Gift

Each day is a gift...........open it with gratitude.

Sex Love Prayer

Sex is animal. Love is human. And to go beyond love is divine. Then arises prayer. Sex, love prayer: these are the three stages of life. If you die without knowing prayer, you have lived in vain.

A little

There’s a little truth behind every [justkidding]
a little curiosity behind every [justwondering]
a little knowledge behind every [idontknow]
and a little emotion behind every [idontcare]

Give them...

Give them happiness, if happiness is what matters to them,
give them pleasure, if pleasure is what matters to them,
give them courage, if courage is what matters to them,
give them love, if love is what matters to them,
but never give them yourself, unless and until you matter to them.

Different paths in life

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere.

In your life ...

In your life you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some you wish you never had to think about again, but you do...

Life is everything.

Smile -- It makes a world of difference.
Dance -- Who knows when you wont be able to.
Cry -- Holding those emotions in is bad for you.
Kiss -- Kisses are the most wonderful things in the world.
Laugh -- Whats the point in hiding happiness?
Frown -- Why not let him know you're unhappy?
Apologize -- You dont wanna lose friends.
Hug -- Theres no better feeling being wrapped up close to someone you love.
Live -- because life is everything.

What’s done is done

What’s done is done, what's gone is gone. one of life's lessons is always moving on. getting over a first love, dealing with heartbreak, dealing with death and dealing with life. it's ok to look back and think of fond memories, but keep moving forward and you will live your life happily.

Best memories

The best memories
are the ones that
you try to explain
but in the end...
you just say...
you had to be there

True religion

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Albert Einstein

Every error is an opportunity to learn

Every error is an opportunity to learn. Commit as many new mistakes as you are capable of- don’t be afraid because that is the only way nature allows you to learn.

GOOD DAY EVERYONE!

1. TODAY I WILL NOT STRIKE BACK:If someone is rude, if someone is impatient, if someone is unkind…I will not respond in a like manner.

2. TODAY I WILL ASK GOD TO BLESS MY “ENEMY”:If I come across someone who treats me harshly or unfairly, I willquietly ask God to bless that individual. I understand the “enemy”could be a family member, neighbor, co-worker, or a stranger.

3. TODAY I WILL BE CAREFUL ABOUT WHAT I SAY:I will carefully choose and guard my words being certain that I donot spread gossip

4. TODAY I WILL GO THE EXTRA MILE:I will find ways to help share the burden of another person

5. TODAY I WILL FORGIVE:I will forgive any hurts or injuries that come my way.

6. TODAY I WILL DO SOMETHING NICE FOR SOMEONE,BUT I WILL NOT DO IT SECRETLY:I will reach out anonymously and bless the life of another.

7. TODAY I WILL TREAT OTHERS THE WAY I WISH TO BETREATED:I will practice the golden rule - “Do unto others as I would havethem do unto me” - with everyone I encounter.

8. TODAY I WILL RAISE THE SPIRITS OF SOMEONE IDISCOURAGED:My smile, my words, my expression of support, can make the difference to someone who is wrestling life

9. TODAY I WILL NUTURE MY BODY:I will eat less; I will eat only healthy foods. I will thank God for mybody.

10. TODAY I WILL GROW SPIRITUALLUY:I will spend a little more time in prayer today: I will begin readingsomething spiritual or inspirational today; I will find a quiet place(at some point during the day)!

God has something better for you

If God Answers Your Prayer,

He is increasing your FAITH.

If He Delays,

He is increasing you PATIENCE.

If He Doesnt Answer,

He has Something BETTER for You.

Happiness is in my hand

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Life is something more

Life is not mathematics, it is not logic, it is not science. It is something more, and that something more is the most valuable. The mystics have called that something more than the “ultimate truth”. They can be forgiven for calling it ultimate. But you have to understand the reason they are callling it ultimate is because there are people who are calling every truth relative-not only scientists, not only people who are working with matter. Mahavirs says that truth itself is ralative: he has no ultimate. Buddha has no ultimate truth. Again the difficulty is that Buddha and Mahavir can be misunderstood when they say that there is no ultimate truth but that every truth is ralative: it can be one thing in one situation, another thing in another situation, and because it is related to situations it cannot have any ultimacy. This gose against all the great mystics.

