Yes, I am changing

Yes, I am changing.   

After loving my parents, my siblings, my spouse, my children, my friends, now I have started loving myself.

Yes, I am changing. 

I just realised that I am not “Atlas”. The world does not rest on my shoulders.

Yes, I am changing. 

I now stopped bargaining with vegetables & fruits vendors. After all, a few rupees more is not going to burn a hole in my pocket but it might help the poor fellow save for his daughter’s school fees.

Yes, I am changing. 

I pay the taxi driver without waiting for the change. The extra money might bring a smile on his face. After all he is toiling much harder for a living than me

Yes, I am changing. 

I stopped telling the elderly that they've already narrated that story many times. After all, the story makes them walk down the memory lane & relive the past.

Yes, I am changing. 

I've learnt not to correct people even when I know they are wrong. After all, the onus of making everyone perfect is not on me. Peace is more precious than perfection.

Yes, I am changing.  

I give compliments freely & generously. After all it's a mood enhancer not only for the recipient, but also for me.

Yes, I am changing. 

I've learnt not to bother about a crease or a spot on my shirt. After all, personality speaks louder than appearances.

Yes, I am changing. 

I walk away from people who don't value me. After all, they might not know my worth, but I do.

Yes, I am changing. 

I remain cool when someone plays dirty politics to outrun me in the rat race. After all, I am not a rat & neither am I in any race.

Yes, I am changing. 

I am learning not to be embarrassed by my emotions. After all, it's my emotions that make me human.

Yes, I am changing. 

I have learnt that its better to drop the ego than to break a relationship. After all, my ego will keep me aloof whereas with relationships I will never be alone.

Yes, I am changing. 

I've learnt to live each day as if it's the last. After all, it might be the last .

Yes, I am changing. 

I am doing what makes me happy. After all, I am responsible for my happiness, and I owe it to me.

Letting go

When somebody told me that he has failed in his exams, my question is,
"Is it a law that you will pass every time?"     

When someone told me that her boyfriend broke up with her, my question is,
"Is it a rule that you will have successful relationships everywhere?"

When somebody asked me why am I in depression, my question is,
"Is it compulsory to have confidence all the time?"

When someone cried to me about his huge business loss due to his wrong decision, my question is, "Is it possible that you take all right decisions?"

The fact is our expectation that life has to be perfect/permanent is the biggest reason of our unhappiness.

One has to understand the law of impermanence of nature. 

After each sunny day, there has to be a dark night, after each birth there have to be certain deaths, for the full moon to come again it has to pass through no moon. In this imperfection of nature, there is perfection. 

So stop taking your failures and bad part of your life so personally or intensely, even God does not like to give you pain, but its the cycle through which you have to pass. Prepare yourself for one more fight after each fall because even failures cannot be permanent! ! !

Enjoy life. . .      

Your breath comes to go.

Your thoughts come to go.

Your words come to go.

Your actions come to go.

Your feelings come to go.

Your illnesses come to go.

Your phases come to go.

Your seasons come to go.

You have come to go.

Then why do you hold on to your guilt, anger, unforgiveness, hatred so so so tightly, when it too has come to go. . .

The Joy in Giving….

Our greatest fulfillment in life is in the act of giving. When we give to 

others, we feel a shared joy. For in making there life better, we feel joyous and have thus made our life better. 

Giving leads to humility and wisdom. Giving is God's way, and when we   

give we emulate Him and please Him. 

There is immense elation in giving what another needs. The joy obtained 

from giving is far greater than that of receiving from others. 

Giving is much more than merely material gifts. One can give time, 

energy, talent and creativity, advice, a listening ear, a kind word of 

encouragement, love, moral support, spiritual guidance, and even forgiveness, for forgiving others is also a form of giving. Those who are in a position to give must be grateful to God that they have the opportunity to give and share joy with others. When we give to others unconditionally, we are rewarded manifold. 

When judgment day arrives, we are judged by what we contribute to the 

growth of others, to our neighbors and friends, to strangers, and to society 

at large. Here on earth, we live in a world where material wealth, money, 

and possessions may impress others, but our actual net worth is calculated 

by the measures of our willingness to give, without an eye on profit.

ADD A SHIMMERING QUALITY

The French painter George Seurat’s technique—Pointillism, or Neo-Impressionism—was painstaking. He used tiny, detached strokes of pure color, a multitude of colorful dots. Gazed at up close these are so small as not to be distinguished as part of a design., but together they make one grand composition. Those tiny dots of color, seen alongside other dots of differing tones—red, blue, yellow or their complements—suggest outlines and shapes of things.

Art critics say those tiny dots add a shimmering quality of light to the painting; all make their own special kind of order. Seurat believed that one dot of color placed close to another suggested to the eye of the viewer still another color; they also suggested varied shapes and figures. The colors are not in the individual dots but result from the relation to the many other dots.       

Every community, team, and parish is made up of little and varied dots of faith and love. Each one of us is of a different color and shape and carries its own quality of light. When these individual talents are free to be what they are, to reflect their own true color, to stand by but in concert with the differing talents of others, they can shimmer together; they can set up the patterns and outlines of teamwork, of cooperation and of community.

The Black Dot

One day a professor entered the classroom and asked his students to take a surprise test.

The professor handed out the question paper.
To everyone’s surprise, there were no questions…just a black dot in the center of the page. ⚫     

The professor seeing the expression on everyone’s face, told them the following:

“I want you to write what you see there.”

At the end of the class,
the professor took all the answer papers and started reading each one of them aloud...

All of them with no exceptions, described the black dot, trying to explain its position in the middle of the sheet, etc. etc. etc.

After all answers had been read, the professor began to explain:

“I am not going to grade you on this test. I just wanted to give you something to think about.

No one wrote about the white part of the paper.

