Different kinds of Love Stories !

Just Relax !

When you're feeling completely overwhelmed, and you know that you'll never get it all done, relax.

Dropping Ideals

TED : Ads Worth Spreading

TED ideas worth spreading ! one of my favorite sites , today I saw this  image

on their site and as usual it was awesome and I loved the ads and specially this ad from Nike Foundation Girl Effect: The Clock is Ticking .

And this is a very nice initiative and I thought of sharing this with all of you , if you have some time do watch these amazing ads . Click on the Image  !

About these ads the site says

“Here are the 10 winners of our first Ads Worth Spreading competition. With this competition, we're seeking to reverse the trend of online ads being aggressively forced on users. We want to nurture ads so good you choose to watch. On TED.com, ads run after our talks, not before. This means they can run longer than the TV-standard 30 seconds. And that's the key! In 2-3 minutes, there's enough time to really tell a story, share an idea, make an authentic human connection, become unforgettable. Instead of ambush, they offer pleasurable, intelligent engagement. We invite you to view, comment, rate, share -- or start a TED Conversation about these ads! ”

Girl Effect: The Clock is Ticking

This ad uses animation brilliantly to make clear the benefits of investing in a single worthy cause. It sheds light -- and hope -- on one of the most overlooked, yet promising, assets on this planet: 12-year-old girls.

Girls Get Less Than Two Cents Of Every Aid Dollar. Let's Change The Math.

Towards harmony of faiths

You Are A Masterpiece

What is Jealousy and why does it hurt so much?

What goes around usually comes around.

Clean and Re-Organize Your Desk by Starting From Scratch

Over time, your desk and desk drawers have probably become cluttered with all sorts of junk, making it impossible to find anything you need. Weblog Unclutterer shows us how to figure out which items you actually need there by starting from scratch.

No Longer Impossible

Rumi and Sufism

Paint The World Green

Them ! ahem !

TED India

Most of you know about TED talks , those who do not know about ted learn about it  here . Ted is a wonderful platform where people from all walks of life come to share ideas , after all Ted is about : Ideas worth Spreading ! 

Japan: One week later

The Empty Soap Box

Power of Deep Practicing

Japan: Hopes fade for finding more survivors

Supreme Wisdom

Be here Now

The life you live is the life you choose

Walking the Path of Karuna or Compassion

Japan - Vast Devastation

Can you control your temper?

books everyone must read

The Productivity Tricks and Daily Habits of Famous People

Famous visionaries often develop a reputation for having a few eccentricities. However, for many people, these small eccentricities are part of a larger group of daily rituals that help them to be at their most productive and prolific. While not all these tips, tricks, and rituals will work for you, they help to shed light on what some of our most beloved cultural icons and historical figures are willing to do in order to stay on top of their demanding workloads.

Japan: earthquake aftermath

Massive earthquake hits Japan Pictures

Ways You Can Help Earthquake And Tsunami Victims In Japan (updated Daily)

Many people are hurt and missing after the catastrophic earthquake and tsunamis in Japan recently. If you have any resources possible, please consider helping out through these organizations.

The Burnt Biscuits

Thought Of the Day

Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.

                                                                            By: Carlos Castaneda

The House with 1000 Mirrors

Long ago in a small, far away village, there was a place known as the House with 1000 Mirrors. A small, happy little dog learned of this place and decided to visit. When he arrived, he bounced happily up the stairs to the doorway of the house. He looked through the doorway with his ears lifted high and his tail wagging as fast as it could. To his great surprise, he found himself staring at 1000 other happy little dogs with their tails wagging just as fast as his. He smiled a great smile, and was answered with 1000 great smiles just as warm and friendly. As he left the house, he thought to himself, "This is a wonderful place. I will come back and visit it often."

In this same village, another little dog, who was not quite as happy as the first one, decided to visit the house. He slowly climbed the stairs and hung his head low as he looked into the door. When he saw the 1000 unfriendly looking dogs staring back at him, he growled at them and was horrified to see 1000 little dogs growling back at him. As he left, he thought to himself, "That is a horrible place, and I will never go back there again."

 MORAL: All the faces in the world are mirrors. What kind of reflections do you see in the faces of the people you meet depends on you. You have a choice!

Smoking : Break The Habit

Today is No Smoking Day.

