Here are some nice quotes that he tries to live by. Well… atleast once in a way… 😉
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Life
is an art
of
keeping oneself in a state of
constant growth.
Stagnation is Decay
Inadvertence is Death !
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“You have often asked yourself whether there is something above and beyond your present routine life. There is. Just as the wind is not meant for enclosure in a room, neither are you meant for confinement within your thoughts and feelings. True living is just as free as the wind.”
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy
“Q. What is wrong with my life
A. There is too much of you in it
Stop looking for a purpose as to why you are here. Create it.
“As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth.”
“Personal progress can be likened to a railroad train that stops periodically to drop some passengers and to pick up new ones. We must regularly drop our false ideas while picking up new concepts. Drop the notion that you must fight life; pick up the truth that the war is over. Drop the myth that past mistakes have a hold on you today; pick up the fact that every new day is new.”
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More quotes, mostly from the free daily service from cybernation…
You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
~ Barbara Sher (American author of “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was”)
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own
nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.Henri Frederic Amiel
(1821-1881, Swiss philosopher, poet, critic)
The work will teach you how to do it.
~ Estonian Proverb
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune
into.~ Wayne Dyer
(1940-, American psychotherapist, author, lecturer)
Many people who have gold in the house are looking for copper
outside.Russian Proverb
The Bhagavad Gita, more than a religious Hindu text, in my opinion is a set of guidelines with many practical ideas.
This is a summary I copied from a poster put up in a small hotel on top of Nandi Hills (near Bangalore).
The context of the Gita is pretty important: In the midst of the Mahabharata, just before the war starts, Arjuna (one of the Pandava warriors) hesitates, worrying about gain and loss. He gives a lot of reasons for not wanting to do whatever he’s supposed to do (fight the war). Especially considering that the adversaries are in fact near and dear to him, he dosen’t really feel like fighting at all – simply giving up everything and renouncing the world seems to be a far more attractive solution.
Krishna gives this advice – advocating standing up and fighting.
If we look at the practical aspects of this whole story, its not really about war and killing people. The whole situation is a metaphor that relates closely to a person on a very individual basis…
Arjuna depicts our physical body and our ego. The five horses drawing the chariot are one’s five senses… sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste. Without Krishna, the charioteer, the horses would’ve simply taken Arjuna anywhere and everywhere. Krishna depicts many things to many people – God, instincts, heart, conscience – basically some inner voice within us that is beyond our intellect. The enemies – the Kouravas – are not external enemies, they are the enemies within the person – like anger, greed and all that kind of thing – and these are the enemies that a person rather than run away – must face and conquer.
(Of course this is only one possible interpretation that I could relate to, there are othrers where they say that there were only four horses representing the four Vedas)
Anyway, here’s what the poster in the hotel on top of Nandi Hills said:
Whatever’s happened is for the good
Whatever’s yet to happen is for the good
Whatever’s not happened, that too is for the good
To grieve, what have you brought with you
Whatever you have gained, you have taken from here
Yesterday it was somebody else’s
Now it is yours
And tomorrow it will be somebody else’s
Change is the nature of the world
Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is
to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time
and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They
are not different.Frank Crane (American actor)
Here’s the Quotation for Friday, December 9, 2005
Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who
offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most
likely to achieve what is good and lasting.Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
(1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
“I am a common man, with common thoughts, and I’ve lived a common life.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten…”~ an excerpt from The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks