poor vs rich

In a country well governed, POVERTY is something to be ashamed of.
In a country badly governed, WEALTH is something to be ashamed of.

- Confucius.

love what you do........

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.”

– Albert Einstein

purposeful life...

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.

- Emily Dickinsen

love.................unconditional

Even after all this time,


the sun never says to the earth,"You owe me."

Look what happens with a love like that.

It lights the whole sky - Hafiz

Happiness all the way

"If one is not happy, one has lost the very purpose of life..."
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

spiritual journey

We are not human beings on a spiritualy journey.
We are spiritual beings on a human journey.

- Stephen Covey.

piece together

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

- Vincent Van Gogh

Forceful spirituality..

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

- Franklin D Roosevelt.

Uncommon

Common sense is not so common.

- Voltaire

sticking to guns

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."


BANJAMIN DISROELI

Together....

Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.

- Ryunosuke Satoro

...........always on learning curve

We are all apprentices in a craft where
no one ever becomes a master.

- Ernest Hemingway.

ship is to sail....

A ship is safe in harbour;
but that's not what ships are for.
- William Shedd

Never started .....never finished

What is not started today
is never finished tomorrow.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mother, the best

The role of a mother is probably the most important career a woman can have.

- Janet Mary Riley.
  (1915), US Lawyer and writer.

A drop does matter....

“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop"

- Mother Teresa

Moral of the story

Do not tell people how to live their lives.
Just tell them stories.
And they will figure out how those stories apply to them.

- Randy Pausch.

There is no emergency

Stress is an ignorant state.
It believes that everything is an emergency.

- Natalie Goldberg

blessing of life

....the capacity to SERVE is indeed a blessing of life.

- Subroto Bagchi,
 Founder - Mind Tree.

what being a professional is about

Here is Subroto Bagchi's take :

• being able to work unsupervised;
• doing the job with competence and integrity;
• to the point of being able to certify one's own work;
• showing commitment and even affection for your job

Precious present

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his

present.

- Roger Bason

An opportunity in failure

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more

intelligently.

- Henry Ford.

Principles to hold..........

A people that values its

privileges

above its

principles

soon loses both.

- Dwight D Einsteinhover

The river has to flow...........

When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others.

-  Chinese Proverb

Bloom or die

Man is a complex being:
He makes deserts bloom
and lakes die.

- Gilstern

Effortless meditation....

An effort to meditate is the denial of meditation.

- J Krishnamurthy,
   March, 1979

God's language

"Silence is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation."

-  Thomas Keating

Path to spiritual eminence

Silence is the first door to spiritual eminence.

- Adi Sankara

The most important career of a woman....

 The role of a mother is probably the most important career a woman can have.

-   Janet Mary Riley
      [1915] U S Lawyer and writer

The ONLY present Moment

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal.
Live this day as if it were your last.
The past is over and gone.
The future is not guaranteed.

- Wayne Dyer.