Inspiring Youth

08/07/2023

03/06/2023

“The company you keep is important. If you leave your coat in a room where people are smoking, pretty soon it will smell of smoke. If you leave it outside in the garden, later on, when you bring it indoors, it will carry with it the fragrance of fresh air and flowers.

“Such is the case with the mind. Your garment of thoughts absorbs the vibrations of those with whom you mix. If you mingle with pessimists, in time you will become a pessimist. And if you mingle with cheerful, happy people, you yourself will develop a cheerful, happy nature.

“Environment is stronger than will power. To mix with worldly people without absorbing at least some of their worldliness requires great spiritual strength.

“Beginners on the spiritual path, especially, should be very careful in the company they keep. They should mix with other devotees, and try not to mingle with ego-saturated, worldly people. They should especially avoid people who are negative, even if those people are devotees.

“Whether one becomes a saint or a sinner is to a great extent determined by the company he keeps.”

The Essence of Self-Realization by Paramhansa Yogananda

03/06/2023

Sensitivity in its highest form is intelligence

Sensitivity in its highest form is intelligence. Without sensitivity to everything - to one's own sorrows; to the sorrow of a group of people, of a race; to the sorrow of everything that is - , unless one feels and has the feeling highly sensitivized, one cannot possibly solve any problem. And we have many problems, not only at the physical level, the economic level, the social level, but also at the deeper levels of one's own being - problems that apparently we are not capable of solving. I am not talking of the mathematical problems, or the problems of mechanical inventions, but of human problems: of our sorrows, of despair, of the narrow spirit of the mind, of the shallowness of one's thinking, of the constant repetitive boredom of life, the routine of going to office every day for forty or thirty years. And the many problems that exist, both consciously and unconsciously, make the mind dull, and therefore the mind loses this extraordinary sensitivity. And when we lose sensitivity, we lose intelligence.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

30/05/2023

Loved 💖

30/05/2023

forever 💖

29/05/2023

Happiness forever 💖
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29/05/2023

Choose people wisely 💮

29/05/2023

Discontentment is human, contentment is divine. Animals know neither contentment nor discontentment; they simply go on living mechanically, unconsciously. It is the great privilege of human being to be aware of discontent. To be aware of discontent means there is a possibility to grow towards contentment. But very few people make any effort towards inner growth. Their whole life is rooted in a misunderstanding. They think that if they have a bigger house or more money or more power or more prestige they will be contented; that if they become famous, if their name is known all over the world, then they will be contented. That is sheer nonsense.

- Osho

29/05/2023

Inspiring Youth 🕺

28/05/2023

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

28/05/2023

Think about what you want.
Not what you don't want.
Guard your thoughts carefully,
because they create your experiences.

- Doreen Virtue

26/05/2023

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26/05/2023

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.

-Søren Kierkegaard

26/05/2023

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

- Henry David Thoreau

25/05/2023

Gamble everything for love,
if you are a true human being.
If not, leave this gathering.
Half-heartedness doesn’t
reach into majesty.

― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

25/05/2023

We have all hurt someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. We have all loved someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. It is an intrinsic human trait, and a deep responsibility, I think, to be an organ and a blade. But, learning to forgive ourselves and others is what makes us most human. We make horrible mistakes. It’s how we learn. We breathe love. It’s how we learn. And it is inevitable.

24/05/2023

People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.

-Carl R. Rogers

24/05/2023

Devotee : How can the rebellious mind be brought under control?

Ramana Maharshi : Either seek its source so that it may disappear or surrender that it may be struck down.

Devotee: But the mind slips away from our control.

Ramana Maharshi : Be it so. Do not think of it. When you recollect yourself bring it back and turn it inward. That is enough.

No one succeeds without effort. Mind control is not one’s birthright. The successful few owe their success to their perseverance. A passenger in a train keeps his load on the head by his own folly. Let him put it down: he will find the load reaches the destination all the same. Similarly, let us not pose as the doers, but resign ourselves to the guiding Power.

19/05/2023

Never miss out on a good person that can make your life great just because they're a little difficult. The good ones never come easy.

18/05/2023

To suffer without complaint
is the only lesson
we have to learn in this life.

― Vincent Willem van Gogh, The Letters

17/05/2023

हथेली पर रखकर नसीब,तु क्यों अपना मुकद्दर ढूँढ़ता है,
सीख उस समन्दर से जो टकराने के लिए पत्थर ढूँढ़ता है।

16/05/2023

That deed is well done if one has not to repent for having done it, and if one is delightful and happy with the result of that deed.

16/05/2023

How to React to Loneliness

"We are fundamentally alone, and there is nothing anywhere to hold on to. Moreover, this is not a problem. In fact, it allows us to finally discover a completely unfabricated state of being. Our habitual assumptions — all our ideas about how things are — keep us from seeing anything in a fresh, open way… We don’t ultimately know anything. There’s no certainty about anything. This basic truth hurts, and we want to run away from it. But coming back and relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating ourselves when we run away from the ambiguity of loneliness."

-Pema Chodron

Pema is reflecting the Buddha's teaching about loneliness. In the Majjhima Nikaya, the Buddha says:

"Loneliness is a painful feeling arising from the mind's craving for companionship. It is a type of suffering that can be overcome through the practice of mindfulness and the cultivation of inner peace."

This teaching emphasizes the root cause of loneliness as craving and attachment, and emphasizes the importance of practicing mindfulness and cultivating inner peace as a means of overcoming this suffering.

Buddha taught that loneliness is a fundamental source of suffering that arises from attachment and craving for companionship. However, through the practice of mindfulness, good conduct, and contemplation, we can overcome this suffering and find true happiness and inner peace.

The Buddha never left anyone without a solution. In the Sutta Nipata, the Buddha says:

"Whoever lives alone, withdrawn in contemplation, calming the mind, mindful and knowing the Dhamma, like a racehorse that leaves behind the mule, so does one leave behind the realm of that which afflicts you."

This verse highlights the benefits of solitude and contemplation in overcoming loneliness and finding inner peace. By calming the mind and practicing mindfulness, we can leave behind the distractions and temptations of the world and find true freedom and happiness. When all is said and done, we are alone with the beliefs of who and what we are. The relationship that we have with ourselves is our primary teacher. All of our idiosyncrasies, and the things we wrestle with on a daily basis, is the best teacher we could ever want.

"Cool loneliness allows us to look honestly and without aggression at our own minds. We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be. We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and heartache, no punishment. Cool loneliness doesn’t provide any resolution or give us ground under our feet. It challenges us to step into a world of no reference point without polarizing or solidifying. This is called the Middle Way."

-Pema Chodron

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15/05/2023

Existence is god called through love,
provoked through love.
The moment you become capable of prayer, existence becomes god.
The moment you become capable of deep love,
life becomes god.
It is a transfiguration of the same energy.

- OSHO