Puprpose of life is to be happy

Whether we are rich or poor, educated or uneducated, whatever our nationality, color, social status, or ideology may be, the purpose of our lives is to be happy.

~Tenzin Gyatso

Everything springs only from yourself

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. Pride leads to violence and evil. The truly good gaze upon everything with love and understanding.

~Tenzin Gyatso

Awareness

Once you are living your life in awareness, it will be as though you stand high above others, witnessing their suffering, while you do not suffer at all. - B

Running

"I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out of the door, I know why I'm going where I'm going and I'm already focused on that special place where I find my peace and solitude. Running, to me, is more than just a physical exercise...."

Sasha Azevedo

Devote yourselves to prayer

Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving. 

Colossians 4:2 

Lance Armstrong

"I take nothing for granted. I now only have good days or great days."

- Lance Armstrong, who nearly died from testicular cancer

The Eternal

"Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.

- B"

Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role!

 

- Why Lazurus Laughed by Wei Wu Wei...

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.  

 
~B

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.  

 
~B

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.  

 
~B

"All conditioned things are impermanent" - When one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering. This is the path to purification. 

 

B

Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

 

John 14:13

The secret of health...

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and honestly.

b

One word better than a thousand

Better than a thousand words is one word that brings peace.

b

Heal the sick

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

 Matt.10:8

Parkinson's Law: "work expands to fill the time available."

"work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."

The Economist, 1955

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson

Make straight your thought

As an archer makes his arrow straight, so a wise man makes straight his trembling and unsteady thought, which is difficult to guard and difficult to hold back.  B
 

Be Humble. Be Still.

It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are.

 

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Ideal lifestyle includes just enough work for enjoyment

The ideal lifestyle includes work, just not more than one wants to do and not from necessity but from enjoyment.

 

Steven Evanson, Carmel, California

The I-concept

All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.

 

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Be happy while you are living...

Be happy while you are living for you are dead a long time.

 

Be a lamp unto yourself

All conditioned things are impermanent

Be a lamp unto yourself.

Foster virtuous states of mind

The sixth step of the Eightfold Path is Right Effort: abstain from evil states of mind and foster and maintain virtuous states of mind: compassion, pity, sympathy, calmness and tranquility.

Living in paradise on the Outer Banks, still making a trip to the beach

``There is a price to pay for living in paradise, and this is it,'' Kevin Conner said, pointing into the wind at the incoming storm Gabrielle. ``But it shouldn't be bad. We plan on going about our day as usual.''

That's what Kevin Conner, 40, did Sunday, lifting electronics and other valuables off the floor of his Hatteras home, which suffered tens of thousands dollars in flood damage when Hurricane Alex washed ashore in 2004. But afterward, as the storm approached, he still made a trip to the nearby beach.

Tips & pointers for building a spiritual life from scratch

Daily Necessities



Pray

Meditate

Be aware

Stay awake

Bow

Practise yoga

Feel and sing

Breathe and smile

Relax

Enjoy

Laugh

Play

Create

Envision

Let Go

Forgive

Accept

Walk

Exercise

Move

Work

Serve

Contribute

Listen

Learn

Enquire

Consider

Reflect

Cultivate oneself

Enhance competencies

Cultivate contentment

Cultivate flexibility

Cultivate friendship and collaboration

Lighten up

Celebrate and appreciate

Dream

Give thanks

Evolve

Love

Share

Give

Receive

Walk softly

Live gently

Expand

Radiate

Dissolve

Simplify

Surrender

Trust



Be born anewfrom Awakening The Lord Within by Lama Surya Das

Every day is lucky day for an industrious man

Fools wait for a lucky day
but every day is a luck day
for an industrious man.

To the welfare of all

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it.
Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.
But whatever, after due examination and analysis,
you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -
that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

b

Einstein: Jew accepting Jesus: Most beautiful emotion is the mysterious

Q: Do you believe in God?

A: I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene...

Q: Do you accept Jesus?

A: Unquestionably! No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.