Appreciating Our Past

It is easy to be negative about past mistakes and unhappiness. But it is much more healing to look at ourselves and our past in the light of experience, acceptance, and growth.
Our past is a series of lessons that advance us to higher levels of living and loving. The relationships we entered, stayed in, or ended taught us necessary lessons.
Some of us have emerged from the most painful circumstances with strong insights about who we are and what we want. Our mistakes? Necessary. Our frustrations, failures, and sometimes stumbling attempts at growth and progress? Necessary too. Each step of the way, we learned. We went through exactly the experiences we need to, to become who we are today. Each step of the way, we progressed. Is our past a mistake? No. The only mistake we can make is mistaking that for the truth.
Today, God, help me let go of negative thoughts I may be harboring about my past circumstances or relationships. I can accept, with gratitude, all that has brought me to today.

A Lesson in Life

Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by chance or by means of good or bad luck. Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness and sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul. Without these small tests, if they be events, illnesses or relationships, life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere.
If someone hurts you, betrays you , or breaks your heart, forgive them. For they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious to who you open your heart to.
If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally, not only because they love you, but because they are teaching you to love and opening your heart and eyes to things you would have never seen or felt without them.
Make every day count. Appreciate every moment and take from it everything that you possibly can, for you may never be able to experience it again.
Talk to people you have never talked to before, and actually listen. Hold your head up because you have every right to. Tell yourself you are a great individual and believe in yourself, for if you don't believe in yourself, no one else will believe in you either.
You can make of your life anything you wish. Create your own life and then go out and live it.

