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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3708, Sunday, November 8, 2009, Editor: Mark
People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior
motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and
some genuine enemies.
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you.
Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight.
Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, will often be forgotten.
Do good anyway.
Give the best you have, and it will never be enough.
Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.
-Found written on the wall in Mother Teresa's home for children
in Calcutta
The Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all
persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others,
even to the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexations to the
spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or
bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than
yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble,
it's a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full
of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full
of heroism.
Be yourself.
Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the
stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion
of life,
keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a
beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
- Max Ehrmann
Don't worry,
Be happy.
Meher Baba
Delve deeply into the sense "I am" and you will surely
discover that the perceiving centre is universal, as universal as
the light that illumines the world. All that happens in the
universe happens to you, the silent witness. On the other hand,
whatever is done,is done by you, the universal and inexhaustible
energy.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from I Am That
God dwells in you, as you, and you don't have to 'do' anything to
be God-realized or Self-realized, it is already your true and
natural state." Just drop all seeking, turn your attention
inward, and sacrifice your mind to the One Self radiating in the
Heart of your very being. For this to be your own presently lived
experience, Self-Inquiry is the one direct and immediate way.
- Ramana Maharshi