The person whose mind is always free from attachment, who has subdued the mind and senses, and who is free from desires, attains the supreme perfection of freedom from karma through renunciation.  Bhagavad Gita 18.49

* God categorically prohibited intoxicants once people had been psychologically prepared for this prohibition, and after they had realised their serious effects: O you who believe! Quran

* Habit is a dead thing, it is an action which has become automatic, and the more one fights it the more strength one gives to it. But really to drop something which has become a habit, you have to investigate it much more, which means going into the whole problem of why the mind cultivates the habit - that is, why the mind is inattentive. J Krishnamurti

* He who binds to himself a joy, does the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in Eternity's sunrise. William Blake

Here are some tips to going smoke free:

1. Set a date - No Smoking Day on Wednesday 09 March 2011 is a good time as you'll be stopping with more than a million other people. Use the days between now and then to plan.

2. Using a proven treatment can make it four times more likely that you'll succeed in stopping smoking

3. Reward yourself - plan some treats with the money you will save

4. Don't even have one cigarette - it's the first step back to 20-a-day

Did you know…

►Smoking is highest among 20-24 year olds - 32% of men and 30% of women smoke

►Two-thirds of smokers start before age 18.

►You don't have to wait long for the benefits to start once you stop smoking

Why should I stop smoking?

► Nobody likes to look old so by quitting smoking you can help to avoid early ageing

► Rediscover the taste of your favourite foods as your taste buds kick in

► It takes about ten minutes to smoke a cigarette, so a ten-a-day smoker can save nearly two hours a day when they quit. Over the course of a year, you can claim back a month of lost time!

► Think of all that money you'll save!!!

For more information visit:  www.nosmokingday.org.uk

Work Quotes

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. -Oscar Wilde

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. -Buddha

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. -Donald Kendall

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -Oscar Wilde

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The harder I work the more I live. -George Bernard Shaw

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun. -Colleen C. Barrett

We work to become, not to acquire. -Elbert Hubbard

Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life. -Harvey MacKay

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. -Margaret Fuller

Nothing will work unless you do. -Maya Angelou

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. -Elbert Hubbard

There is no substitute for hard work. -Thomas A. Edison

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -Aristotle

When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt. -Henry J. Kaiser

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. -Theodore Roosevelt

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. -Henri Matisse

I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. -Thomas Jefferson

Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night. -Marian Wright Edelman

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. -Stephen King

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work. -Oprah Winfrey

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure. -Francoise de Motteville

100 Years of International Women's Day - Happy International Women’s Day to women all over the world

International Women's Day 2011 marks the 100th such day in world history, and it is being celebrated today, March 8, 2011.Events are scheduled to take place in more than 100 countries around the world on March 8, 2011, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day.

In the United States, President Barack Obama proclaimed March 2011 to be "Women's History Month", calling Americans to mark IWD by reflecting on "the extraordinary accomplishments of women" in shaping the country's history. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton launched the "100 Women Initiative: Empowering Women and Girls through International Exchanges", on the eve of IWD.

The official International Women's Day Web site notes the following about the occasion:

International Women's Day (8 March) is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, IWD is a national holiday.

The United Nations has given its full support to International Women's Day and it fights for women's rights as a major global issue.

Nicholas Kristof articulated three ideas for raising women's status around the world in a New York Times column today.

In 1910, the first international women's conference was held in Copenhagen and countries around the world began celebrating the event annually beginning the following year.

WORLD'S WOMEN

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Women’s day 2011 SMS | Women’s day Special

The smarter the woman gets, the more difficult for her to find the right man! 

· Across the miles..comes ths wish from me to say! Happy Women’s Day!! 

· Watever u do, u do it wth grace,style warmth & smile!Happy Women’s Day! 

· Sending u wishes to say you blossom up the world around me! Happy Women’s Day! 

· If you could see it from my eyes u would know u are one gem of a Woman! 

· You are one special woman and I want you to know how very important U r this Day 

· No matter frm which angle I luk @ u, u appear 2 b an ANGEL.Happy Women’s Day! 

· @ Work,@play@fun just everywhere u r amazing!!Happy Women’s Day! 

· A woman can make happiness bloom all around them!Kudos to U,Happy Women’s Day!! 

· U r everything a girl shld be like!Heres wishng u a womens day thats just like U 

· Evn wn d whole world is workng thr r a few who spnd time like u!Happy Women’s Day 

· Yo Gal!!Smart, fun, strong, amazing..there is no reason for us to not celebrate! 

