I love this quote from The 5-minute Meditator, a book about ’spot meditations’:
A person in a Buddhist centre, sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed for an hour, may be completely unfocused and not meditating at all. He could be daydreaming, falling asleep or thinking about everything at random. Conversely, someone who is fully present while [...]
Discover Your Self
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Appearances can deceive
Do Less, Achieve More
I have finished Do Less, Achieve More by Chin-Ning Chu. The subtitle is Discover the hidden power of giving in. The book is divided into three parts, each one dealing with one of the three secrets which are:
Fine-tune your actions
Put your mind at ease
Discover the divine power
Under finetuning your actions is a list of 18 [...]
The Color Green
DailyOM yesterday was about The Color Green, spring and energy.
Green is one of the reasons that spring instigates so much excitement and activity. As a visual harbinger of the end of winter, green stems and leaves shoot up and out from the dark branches of trees and the muddy ground, letting us know that it’s [...]
The rest of your life?
Last night I watched Alfie on DVD. Great music but the movie is so so, Alfie is shallow and does not learn from his mistakes. In one part of the movie Alfie has regrets and walks along the beach talking with an older man. Alfie is asked “What’s gonna happen to the rest of your [...]
True love
I came across a blog called Sri Chinmoy Inspiration which is a blog on Self improvement written by Tejvan Pettinger and where I found several interesting posts.
The post about How to distinguish between love and emotional dependence is great, I like this part:
True love means loving people for who they are, not trying to channel [...]
What are you willing to leave behind?
I got this in one of my Daily Forwards Step:
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
André Gide
This rings true to me, we often have to leave things behind to be able to find something new.
To have what you want, what are you willing [...]
Which tiger are you feeding?
I got this quote in one of my Daily Forwards Step:
An old man said to his grandson, “Boy, I have two tigers caged within me. One is love and compassion. The other is fear and anger.” The young boy asked, “Which one will win, grandfather?” The old man replied, “The one I feed.”
Indian tale
I prefer [...]
Ultimately the soft wins over the hard
I got this quote in one of my Daily Forwards Step:
Don’t be hard like a rock, be soft like water. Ultimately the soft wins over the hard. Be like water, soft, flowing, at ease. The hardness inside will eventually be reduced to sand, and the rock will completely disappear.
Lao Tzu
What areas of your life do [...]
Every Step Is Forward – No Going Back
DailyOM today is about Every Step Is Forward – No Going Back.
There are times when we feel that we are spinning our wheels in the mud in terms of our spiritual progress. This can be especially true following a period of major growth in which we feel as if we’ve gained a lot of ground. [...]
What did you learn today that could empower you in future?
This question turned up in my Daily Forwards Step. There was also this quote:
The greatest discovery of my lifetime was that a person can change the circumstances of his life by changing his thoughts.
William James
Change is an important issue, both on a personal level and for society and our world. It brings another quote to [...]
