The monk who sold his Ferrari -Robin S Sharma

Spotting the pot of tea I had left on the table next to him, he
started to pour into my waiting cup.

He poured until the cup was full—but then he kept on pouring! Tea started to trickle down the sides of the cup and into the saucer, then onto my wife’s prized
Persian rug.

At first I watched silently. Then I couldn’t take it any more.

“Julian, what are you doing? My cup is overflowing. No matter
how hard you try, no more will go in!” I yelled impatiently.

He looked at me for a long moment. “Please don’t take this the
wrong way. I really respect you, John. I always have.

However, just like this cup, you seem to be full of your own ideas. And how
can any more go in. . . until you first empty your cup?”

I was struck by the truth of his words. He was right. My many
years in the conservative legal world, doing the same things every
day with the same people who thought the same thoughts every
day had filled my cup to the brim.

“Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.”

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-The Spade

Start knowing where you live:

“We are back where we started

Home… only now, we can really know it

Fragile… destined to die swallowed by a dying Sun

But we shouldn t despair, we should rejoice

We managed to experience the wonders of the Universe
We should celebrate our achievements

Enjoy our moments in the Sun”

Embrace the energy that give and take life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vOU6-1yNZs

We start our life as a rough diamond, celestial powder from the Cosmos.

It is sad, that some people don’t realize that, and they end up their human experience still as a rough diamond.
All the experiences we take in life is Mouldering – polishing – carving our impurities.

The more we suffer, we endure, more we open our mind and try to change the perspective we see the world, taking every person as a teacher, every experience as a lesson… “more carats the better”.

We don t have to be all alike, different, craziness is a good thing.

Be different , know your true self.

Beauty is relative but it seems like we all have the same notion of love, kindness and this is who we are born and supposed to be.
“Everything in nature is enlightened, because they are acting according to their nature…..only for the human being, it seems he dosen t accept his nature” Roshan

Difficulties appears when we use the mind, the mind it s conflict,duality, fluctuations it s a programed machine. But we can use our soul to change it, breath, yoga to our betterment.

“Strong unique identity ” Roshan said.

And if you think about it…what s true happiness than just being yourself and being loved and accepted for who you are. The sense of belonging. The higher point in Maslow pyramid.

The answer to everything is love. Stop questioning everything and take a deep inhale. And bring yourself to the present the only thing that matters.

Namaste

An old man was going for a walk, when he noticed a little boy feeding a thin, shaggy looking dog with bits of bread. He went up to the boy and asked him why he was sharing his bread with the dogs.

The little boy answered, “Because they have nothing. No home, no family, and if I don’t feed them they will die.” “But there are homeless dogs everywhere,” the old man replied. “So your efforts don’t really make a difference” The little boy looked at the dog and stroked him. “But for this little dog, it makes all the difference in the world.”

There was once a businessman who was sitting by the beach in a small Brazilian village. As he sat, he saw a Brazilian fisherman rowing a small boat towards the shore having caught quite few big fish. The businessman was impressed and asked the fisherman, “How long does it take you to catch so many fish?”

The fisherman replied, “Oh, just a short while.”

“Then why don’t you stay longer at sea and catch even more?” The businessman was astonished.

“This is enough to feed my whole family,” the fisherman said.

The businessman then asked, “So, what do you do for the rest of the day?”

The fisherman replied, “Well, I usually wake up early in the morning, go out to sea and catch a few fish, then go back and play with my kids. In the afternoon, I take a nap with my wife, and evening comes, I join my buddies in the village for a drink — we play guitar, sing and dance throughout the night.”

The businessman offered a suggestion to the fisherman. “I am a PhD in business management. I could help you to become a more successful person. From now on, you should spend more time at sea and try to catch as many fish as possible. When you have saved enough money, you could buy a bigger boat and catch even more fish. Soon you will be able to afford to buy more boats, set up your own company, your own production plant for canned food and distribution network. By then, you will have moved out of this village and to Sao Paulo, where you can set up HQ to manage your other branches.”

The fisherman continues, “And after that?”

The businessman laughs heartily, “After that, you can live like a king in your own house, and when the time is right, you can go public and float your shares in the Stock Exchange, and you will be rich.”

The fisherman asks, “And after that?”

The businessman says, “After that, you can finally retire, you can move to a house by the fishing village, wake up early in the morning, catch a few fish, then return home to play with your kids, have a nice afternoon nap with your wife, and when evening comes, you can join your buddies for a drink, play the guitar, sing and dance throughout the night!”

The fisherman smiled.

O Lord, Today is the day of Atonement and  my list of sins against Thee is long:

-I have been weak, for i have forgotten my strength
-i have been compassionate, when i should have been firm
-i have failed to chose , for fear of making the wrong decision
-i have yielded before the time to do so, and i have blasphemed when i should have given thanks.

Still i have also a list of Thy sins against me:

-You made me suffer more than was just, by taking from this world one that i love.
-You have confounded my search, Thy harshness almost made me forget the love i have for Thee.
-You have destroyed the city that received me.

If we compare the lists you shall see that you are in my debt. But since today is the Day of Atonement, give me forgiveness and shall forgive You.

At that moment a wind blew and an angel appeared. “You have done well. God had accepted the request.”

Tears where falling from the prophet.He knelt and kissed the valley and the soil.

“Thank you for having come, for i still have one doubt : is it not a sin to do this?”

The angel said: “If a warrior fight with his instructor, does he offend him?”

“No. It is the only way to teach the technique that he must learn.”

“Then continue.” The angel replied.

A man has not to accept his fate, he has to chose it.

God it s like a father he sees his children how they take their own decisions, and responsibility for their path. They should be able to manage on their own, there is no greater pride than to see that.

Each person should take into their hands the responsibility of their own life.

We have the greatest gift: to chose for ourselves. Don t let others chose for you.

Cowards, all they want is for the changed situation to go back to what it use to be, so they can go on living their lives and things in their customary ways.

The brave , set afire that which  is old, even with the cost of great internal suffering, abandoning everything including God and continue onward.

From heaven God smiles contentedly, because he sees his children living on their own, not constantly needing his help. So just say thank you !

Thank you for the pain you re giving me , because the lesson from it its so much greater.

Paulo Coelho said :

There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable.Everything has his reason of being, you just have to distinguish what is temporary and what is everlasting.
-What is temporary?
-The unavoidable..
-What is everlasting?
-The lesson of the unavoidable.

Meet 98 year old Dobri Dobrev, a man who lost his hearing in the second world war. Every day he walks 10 kilometers from his village in his homemade clothes and leather shoes to the city of Sofia, where he spends the day begging for money.

Though a well known fixture around several of the city’s churches, known for his prostrations of thanks to all donors, it was only recently discovered that he has donated every penny he has collected — over 40,000 euros — towards the restoration of decaying Bulgarian monasteries and the utility bills of orphanages, living instead off his monthly state pension of 80 euros.