· U can gt her love in al forms-mother,sister,granny,frnd,wife,so respect d Woman! 

· Woman is blend of beauty and brains,who can put all thngs right!Happy Women’s Day 

· A beautiful woman smiles in trials,keeps herself calm & grows stronger thru luv 

· It’s Your Day!It’s Your Day! Wish a special day to a special woman! 

· Like d flower who holds its dew,U hold me when i need u!Thanx-Happy Women’s Day! 

· Its just U who is making a difference in so many ppls life!Happy Women’s Day! 

· Thought i’d remind u today just in case it slipped out your mind! Happy Women’s Day! 

· The Little things that you do matter so much to me! Thanks Happy Women’s Day! 

· You are Strong, Beautiful & Compassionate and much more than words cld ever say! 

· Some ppl can make happiness bloom just by being the way they are u are 1 of them 

· Often v leave our appreciation unspoken!2day we all say Happy Women’s Day!! 

· This Women’s Day just stand tall cos you are the most special woman of my life!! 

· Happy Women’s Day-wishing you a day that just like you! Really Special… 

· On Women’s History month sending u this txt to say I Admire U.Happy Women’s Day!:) 

· On women’s day what can i wish for, but the very best for u!Happy Women’s Day! 

· U ve it in u 2 tk d world in ur stride!May al ur dreams cm true!Happy Women’s Day 

· Its 8th of March..its Women’s day..Wish its filled with Joy!! Happy Women’s Day! 

· U r the Passion,U r the Mystery,U r the Magic! Happy Women’s Day to d most spcl 1 

· Here’s wishing u a wonderful time celebrating womanhood!Happy Women’s Day! 

· Just wanted to thank U frm d bottom of my heart 4 all tht u do!Happy Women’s Day! 

· Gathering for u a bouquet of wishes just to say you are special!Happy Women’s Day 

· D most precious possession tht evr comes 2 a man in ths world is a womans heart! 

· D patience 2 listen,d strength 2 support,care is jst in a woman.Happy Women’s Day 

· Feel special, unique, on top of the world..its ur day!! Happy Women’s Day my girl 

· Raise a toast to a woman whos a blend of many special qualities you admire!Thanx 

· Ur caring ways make me bloom wth smiles & makes my world a happier place!Thanks 

· Just the right text for the woman who seems to be able to do it all with ease! 

· This is just my way of saying that u r a very special Woman in my life!Thanks! 

9 Steps to Achieve Your GOAL...

1 Define your goal

The first step is to define your goal. Perhaps you've always dreamt about running a race or learning a new language? Maybe you're determined to seek a promotion or you simply want to shed a few kilos. Consider everything. What would you do if you had more time? What would you like to accomplish in the future? What do you regret about the past? In the words of motivational speaker Les Brown , "Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life." Whatever you choose, make sure your goal is specific, achievable and tangible.

2 Set your deadline

A goal without a deadline can be forever postponed, so set a deadline and aim to be as realistic as possible. If your goal is to lose a certain amount of weight for example, count on losing 2 pounds (around one kilo) per week. If you have your eye on that promotion, think about when your next appraisal is scheduled or another opportunity when you will have the chance to shine. Diana Scharf Hunt, author of The Tao of Time (Fireside), summed it up perfectly by saying, "Goals are dreams with deadlines."

3 Identify your purpose

True motivation comes from understanding your underlying purpose, so think about what that is. Ensure your goal is something that you really want and not what others want you to do. Ensure also, that the goal you have set is in line with your overall purpose. If your purpose is to get fit, then a weight-loss goal may not be in line with this - it is possible to be slim, but still be unfit. Instead, it should rather be, "To achieve the same fitness levels I had when I was 20".

4 Recognize the benefits

Determine, and better still, write down, the benefits you expect to enjoy from reaching your goal. Ask yourself what you will achieve from conquering your goal? Defining the benefits will help you to overcome moments of weakness. Evaluate these carefully and your goals will become much more attainable and your motivation increased. Lucy Mackintosh, NLP Coach and founder of The Law of Attraction Group in Dubai  says, "Write them on post-it notes and stick them on the fridge, in the car, on a mirror; by never losing sight of the benefits of success, your goal will remain at the forefront of your mind which will only strengthen your resolve."

5 Instill self-belief

You must believe your goal is achievable; unless you believe you can 100 per cent reach it, you will have no true motivation. Those who think they can and those who think they can't are both right; the power of positive thinking knows no end. According to Carolyn Mitchell, NLP Life Coach and owner of Blue Sky Life Coaching , "Affirmations are an excellent tool to promote self-belief and assure ourselves of positive outcomes. Begin with fast forwarding to the time when you have achieved your goal. Learn what it feels like [in your mind] to experience what the success of achieving your goal means to you. Feel it or see it for yourself. Once you have learned what success feels like, you simply can't unlearn' it. By writing, reading and re-experiencing those feelings of success over and over again you are essentially telling yourself what you want by believing that you already have it."

6 Spot the Obstacles

Now identify your potential obstacles. When suddenly faced with obstacles it can be difficult to remain focused and energetic. They can sap your energy, time and enthusiasm. What may hinder your progress? Old habits die hard and current mindsets can be difficult to shift, but identifying the obstacles will prepare you for the road ahead - forewarned is forearmed after all. "Be perfectly honest with yourself," says Carolyn, "this is the only way to identify all the possible problem areas. And only when you identify these can you develop strategies to minimise them."

7 Seek the Solutions

Think about how you can overcome these obstacles. What in your life needs changing? This is your opportunity to plan your strategies for handling the setbacks. If you consider each obstacle, one by one, you can easily identify a suitable solution; this may mean a change to your usual routine, enlisting the support of a friend or family member or a change to your current mindset. "If you can't find the solution yourself then ask someone who has achieved a similar goal how they did it" says Lucy, "or imagine you are sitting with a role model, a top athlete, for example. Ask them what to do and then put yourself in their shoes and give the advice they would give."

8 practice visualization

Take time to imagine that you have achieved your goal. What is it like? How do you feel? Excited? Exuberant? How has your life changed? How does it look, feel or sound? Capture that moment in your head and never lose sight of it. Try to make your vision so clear that you can perceive it with all five senses. The clearer the image in your mind, the easier it is to manifest into reality or in the words of Napoleon Hill, author of Think & Grow Rich (Ballantine Books), "What the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve."

9 Create your action plan

Create a step-by-step action plan detailing exactly what you need to do to achieve the goal. Remember in step one we identified that goals are the road maps that guide you? Well think of your action plan as the specific directions to get you to your destination, via the quickest and easiest route possible. Depending on the nature of your goal, identify any major milestones necessary to achieve it, then break down each milestone into specific tasks or steps. Sometimes just knowing where to start is hard, in which case enlist the support of others, be it friends, colleagues or a support group. Be prepared to journal the process. Writing things down helps to collate our thoughts, handle potholes and identify and deal with weaknesses. Strive to make progress every day. Every single day. And tell everyone you know about your goal - accountability is a great way to ensure that you do what needs to be done.

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21st century, hi-tech India: the smartest country on the planet

  today published a article about India praising it From rocket science to DNA research, India is ridding itself of its poor country image. Though article was mainly about Lavasa Corporation . it has this interesting info graph about India and its scientific advancements .

It give and overview about India's greatness in science field ,in these scam ridden days we still have some thing to cheer about !

Right Click and click save link as to download a PDF of Pete Guest's graphic on the hi-tech subcontinent 4.5 mb .

Top 10 Ways to Rock Your Resumé

Whether you're looking for a new job or just pruning up your paperwork, one of the keys to nabbing the job you want is creating a successful resumé. Here are our top 10 ways to make sure yours stands out.

Check out Life Hacker to find more about ways to rock your  Resumé all the best :)

Centers Of Pilgrimages Are Sacred Spaces

Tirtha or pilgrimage occupies a central place in the rituals and practices of the faithfuls. The word tirtha is derived from the root tri, which means ‘to cross over' - that is, to go up or to go down. The word avatar is also derived from the same root; it means ‘to descend', ‘to come down'.

A tirtha is a place on earth where the gods descend and which facilitates the crossing over, enabling ascent of human beings from bhavasagar or the temporal and ephemeral world of naama and rupa, name and form, multiplicity and diversity, to the eternal abode of oneness, peace, tranquillity and bliss.

Tirtha really stood for knowledge as knowledge alone helps us get over ignorance and leads to liberation. It has now come to mean a sacred place which helps one to cross over from the cycle of birth and death to moksha or liberation. The Mahabharata says: “Just as certain parts of the body are called pure, so are certain parts of the earth and certain waters called holy”. These parts of the earth are called tirthas.

A tirtha is a ford, a crossing and a passageway by visiting which one could be freed of all sin. The metaphor of a ford or a bridge acts as a linking function, which among other things, brings together and links ideas, concepts, points of view and practices that are different. The bridge is not a stable habitat, you are not expected to stay or stand on it for long periods.

It is on the way from somewhere to somewhere, a transition. It connects the past with the present and future.

According to Tristhalisetu, a tirtha is a place where “whatever is sacrificed, chanted, given in charity, or suffered in penance, even in the smallest amount, yields endless fruit because of the power of that place... Whatever fruit is said to accrue from many thousands of lifetimes of asceticism, even more than that is obtainable from but three nights of fasting in this place”.

The Shiva Purana states that “the punyas earned in a tirtha destroy all sins - physical, mental and those committed through speech. At the same time evil actions done in a tirtha yield evil results of which one is not easily absolved”. It also warns not to indulge in immoral deeds in a tirtha because the evil results of an immoral action performed in a tirtha are multiplied manifold. It, therefore, advises that one should be extremely cautious about one's actions in the punyakshetra, the sacred region of a tirtha.

Tirthas have the power to cleanse the soul of its acquired sins. A tirtha is not only mokshada or bestower of liberation; it is also sukhda or bestower of happiness. It provides for both mukti or liberation and bhukti or enjoyment.

The various tirthas in India are spread out geographically, forming a mahaparikrama or mahapradakshina, the great circumambulation of the entire country.

Tirthas, therefore, yield not just spiritual gains; they help individuals familiarise themselves with the geographical vastness, cultural diversity and unity of the country. That probably was the aim of Indian sages in attaching a spiritual significance to each of the tirthas and persuading the populace to go around all of them to attain moksha. That is why Mark Twain has rightly observed that the tirthas are “older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend”.

Light As Metaphor For Lightness Of Being

The inner light, when it comes, heralds a higher state of consciousness. In time, that light blazes "as a million suns", as it is described in Indian scriptures. Even ordinary people, long before they even see the inner light, use light as a metaphor for any sort of mental awakening.

As sunlight entering the ocean loses power at increasing depths, and finally becomes invisible, so with divine light as it enters human consciousness. Many forms of life that live at great depths produce luminescence of their own, to compensate for the absence of outer light.

Even so, the delusion-darkened ego produces its own version of spiritual awareness by the excitement it generates in its relation to matter.

People's awareness darkens as their awareness becomes denser with matter-identification. This is the way cosmic creation is manifested.

The denser our consciousness, the less spiritual light is able to penetrate mental fog. If we are deeply identified with matter, we find it difficult to think clearly.

People who are completely identified with their bodies consider the senses and sense pleasures the ultimate of existence. Seldom, if ever, do they have an abstract thought. By nature they are reactive, not active in a creative sense. A clear mind is a sign, outwardly, that the inner light also is clear. A dull mind, on the other hand, is a sign that the inner light is dull and unfocused.

The English language contains two meanings for light. The first meaning is the opposite of darkness. The second meaning pertains to lightness of weight.

This coincidence expresses a truth: The more light in our consciousness, the more light-weighted we feel in awareness.

Influences that increase this sense of lightness increase also the mind's receptivity to visible light. Dense, heavy foods, however, cloud the mind and make its consciousness heavy. Too much sleep darkens the mind and results in sluggish thinking.

Alcoholic beverages and consciousness-changing drugs darken the mind, as also too much sensory stimulation and sensual indulgence.

All activity, in fact, that absorbs us in materiality, and that lessens our spiritual awareness, obscures the mind, reducing its clarity.

The spiritual reason for moral living, then, is that it lightens our consciousness, loosens our shackles of ego and matter-consciousness, and attunes us more sensitively to the redeeming inner light.

Diving redemption means withdrawing from identification with delusion, and becoming inwardly absorbed in the light of truth.

When the sky is darkened by clouds, the sunlight grows dim: not because its power is any weaker, but because the intervening vapour obscures it.

Darkness enters our consciousness because of attachment to material grossness. Mental clarity is affected also by clouds of doubt and restlessness, emotion such as fear, anger and hatred. Anything that prevents us from seeing life with dispassion, obscures the inner light.

