Love and freedom

“Freedom only exists when love is present. The person, who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves the most.” ~ Alchemist Paulo Coelho

Are we listening?

Whether it is teaching, learning, building relationship, or selling – a good listener will always have an edge over others. A good listener will not listen to the words, but he will also listen and understand the emotions behind those words. He will not only listen to what is being spoken, but he will also catch the unspoken messages, and that’s complete listening.
Excerpted from 'Frozen Thoughts' Vol. 10: Issue 7 (January, 2011)

Allow the unexpected

“You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.” ~ Alchemist Paulo Coelho

Kindness

"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness" ~ Dalai Lama

Life and death

"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one" ~ Kahlil Gibran

Neither friendship, nor enmity

"Kabira Khara Bazaar Mein, Mange Sabki Khair
Na Kahu Se Dosti, Na Kahu Se Bair"

Kabira in the market place, wishes welfare of all
Neither friendship nor enmity with anyone at all

Eminence is vain

"Bada Hua To Kya Hua, Jaise Ped Khajoor
Panthi Ko Chaya Nahin, Phal Laage Atidoor"

In vain is the eminence, just like a date tree
No shade for travelers, fruit is hard to reach

Taking all crutches away

‎"I am not here to convince you about anything. I am not here to give you a dogma, a creed to live by. I am here to take all creeds away from you because only then will life happen to you. I am not giving you anything to live by, I am simply taking all props away from you, all crutches." ~ Osho

Our basic crime

‎"Before a child even asks a question, you stuff his head with an answer. That is a basic and major crime of all the religions." ~ Osho

I know nothing

"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing." ~ Socrates

An important gift to a girl

The most important gift anyone can give a girl is a belief in her own power as an individual, her value without reference to gender, her respect as a person with potential. ~ Emilie Buchwald

All souls are potentially divine

"All Souls are alike and potentially divine. None is Superior or Inferior."

Love and giving

"We may often give without love, but we can never love without giving." ~ Swami Chinmayananda

Ask, Seek, Knock

“And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened." ~ Christ

Freedom is to be yourself

"You are totally free to choose, but once you choose, your very choice brings a limitation.If you want to remain totally free, then don't choose. That's where the teaching of choiceless awareness comes in. Why the insistence of the great masters just to be aware and not to choose? Because the moment you choose, you have lost your total freedom, you are left with only a part. But if you remain choiceless, your freedom remains total.So there is only one thing which is totally free and that is choiceless awareness. Everything else is limited."
Excerpted from 'Freedom, The Courage to be Yourself' by Osho

Liberation

"...it is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free."
~ Excerpted from 'The First and Last Freedom' by J. Krishnamurti

Truth

“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Sunday Morning Gyan

Learn from the success of others and not their mistakes.

Not learning from the mistakes may be debated, but just think it this way that mistakes made in one scenario might not be the mistake in another. It also depends on the circumstances and the manner any step is taken and when we tend to learn from someone's mistake, we tend to generally opine that the reason why that person failed is not the right way to deal with something.

While learning from someone's success we learn what is the right way to do something, so..... think as the Sunday Morning Gyan is a Food For Thought.

Mayank

Ordinary man

"The ordinary man is living a very abnormal life, because his values are upside down. Money is more important than meditation; logic is more important than love; mind is more important than heart; power over others is more important than power over one's own being. Mundane things are more important than finding some treasures which death cannot destroy." ~ Osho

Result of our thoughts

"All that we are, and all that we become, is the direct result of our thoughts". ~ Buddha