Q: Do you believe in God?

A: I am not an atheist...The problem involved is too vast for limited minds. We are like a child entering a huge library filled with books of many languages. The child knows someone must have written the books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but does not know what it is...We too see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws.

Q: What do you mean you are religious?

A: The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious...the cradle of art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand in rapt awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp...this is religiousness...in this sense I am a devoutly religious man...
What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the universe.

Time April 16, 2007

Take your role seriously

Take your job and your role in life seriously.
Do not take yourself seriously.

Jim Patterson

Be Grateful

All happy people are grateful.
Ungrateful people cannot be happy.
Complaining leads people to becoming unhappy.

Emily Diaz

Living in the past or the future.

When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.
When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future.

Emily Diaz

Be kinder than necessary

"Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle."

“To the world, you might be one person, but, to one person, you might be the world!”

“Live well, Love Much, Laugh OFTEN”…


Tammy Phillips

Theories of the Eternal

Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world. b and Einstein

Jeremiah

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for wholeness and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me. When you seek me with all your heart, I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes...

Jeremiah

Einstein: The Mystical

The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the

sensation of the mystical. It is the power of all true science.

Albert Einstein

On your way alone...

But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest.

B

Confrontation

A true friend is one who cares more for your character than for your comfort.

Chuck Swindoll

Power of Science: The Mystical

The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the

sensation of the mystical. It is the power of all true science.

––Albert Einstein

Learning to Ignore

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Robert Sawyer, Calculating God

Always at peace

Who ranks as the highest? One who does not harm anything. One who never retaliates. One who is always at peace regardless of the other person's disposition.

B

First Tame your own mind.

Since you cannot tame the minds of others until you have tamed your own, begin by taming your own mind.

Be Happiness itself

Live your life in happiness, even though those around you lead lives which are unhealthy, and wish to spread their illness to you. Be Happiness itself. - B

Let food be your medicine

“Let food be your medicine”

-- Hippocrates, father of medicine

Dr. Linus Pauling (1901 – 1994), brilliant scientist and winner of two Nobel Prizes stated:

“You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.”



In 1936, Rex Beach presented document #264 to the US Senate, which discussed Dr. Charles Northen’s research on the prevalent mineral depletion of America ’s soil. At that time, North America’s soils were estimated to be hugely lacking in mineral content and 99% of Americans were considered mineral deficient.


Dr. Northen concluded, “Healthy plants mean healthy people. We can’t raise a strong race on a weak soil.”


Studies today confirm Dr. Northen’s conclusion that the mineral content of soil does in fact affect the mineral content of the food grown in it.


Unfortunately, 68 years later, little has been done to better the mineral content of North America ’s soil. The 1992 Earth Summit soil mineral depletion report showed soil depletion in North America to be at 85 percent, the highest in the world.


Really, one might ask “just how important are minerals to maintain health in the human body?” The answer: absolutely critical.

The short term solution is:

1) to ingest organic mineral and trace mineral supplements with amino acids, and

2) vote with your dollars (choose food wisely).

Live in the Present wisely and earnestly

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."

J Yetz B

Pure mind

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

B

Fathers' Advice

It is easier to stay out of trouble than to get out of trouble.

Make a decision or someone will make it for you.

You may be burning the candle at both ends, but you have a lot of wax.

Never be afraid to be silly. It breaks the ice.

Be alert, we need more lerts around here.

Stand up for what you believe, until you are proven wrong.

Never lend money to anyone, just give it instead.

Marriage is like a garden, you have to pull the weeds everyday.

You have the play the hand you are dealt.

Keep your mind on God and God only

Turn your mind away from things which are not permanent. B

If you do not know how old you are...

If you do not know how old you are, then how old are you?

Sanja Gupta

Always

Always Stand or Sit Tall.

Always Hold your Head High.

Always Look Up.

The Eagle that soars high is imperishable. Only when the eagle becomes entangled with the world does the eagle become subject to stress of the world.