Paramhansa Yogananda pointed out in Autobiography of a Yogi that samadhi or supreme ecstasy cannot come through mere intellectual willingness or open-mindedness. It comes in time with a natural inevitability to the sincere devotee.

It is steadfast deep devotion rather than passivity or force that enables absorption in the light. Most important is an attitude of loving receptivity towards Christ consciousness or Kuthastha Chaitanya, through that one whom God has ordained as your true, or sat, guru.

Know that you are unique

If you pause for a moment to consider that there never has been nor will there ever be anyone else exactly like you, you will know why being yourself is more important than anything else; and you will be able to sidestep the very commonly prevalent fear or pressure that traps us into blind conformity.

The opposite of courage in our society, psychologist Rollo May said, is not cowardice; it is conformity.

Being inspired by someone and learning from their example is wonderful; but if we were supposed to be exactly like that someone, we would have been created with all of her personal qualities, also circumstances, potential, limitations too. Instead, each of us is born into a specific time and place, with a unique combination of a certain set of talents, and the potential to add or enhance all that, in order to fulfill our individual mission in life.

We have all been taught to measure ourselves against the example of other, greater, more successful beings. We are inspired by them and want to follow their example...but we can become so obsessed with the need to live like someone else, look, teach, grow successful and become rich like someone else, that before we know it, we cease to be ourselves.

In the film The Legend of Bagger Vance, Bagger Vance volunteers to be caddy for the has-been, written-off golfer Junuh in an important tournament. At a pivotal point in the movie, he tells the indifferent player, "Inside each and every one of us is our one true authentic swing. Something we were born with. Something that's ours and ours alone. Something that can't be learned. Something that's got to be remembered."

It suggests finding our authentic self, our special place in the world, our special way of doing things, our special things to do, that absolutely no one else can.

Once, an old Hassidic story goes, the great teacher Zusia came to his followers, his eyes were red with tears, and his face was pale with fear.

"Zusia, what's the matter? You look frightened!"

"The other day, i had a vision. In it, i learned of the question that the angels will ask me when i stand at the Gates of Heaven."

The followers were puzzled. "Zusia, you are pious. You are scholarly and humble. You have helped so many of us. What question about your life could be so terrifying that you would be frightened to answer it?"

Zusia turned his gaze to heaven. "I have learned that the angels will not ask me, 'Why weren't you a Moses, leading your people out of slavery?'"

His followers persisted. "So, what will they ask you?"

"And i have learned," Zusia sighed, "that the angels will not ask me, 'Why weren't you a Joshua, leading your people into the Promised Land?'"

His worried followers demanded, "But what will they ask you?"

"They will say to me, 'Zusia, there was only one thing that no power of heaven or earth could have prevented you from becoming.' They will say, 'Zusia, why weren't you Zusia?'"

Of course you should be inspired by the examples of others and let their lives motivate you to reach your fullest potential; but ultimately you must become the best [place your own name here] possible.

Or, as Oscar Wilde quipped: Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Donkey-like, We Carry Burden Of Knowledge

There was a man who dealt in scrap. He would buy junk and sell it off in the local market. He used a donkey to transport the stuff. He would also buy old books for resale. All this, the donkey would carry on its back.

The donkey previously belonged to a washer man and so was used to carrying dirty clothes. But now the animal was 'promoted', carrying books full of wisdom - volumes containing works of PhD students, vedanta, yoga, fiction, history and science.

So would you say the donkey was now a scholar, a sage?

What would you call people who have burdened their minds with such books? Books give you information with which you load your mind. The donkey carried piles of books and continued to be a donkey, ignorant of true knowledge. Similarly, just by reading scriptures and other writings, you cannot become wise.

I have come here to help you unlearn what you have learnt, so that you can become pristine, pure and innocent. This can happen only when you forget all that you have heard, known and believed until now for all that is untrue.

That's why despite so much reading and listening, you are still unhappy, ignorant. There has been no transformation, no change in you.

Just listening is not a big thing. Our scriptures emphasise contemplation. Within your heart there is thirst that is why you are attending this satsang. When you listen just ask yourself why you are listening. There could be many reasons for your being here. One is that if you go to satsang, you may get to listen something new.

Very often, when people return home after listening to a discourse, they continue discussing the topic with family and friends. People are habitual listeners; they don't go as seekers.

