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Where your attention goes

Where your attention goes is where your life will follow. Where is your attention going most of the time?

Is your attention consumed with resentment, judgment, envy and spite? Where do you think those things will lead your life?

Do you put so much attention on proving you’re right that you end up with nothing left with which to accomplish? Imagine letting most of that go, and freeing your attention for more positive and valuable pursuits.

There are so many beautiful possibilities for authentic and lasting fulfillment. Those are the things that deserve the power of your attention.

You can decide in this moment, and in every moment, to let go of the fear, let go of the worry, let go of the anger and let in life’s delightful richness. Turn your attention toward those things that make life a joy to live.

You can choose where your attention goes, and where your life in turn will follow. No matter what you may have chosen in the past, right now is when you can choose the best.

– Ralph Marston

Be Not a Beggar

by Swami Vivekananda

Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you — but do not think of that now, it will come back multiplied a thousand fold — but the attention must not be on that. Yet have the power to give: give, and there it ends.

Learn that the whole of life is giving, that nature will force you to give. So, give willingly. Sooner or later you will have to give up. You come into life to accumulate. With clenched hands, you want to take. But nature puts a hand on your throat and makes your hands open. Whether you will it or not, you have to give. The moment you say, "I will not", the blow comes; you are hurt.

None is there that will not be compelled, in the long run, to give up everything. And the more one struggles against this law, the more miserable one feels. It is because we dare not give, because we are not resigned enough to accede to this grand demand of nature, that we are miserable. The forest is gone, but we get heat in return. The sun is taking up water from the ocean, to return it in showers. You are a machine for taking and giving: you take, in order to give.

Ask, therefore, nothing in return; but the more you give, the more will come to you. The quicker you can empty the air out of this room, the quicker it will be filled up by the external air; and if you close all the doors and every aperture, that which is within will remain, but that which is outside will never come in, and that which is within will stagnate, degenerate, and become poisoned. A river is continually emptying itself into the ocean and is continually filling up again. Bar not the exit into the ocean. The moment you do that, death seizes you.

Be, therefore, not a beggar; be unattached.

–Swami Vivekananda in "Work and Its Secret"

The Ripple Effect

Drop A Pebble In The Water, Just A Splash, And It Is Gone;

But There’s Half A Hundred Ripples Circling On And On And On,

Spreading, Spreading From The Center, Flowing Out To The Sea,

And There Is No Way Of Telling Where The End Is Going To Be.

Drop A Pebble In The Water : In A Minute You Forget,

But There’s Little Waves A Flowing, And There’s Ripples Circling Yet,

And Those Little Waves A Flowing To A Great Big Wave Have Grown;

You’ve Disturbed A Mighty River Just By Dropping In A Stone.

Drop An Unkind Word, Or Careless Tirade : In A Minute It Is Gone;

But There’s Half A Hundred Ripples Circling On And On And On.

They Keep Spreading, Spreading, Spreading From The Center As They Go,

And There Is No Way To Stop Them, Once You’ve Started Them To Flow.

Drop An Unkind Word, Or Carelessness : In A Minute You Forget;

But There’s Little Waves A Flowing, And There’s Ripples Circling Yet,

And Perhaps In Some Sad Heart A Mighty Wave Of Tears You’ve Stirred,

And Disturbed A Life, Was Happy Ere You Dropped That Unkind Word.

Drop A Word Of Cheer And Kindness : Just A Flash And It’s Gone;

But There’s Half A Hundred Ripples Circling On And On And On,

Bearing Hope And Joy And Comfort On Each Splashing, Dashing Wave

Till You Wouldn’t Believe The Volume Of The One Kind Word You Gave.

Drop A Word Of Cheer And Kindness: In A Minute You Forget;

But There’s Gladness Still A Swelling, And There’s Joy A Circling Yet,

And You’ve Rolled A Wave Of Comfort Whose Sweet Music Can Be Heard

Over Miles And Miles Of Water Just By Dropping One Kind Word..!!

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WHERE THE MIND IS WITHOUT FEAR

– Tagore (Gitanjali)

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;

Where knowledge is free;

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;

Where words come out from the depth of truth;

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;

Where the mind is led forward by thee

Into ever-widening thought and action–

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

POEM FOR SPIRITUAL HEALTH

Be Thankful

Be thankful that you don’t already have everything you desire.
If you did, what would there be to look forward to?
Be thankful when you don’t know everything,
for it gives you the opportunity to learn.
Be thankful for the difficult times.
During those times you grow.
Be thankful for your limitations,
because they give you opportunities for improvement.
Be thankful for each new challenge
because it will build your strength and character.
Be thankful for your mistakes.
They will teach you valuable lessons.
Be thankful when you’re tired and weary,
because it means you’ve made a difference.

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Life’s Little Lessons – Mother Teresa

People are often unreasonable, illogical

And self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you
Of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some
False friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank,
People may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone
Could destroy overnight
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness,
They may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today,
People will often forget tomorrow;
Do well anyway.

Give the world the best you have,
And it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis,
It is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

The Art of Start

– Charles Ghigna

Don’t search for inspiration when

You have a task to do;

Just start your work and you will see

That it will soon find you.

In Spite of War

by Angela Morgan

In spite of war, in spite of death,

In spite of all man’s sufferings,

Something within me laughs and sings

And I must praise with all my breath.

In spite of war, in spite of hate

Lilacs are blooming at my gate,

Tulips are tripping down the path

In spite of war, in spite of wrath.

"Courage!" the morning-glory saith;

"Rejoice!" the daisy murmureth,

And just to live is so divine

When pansies lift their eyes to mine.

The clouds are romping with the sea,

And flashing waves call back to me

That naught is real but what is fair,

That everywhere and everywhere

A glory liveth through despair.

Though guns may roar and cannon boom,

Roses are born and gardens bloom;

My spirit still may light its flame

At that same torch whence poppies came.

Where morning’s altar whitely burns

Lilies may lift their silver urns

In spite of war, in spite of shame.

And in my ear a whispering breath,

"Wake from the nightmare! Look and see

That life is naught but ecstasy

In spite of war, in spite of death!"

The Man Who Thinks He Can

Walter D. Wintle

If you think you are beaten, you are;

If you think you dare not, you don’t;

If you’d like to win, but think you can’t,

It’s almost a cinch you won’t.

If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost,

For out in the word we find

Success begins with a fellow’s will,

It’s all in the state of mind.

If you think you’re outcasted, you are;

You’ve got to think high to rise.

You’ve got to be sure of yourself before

You can ever win a prize.

Life’s battles don’t always go

To the stronger or faster man;

But soon or late the man who wins

Is the man who thinks he can.