Conquer the Mind

Conguer the Mind.

Einstein: I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous Jesus the Nazerene.

"Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.
...
I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazerene."

Albert Einstein, age 50, as recorded in Time magazine, April 16, 2007

Is it possible for the mind to be totally free?

Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering, the anxiety, the extraordinary sense of insoluble problems. ..

And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become indifferent, callous, irresponsible, but to have that passion, the intensity, the energy that freedom brings, freedom from suffering.

~J. Krishnamurti

Sage Investment Advice

"Buy cheap and hold forever."

Warren Buffet, the smartest investor in our time

Most complex object in the known universe

The most complex object in the universe is a mere few inches in diameter, weighing a mere three pounds: the human brain. Yet nothing in the known universe compares to its endless abilities. We are truly blessed.

Joy: Be aware of and responsible for your emotions

It is important to recognize the power of our emotions--and to take responsibility for them by creating a light and positive atmosphere around ourselves. This attitude of joy that we create helps alleviate states of hopelessness, loneliness, and despair. Our relationships with others thus naturally improve, and little by little the whole of society becomes more positive and balanced.

Tarthang Tulku

It is the mind that can free us.

By means of prayer and meditation we can teach our minds to be calm and balanced; within this calmness is a richness and a potential, an inner knowledge which can render our lives boundlessly satisfying and meaningful. While the mind may be what traps us in unhealthy patterns of stress and imbalance, it is also the mind which can free us. Through meditation, we can tap the healing qualities of mind.

Tarthang Tulku

100 BILLION

=Number of neurons in the human brain.

=Number of neutrinos that come from the universe that passes through each and every square centimeter of our body each and every second.

=Number of stars in our Milky Way galaxy.

=Number of galaxies in our Universe.

Is there a unitive characteristic?

Let God do the rest

Do your best.

Let God do the rest.

-Starkey Road Church Marque

A Cheerful Heart Heals

"A cheerful heart does good like medicine, but a broken spirit makes one sick."

(Proverbs 17:22)

God has given you a great prescription for living a long, healthy, and happy life: Laugh, and laugh a lot! The "medicine" of laughter is within everyone, but you may need to start taking it. Recent studies have shown that laughter boosts the body's immune system, reduces stress, reduces the risk of heart attack, and even acts as a natural tranquilizer. Those are health benefits everyone needs. That's why it's tragic to go through life with a stone face. The enemy has convinced too many into thinking that they need to be somber and serious in order to be a Christian. But don't fall for that trick. God wants you to laugh and live well! Joel Osteen

Teach him to deny himself

Robert E. Lee, revered for his wisdom, humility, graciousness and compassion, during his later years, upon meeting a new mom and her baby son offered this advice:

"Teach him to deny himself."

-C. Swindoll

"The only way you can hurt your body is if you don't use it

"The only way you can hurt your body is if you don't use it."

-Jack La Lanne, on turning 90.

Take Control... Do not let the situation control you

Some people control the situation. Other people are controlled by the situation.

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Einstein brilliance

There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being.

Albert Einstein

"Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?"

"Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?" declares the LORD.

Jeremiah

God in All

If you cannot see God in all, you cannot see God at all.

Joy

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are…

Be thankful for what you don't get

If you don ' t get everything you want, think of the things you don ' t get that you don ' t want.

A Candle loses nothing if it is used to light another one.

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

When people talk about you...

"If no one is talking about you, you can't amount to much."

William C. Cranwell

"If no one is talking about you, you must not be doing anything good."

Ruby Harlow (Carol Koss' mom)

Do Not Worry About Anything

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Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
5
Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.
6
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
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And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things.

Paul, Phillipians

Pain isn't necessarily gain.

I've been running regularly since age 20, almost 40 years, and have never had a problem or injuries. I recommend jogging pleasurably, not running against time or competing with others informally or in marathons, and changing shoes every 4-6 months as the bounce begins to wear out. Make it fun and I think your body will take care of the rest. Pain is not necessarily gain.

