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If you wish to be respected, then be ever respectful. 

If you wish to be understood, then make it your business to sincerely understand.

If you wish to be appreciated, then be ever grateful. 

If you wish to be loved, then give love in each moment.

If you wish to be wealthy, then act to create real value. 

If you wish to learn, then take time to teach.

If you wish to climb higher, then lift others up. 

If you wish to be wise, then share what you know.

Whatever you wish, life will surely give it. What you must do, though, is to truly live it.

There is so much to live for and so much to see. You will have whatever you are willing to be.

— Ralph Marston

http://greatday.com/motivate/040914.html

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". 

http://www.soulwise.net/99adms3.htm

Vibrations reach faster than words! You may not speak, but the other person may know what you are thinking!

Dr. Hari Kumar

Things and Tasks are so hard when we Must and Have to do it BUT they become so easy when we Want and Like to do it. 
Let us Shift from Burden to Brilliance,
Work to Workship,
Mind to No-Mind,
Punishment 2 Play
Gym to Zen
- Dr. Hari Kumar

Half of sorrows we earn by expecting good things from wrong person & other half we earn by detecting wrong things in good people.

- Dr. Hari Kumar

I asked myself how 2 handle life.
My room gave me the perfect answer.

Roof: Aim High

Fan:          Be cool

Clock:      Value time.

Calender: Be up to date

Wallet:     Save now for future.

Mirror:    Observe yourself

Wall:        Share other's load

Window:  Expand the vision

Floor:      Always be down to earth

Door:      Look within and Let go
- Dr. Hari Kumar


Time & Smile are 2 critical things in life. Sometimes Time Makes Us Forget How 2 Smile & Sometimes Someone's Smile Makes Us 2 Forget Time
- Dr. Hari Kumar

Life with Meditation is like Surfing on the water. Life without Meditation is like swimming against water currents. Be a Meditator & Vegeterian 
- Dr. Hari Kumar


LIFE without a purpose may be happy but not thrilling. 
More meditation more will be the joy & kick 
- Dr. Hari Kumar

www.truthbliss.com

Story:Mother and Baby Fish

“Mother, what is water?” asked the baby fish of the mother fish.
“Water is what you swim in. Water is what you’re mostly made of.”
“But where is it?”
“All around you.”
“But I can’t see it,” said the baby.
“Of course you can.”
“Where?”
“Everywhere.”
“And I’m made of water?”
“Mostly.”
“And after I die..?”
“You go back to being water,” said the mother.

“I once saw a child coming towards me with a lit torch in his hand. 
‘Where have you brought the light from?’ I asked him. 
He immediately blew it out and said to me, 
‘Oh Hasan, tell me where it has gone and I will tell you whence I fetched it.’”
Hasan Basri

http://serenityroom.org/101-zen-stories/

Story:The Parable of the Twins

Once upon a time, twin boys were conceived in the same womb.

Weeks passed, and the twins developed. As their awareness grew, they laughed for joy, "Isn't it great that we were conceived? Isn't it great to be alive?"

Together the twins explored their world. When they found their mother's cord that gave them life they sang for joy, "how great is our mother's love that she shares her own life with us."

As the weeks stretched into months the twins noticed how much each was changing.

"What does this mean?",  asked the one.

"It means that our stay in this world is drawing to an end", said the other one.

"But I don't want to go", said the one, "I want to stay here always"

"We have no choice", said the other, "but maybe there is life after birth!"

"But how can it be?" responded the one. "We will shed our life cord, and how is life possible without it? Besides, we have seen evidence that others were here before us and none of them have returned to tell us that there is life after birth."

And so the one fell into deep despair saying, "If conception ends with birth, what is the purpose of life in the womb? It's meaningless! Maybe there is no mother at all."

"But there has to be", protested the other. "How else did we get here? How do we remain alive?"

"Have you ever seen our mother?", said the one. "Maybe she lives in our minds. Maybe we made her up because the idea made us feel good."

And so the last days in the womb were filled with deep questioning and fear and finally the moment of birth arrived.

When the twins had passed from their world, they opened their eyes and cried, for what they saw exceeded their fondest dreams.

'Eye has not seen, ear has not heard, nor has it so much as dawned on people what God has prepared for those who love Him.'

http://www.sconsig.com/inspirations/twins.htm

Lao Tzu

Stop thinking, and end your problems. 

- Lao Tzu 

”Wish for success and you will fail. If you really want success, never wish for it. Then no one can make you a failure.”

-Lao Tzu

Fame or self: Which matters more?

Self or wealth: Which is more precious?

Gain or loss: Which is more painful?

He who is attached to things will suffer much.

He who saves will suffer heavy loss.

A contented man is never disappointed.

He who knows when to stop does not find himself in trouble.

He will stay forever safe.

- Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu

To be whole, let yourself break.
To be straight, let yourself bend.
To be full, let yourself be empty.
To be new, let yourself wear out.
To have everything, give everything up.
- Lao Tzu

Buddha

"All things can be mastered by mindfulness." 

- The Buddha

If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way. 
- Buddha

Life is so very difficult. How can we be anything but kind.

-The Buddha

With gentleness overcome anger.

With generosity overcome meanness.

With truth overcome deceit. - Buddha

Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom. 

- Buddha

"If you propose to speak, always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind."
- Buddha.

“There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.”
- Buddha

Even if everyone else is not doing good, I alone will.
Even if everyone else is doing wrong, I alone will not. 
- Buddha

Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. 
The goal is to find it 
- Buddha

‎"Everyone knows suffering - but they don't really understand suffering. If we really understood suffering, then that would be the end of our suffering."
- Buddha's Real Teaching

What Comes To You, Comes From You 
- Buddha

The Noble Eightfold Middle Path
Wisdom (Paññā) - Right Understanding, Right Thought
Morality  (Sīla) - Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood
Concentration  (Samādhi) - Right Effort,  Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration
- Buddha
http://www.dhammawiki.com/index.php?title=The_Noble_Eightfold_Middle_Path