Words of Wisdom 01 (May 08 - Oct 08)

[helios]

don't just think different, do different.

- the importance of execution in sept month (re-branding exercise).

[winston]

All acts of service are not equally sanctifying or uniform in the benefits they confer.

When service is undertaken by power-hungry people, or under compulsion, or with a desire to imitate, it can result in more harm than good. Self-aggrandisement, competition or ostentation are motives that will pollute the sacred service. In doing service, one should avoid all egoism, exhibitionism and favouritism.

Before embarking on a service project, one should examine whether one’s heart is full of selfless love, humility and compassion.

Think, too, whether the head is full of intelligent understanding and knowledge of the problem and its solution, if one’s hands are eager to offer the healing touch, whether one can gladly spare the time, energy and skill to help others in dire need .

- Divine Discourse, November 21, 1986.

[winston]

The apostle Paul wrote:

There are many commands, such as, "Be faithful in marriage. Do not murder. Do not steal. Do not want what belongs to others."

But all of these are summed up in the command that says, "Love others as much as you love yourself.

[winston]

Love for Love's sake; do not manifest it for the sake of material objects or for the fulfillment of worldly desires.

Desire begets anger, anger provokes sin, for under its impact, friends are seen as foes.

Anger is at the bottom of every variety of calamity. Therefore do not fall a prey to it. Treat every one - whoever he may be - with the all-inclusive compassion of Love. This constructive sympathy has to become the spontaneous reaction of all mankind.

Saturate the breath - while you inhale and while you exhale - in Love. Saturate each moment in Love. Love knows no fear. Love shuns falsehood. Fear drags man into falsehood, injustice and wrong.

Love does not crave for praise; that is its strength. Only those who have no Love in them itch for reward and reputation. The reward for Love is Love itself.

- Divine Discourse, July 29, 1969.

[winston]

A wise man wrote: If you love money and wealth, you will never be satisfied with what you have.

[millionairemind]

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."
Bernice Johnson Reagon

"For every mountain there is a miracle."
Robert H. Schuller

"The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong."
Thomas Carlyle

"The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach."
Clarence Blasier

[helios]

In a soccer match, you've to make a decision in real-time because e ball is coming in front of you and you got to pass on.

- San

[winston]

In this modern age, the idea of joining good company is being looked down upon as if it is something mean and crazy.

On the other hand, we do not see anything wrong in spending a considerable amount of time dressing our own hair or doing similar things...If our face needs a little touching up, we look after it immediately. We pay undue attention to our body, but we do not restrain our mind from following the crooked ways.

It is our internal instruments which have to be set right so as to enable us to pursue the sacred path. In order to remove the entanglements that distort the right vision, you should cultivate devotion, love and wisdom.

- Summer Course, 1973.

[winston]

"When I give, I give myself."
-Walt Whitman

[helios]

A piece of gold in mud.

- a friend's quote, Luke85: in the end, it's e individual that determines whether to take e opportunities [gold] or not