Forgive everyone for everything

I believe that forgiving someone who has done harm to you is a sign of strength and not a weakness. No matter the magnitude of harm they have done to you, it is indeed good to cultivate the habit of forgiving. It takes a lot of patience, endurance, fortitude and a good heart to actually forgive someone.

Also we must not feel bad about asking an apology or sorry to someone. It actually improves our character, and relieves us from our guilt. We must never ever tease or comment anyone from our heart though at times we may have to do so based on the circumstance. I believe the act of taking revenge on somebody as a foolish act. There should never be a tit for tat. I hereby would like to apologize to everyone who feels I have done something harm.

Its hard to follow these kinds of things in reality, but to be a good person and to improve the quality of our soul, we must mold us to be free from the vampires such as EGO, FEAR, ANGER, not forgiving. Eradicating these evils implies we are escalating on our path towards the evolution and to reach that oneness within us.

Below is certain points which I found interesting on the net,

1. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. And while you walk, smile. It is the ultimate anti-depressant.

2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. Buy a lock if you have to.

3. Buy a TIVO, tape your late night shows, and get more sleep.

4. When you wake up in the morning complete the following statement: My purpose is to___________ today.

5. Live with the 3 E’s: Energy, Enthusiasm, Empathy.

6. Watch more movies, play more games, and read more books than you did in 2006.

7. Make time to practice meditation, yoga, tai chi, qigong, and prayer. They provide us with daily fuel for our busy lives.

8. Spend more time with people over the age of 70 and under the age of 6.

9. Dream more while you are awake.

10. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less foods that are manufactured in plants.

11. Drink green tea and plenty of water and eat blueberries, wild Alaskan salmon, broccoli, almonds, and walnuts.

12. Try to make at least 3 people smile each day.

13. Clear your clutter from your house, your car, your desk, and let new and flowing energy into your life.

14. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts, or things you cannot control. Instead, invest your energy in the positive present moment.

15. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class, but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.

16. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a college kid with a maxed out charge card.

17. Smile and laugh more. It will keep the energy vampires away.

18. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.

19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

20. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

21. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

22. Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present.

23. Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

24. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, and wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

25. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: "In five years, will this matter?"

27. Forgive everyone everything.

28. What other people think of you is none of your business.

29. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

30. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

31. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Y our friends will. Stay in touch.

32. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful, or joyful.

33. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

34. The best is yet to come.

35. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, and show up.

36. Do the right thing.

37. Call your mother and father often.

38. Each night before you go to bed complete the following statements: I am thankful for __________. Today I accomplished____________.

39. Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.

40. Enjoy the ride. Remember that this is not Disney World and you certainly don’t want a fast pass.

Overcoming Procrastination

Procrastination is one of the major evils which we have to get rid of in order to smell success. To overcome this paralysis we must not see the overall task in front of us, instead we have to look into a small fragment that we can achieve now and by doing smaller things again and again it will grow in a cumulative manner and we would eventually achieve success in the task in front of us(which would have otherwise gone if we had left it seeing the enormity of the overall task).

So friends let us overcome procrastination.

Obama's National Address to students

Yet another great speech by Obama. Let us do a similar thing for our country....

How to get started

Given below is an article written by Dr.Anthony Fernando,

One of the most common questions I get asked is, “Where do I start?” To answer this question, all you need to do is to look up into the night sky.




On May 25th 1961, the American President John F. Kennedy stood up in front of the entire world and announced the dramatic and ambitious goal of sending a man to the moon before the end of the decade. Here is a brief excerpt from his speech to the Congress:

“I believe we possess all the resources and talents necessary… While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last. We take an additional risk by making it in full view of the world, but… this very risk enhances our stature when we are successful.”

In setting this goal, President Kennedy demonstrated an incredible amount of courage because at the time, no one knew whether it was physically or technically possible to achieve this goal. He also provided a great example of ‘how to get started’…

“In order to achieve success in any endeavor in life you must first
find the courage to believe it is possible” – Dr. Anthony Fernando

Often we become stuck in our current reality and fall into the trap of thinking that this is just the way things are and always will be. It takes courage to step away from our current situation and believe that something better is possible for our future.

President Kennedy believed that it was possible to send a man to the moon. This belief set off a chain of events that led over 400000 people to work for over eight years in order to transform his belief into reality.

Today I’d like to encourage you to find the courage within yourself to step up and believe that a better future is possible for you.

Once you are armed with this belief, you can then decide exactly what it is that you want to achieve and determine the steps you need to take in order to make your goal a reality.

Whether you want to send a man to the moon, achieve financial freedom, or learn to play the guitar…It all begins with belief.

(all credits to Dr.Anthony Fernando and the source of this article is his website.)

The Power Of Now

Below are some good quotes from the book "The Power Of Now" by Ekchart Tolle......All the quotes are really great and each one has lots of information in it....

• "I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten" - Page 6

• "The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly—you usually don't use it at all. It uses you." - Page 13

• "all the things that truly matter — beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind" - Page 14

• "All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness" - Page 19

• "Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind — or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body" - Page 20

• "It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are being sustained" - Page 20

• "You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware." - Page 22

• "Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance" - Page 24

• "Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within" - Page 24

• "Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind" - Page 25

• "Nobody’s life is entirely free of pain and sorrow. Isn’t it a question of learning to live with them rather than trying to avoid them?
  
  The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.
  
  The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgment. On the emotional level, it is some form of negativity. The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends on how strongly you are identified with your mind." - Page 27

• "Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath" - Page 32

• "The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now." - Page 35

• "an emotion is the body's reaction to your mind" - Page 36

• "Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power if within, and it is available to you now" - Page 36

• "The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often also political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you." - Page 37

• "Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" — and find that there is no death" - Page 38

• "When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The mind in itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are" - Page 40

• "To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation" - Page 40

• "Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be" - Page 41

• "Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now" - Page 41

• "The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now"- Page 50

• "Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are cause by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence" - Page 50

• "To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment" - Page 59

• "Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place" - Page 64

• "Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally" - Page 68

• "You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present" - Page 75

• "...words in themselves are not important. They are not the Truth; they only point to it" - Page 85

• "Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself" - Page 90

• "At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is" - Page 105

• "...the ultimate purpose of the world lies not within the world but in the transcendence of the world" - Page 117

• "You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God" - Page 122

• "[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you" - Page 127

• "As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter" - Page 131

• "Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time" - Page 147

• "It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept — before they will forgive." - Page 149

• "You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension. Or perhaps your very success became empty and meaningless and so turned out to be a failure" - Page 152

• "Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disappointments before you realize that truth" - Page 155

The World As I See It

An Essay From Page 1 Of Albert Einstein's Book:

"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people -- first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving...

"I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts -- possessions, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.

"My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude..."

"My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings, through no fault, and no merit, of my own. The cause of this may well be the desire, unattainable for many, to understand the few ideas to which I have with my feeble powers attained through ceaseless struggle. I am quite aware that for any organization to reach its goals, one man must do the thinking and directing and generally bear the responsibility. But the led must not be coerced, they must be able to choose their leader. In my opinion, an autocratic system of coercion soon degenerates; force attracts men of low morality... The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

"This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man... I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence -- as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature."