Slow Down, Don’t Rush

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:12:52 +0000

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.

– Mother Teresa of Calcutta

The True Guru Resolves All Your Affairs

admin — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:44:12 +0000

WaheGuru

Listen to thir kar bai so harjan piare,

Are you willing to be made nothing?

admin — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:01:04 +0000

Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, canceled, made nothing?
Are you willing to be made nothing? Dipped into oblivion?
If not, you will never really change. – D.H. Lawrence

Trying to bring about change in your life by being aggressive, by ‘taking charge’ shows a somewhat self-centered attitude about change. We must surrender, move beyond our compulsion to control, if we are to bring about lasting change. We yield. We allow ourselves to be helped. We prepare the vessel. We allow change to overtake us. We earnestly seek to do our part, and change comes!

It comes — not when we say we deserve it, but when we are ready to accept it.

Today, I surrender again. Each day I learn to surrender and grow deeper.

Awakening

admin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:01:39 +0000

O Lord
Open our eyes to your presence
Open our minds to your grace
Open our lips to your praises
Open our hearts to your love
Open our lives to your healing
And be found among us.

by David Adam, from Tides and Seasons, England

Do Not Delay the Practice of Meditation

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:01:19 +0000

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation. – Milarepa

There will Always be stuff to do, it never ends. We become weak and lose vitality as we grow older, so don’t wait till later to venture on the spiritual path.

Each one of us has to undertake his own journey and we do it in our own unique way. But those who put all heart into prayer and meditation progress faster towards the goal.

Pray, meditate Now. Spend a few minutes, praying here and now, as you sit at your computer.

I may never falter in performing righteous actions

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:13:39 +0000

Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Guru of the Sikhs, was a warrior, poet and philosopher.

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace

admin — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:23:28 +0000

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.

The Prayer of Saint Francis is a Christian prayer. It is attributed to the 13th-century saint Francis of Assisi.

Awareness

admin — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:49:06 +0000

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber

In the new year, I live one day at a time. Being in the present, I do not dwell on the past or the future. My fears, resentments, dislikes and negativity fall away as I grow and am renewed. God’s spirit flows through me and I am more aware of Him, as I try to live the way I believe God wants me to live.

Jeff, Redwood City

Serenity Prayer

admin — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 02:23:41 +0000

Thoughts of themselves have no substance

admin — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 05:50:04 +0000

Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

– Ashvaghosha