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.....!!