If I have harmed anyone in any way either knowingly or unknowingly through my own confusions I ask their forgiveness.
If anyone has harmed me in any way either knowingly or unknowingly through their own confusion I forgive them.
And if there is a situation, I am not yet ready to forgive, I forgive myself for that. For all the ways that I harm myself, negate doubt, belittle myself, judge or be unkind to myself through my own connections.
I forgive myself.
The only basis of true and lasting unity of all humanity is the religion of the heart. Religion of the heart is the religion of love.
Men can be united only if they are free from jealousy, hatred and petty mindedness.
Purify your heart first. Meet hatred with love, and malice with good will. – Swami Sivananda
And let us self-reflect.
Dear Ones, read these quotes and apply them to yourself.
Sometimes the smallest things
Take up the most
Room in your heart. Continue reading
Be blessed with Atmabhava. Atmabhava means feeling the pain, distress, poverty, sickness and calamities of others as your own. Live a little for others also. You have to find a place in your heart for people who are not known to you. If you do not expand atmabhava then all sadhanas are useless. – Swami Satyananda Saraswati
Where has all the love gone? Why are our hearts so full of hatred? We are burning with anger. Continue reading
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein
Be yourself; everyone else is taken. – Oscar Wilde
Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw
Love the life you live. Live the life you love. – Bob Marley
The most wasted of days is one without laughter. – E. E. Cummings
It is not the lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. – Nietzsche
Tantra teaches reverence for the body, love, respect for the body, gratitude for the body. The body is marvelous; it is the greatest of mysteries.
What does it mean? It is a word to describe “online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative or offensive.”
How is it possible for us to name this horrible word as the word of the year? It is the kind of word, which needs no explanation. Continue reading
How do I love thee? Sonnet 43.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height.
My soul can reach when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being an ideal grace.
A Red, Red rose. – Elizabeth Barret Browning
A story from Sikkim about two rivers. The tale goes that two rivers as lovers were created by the Goddess Ibn-moo. The names of the rivers were Rangeet and Rongnyu also known as Teesta. Continue reading
Yielding completely to God is called Atma nivedan. One’s faith should be so deep in God, that one submerges oneself fully in Him. In the Ramacharitamanas, it says “By the systematic practice of Navadha bhakti, one can reach a point of total self-surrender.” Continue reading
Which is it to be, my heart or my mind? I have read and thought about it and I share with you what the Gurus say.
The only basis for a true and lasting unity
Of all humanity is the religion of the heart.
People can only be united if they are free from jealousy, hatred and petty mindedness.
Purify your heart first.
Meet hatred with love and malice with goodwill.
The purer you make your heart,
The greater will be the power of your love. – Swami Sivananda
Look into your heart. Find out what special talent God has given you. Develop it and use it for the good of others. Eradicate negative qualities by practicing their opposite virtuous traits. Virtue begets virtue. If one virtue is developed, another virtue will automatically come to you. – Swami Sivananda Saraswati
Trees are like poems that the earth writes upon the sky. – Khalil Gibran
What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and one another. – Mahatma Gandhi
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