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[silent thunder]

@blue eyed snake  I so appreciate you!

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6 hours ago, silent thunder said:

@blue eyed snake  I so appreciate you!

 

't was a close call 

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[Ajay0]

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. ~ Swami Sivananda


Do not ignore the effect of right action saying, "This will come to nothing." Just as by the gradual fall of raindrops the water jar is filled, so in time the wise become replete with good.~ Buddha, Dhammapada Verse 122


'The transformation, though overnight, was never an overnight process. In Chemistry classes we do the acid-base titration experiments. The final drop from the pipette changes the colour of the solution in the beaker. But were not the earlier drops significant? Similarly, righteous living all through life purified me and enabled the overnight transformation.' ~ Rajini Menon

[silent thunder]

This singular quote by Khalil transformed my retiscence to become a Father, into a willingness to participate in the shared dance of life's continuation of itself.

 

"Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not for you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable."

~Khalil Gibran

[Ajay0]

'The first kind of protection – inner protection – is to defend oneself against lobha (desire, selfishness), dosa (anger, cruelty, hatred) and moha (delusion, stupidity). These arise within one’s being.

If one gives in to these, under their influence one no longer behaves like a true human being. One cannot keep one’s mentality humane. And although human, one loses one’s basic human intelligence. ' ~ Sayadaw U Pandita


The mind controlled and trained is better equipped to help us in all professions, in all situations. The disciplined mind will keep our lives balanced, make work easier and develop and nurture reason to govern our actions. In the end our happiness will increase accordingly as we follow the proper mind training. ~ Ajahn Chah

[Ajay0]

Having basic human ethics is the root of Dharma.
If one does not have even worldly level morality,
It is absolutely impossible to ever uphold
The way of Dharma. ~ Mipham Rinpoche

 

If a person has self-control, even if he has nothing else,
This suffices for a hundred other good qualities.
This is the root of human values. Without it,
There is no hope for other qualities [to blossom]. ~ Mipham Rinpoche

[moment]

He wanted to be a better man
But life kicked him down like an old tin can
He would give you the shirt on his back
If not for a sugartooth

 

                                  ---Brandi Carlile

[moment]

Love when you can, cry when you have to, be who you must, that's a part of the plan. Await your arrival with simple
survival, and one day we'll all understand.

                                                                               ---Dan Fogelberg

[Ajay0]

Listen to the conscience: Once you understand what is right nobody can influence you to do anything that is not right. ~ Dadi Jank, Brahmakumaris

 

 

Your conscience is your core, innately pure and divine. It is always there to guide your actions but its voice is unheard by the noise of your waste thoughts. Your only effort is to silence your mind by the tool of awareness and your peace will emerge. ~ Brahmakumaris

 

 

Conscience will guide and align you with truth when you learn to relax and silence your mind. ~ Brahmakumaris

[Taomeow]

 

-- Fyodor Dostoevsky 

[Ajay0]

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. ~ Plato

 

If we wish to accomplish anything of value in our life, we will have to ensure that we do not allow our lower nature the liberty to manifest itself. - Swami Mukundananda

 

Discipline is a choice. It's simply consistently choosing the hard right over the easy wrong. ~ Rory Vaden

 

Anything worthwhile in life can be had only by going uphill. ~ Swami Mukundananda

 

Successful people have all had to do things they didn't feel like doing in order to get where they are. ~ Rory Vaden

[Ajay0]

All that is good and auspicious flows from self-control. All evil is dispelled by self-control. No gain, no pleasure in this world or in heaven is comparable to the delight of self-control. ~ Yoga Vasistha

 

SELF-CONTROL, O Rama, is the best remedy for all physical and mental ills. When there is self-control, even the food you eat tastes better, else it tastes bitter. He who wears the armour of self-control is not harmed by sorrow. ~ Yoga Vasistha

 

These four — CONTENTMENT, SATSANGA (holy company), the SPIRIT OF INQUIRY and SELF-CONTROL are the four surest means by which they who are drowning in this ocean of samsara can be saved. Contentment is the supreme gain. Satsanga is the best companion to the destination. ~ Yoga Vasistha

 

The Spirit of Inquiry itself is the greatest wisdom and, Self-control is supreme happiness. If you are unable to resort to all these four, then practice one; by the diligent practice of one of these, the others will also be found in you. The highest wisdom will seek you of its own accord.~ Yoga Vasistha

[Thrice Daily]

🍏 “How do you like them Apples” 🍎  

[silent thunder]

awareness is...

Edited December 10 by silent thunder

[silent thunder]

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

 

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

 

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

 

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

 

This combustible mixture of ignorance and desire for power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.

 

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

 

What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away.

 

~Carl Sagan

Edited yesterday at 03:23 PM by silent thunder

[Ajay0]

We meditate to regulate our minds. An unregulated mind is pulled by wishes and desires, fears and habits, in many different directions. The mind becomes weak as it scatters in many different channels. In contrast, a regulated mind brings focus, and promotes well- being. Unless and until we meditate properly, and unless and until we regulate our minds properly, our consciousness will not evolve.

~ Daaji ( Heartfulness meditation)

Meditation even regulates the mind, and so also help us better contemplate and refine our thinking.~ Daaji

 

Feelings usually overpower thinking. Emotions can overwhelm us. If we are able to regulate our emotions and listen to feelings within, coming from spirit or listen to what we understand as in-spirit-ation, then we can know even without much thinking what is right and what is not. This is inherent wisdom of the soul, heard via heart. Meditation on heart really helps in this. ~ Daaji

 

[Keith108]

You make, you get.

 

- some zen guy

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