“Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.” ~ Jim Rohn

 

WHAT WOULD IT TAKE……??????

What would it take for me to open a new door?

What would it take for me to honour myself more ?

What would it take for me to be willing to go to any lengths…..

what would it take for me to conserve my strengths ????

What would it take for me to  honour my own needs a little more ???

What would it take for me to be the catalyst for others to soar ???

What would it take for me to  draw boundaries ?????

What would it take for me to stop dishing out freebies ????

What would it take for me to allow myself to stand up and be counted ???

What would it take for me to stop taking myself for granted ????

What would it take for ME to BE the best ME ever ?

What would it take for me to realize it has to be either NOW or NEVER??

~ Bhagya

 

“Every wall is a door.”

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

“Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.” ~Vernon Howard

 

P.S: When I was looking out for something to post on the blog today……the thought that came out of the blue was…… why not write something ???

This was the outcome in the next few minutes.

Of course I could have gone on and on and on.

 

Thank you for visiting the Treasure Trove today.

Namaste,

Bhagya

“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” ~ Lao Tzu

An excerpt from
Smile for No Good Reason
by Dr. Lee Jampolsky

Have you ever noticed that two people can confront the same circumstances with very different reactions? This is a matter of attitude and nothing else. Freedom is being able to say, "Rich or poor, alone or with a mate, physically healthy or not, employed or laid off, I believe that peace of mind is possible."
We have all experienced what it is like to be having a perfectly fine day and have a situation or crisis arise that sends us into a tailspin. It may be something small like a traffic jam making us late, or something more severe like the loss of a job. Our response can seem automatic.
Though at first it may be difficult to accept, freedom depends on recognizing that you're not upset because of what occurred, you are upset because of how you perceive the situation. Key to Attitudinal Healing is recognizing that you are not a victim of the world.
Another way of saying this is: There is absolutely nothing in the world that has the power to ruin your day. If you are upset, it is because you have directed your mind to be so. Initially these truths can be hard to accept because you have become so accustomed to giving your power away. Every time you blame another person for your unhappiness you are giving your power away. Stop blaming and start healing.
How you perceive a situation will determine your experience and your reaction. Let's imagine that you have a favorite coffeehouse that you frequent. The staff knows your name and always has a warm and friendly greeting as you walk through the door. An extremely grumpy woman whom you have never seen before serves you this particular morning. She appears preoccupied rather than caring about you or what she is doing. As she pours your hot coffee a good portion spills in your lap. Despite your jumping in shock, no apology follows. Your experience is anger: both toward the waitress and the owner, Joe, for hiring such an incompetent person. Then, a friend of yours at the next booth says, "Isn't it great that Joe hired her!"
"Great! Are you out of your mind? She just spilled hot coffee in my lap and walked away," you reply with your best indignant voice.
"Oh, you didn't hear the story?" your friend whispers.
"What story?" you angrily reply, still drying off your new slacks, wondering how you will go through the day looking as though you wet your pants.
"Yeah, Joe didn't know her from Adam. He read in the paper that her husband had died last month in a car accident. Apparently her husband's health insurance stopped, and she was looking for another job in order to pay for her sixteen-year old son's chemotherapy for leukemia," your friend responds.
Now, you still have hot coffee in your crotch, but are you still angry? Unlikely. The only thing that shifted was your perception and attitude. Through discovering a reason to be compassionate, your entire experience changed—and there are always reasons to be compassionate.
An important part of healing (i.e., letting go of fear) is developing compassion. Instead of going out in the world and finding plenty of reasons to be upset, go out and discover reasons to extend love. There are thousands of reasons waiting for you right now. A helpful thought to remember is that a miracle is nothing more than allowing an old grievance to become a current compassion.
If you ever run short on reasons to be compassionate, remember there is always one good reason: It makes you feel better than anything else you could do.

When you are upset remind yourself
the cause of your discomfort is your own attitude.
This is freedom.

 

 

P.S: Today………I choose to smile more than I did yesterday. What about YOU ??

Thank you for visiting the TREASURE TROVE today.

Namaste,
Bhagya

 

“The adventure of life is to learn. The goal of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The secret of life is to dare. The beauty of life is to give. The joy of life is to love!” ~ William Arthur Ward

DARING

Said a disappointed visitor, "Why has my stay here yielded no fruit?"

"Could it be because you lacked the courage to shake the tree?" said the Master benignly.

~Anthony de Mello

 

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life. But life has no meaning; it cannot have meaning because meaning is a formula; meaning is something that makes sense to the mind. Every time you make sense out of reality, you bump into something that destroys the sense you made. Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.

