“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ”― John Bunyan

Children and Prayers

 

A Protestant priest, having started a family, no longer had any peace for his prayers. One night, when he knelt down, he was disturbed by the children in the living room.
"Have the children keep quiet!" he shouted.
His startled wife obeyed. Thereafter, whenever the priest came home, they all maintained silence during prayers. But he realized that God was no longer listening.
One night, during his prayers, he asked the Lord: "What is going on? I have the necessary peace, and I cannot pray!"
An angel replied: "He hears words, but no longer hears the laughter. He notices the devotion, but can no longer see the joy."
The priest stood and shouted once again to his wife: "Have the children play! They are part of prayer!"
And his words were heard by God once again

~ Paulo Coelho

 

“You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.”― Kahlil Gibran

 

P.S: What if, our prayers could be filled with joy laced with infinite gratitude ??

 

Would we then need a special place to pray ????

 

What if, any time could be the perfect time to offer our appreciation /gratitude for our countless blessings ?????

Thank you for visiting the TREASURE TROVE today.

Namaste,

Bhagya

“Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.” ~ Earl Nightingale

 

An excerpt from
The Strangest Secret
by Earl Nightingale

George Bernard Shaw said,

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, they make them."

Well, it's pretty apparent, isn't it? And every person who discovered this believed (for a while) that he was the first one to work it out. We become what we think about.

Conversely, the person who has no goal, who doesn't know where he's going, and whose thoughts must therefore be thoughts of confusion, anxiety and worry—his life becomes one of frustration, fear, anxiety and worry. And if he thinks about nothing... he becomes nothing.
How does it work? Why do we become what we think about? Well, I'll tell you how it works, as far as we know. To do this, I want to tell you about a situation that parallels the human mind.

Suppose a farmer has some land, and it's good, fertile land. The land gives the farmer a choice; he may plant in that land whatever he chooses. The land doesn't care. It's up to the farmer to make the decision.

We're comparing the human mind with the land because the mind, like the land, doesn't care what you plant in it. It will return what you plant, but it doesn't care what you plant.

Now, let's say that the farmer has two seeds in his hand—one is a seed of corn, the other is nightshade, a deadly poison. He digs two little holes in the earth and he plants both seeds—one corn, the other nightshade. He covers up the holes, waters and takes care of the land...and what will happen? Invariably, the land will return what was planted.
As it's written in the Bible, "As ye sow, so shall ye reap."

Remember the land doesn't care. It will return poison in just as wonderful abundance as it will corn. So up come the two plants—one corn, one poison.
The human mind is far more fertile, far more incredible and mysterious than the land, but it works the same way. It doesn't care what we plant... success...or failure. A concrete, worthwhile goal...or confusion, misunderstanding, fear, anxiety and so on. But what we plant it must return to us.

You see, the human mind is the last great unexplored continent on earth. It contains riches beyond our wildest dreams. It will return anything we want to plant.

 

“Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.” ~ Earl Nightingale

 

 

“We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.” ~ Earl Nightingale

 

P.S:  You were born to win.

 

Choose to be a winner.

 

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Namaste,

Bhagya

“In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.”
-- Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching

 

ARRIVAL

"Is the path to Enlightenment difficult or easy?'
"It is neither".
"Why not"?
"Because it isn't there".
"Then how does one travel to the goal"?
"One doesn't. This is a journey without distance.
Stop traveling and you arrive".

~Anthony de Mello

 

“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.”

~Lao Tzu

 

“The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.”

― Albert Einstein

 

P.S: Many of us are so focused on reaching our destination,that we forget to enjoy the journey.

What would it take for us to choose to BE all of who we were created to be…..as we walk the path to enlightenment??

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Namaste,

Bhagya

“Become totally empty
Quiet the restlessness of the mind
Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness”
― Lao Tzu

 

EMPTINESS

Sometimes there would be a rush of noisy visitors and the silence of the monastery would be shattered.

This would upset the disciples; not the Master, who seemed just as content with the noise as with the silence. To his protesting disciples he said one day,

"Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self".

~Anthony de Mello

 

“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.” ~Marcus Aurelius

“Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.”
― D.T. Suzuki

P.S:What if, in the midst of all the chaos that surrounds us….we are able to be at peace ???

Thank you for visiting the TREASURE TROVE today.

Namaste,

Bhagya

 

 

  “Action expresses priorities.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

 

DEFINITIONS

The Master had a childlike fascination for modern inventions. He could not get over his amazement at the pocket calculator when he saw one.

Later he said, good-naturedly, "A lot of people seem to have those little pocket calculators, but nothing in their pockets worth calculating"!

Weeks later, when a visitor asked him what he taught his disciples, he said,"To get their priorities right: Better have the money than calculate it; better have the experience than define it".

~Anthony de Mello

MORSEL:

Ours is a society that has perfected its means yet neglected its meaning. -- Albert Einstein

 “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.”― Stephen R. Covey

 

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”― Bruce Lee

 

“A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with—that’s poverty—but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you’re clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar.”― Victoria Moran

 

P.S:

What would life be like, if I could live in a state of total consciousness at all times?

What if,I could check my priorities more often…and be willing to “painlessly discard” whatever I need to“whether it’s clutter in” my “cabinets or commitments on”my “calendar.”

 

…. for visiting the TREASURE TROVE today.

Namaste,

Bhagya

“What other people think about me is not my business.” ~ Michael J Fox

 

AUTONOMY

The Master seemed quite impervious to what people thought of him. When the disciples asked how he had attained this stage of inner freedom, he laughed aloud and said:

"Till I was twenty I did not care what people thought of me.

After twenty I worried endlessly about what my neighbors thought.

Then one day after fifty I suddenly saw that they hardly ever thought of me at all".

MORSEL:
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
-- John Atkinson

 

“The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.” ~ Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

 

“How would your life be different if…You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day…You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others”― Steve Maraboli

 

P.S: So often we allow the opinions of others to mess up our lives.

 

What if, we could catch ourselves as we spiral from joyous equanimity to upset and distress ???

Opinions are just opinions…they are different from facts.

 

What  others choose to think/assume/presume/believe/conclude  is just an interesting point of view ?????

As long as one knows one’s own authenticity that is all that truly matters.

Thank you for visiting the TREASURE TROVE today.

Namaste,

Bhagya