Steven Evanson
Carmel, California

Worry about nothing

Worry about nothing. Pray about everything.

Paul

We did not get here by ourselves.

If you see a turtle on a fence post, you know he did not get there by himself.

Walk with the Wise

He who walks with the wise grows wise...

Proverbs

When you are going through hell, keep going.

When you are going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

The world is your teacher

When you grow up on a farm, the world is your playground and nature is your teacher.

Virginia Snead, High School essay

Give your best

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."

--Steve Prefontaine

Our companion

"When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves." - Eda LeShan (1922~) American Writer

Wherever you are,

Be all there.

-C. Swindoll

Four Foundations for Godliness

Simplicity

Silence

Solitude

Surrender

-C. Swindoll

Just takes one seed...

One seed of corn can multiply enough in just eight years to feed all of the Earth's inhabitants for one year.

Pastor Chip Roberson

Before you let one word leave your lips...

Before we say anything, the words should pass through three gates:

TRUE

NECESSARY

KIND.

Now few of us will remember this wisdom every time we begin to talk, but if we can just not say one thing that causes pain one time, the world is a better place.

We are greater than any problem

"The question is not, Do you have a problem? The question is, Does the problem have you?"

Joel Osteen, March 30,2006, New York Times.

Never Get Emotional

The First Rule of Business:

NEVER GET EMOTIONAL

Panasonic For Life

Power of Prayer

There is no greater power in the Universe than the power of prayer.

Ferrari Mind

Far more important to have a Ferrari mind in a Model T body than a Model T mind in a Ferrari body.

We spend far too much time building our body and too little time perfecting our mind.

Easwaran

Environmental Pressure

"A child is better off in a good neighborhood and a troubled family than he or she is in a troubled neighborhood and a good family."

The Tipping Point

Power of Positive Thinking

One of the most successful and persuasive money managers, Tom Gau, in answer to whether he was happy, bounced off his chair and said:

"Very. I'm probably the most optimistic person you could ever imagine. You take the most optimistic person you know and take it the hundredth power, that's me. Because you know the power of positive thinking will overcome so many things..."

The Tipping Point

As we sit still on this rock called earth...

As we sit still on this rock called earth, we are in constant movement and never ever even think about it. While we think we are still, we are actually moving:

1,000 MPH around the earth's axix,

which is moving 66,000 MPH around the sun,

which is moving 558,000 MPH around its Milky Way galaxy,

which is moving 666,000 MPH around its local group of galaxies,

which are moving...

Make Yourself So Happy

Make yourself so happy that when others look at you they become happy too.

Winston Churchill's Wisdom

Winston Churchill had a great response for hate-mailers back in his pre-Internet era. He'd send the correspondent a letter containing only a single line, which stopped them in their tracks every time: 'Dear Madam: You may very well be right.'

Focus

"I just focus on what is happening between the white lines," Seattle Seahawks quarterback at 2006 playoff game, in response to a question about whether he thought the team would win the conference title.

Time rolls by

Life is like a roll of toilet paper.

The closer you get to the end, the faster it rolls by.


C. Walker

God is Peace

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. "

Galatians 5:22-23 (New International Version)

Two different people from two different states from two different walks of life gave this truism to me within two weeks.

Peace

When despair for the world grows in
me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's life may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

--a brilliant philosopher and friend.

Speak no evil

Dale Carnegie, quoting Benjamin Franklin:

"I will speak ill of no man and seek the good of all men."

Any idiot can criticize, condemn and throw a tantrum. The wise let not one negative thought enter their mind or lips.

Warren Buffet

There are two rules for investing:

Rule Number 1: Never lose money.
Rule Number 2: Never forget Rule Number 1.

On diversification:

"A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business."

Diversification is a protection against ignorance. [It] makes very little sense for those who know what they are doing."

Giving

If you continually give, you will continually receive. Chinese Fortune Cookie 2005.

Zig Ziglar

You can have everything in life that you want if
you will just help enough other people get what they want.