LIFE CHANGES, WHEN WE CHANGE

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them,
with illumination and forgiveness".

Your willingness to wrestle with your demons,
will cause your angels to sing.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.”
~ August Wilson ~

LIFE!

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
*~*~George Bernard Shaw*~*~

TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE

Never explain yourself to anyone.
Because the person who likes you doesn't
need it,
And the person who dislikes you won't believe it!

HUMAN POTENTIAL

Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, "I am of no value", is
wrong.
Absolutely wrong.
You are deceiving yourself.
We all have the
power of thought - so what are you lacking?
If you have willpower, then you can change anything.
It is usually said that you are your own master.”

*~* The Dalai Lama *~*

SELFISHNESS

If you can disentangle yourself from your selfish self,
All heavenly spirits will stand ready to serve you.
Mawlana Jalal-ud-din al Rumi.

FAITH

"Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark."
Rabindranth Tagore

LOVE

Do you have memory of the day we met,
When the halo of your spirit surrounded us,
And the Angels of Love
Floated about, singing the praise of the soul's deed?

And think not you can direct the course of love,
If it finds you worthy, it directs your course!

Khalil Gibran

In tribute to my friend! R.I.P. Ronnie Bhatia

I said I loved him.
And love comes in different shapes.
Sometimes it comes in wisdom; at other times in justice; and oftentimes in hope.

My love for him sustained my hope of seeing the light in him triumph over the darkness.
But I knew not when and where would his defilement turn into purity, his brutality into meekness, his recklessness into wisdom.

Man does not know in what manner the soul frees itself from the slavery of matter until after it is freed.
Neither does man know how the flowers smile save after the coming of the morn.

Khalil Gibran in Thoughts & Meditations - A Story of A Friend

~*~AT LEAST WE DID NOT DIE~*~

Check in with you perspective on things... "Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful." - Buddha

GIVING UP!

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all - Dale Carnegie

Argentinian Proverb

~*~ A man who develops himself is born twice ~*~

Anyone can give up

Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.

THANK YOU!

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart -

Change your thinking!

You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions. -  Adlin Sinclair

Sand and Stone

TWO FRIENDS WERE WALKING
THROUGH THE DESERT
DURING SOME POINT OF THE
JOURNEY, THEY HAD AN
ARGUMENT; AND ONE FRIEND
SLAPPED THE OTHER ONE
IN THE FACE.
THE ONE WHO GOT SLAPPED
WAS HURT, BUT WITHOUT
SAYING ANYTHING,
WROTE IN THE SAND...
TODAY MY BEST FRIEND
SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE.
THEY KEPT ON WALKING,
UNTIL THEY FOUND AN OASIS,
WHERE THEY DECIDED
TO TAKE A BATH
THE ONE WHO SLAPPED HIS FRIEND GOT STUCK IN THE
MIRE AND STARTED DROWNING,
BUT THE FRIEND SAVED HIM.
AFTER HE RECOVERED FROM
THE NEAR DROWNING,
HE WROTE ON A STONE:
'TODAY MY BEST FRIEND
SAVED MY LIFE'
THE FRIEND WHO HAD SLAPPED HIS BEST FRIEND
AND THEN BEEN SAVED BY HIS BEST FRIEND
ASKED HIM,
'AFTER I HURT YOU,
YOU WROTE IN THE SAND AND NOW,
YOU WRITE ON A STONE, WHY?'
THE FRIEND REPLIED
'WHEN SOMEONE HURTS US
WE SHOULD WRITE IT DOWN
IN SAND, WHERE WINDS OF
FORGIVENESS CAN ERASE IT AWAY.

BUT, WHEN SOMEONE DOES
SOMETHING GOOD FOR US,
WE MUST ENGRAVE IT IN STONE
WHERE NO WIND
CAN EVER ERASE IT'!!
LEARN TO WRITE
YOUR HURTS IN
THE SAND AND TO
CARVE YOUR
BENEFITS IN STONE.
THEY SAY IT TAKES A
MINUTE TO FIND A SPECIAL PERSON,
AN HOUR TO APPRECIATE THEM,
A DAY TO LOVE THEM,
BUT THEN
AN ENTIRE LIFE
TO FORGET THEM.

Quote for today

"In the end nothing we do or say in this lifetime
will matter as much
as the way we have loved one another."

Daphne Rose Kingma