Meditation Secrets Revealed

Probably one of my favorite quotes of all time, it is credited to Mother Theresa and is written on the wall of her home for children in Calcutta.

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive 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.

“Know yourself as the ocean of being, the womb of all existence. You can know it only by being it. Without it all is trouble. If you want to live sanely, creatively and happily and have infinite riches to share, search for what you are!” ~Sri Nasargadatta Maharaj from the book I AM That

Once upon a time, in an island there lived six feelings and emotions: Happiness, Knowledge, Love, Sadness, Richness and Vanity. One day they discovered that the island began sinking! So all of them built boats and canoes and left, one by one. Except for Love. Love wanted to delay abandoning her beloved island as long as possible.

When the island had almost sunk, Love decided to ask for help.

Richness was passing by Love in a boat. Love asked, “Richness, can you take me with you?”

Richness answered, “Sorry, Love, I can’t. There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat, so there is no place here for you. With both of us in here we will sink for sure.”

Love next asked Vanity who was also sailing by, but Vanity offered the same answer.

“I can’t help you, Love. You are all wet and might damage my boat,” Vanity answered.

Sadness was close by, so Love asked, “Sadness, take me along with you.”

“Oh . . . Love, I am so sad that I need to be by myself!”, sadness said in a gloomy voice.

Happiness passed by Love, too, but she was so preoccupied with her happiness that she did not even hear when Love called her.

Suddenly, there was a voice, “Come, Love, I will take you.”

It was an elder with a tattered head scarf. An overjoyed Love jumped into the boat. When they arrived at a dry land, the elder went her own way.

Love looked around and saw the Knowledge who was the first to have landed there a while ago.

“Who Helped me?” Love asked.

“It was Time,” Knowledge answered.

“Time? Why time?” Love was surprised.

“Because only Time is capable of understanding how valuable Love is.” The Knowledge smiled.

In darkness there is suffering and pain. Filled with low places where fear dwells and rears its head. This darkness is ignorance of the real.

In the light the good shines bright. Where goodwill towards ourselves and others prevails. It is the place where truth and joy dwell.

Thus, it is said that there are only four kinds of people in the world:

There are those that move from darkness towards darkness.

There are those that move from light towards darkness.

There are those that move from darkness towards light.

There are those that move from light towards light.

Which one are you becoming?

Which does the world need you to become?

Two Monks

Click to hear the a short story of two monks, and what they can teach us

about letting go of past burdens….