They go to hear what new information will be delivered. So the orators bring up new topics to keep your interest going. But people talk as if they have absorbed whatever they have heard.

Why are you listening? To collect information! So that you can boast about it to others, to talk about it to those who were not present. It is not how much you do, but how you do something. It is not about how long you meditate, but how deep you go in meditation that is important. It is not the quantity but quality that matters.

The day you stop seeking for the happiness in the outside world that is the day when you become truly contented. Then you won't wander hither thither looking for happiness in different places because your thirst for happiness gets quenched in prayer, in remembering the Lord's name, in meditation.

Truly speaking that is the day when you become a spiritual -- dharmic person, in the true sense of the word.

All that you desire is right there within you, it is with you but you don't have that will to seek. The work of sages is not to give you knowledge; the work of mystics is to light that fire within, to inculcate a longing, a feeling of restlessness inside you.

This longing makes you spiritual or dharmic in the true sense of the word. This longing makes you sing, cry, dance in remembrance of God. This is what it means to think of the Lord, this is what is meant by chanting, this is what is meant by remembrance.

Unlike science, religion is not a tradition

During a service at an old synagogue in Eastern Europe, when the prayer was being said, half the congregants stood up while the other half remained seated. Those who were seated started yelling at those standing to sit down, and the ones standing yelled at the ones sitting to stand up. The rabbi, learned as he was in law and commentaries didn't know what to do.

His congregation suggested that he consult a 98-year-old man, who was one of the original founders of the temple. The rabbi hoped the elderly man would be able to tell him what the actual temple tradition was. So he went to the nursing home with a representative of each faction of the congregation. The one whose followers stood during the prayer said to the old man, "Is it the tradition to stand during this prayer?" The old man answered, "No, that is not the tradition". The one whose followers sat asked, "Is it the tradition to sit during the prayer?"

The old man answered, "No, that is not the tradition". Then the rabbi said to the old man, "The congregants fight all the time, yelling at each other about whether they should sit or stand!" The old man interrupted, exclaiming, "THAT is our tradition!"

Religion is not in the tradition, nor in rituals. Religion has no adjective to describe it. Religion is simply religion, as love is love. Can we call love Christian, Hindu, Muslim? If love is neither Christian nor Hindu nor Islamic, then why should God be Christian, Hindu or Jewish? Has not Jesus said "God is Love"? The enlightened ones have reminded: No one can be born into a religion; rather, religion has to be born into you. One has to open one's soul and receive religion. In the church it is not, in the mosque or synagogue it is not, in the temple it is not. Osho points out, "Science depends on tradition. Without a Newton, without an Edison, there is no possibility for Albert Einstein to have existed at all.

He needs a certain tradition; only on that tradition, on the shoulders of the past giants in the world of science, he can stand. Of course, when you stand on the shoulders of somebody you can look a little farther than the person on whose shoulders you are standing, but that person is needed there. "Science is a tradition, but religion is not a tradition: it is an individual experience, utterly individual. Once something is known in the world of science it need not be discovered again, it will be foolish to discover it again.Youneed not discover the theory of gravitation, Newton has done it. You need not go and sit in a garden and watch an apple fall and then conclude that there must be some force in the earth that pulls it downwards; it will be simply foolish. Newton has done it; now it is part of human tradition... But in religion you have to discover again and again. No discovery becomes a heritage in religion".

A master, such as Osho, teaches us that God's way of being present in the world is His absence. He is not present by being present. God is present by being absent. That is His way of being present in the world. You cannot pinpoint: here is God. If you pinpoint, it will be something else, not God, a statue, a scripture, a radition, a morality, but not religion, not God. God is everywhere! His way of presence is to be absent, and this is hat a master teaches you.

Who Will Cry When You Die by Robin Sharma

• Discover your calling; bring more of yourself into your work and focus on what you do best

• Every day, be kind to a stranger

• Maintain your perspective; Is there a wiser and more enlightened way to look at the situation?

• Practice tough love, which is self-discipline!

• Keep a journal, analyse and evaluate what you do, lessons learnt, personal growth

• Develop a honest philosophy; don’t say what you don’t mean

• Honor your past; Every second you dwell on the past, you steal from the future. Every minute you spend focusing on the problems, you take away from finding the solutions. And thinking about all those things that you wish never happened to you is actually blocking all the things you want to happen from entering into your life. Given the timeless truth that holds that you become what you think about all day long, it makes no sense to worry about past events or mistakes unless you want to experience them for a second time. Success is not measured by the position that one have reached in life, but by the obstacles he have overcome while trying to succeed.

