Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.--Robert Brault

"Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health;

nothing is worse for your health than boredom."


-- Mignon McLaughlin


 

"Through your thoughts you are either gaining power or losing it. Positive thoughts generate power; negative ones waste it"

"Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work

harder for what you want."


-- Robert Bringle


 

The mind is engaged in two activities: alochana or planning, and sambhashana or dialogue. Both these follow different lines. Planning is intent on solving problems that present themselves before the mind. Dialogue multiplies the problems and confounds the solutions causing confusion and adoption of wrong and ruinous means to solve them. The inner conversation and controversial chatter continues from morning till night, until sleep overtakes the mind. It causes ill-health and the early setting in of old age. The topics on which the chatter is based are mostly the faults and failings of others and their fortunes and misfortunes. This perpetual dialogue is at the bottom of all the miseries of man. It covers the mind with thick darkness. It grows wild very quickly and suppresses one's genuine worth.

Master the Mind and be a Master Mind - Baba

“Steady Perseverance alone will tame the mind” - Baba

"When we forgive others for the wrongs done to us, it is not the human heart that forgives. It is a divine quality revealed in the heart." - Swami Ramdas

 The Upanishads prescribe certain sadhanas (spiritual exercises) to achieve inner peace. One of that is engaging in Karma or beneficial activity - that is to say, service to people which will help diminish the sense of ego; this refers to acts that are good and godly. When one’s thoughts are engaged in such activities, the mind turns away from the talk it indulges in. Listening to spiritual advice, reflection on spiritual directions, and discovering ways and means of confirming faith in the Lord, recital of the names of God and withdrawing the mind from sensual pursuits have been prescribed by the scriptures for silencing the mental chatter, this inner talk, as a preparation for attaining the Supreme Lord.  For it is only when the mind is cleansed and clarified that it can achieve such a profound task. Only then the lessons taught and the experiences undergo ne can be pure and unsullied.

“Make  this world, a happy home of Love” – Sai Baba 10/31/10

“An ideal is not of any value if it cannot be translated into practice”

"Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth... Tame the

dragon and the gift is yours."


-- Noela Evans

 

Today's Inspirational Quote:


"Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant

it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem

than the person at the bottom."


-- Sandra Day O'Connor


 

"Think for a minute about what makes you fabulous and how you

can celebrate it."


-- Laura Mercier

 

Do Your Duty

Fruit is not thy Concern

"A useful thought is one that brings benefit to yourself and others"

"No matter what comes your way, keep planting good, right seeds for your tomorrows."