The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum.
You can decide whether you want to be an inmate
or pick up your visitor’s badge. - Deepak Chopra
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The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor’s badge. - Deepak Chopra Pessimism is a temper of mind that looks too much on the dark side of things. It is the doctrine in which the whole world is bad rather than good. This is very depressing. - Swami Sivananda
The more conscious we are of our weaknesses, the more we can limit their impact on our lives and the lives of others. - Joseph Telushkin
Right speech means abstention (1) from telling lies, (2) from backbiting and slander and talk that may bring about hatred, enmity, disunity, and disharmony among individuals or groups of people, (3) from harsh, rude, impolite, malicious, and abusive language, and (4) from idle, useless, and foolish babble and gossip. When one abstains from these forms of wrong and harmful speech one naturally has to speak the truth, has to use words that are friendly and benevolent, pleasant and gentle, meaningful, and useful. One should not speak carelessly: speech should be at the right time and place. If one cannot say something useful, one should keep “noble silence.” - Walpola Sri Rahula
The next time you make a change,
take a risk, step out there, do not say to yourself 'What if this doesn't work out!' Avoid a plan B. Instead have this Plan A+ in your mind and say to yourself . . . "Wow, what if this works out!" - Victor M. Parachin Youth is the best time, the most fitting time in a man's life, to devote himself to spiritual aspiration and spiritual practice. - Swami Sivananda
We live in a huge material pollution; air, earth, polluted water. If we could see the energy of anger, violence, paranoia, greed, envy, competitiveness around the earth, it would be a great layer of dirty energy.It is very important that we do not act on this energy, even if we are outraged. Outrage based on anger instead of compassion just adds more of it to the world, besides fear. As the Buddha says: “Anger is not solved with more anger; anger is solved without anger.”
We have to put out love and compassion because the world is really suffering. And that does not mean that we accept and tolerate. But if we join this energy of paranoia and fear, we will be on that side. —Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo Water flows over these hands.
May I use them skillfully to preserve our precious planet. I didn’t make it to 91 by neglecting my health. - T. Boone Pickens who died 9/ 11 /19
We would devote time each day to making contact with someone who would profit from hearing from us. - Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
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Victor M. Parachin ...is aVedic educator, yoga instructor, Buddhist meditation teacher and author of a dozen books. Buy his books at amazon or your local bookstore. Archives
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