Deliberately dare to slow down your life when everything in you — or around you — is screaming “rush!”

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t is when we silence the chattering of our mind that we can truly hear what is in our heart and find the still, clear purity that lies within the soul. Spiritual love carries us into the silence of our original state of being. This silence contains the power to create harmony in all relationships and the sweetness to sustain them

 




You are a spark of the Divine; you must manifest it in every activity of yours. - Baba

"If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly

be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will

never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have;

rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is

nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."

 

Trust your feelings. You may be experiencing some strange changes, doubts or insights about your religious or spiritual beliefs are leading you down a new and to you, untraveled path. You may find that your creative talents provide an unexpected spiritual outlet.


 

"Life isn't about keeping score. It's not about how many

people call you and it's not about who you've dated, are

dating, or haven't dated at all. It isn't about who you've

kissed, what sport you play, or which girl or guy likes you.

It's not about your shoes or your hair or the color of your

skin or where you live or go to school. In fact, it's not

about grades, money, clothes, or colleges that accept you.

Life isn't about if you have lots of friends, or if you are

alone, and it's not about how accepted or unaccepted you are.

Life just isn't about that. But life is about who you love and

who you hurt. It's about how you feel about yourself. It's

about trust, happiness, and compassion. It's about sticking up

for your friends and replacing inner hate with love. Life is

about avoiding jealousy, overcoming ignorance, and building

confidence. It's about what you say and what you mean. It's

about seeing people for who they are and not what they have.

Most of all, it's about choosing to use your life to touch

someone else's in a way that could never have been achieved

otherwise. These choices are what life's about."




 

"When you start to really know someone, all his physical

characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his

energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the

essence of the person, not the shell. That's why you can't

fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated

by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and body

but not your heart. And that's why, when you really connect

with a person's inner self, any physical imperfections

disappear, become irrelevant."


 

It’s impossible to find someone who won’t hurt you, so go for the person worth the pain.


 

Don't be afraid to make new friends. Put yourself out there and broaden your horizons.



 

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emember only useful things and there will be no need to even think about forgetting anything painful

Refuse to defend yourself when anyone else wrongly accuses you.

Do what you don’t want to do when you don’t want to do it.

Allow that uncomfortable silence to remain unfilled in any embarrassing moment.

Purposely create difficult tasks for yourself that heighten your inner awareness.

Unless it’s mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it’s a waste of your time. There are too many mediocre things in life and love shouldn’t be one of them.

 

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