NEITHER EASY NOT DIFFICULT, JUST NATURAL

Love is natural state of consciousness. It is neither easy nor difficult; those words don't apply to it at all. It is not an effort; hence, it can't be easy and it can't be difficult either. It is like breathing! It is like your heartbeat, it is like blood circulating in you body.
Love is your very being...but that love has become almost impossible. The society does not allow it. The society conditions you in such a way that love becomes impossible and hate becomes the only possible thing. Then hate is easy, and love is not only difficult but impossible. Man has been distorted. Man cannot be reduced to slavery if he is not distorted first. The politician and the priest have been in a deep conspiracy down the ages. They have been reducing humanity to a crowd of slaves. They are destroying every possibility of rebellion in man-and love is rebellion, because love listens only to the heart and does not care a bit about anything else.
Love is dangerous because it makes you an individual. And the state and the church... they don't want individuals, not at all. they don't want human beings, they want sheep. They want people who only look like human beings but whose souls have been crushed so utterly, damaged so deeply, that it seems almost irreparable. And the best way to destroy man is to destroy his spontaneity of love. If man has love, there can't be nations; nations exist on hate.
The Indians hate the Pakistanis, and the Pakistanis hate the Indians- only then can these two countries exist. If love appears, boundaries will disappear. If love appears, then who will be a Christian and who will be a Jew? If love appears, religions will disappear.
If love appears, who is going to go to the temple? For what? It is because love is missing that you are searching for God. God is nothing but a substitute for your missing love. Because you are not blissful, because you are not peaceful, because you are not ecstatic, you are searching for God--otherwise, who bothers? Who cares? If your life is a dance, God has been attained already. The loving heart is full of God. There is no need for such search, there is no need for any prayer, there is no need to go to any temple, to any priest.
Hence the priest and the politician, these two, are the enemies of humanity. They are in a conspiracy, because the politician wants to rule your body and the priest wants to rule your soul. And the secret is the same: destroy love. Then a man is nothing but a hollowness, an emptiness, a meaningless existence. Then you can do whatsoever you want with humanity and nobody will rebel, nobody will have courage enough to rebel.
Love gives courage, love takes all fear away--and the oppressors depends on your fear. They create fear in you, a thousand and one kinds of fear. You are surrounded by fears; your whole psychology is full of fears. Deep down you are trembling. Only on the surface do you keep a certain facade; otherwise, inside where are layers and layers of fear.
A man full of fear can only hate--hate is a natural outcome of fear. A man full of fear is also full of anger, and a man full of fear is more against life than for life. Death seems to be a restful state to the fear-filled man. The fearful mind is suicidal, he is life-negative. Life seems to be dangerous to him, because to live means you will have to love-how can you live? Just as the body needs breathing to live, the soul needs love to live. And love is utterly poisoned.
By poisoning your love energy they have created a split in you; they have made an enemy within you, they have divided you in two. They have created a civil war, and you are always in conflict. And in conflict your energy is dissipate; hence your life does not have zestfulness, cheerfulness. it is not overflowing with energy; it is dull, insipid, it is unintelligent.
Love sharpens intelligence, fear dulls it. Who wants you to be intelligent? Not those who are in power. How can they want you to be intelligent?- because if you are intelligent you will start seeing the whole strategy, their games. They want you to be stupid and mediocre. They certainly want you to be efficient as far as work is concerned, but not intelligent; hence humanity lives at the lowest, at the minimum of its potential.
Scientific researchers say that the ordinary man uses only five percent of his potential intelligence in his whole life. The ordinary man, only five percent what about the extraordinary? What about an Albert Einstein, a Mozart, a Beethoven? The researchers say that even those who are very talented don't use more than ten percent. And those whom we call geniuses use only fifteen percent.
Think of a world where everybody is using one hundred percent of his potential...then the gods will be jealous of earth, then gods would like to be born on earth. Then the earth will be a paradise, a super-paradise. Right now it is a hell.
If man is left alone, unpoisoned, then love will be simple, very simple. There will be no problem; it will be just like water flowing downward, or vapor rising upward, trees blossoming, birds singing. It will be so natural and so spontaneous!
But man is not left alone. As the child is born, the oppressors are ready to jump on him, to crush his energies, to distort them to such an extent, to distort them so deeply that the person will never become aware that he is living a false life, a pseudo life, that he is not living as he was meant to live, as he was born to live; that he is living something synthetic, plastic, that this is not his real soul. That's why millions of people are in such misery-because they feel somewhere that they have been distracted, that they are not their own selves, that something has gone basically wrong...
Love is simple if the child is allowed to grow, helped to grow, in natural ways. If the child is helped to be in harmony with nature and in harmony with himself, if the child is in every way supported, nourished, encouraged to be natural and to be himself, a light unto himself, then love is simple. One will be simply loving!
Hate will be almost impossible because before you can hate somebody else, first you have to create the poison within yourself. You can give something to somebody only if you have it. You can hate only if you are full of hate, and to be full of hate is to suffer hell. To be full of hate is to be on fire. To be full of hate means you are wounding yourself first. Before you can wound somebody else, you have to wound yourself. The other may not be wounded; it will depend on the other. But one thing is absolutely certain: that before you can hate, you have to go through long suffering and misery, the other may not accept your hatred, may reject it. The other may be a Buddha - he may simply laugh at it. He may forgive you, he may not react. You may not be able to wound him if he is not ready to react. If you cannot disturb him, what can you do? You will feel impotent before him.
So it is not necessarily so that the other is going to be wounded. But one thing is absolutely certain, that if you hate somebody, first you have to wound your own soul in so many ways; you have to be so full of poison that you can throw poison on others.
Hate is unnatural. Love is a state of health; hate is a state of illness. Just like illness it is unnatural. It happens only when you lose track of nature, when you are no longer in harmony with existence, no longer in harmony with your being, with your innermost core. Then you are ill psychologically, spiritually ill. Hatred is only a symbol of illness, and love one of health and wholeness and holiness.
Love should be one of the most natural things, but it is not. On the contrary, it has become the most difficult thing-almost the impossible thing. Hate has become easy; you are trained, you are prepared for hate. To be a Hindu is to be full of hate for Mohammedans, for Christians, for Jews; to be a Christian is to be fulled of hate for other religions. To be nationalist is to be full of hate for other nations.
You know only one way of love, which is to hate others. You can show your love for your country only be hating other countries and you can show your love for your church only by hating other churches. You are in a mess!
These so-called religions go on talking about love, and all that they do in the world is create more and more hate. Christians talk about love and they have been creating wars, crusades. Mohammedans talk about love and they have been creating jihads, religious wars. Hindus talk about love, but you can look in their scriptures-they are full of hate, hate for other religions. And we accept all this nonsense! And we accept it without any resistance because we have been conditioned to accept these things; we have been taught that this is how things are. And then you go on denying your own nature.
Love has been poisoned but not destroyed. The poison can be thrown out; out of your system-you can be cleansed. You can vomit all the society has enforced upon you. You can drop all your beliefs and all your conditionings-you can be free. The society cannot keep you a slave forever if you decide to be free.
It is time to drop out of all old patterns and start a new way of life, a natural way of life, a non repressive way of life, a life not of renunciation but of rejoicing. Hate will become more and more impossible. Hate is the polar opposite of love; in the sense the illness is the polar opposite of health. But you need not choose illness.
Illness has a few advantages that health cannot have; don't become attached to those advantages. Hate also has a few advantages that love cannot have. And you have to be very watchful. The ill person gets sympathy from everybody else; nobody hurts him, everybody remains careful what they say to him, he is so ill. He remains the focus, the center or everybody-the family, the friends-he becomes the central person, he becomes important. Now, if he becomes to much attached to this importance, to this ego fulfillment, he will never want to be healthy again. He himself will cling to illness. And psychologists say there are many people who are clinging to illness because of the advantages illnesses have. And they have invested in their illness for so long that they have completely forgotten that they are clinging to those illnesses. They are afraid if they become healthy they will be nobody again.
You teach that, too. When a small child becomes ill, the whole family is so attentive. This is absolutely unscientific. When the child is ill, take care of his body but don't pay too much attention. It is dangerous, because if illness and your attention become associated.... which is bound to happen if it is repeated again and again.
Whenever the child is ill he becomes the center of the whole family: daddy comes and sits by his side and inquires about his health, and the doctor comes, and the neighbors start coming, and friends inquire, and people bring presents for him....Now he can become too much attached to all this; it can be so nourishing to his ego that he may not like to be well again. And if this happens, then it is impossible to be healthy. No medicine can help now. The person had become decisively committed to illness. And that's what has happened to many people, the majority.
When you hate, your ego is fulfilled. The ego can exist only if it hates, because in hating you feel superior, in hating you become separate, in hating you become defined. In hating you attain a certain identity. In love the ego has to disappear. In love you are no longer separate - love helps you to dissolve with others. It is a meeting and a merger. If you are too much attached to the ego, then hate is easy and love is most difficult. Be alert, watchful: hate is the shadow of ego. Love needs great courage. It needs great courage because it needs the sacrifice of the ego. Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love. Only those who are ready to become nothing, utterly empty of themselves, are able to receive the gift to love from the beyond.