~Anthony de Mello

 

Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming cold and indifferent.
On the contrary, it means learning to have relaxed control over our mind
through understanding the real causes of happiness and fulfilment,
and this enables us to enjoy life more and suffer less.

Kathleen McDonald

P.S: When we choose to BE a 100 % wherever we are having the time of our lives; we are open to guidance and awareness that is available to us.We find whatever we are looking for with ease and without struggle.

Thank you for visiting the Treasure TROVE today.

Namaste,

Bhagya

“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.”~Lord Byron

 

 

 

The young tree faced many storms through its young life. The powerful winds, torrential rains, famine, ice, and snow would lie across its branches.

At times the young tree questioned its maker asking,"Why have you let so many storms come into my life?"

His maker whispered, "You will understand one day, stand firm, you will make it through the storms of life." "The challenges will pass, keep this in mind."

The tree questioned his master, "If I go through one more winter the snow will surely break my branches, if I face any more powerful wind I will surely be uprooted and moved away."

His maker whispered, "Stand strong, dig your roots deep into the soil, you will understand someday."

Somehow the young tree kept the positive thoughts in his mind and managed to survive and make it through even the toughest of storms.

Somehow, even in the toughest of times, when the things it went through should have broken it down, it found a way to stand firm even through the worst of storms.

As the young tree grew taller, stronger, and matured the tree realized the storms of life had made it stronger.

 

“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... It's about learning how to dance in the rain.”~Vivian Greene

 

A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn. ~ Author Unknown

 

P.S: Those who are willing to learn will find Nature to be one of the best Teachers.

 

So are young children.

 

 

In fact, everyone and everything I come across could teach me something …..if I am open to learning.

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Namaste,

Bhagya

 

“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek; and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.” Matthew 7:7-8-Bible

 

 

 

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke

 

“You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colours from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them.-"Richard Bach

 

“He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.”-Chinese Proverb

 

“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.” ~ Francis Bacon

 

 

“Ask the right questions. The fastest way to change the answers you receive.”-Lee J. Colan

 

“It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.” -Decouvertes

 

P.S: What would it take for us to be in the question instead of trying to figure out answers all the time????

What would it take for us to learn to ask the right questions…in the right way…at all times???

What would it take for each one of us to have an awesome day today….and everyday??

Thank you for visiting the TREASURE ROVE today.

Namaste,

Bhagya

"When you’re Happy for No Reason, you bring happiness to your outer experiences rather than trying to extract happiness from them. You don’t need to manipulate the world around you to try to make yourself happy. You live from happiness, rather than for happiness."~ Marci Shimoff

 

           

                  

The Way to Love

If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future. So they are spared the guilt and anxiety that so torment human beings and they are full of the sheer joy of living, taking delight not so much in persons or things as in life itself. As long as your happiness is caused or sustained by something or someone outside of you, you are still in the land of the dead. The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.

The Way to Love : The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello

 

“A smile is a curved line that sets things straight.”~ Author Unknown

 

 

As the psychologist and brain researcher Dr. Rick Hanson explained to me during our interview, our brains ‘Velcro for negativity and Teflon for positivity.’ Our negative experiences stick to us like Velcro, while our positive experiences slide right off us like Teflon. In fact, researchers have found it takes numerous positive experiences to overcome a single negative one.”

~Marci Shimoff

 

 “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” ~Albert Schweitzer

 

P.S: What would it take for us to master the fine art of being happy for no reason???

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Namaste,

Bhagya

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”― Dr. Seuss

 

THE POISONED ARROW

A monk once said to the Lord Buddha,

“Do the souls of the just survive death ?”

Characteristically,Buddha gave him no reply.

But the monk persisted.Each day he would repeat the question;and each day he would get silence for an answer till he could take it no more and threatened to quit unless this crucial question was answered to his satisfaction,for to what purpose was he living a life of renunciation if the souls of the just perished with their bodies ?

Then the Lord Buddha, in his compassion,spoke:

“You are like a man,”he said,’who was dying from a poisoned arrow.His relatives rushed a doctor to his side,but he refused to have the arrow taken out unless he had the answer to these three vital questions:

First,was the man who shot him black or white ??

Second, was he tall or short? And

Third, was he a brahmin or an outcaste ?”

The monk stayed on !

~ Anthony de Mello

 

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”~ Confucius

 

“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.” ~ James Allen

 

“Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...”
― J.K. Rowling

 

P.S: What would it take for us to thrive in our bodies and evolve as souls in the highest and best possible ways ????

What would it take for us to learn to ask empowering questions instead of disempowering ones ??????

Thank you for visiting the TREASURE TROVE today.

Namaste,

Bhagya