Work, Love, Dance, Sing, Live...

Work like you don’t need the money.
Love like nobody has ever hurt you.
Dance like nobody is watching.
Sing like nobody is listening.
Live as if this was paradise on Earth.

Streaming water

"One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others." ~ Lao Tzu

Simply being

"Dharma is simply BEING. Being what you are…. its PURE. Anything added to it, becomes impure e.g., Hindu Dharma, Christian Dharma, Muslim Dharma, Buddha Dharma, Sikh Dharma, Jain Dharma, etc…. You are love and love has no tags before and after it." ~ Satish Kaku

Real temple

A single insight into yourself in more valuable than all your sculptures. A single glimpse of consciousness and you have entered the real temple. ~ Osho

One seed

One seed can make a whole earth green. One spark on you can fill the whole earth with Dance, Song and Music. ~ Osho

What lies within us

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." ~ Emerson

Self is everywhere

Those who see all creatures in themselves and themselves in all creatures know no fear. Those who see all creatures in themselves and themselves in all creatures know no grief. How can the multiplicity of life delude the one who sees its unity? The Self is everywhere. Bright is the Self, indivisible, untouched by sin, wise and transcendent. She it is who holds the cosmos together.
~ Isha Upanishad

Bereavement

Bereavement can force you to look at your life directly, compelling you to find a purpose in it where there may not have been one before. When suddenly you find yourself alone after the death of someone you love, it can feel as if you are being given a new life and are being asked: “What will you do with this life? And why do you wish to continue living?”

My heartfelt advice to those in the depths of grief and despair after losing someone they dearly loved is to pray for help and strength and grace. Pray that you will survive and discover the richest possible meaning to the new life you now find yourself in. Be vulnerable and receptive, be courageous and patient. Above all, look into your life to find ways of sharing your love more deeply with others now.

~ Sogyal Rinpoche

Emotions

Take care of your emotions. You can let it out simply by observing it instead of personalising and and holding it. ~ Satish Kaku

The glory of meditation

The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and, most important of all, complete absence of grasping.

The diminishing of your grasping is a sign that you are becoming freer of yourself. And the more you experience this freedom, the clearer the sign that the ego and the hopes and fears that keep it alive are dissolving and the closer you will come to the infinitely generous “wisdom of egolessness.” When you live in that wisdom home, you’ll no longer find a barrier between “I” and “you,” “this” and “that,” “inside” and “outside”; you’ll have come, finally, to your true home, the state of nonduality.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche

State of Dilemma

When you are stuck on a decision where your mind and heart are creating the dilemma, Listen to your mind and not your heart.  Don't let your heart pound your mind!!!

Operate from love

Do not let your fears run your life. Operate from love. You will be able to do your best and live in accordance with the law of nature. Whatever comes will look like a blessing. ~ Satish Kaku

Ignorance

“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.” ~ Wayne Dyer

Limitation of sight

"Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight." ~ Rossiter W. Raymond

Belief

“A belief is not an idea held by the mind, it is an idea that holds the mind” ~ Elly Roselle

Painting your life

At birth, your life was a plain canvas.
Your potential is the colours.
Your choices are the strokes on the canvas.

At death, this canvas
will either be a treasured masterpiece
or an unnoticed scribbling.

That would be the judgment day
on how good a painter you were
in painting your life.
Excerpted from ‘Unposted Letter’ by T.T. Ranga Rajan

Immense silence

"The present has nothing to do with time. If you are just here in this moment, there is no time. There is immense silence, stillness, no movement; nothing is passing, everything has come to a sudden stop." ~ Osho

Live totally and intensely

"Live totally, and live intensely, so that each moment becomes golden and your whole life becomes a series of golden moments." ~ Osho

Attitude toward Death

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Trouble no one about his religion.
Respect others in their views
and demand that they respect yours.
Love your life, perfect your life,
beautify all things in your life.
Seek to make your life long
and of service to your people.
Prepare a noble death song for the day
when you go over the great divide.
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting
or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light,
for your life, for your strength.
Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living.
If you see no reason to give thanks,
the fault lies in yourself.
When your time comes to die, be not like those
whose hearts are filled with fear of death,
so that when their time comes they weep and pray
for a little more time to live their lives over again
in a different way.
Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

~ The Teaching of Tecumseh

On death

"You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life? The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light. If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one." Excerpted from 'The Prophet' by Kahlil Gibran