May the light and freshness of this new day, bring in a sweet vibe in your life. Life is not lived in the past, neither is it lived wandering in future. Life is for today, and it is today. Live it, love it, see it, and show how capable you are of everything you wish to achieve. ~Unknown

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life. The most rewarding thing in life is the patience to wait for the right moment.   ~Anil Sinha

Morning is a wonderful blessing.
Either cloudy or sunny.
It stands for hope,
giving us another start,
of what we called, ‘Life’

~latest sms

Live one day at a time.
It’s not how fast we move
nor how long we live.
It’s how we cherish every moment…
with LOVE in our Hearts…

Only for today, I will do one good deed and not tell anyone about it.
~The Happiness Project

The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes. Cultivating a close, warm-hearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. This helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or sister. No matter how new the face or how different the dress and behavior, there is no significant division between us and other people. It is foolish to dwell on external differences, because our basic natures are the same. ~Dalai Lama

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”   ~Lao Tzu

Can We Understand the Suffering of our Enemy?

When someone has done us, our loved ones, or our people, a great wrong, this is the very last thing in the world we want to do. We hate and loathe our enemies, and may well have very good reason for this antipathy. Look at Ireland. Look at India and Pakistan. Look at Israel and Palestine. There are enough grievances and hatred in these areas to perpetuate violence and mayhem endlessly, every act of retribution leading to retaliation, ad infinitum.

It takes tremendous courage and insight to break this self-perpetuating cycle, but it is possible. And Buddhism offers unique insights into how we can break down the barriers that separate us and find a path to peace. And one skillful way to do this is through meditation in which we empathetically become one with our enemy and his suffering. Again, this is not easy to do, but in understanding another’s suffering, however much we may think they deserve it or have brought it upon themselves, we find common ground. We all suffer. Being human, we all know what suffering is. We know what it is to lose a love one, to be abused, to be victimized. In our common suffering, and our compassionate response to suffering, we have a basis for finding and seeing our common humanity.

~Thich Nhat Hanh | Source: Metta Refuge

Friendship is a treasured gift that gives our Heart a lift. A blessing we just cannot do without
because friendship is what living is all about… ~sms4smile

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps. ~John Lennon

This is how we go on: one day at a time, one meal at a time, one pain at a time, one breath at a time. Dentists go on one root-canal at a time; boat-builders go on one hull at a time. If you write books, you go on one page at a time. We turn from all we know and all we fear. We study catalogues, watch football games, choose Sprint over AT&T. We count the birds in the sky and will not turn from the window when we hear the footsteps behind us as something comes up the hall; we say yes, I agree that clouds often look like other things – fish and unicorns and men on horseback – but they are really only clouds. Even when the lightening flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page. This is how we go on. ―Stephen King

The son of my little sister who passed a way 9 months ago. He’s such a tough boy. He’s wearing a picture of his mom, my mother gave him. His lips are dark because he just had a blue ice cream. His name is Kyle, but my little sis called him Boo-Boo, so we all call him Boo-Boo. Kyle is 5 years old. His mother died one week after his birthday. ~Jendhamuni

Knowledge and action should be one. Words and actions are two exterior manifestations of our inner thoughts; but most people’s words exceed their actions.

Being concerned with gain and lossbrings us the feelings of happiness and sadness. We should transcend the concepts of good and evil, gain and loss.

Most people pursue fame and fortune, but think of how much there is in nature that you own already. The stars, the moon, mountains, rivers, flowers, and trees all for you!

Coming to understand the big questions in life has to be done by oneself, no one else can do it for you. Maintaining other people’s ideas is like the mimicry of a parrot – it may be speaking, but it doesn’t know what it’s saying.

Movement was originally easy, but we have been shackled by so many worldly rules and restrictions that it is sometimes difficult to take even a single step.

The truth of things does not reside in some unreachable, distant place: it is in our minds.

You don’t need to travel to some illusory world to find the principles of life: just pay attention to the details of life and experience them. When you begin to doubt, an answer is most likely found where the question begins.

He who is the master of himself does not change through influence from his surroundings or from others.

Author: Tsai Chih Chung, Brian Bruya