The Doubting Mind and The Trusting Heart

Fearful people live from their mind. It takes courage to live from the heart. All that happens in your consciousness can create its reality outside. All that happens outside has to happen first inside. The seed is inside and the tree shows outside.

If your heart believes, nothing is impossible. The mind is incapable of belief. So if you start forcing beliefs on the mind, those beliefs will only hide your doubts. The mind doubts. The heart cannot doubt, it can only believe. When for the first time you believe something there is bound to be great turmoil, chaos, because all that was settled will be unsettled, and all that was established will be de-established, and all that you were feeling secure in is no longer secure, and all you were feeling as meaningful is no more meaningful. Everything will become topsy-turvy because the canter has a totally different approach towards reality than the circumference. When the depth speaks to the surface, there is bound to be trepidation.

If you are a meditative person and the canter-your inner guide-speaks to you and says to you, “Now do this!” and you will do it.

The mind can only create substitutes. You can remain engaged in them but your life will be wasted. You will never know any joy, any celebration.

When I say believing can make impossible things possible, I mean believing in the heart that is child-like which knows only the positive, the way of the head: yes outside, no inside; no outside, yes inside. The head is schizophrenic it is never total and one. When the heart says ‘yes’ it simply say ‘yes’. There is no conflict. There is no division. The heart is integrated in its affirmation; it is trusting. It is not a thought but a feeling, and ultimately it is being, not even feeling.

In the beginning trust is a feeling, in its final flowering it is being. The so-called beliefs remain in the head, they never become your feeling, and they cannot become your being. And unless something becomes your being, it is just a dream. But believing needs risking. You will be surprised to know this: To doubt is to be cowardly.

Doubt arises out of fear; how then can it be brave? Doubt is rooted in fear. Doubt arises because there is a longing to defend oneself, to protect oneself, to be secure. You can trust only if you are ready to go into insecurity; if you are ready to go into the uncharted; if you are ready to sail your boat without any map, into the unknown. Trust means immense courage, and only a courageous person can be religious, because only a courageous person can say ‘yes’.

Doubt is a defense. And even if you are defended by it, you remain stuck; you cannot move -because each movement brings fear because each movement is movement into the unknown, the unfamiliar. Doubt is a by-product of fear. Heartfelt belief requires courage; it fosters trust. On the other hand, belief that germinates in the head generates cowardliness and mistrust.

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Life

Both rain and sunshine are needed to make a rainbow. Both joy and sorrow are needed to make a life truly beautiful and colourful.