Everyone focused on the black dot – ⚫ and the same happens in our lives. 

We have a white paper to observe and enjoy, but we always focus on the dark spots.

Our life is a gift given to us by god.....

However we insist on focusing only on the dark spots – ⚫⚫⚫
the health issues that bother us, the lack of money, the complicated relationship with a family member, the disappointment with a friend etc...

The dark spots are very small compared to everything we have in our lives, but they are the ones that pollute our minds.

Take your eyes away from the black spots in your life.

Enjoy each one of your blessings, each moment that life gives you & 

Be happy and live a positive life.....!!

Yes, I am changing. ...

Days slip into weeks, Weeks turn into months and Months transform into years. 

Calendars are changing and so am I.

                                                            

Yes, I am changing. 

*After loving my parents, my siblings, my spouse, my children, my friends, now I have started loving myself.*

Yes, I am changing. 

*I just realised that I am not “Atlas” & the world does not rest on my shoulders.*

Yes, I am changing. 

*I now stopped bargaining with poor vegetables & fruits vendors. After all, a few rupees more is not going to burn a hole in my pocket but it might help the poor fellow save for his daughter’s school fees.*

Yes, I am changing. 

*I pay the autowalla / cabbie & walk away without waiting for the change. The extra money might bring a smile on his face. After all he is toiling much harder for a living than me.*

Yes, I am changing. 

*I stopped telling the elderly that they have already narrated that story many times. After  all, the story makes them walk down the memory lane and relive the past.*

Yes, I am changing. 

*I have learn not to correct people even when I know they are wrong. After all, the onus of making everyone perfect is not on me. Peace is more precious than perfection.*

Yes, I am changing.  

*I give compliments freely & generously. After all its a mood enhancer not only for the recipient, but also for me*.

Yes, I am changing. 

*I have learnt not to bother about a crease on my shirt or a spot on my skirt. After all, personality speaks louder than appearances*.

Yes, I am changing. 

*I walk  away from people who don't value me. After all, they might not know my worth, but I do*.

Yes, I am changing. 

*I remain cool when someone plays dirty politics to outrun me in the rat race. After all, I am not a rat and neither am I in any race*.

Yes, I am changing. 

*I am learning not to be embarrassed by my emotions. After all, it's my emotions that make me human.*

Yes, I am changing. 

*I have learnt that its better to drop the ego than to break a relationship. After all, my ego will keep me aloof whereas with relationships I will never be alone*.

Yes, I am changing. 

*I demand for whatever is due to me. After all, accepting injustice is almost as bad as doing injustice*.

Yes, I am changing.
*I've learnt to live each day as if it were the last. After all, it might be the last* .

Yes, I am changing. 

*I am doing what makes me happy. After all, I am responsible for my happiness, and I owe it to me.*

*AND I am happy for about this change.....

The Missing Goat!?

It all started one lazy Sunday afternoon in a small town near Toronto in Canada.

Two school-going friends had a crazy idea. 

  

They rounded up three goats from the neighbourhood and painted the numbers 

1, 2 and 4 on their sides.   

That night they let the goats loose inside their school building. 

The next morning, when the authorities entered the school, they could smell something was wrong.

They soon saw goat droppings on the stairs and near the entrance 

and realized that some goats had entered the building.

A search was immediately launched and very soon, the three goats were found.

But the authorities were worried, where was goat No. 3?

They spent the rest of the day looking for goat No.3.

The school declared classes off for the students for the rest of the day.

The teachers, helpers, guards, canteen staffs, boys were all busy looking for the goat No.3, which, of course, was never found.

Simply because it did not exist.

Those among us who inspite of having a good life are always feeling a "lack of fulfilment" are actually looking for the elusive, missing, non-existent Goat No.3.

Whatever the area of complaint or dissatisfaction, relationship, job-satisfaction, finance, achievements, ...... An absence of something is always larger than  the 

presence of many other things.

Let's Stop worrying about goat No.3 and enjoy the life...Life would be so much happier without the worries....

Have a blessed  Day....!!!

And don't let the non existent imaginary goat number 3 waste your time and happiness. Enjoy life with what you have.

Enjoy your Coffee

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee,the professor went to the kitchen and  

returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite ? Telling them to help themselves to hot coffee. When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source
of your problems and stress.

What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously  went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups.
Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups.
They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change. Some times, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."

So, don't let the cups drive you... enjoy the coffee instead.

Slow Dance

SLOW DANCE

Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round?

Or listened to the rain slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?

 Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down.

Don't dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won't last.

Do you run through each day on the fly?

When you ask, “How are you?”

Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done, do you lie in your bed,

with the next hundred chores running through your head?

You'd better slow down

Don't dance so fast.

Time is short

The music won't last.

Ever told your child, 

We'll do it tomorrow?

And in your haste,

Not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch, let a good friendship die 

Cause you never had time 

To call and say,'Hi'

You'd better slow down.

Don't dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won't last..

When you run so fast to get somewhere,

You miss half the fun of getting there.

When you worry and hurry through your day,

It is like an unopened gift....

Thrown away.

Life is not a race.

Do take it slower

Hear the music

Before the song is over.

 

The Seven Hermetic Principles

The Principles of Truth are Seven; he who knows these, understandingly, possesses the Magic Key before whose touch all the Doors of the Temple fly open.

1. The Principle of Mentalism. "THE ALL IS MIND; The Universe is Mental."

2. The Principle of Correspondence. "As above, so below; as below, so above."

3. The Principle of Vibration. "Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates."

4. The Principle of Polarity. "Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled."

5. The Principle of Rhythm. "Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates."

6. The Principle of Cause and Effect. "Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is but a name for Law not recognized; there are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the Law."

7. The Principle of Gender. "Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine and Feminine Principles; Gender manifests on all planes."