“If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.” — Sri Chinmoy “Where there is great love there are always miracles.” — Willa Cather “The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.” — Brian Tracy “Love is the only …
A monk decides to meditate alone, away from his monastery. He takes his boat out to the middle of the lake, moors it there, closes his eyes and begins his meditation. After a few hours of undisturbed silence , he suddenly feels the bump of another boat colliding with his own. With his eyes still …
“Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy,to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter,and to lead but not manipulate.” — William Arthur Ward (1921-1994 writer, educator, and church lay leader) “The more generous we are, the more joyous we become.The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become.The …
“Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.” — Matthew Arnold “An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.” — David Augsburger “It’s always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumptions.” — C. West Churchman “To assume is to be deceived.” …
“The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.” — William Wordsworth “A coincidence is a small miracle in which God chooses to remain anonymous.” — Anonymous “Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you’ll see them all around you.” …
When someone lightens up your life just by their presence, you can be sure they are emitting a very positive energy. When someone puts a damper on the meeting or a conversation, you can be sure there is some hidden inner baggage which contains sorrow and darkness. Which do you bring to the party? A …
“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson “We are all hypocrites.We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.” — José Emilio Pacheco “The brilliant tool of your mind is a vehicle, and you are the driver of the vehicle. …
We all find occasion to reject and resist another person. We all like to put up a fight against anything we dislike on the evening news as we spectate the world. But we forget that when we decide we will resist something or somebody, either mentally or physically, we only empower the object of our …
“Truth is not defined by how many people believe something. Ask. Question. Think. Decide – for yourself.” — Jonathan Lockwood Huie “Don’t just live. Celebrate life.” — Unknown “In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.” — Abraham Maslow “The earth, as the classroom, is …
First of all, understand discontentment. Discontent is caused by a constant multiplication of desires. One desire leads to another until there’s never a moment when you feel fulfilled. Desires are like traps. Because of endless desires relationships have become very fragile. There is a lot of irritability and anger due to:Selfish attachments (to possessions and …