• Start your day well, first 30 minutes only purest thoughts and finest actions. Focus on all the good things in life, and good things that you expect to unfold

• Learn to say no graciously, concentrate on areas of excellence

• Take a weekly Sabbatical

• Talk to yourself; select your phrase and train yourself to focus on it

• Schedule worry breaks; Mark Twain: I’ve had a lot of trouble in my life, some of which actually happened

• Model a child, they are more energetic, creative

• Genius is 99% inspiration, be inspired in life!

• Care for the temple

• Learn to be silent. To reconnect with who you really are as a person and to come to know the glory that rests within you, you must find time to be silent on a regular basis. Experiencing solitude will keep you centred on your highest life priorities

• Think of your ideal neighbourhood

• Get up early

• See your troubles as blessings

• Laugh more!!

• Spend a day without your watch

• Take more risks

• Live a life, there are no tragedies, only lessons. No problems, only opportunities waiting to be recognized as solutions by the person of wisdom

• Learn from a good movie

• Bless your money

• Focus on the worthy; know what needs to be left undone

• Create a love account; random acts of kindness, senseless acts of beauty

• Get behind people’s eyeballs

• List all your worries

• Practice the action habit

• See your children as gifts

• Enjoy the path, not just the reward; the real value of setting and achieving goals lies not in the rewards you receive but in the person you become as a result of reaching your goals

• Remember that awareness precedes change; you will never be able to eliminate a weakness you don’t even know about. By paying attention to weakness, you attract solutions into your life

• Master your time

• Keep your cool, use only words that are true, necessary and kind

• Cure your monkey mind; present moment awareness

• Get good at asking

• Look for the higher meaning of your work

• Develop your talents; too many people spend more time focusing on their weaknesses than developing their strengths

• Connect with nature

• Use your commute time

• Go on news fast

• Get serious about setting goals

• Remember the rule of 21

• Practice forgiveness

• Drink fresh fruit juice

• Create a pure environment

• Walk in the woods

• Get a coach

• Take a mini vocation

• Become a volunteer; learn to serve

• Listen to music daily

• Write a legacy statement

• Find 3 great friends

• Meditate

• Have a living funeral, practice dying

• Stop complaining and start living

• Increase your value. To get more, you have to be more

• Be unorthodox. Don’t do things because everyone else does them. Do things that are right for you.

• Carry a goal card

• Be more than your moods. You are just the thinker of your thoughts.

• Savor the simple stuff; the only things we can take away are our memories and all those great life experiences that adds value to our lives

• Stop condemning. See the richness of the society from its diversity Take your life into your own hands and you have no one to blame

• See your day as your life

• You change your life from the second you make a decision from the depths of your heart to be a better, more dedicated human being. The effort to maintain that discipline takes much longer

• Create a mastermind alliance

• Create a daily code of conduct, values, virtues and vows

• Imagine a richer reality. To improve your life, you must first improve your thinking. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are.

• Be the CEO of your life

• Be humble. You have so much more to learn

• Don’t finish every book you start

• Don’t be so hard on yourself, human beings are designed to make mistakes

• Make a vow of silence

• Don’t pick up the phone every time it rings

• Recreation must involve re-creation

• Choose worthy opponents

• Sleep less

• Have a family mealtime

• Become an imposter, fake it till you make it

• Take a public speaking course

• Stop thinking tiny thoughts; Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never ho any higher than you think. It’s not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. It’s not what you are that’s holding you back. It’s what you think you’re not.

• Don’t worry about things you cannot change

• Re-write your life story. At any moment I could start being more of the person I dream to be- but which moment should I choose?

• Plant a tree

• Find your place of peace; youth is not a time of life, it’s a state of mind

• Take more pictures. Record the best times of your life

• Become an adventurer. Make a list of pursuits and go for them!

• Decompress before you go home

• Respect your instincts

• Collect quotes that inspire you

• Love your work

• Selflessly serve

• Live fully so you can die happy. When all the clutter is stripped away from your life, its true meaning will become clear; to live for something more than yourself. The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a true force of Nature instead of a feverish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and, as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die. For the harder I work, the more I love. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It’s a sort of splendid torch which I’ve got to hold up for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.