-hearing study participants were able to hear sounds 50 decibels lower after the prayer session and three of the visually impaired subjects saw their vision improve from 20/400 or worse to 20/80 or better. The study focussed on the clinincal effects of prayer and did not attempt to explain how or why some participants saw such remarkable improvements. This study shows that in some instances there are measurable effects, that can be demonstrated using clinical studies, said Brown.
(Source : Times of India)

The more we learn to operate in the world based on trust in our intuition, the stronger our channel will be and the more money we will have.

a) The person, who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.
b) There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disaster ? Over that I have complete control.
c) Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act.
d) Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.


( By:- Leo Buscaglia)

a) We are all too preoccupied with things that have no real significance in Life. Conscious endeavour cannot lead a seeker to his spiritual destination. Nor is the lifestyle of a monk assurance of achieving the state of perpetual bliss. The moment mind becomes free of wish, desire or wistfulness, divine consciousness descends.


b) When you feel depressed, you are creating particles of depression around you. Those ions of depressions around you go and stick to the environment. If someone walks into that place, even after you have left, that person for no reason would start feeling depressed. Our body has the capacity to sustain the vibrations of bliss and peace much longer than it does negative emotions.


(Times of India)

a) The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
b) Not failure, but low aim is a crime.
c) God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.


(By : Ernest Holmes)

What is Right Thought ? ;A thought in which there is no suffering.
And what constitutes suffering in our thought ? --> Confusion, distraction, anger & hate.

When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better then you could it by conscious effort or "will power".


(By :- Maxwell Maltz)

That which you Resist stays.
(By:- David Hawkins)

Love is granting another the space to be the way they are and the way they aren't so they can change if they want to and they don't have to.


( By:-Werner Erhard)

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracles of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
( By Paulo Coelho)

Time is the only wealth we are given. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating. When you play it too safe, you are taking the biggest risk of your life.
( By:- Barbara Sher)

a) If you don't release those who hurt you, you will begin to resemble them.......


b) If you are alive, there is a purpose for your life......


(By Rick Warren)

a) Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others.....
b) We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.......


(By David Hawkins)

By Confucius

Choose a Job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Be Yourself

a) If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.


b) Sometimes when you TRY to get people to see the real you, you stop being the real you.

Exalting the power of spirit within

Give your talents to the world. God gave you evrything. You must express your hidden talents and find your true place in life.

The very best thing to do......

An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing. The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.

Thought of the day :

If you are down on yourself, full of regrets and remorse , you inhibit the flow of good toward you . You punish yourself through your negative and destructive thinking.

Intuitive Impulse

The first intuitive impulse that comes to you is usually the right answer. That impulse comes from your subconscious mind. The answer come out of the depths of Infinite mind. You don't argue with it or talk to your relatives about it. If you do, you will have 20 thoughts in your mind.

Dreams.......

Dreams comes to tell us something about our lives that are missing.
Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you are being right now.

Sex, Gift From God

Freedom from sex is not repression of sex; it is the understanding of sex. By understanding, one goes beyond it. But that does not mean that you will be angry, against it and antagonistic. You will be blissful. You will bless everybody with the hope that someday, they will go beyond it.
Sex is not a sin. Nobody is ever punished or sent to hell for sex. God has given it to you, you are born with it; you have not created it- like the atom bomb, bayonet, money or politics etc- these are inventions of the ugly human mind. But sex  is a God-given gift . Sex is the very source of creativity.
( Source : The Times Of India)

Why be so Serious

No one takes you seriously when you take yourself too seriously. So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they are busy doing things they  think are important. This is because they are chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to create something that gives you purpose and meaning.

Grow from Within

The essential spring of all growth is within you. All that you can get from out is some food -material or spiritual-with which to build your organism, and some stimulus to spur you to activity. What is really essential in your development, you must do for yourself.
(Alfred North Whitehead)

Quality Matters

It is really not the number of things you do, but the efficiency of each separate action that counts. The cause of failure is doing too many things in an inefficient manner and not doing enough things in an efficient manner.

Connecting with Source

The Inner Presence is truly the money-maker. Your thinking is the true source and not the reasoning mind. Your only source is the God Presence within you. If your mind is on the source, the cause, the supply flows freely. If your mind is on the effect, you block the flow. The more impersonal you become regarding where your money seems to originate ( job, salary, commisions, investments, spouse etc..) the more personal you can become in your relationship with the true source of your money, and the closer the relationship to your God-self, the greater the abundance in your life.
(By :- John Randolph Price)

Make a Difference

The truth of the matter is that when we begin to feel better, our world will look better. It boils down to the importance of living fully while we have the chance to do so. Living full out. Enjoying every moment, even the less than ideal ones. Your intellect and your heart tell you that the meaning of life is to serve the force that sent you into the world, to make a difference while you walk the planet, to love your family and to reclaim your biggest self. If you can concentrate only on the present, you will be a happy man. Once you connect with some kind of higher purpose and main aim in your life, there will be a corresponding release of passion and energy into your life.

Stressss........is it really matter ?

• Don't stress the small stuff-- and it's all small stuff.
• A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Never get disappointed

Never allow yourself to feel disappointed. You may expect to have a certain thing at a certain time and not get it at that time. This will seem to be a failure. But, if you hold to your faith, you will find that the failure is only apparent.

Fear

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Bored with Life

Are you bored with Life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
(Source: Dale Carnegie)

Do Hardwork to mould your thoughts

It is a tragedy that every individual of the world from the age of 5 to 65, constantly struggles for a bright future, but even while leaving the world , most of them remain unsatisfied and unsuccessful. Majority of humanbeings fail in achieving their goal, and only few succeed. But the other tragedy is that those few who succeed, never disclose the secret of their success. 
It has nothing to do with plain hardwork. Hardwork with positive and required state of mind only bring riches. Plain hardwork does not bring riches. 95% of the world population works hard. In reality without hardwork they cannot even earn their bread and butter. But they are not successful. Only 5% people in the society are considered successful .
Hence first do hard work to mould your thoughts and thinking babits, then concentrate on the physical side of hard effort.
 ( Source: Law of Success by Q.S.Khan)

Listen to your inner conscience

Do your best and do it according to your own inner standard- call it conscience, and  not just according to society's knowledge and judgement of your deeds.

Work

You use work as a source of happiness and not as a compulsion.

Suffering

Suffering increases your inner strength. Also, wishing for suffering makes the suffering disappear. Use this simple logic before you wish anything.