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Quotes from Keats

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A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

Beauty is truth, truth is beauty that is all ye know on earth, and all Yee need to know.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
The scenery is fine –but human nature is finer.
Life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way from a tree’s summit.
I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days–three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.

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Be empowered by the Trees

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Learning to listen to the trees. Hermann Hesse.

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth… So, the trees rustle in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have longer thoughts, long breathing and restful, just as they have longer lived than ours. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy.

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To stop the wars

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We must connect with our hearts. 

Why do people fight among themselves? The heart must change. Greed and selfishness must perish. Then alone will there be peace in the world. The innermost Atman concealed in the chambers of your heart is an embodiment of peace. It is a quality of the soul. It fills the pure heart. It runs away from egotistical people. Attain the peace through meditation on the ever-peaceful Atman. – Swami Sivananda

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How do we offer gratitude?

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In the Gita, thank you is expressed through gratitude, surrender and service.

Devotional offerings: Offering simple things—a leaf, fruit, flower or water—with love constitutes thanks. – Bhagwad Gita 9.26

Surrender (Sharan Gati): Recognize all blessings come from the Divine and returning to Him is the highest form of appreciation. – Bhagwad Gita 18.62

Recognizing the Divine Spark: Seeing God in all beautiful settings. – Bhagwad Gita 10.41

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Expand Atmabhava

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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

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Find yourself

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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

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Follow a Eudaimonic life

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Be a Stoic. Follow the four cardinal virtues. The four pillars of Stoicism known as the cardinal virtues are Wisdom, Justice, Courage and Temperance. These pillars serve as a practical framework for living a virtuous, happy (eudaimonic) life by focusing on what is within our control—our thoughts and actions while managing emotions and acting ethically for the common good. Lucius Seneca was a stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome. I am sharing some of his quotes with you. Continue reading →