Fear !! An oppurtunity !! A catalyst !!

Fear can be scary. When it surfaces, we are wired to run. To avoid it. To consider it as a bad thing. Not true. In my mind fear is beautiful. An opportunity. A gift.

On the other side of every fear that is keeping you small is your natural power (and your authentic greatness). To run from your fear is to run from the brilliance you were meant to be. A fear is nothing more than a doorway into the highest version of your highest vision. The things that scare you are spectacular opportunities to discover more of all you are meant to be. Fear isn't bad. Nope. It's all good. Leads to confidence (if you do what you fear). Leads to self-respect. Promotes growth. Makes you better.

So today, at work or at home, if something comes up that causes you to feel like running/avoiding/resisting, don't make a beeline for the door. Instead, show up like the leader you truly can be - and embrace the opportunity you've been presented. Because what you resist will persist. But what you befriend, you'll transcend.

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QUOTES OF ALBERT EINSTEIN

1. I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.
2. Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
3. My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
4. The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
5. Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.
6. The scientists' religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.
7. There is no logical way to the discovery of elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
8. The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
9. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; It is the source of all true art and science.
10. We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
11. Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
12. When the solution is simple, God is answering.
13. God does not play dice with the universe.
14. God is subtle but he is not malicious.
15. A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest-a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.
16. Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
17. The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
18. Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
19. Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
20. The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books---a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.
21. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
22. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.
23. The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men.
24. The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
25. True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
26. Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.

WHY GOD ALLOWS PAIN

This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and
suffering that I have seen...


A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed.
As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation.
They talked about so many things and various subjects.
When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said:
"I don't believe that God exists."

"Why do you say that?" asked the customer. "Well, you just have to go
out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist.
Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people?
Would there be abandoned children?

If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain.
I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things."
The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he
didn't want to start an argument.
The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop.

Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with
long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard.
He looked dirty and unkempt. The customer turned back and entered the
barber shop again and he said to the barber:
"You know what? Barbers do not exist."
"How can you say that?" asked the surprised barber.
"I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!"
"No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist because
if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and
untrimmed beards, like that man outside."

"Ah, but barbers DO exist! That's what happens when people do not come to me."
"Exactly!" affirmed the customer. "That's the point! God, too, DOES exist!
That's what happens when people do not go to Him and don't look to Him
for help.
That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world."

If you think God exists, send this to other people---
If you think God does not exist, delete it!

BE BLESSED & BE A BLESSING TO OTHERS !!!!!!!

quotes

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Three sentences for getting success:

· Know more than other

· Work more than other

· Expect less than other

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

If you win you need not explain … But if you lose you should not be there to explain.

ADOLPH HITLER

Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world .if you do so, you are insulting yourself.

ALEN STRIKE

If we cannot love the person whom we see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see?

MOTHER THERESA

No man is rich enough to buy his past.

OSCAR WILDE

If you want real peace don’t talk to your friends, talk with your enemies

MOTHER THERESA

Winning doesn’t always mean being first, winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before.

BONNIE BLAIR

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

LEO TOLSTOY

I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure.

THOMAS EDISON

Believing everybody is dangerous; believing nobody is very dangerous.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Love your job but never fall in love with your company because you never knew when it stops loving you.

ABDUL KALAM

If someone feels that they had never made a mistake in their life, then it means they had never tried a new thing in their life.

EINSTEIN

Never break four things in your life:

· Trust,

· Promise,

· Relation,

· Heart

Because when they break they do not make noise but pains a lot…

CHARLES

If you start judging people you will be having no time to love them.

MOTHER THERESA

Sayings of Swami Vivekananda

• For my own part I will be incarnated two hundred times, if that is necessary to do what I have undertaken amongst my people.
• All my patriotism is gone. Everything is gone. Now it's only Mother, Mother!
• My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life.
• Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
• Religion is the idea which is raising the brute unto man, and man unto God.
• The secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice. To be good and do good - that is the whole of religion.
  Man is higher than all animals, than all angels; none is greater than man.
• One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom.
• Look at the wall. Did the wall ever tell a lie? It is always the wall. Man tells a lie and becomes a god, too. After so much austerity, I have understood this as the real truth - God is present in every jiva; there is no other God besides that. 'Who serves jiva, serves God indeed.'
• Cut out the word help from your mind. You cannot help; it is blasphemy! You worship. When you give a morsel of food to a dog, you worship the dog as God. He is all, and is in all.
• Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world; yet if he is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world.
  All nations have attained greatness by paying proper respect to women. That country and that nation which do not respect women have never become great, nor will ever be in future.
• With five hundred men, ... the conquest of India might take fifty years: with as many women, not more than a few weeks.
  Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes, India will die, in spite of politics, in spite of social reforms, in spite of Kubera's wealth poured upon the head of every one of her children.
• Before flooding India with socialistic or political ideas, first deluge the land with spiritual ideas.
• We want to lead mankind to the place where there is neither the Vedas, nor the Bible, nor the Koran; yet this has to be done by harmonizing the Vedas, the Bible, and the Koran.
• Mankind ought to be taught that religions are but the varied expressions of THE RELIGION, which is Oneness, so that each may choose the path that suits him best.
• Who will give the world light? Sacrifice in the past has been the Law, it will be, alas, for ages to come. The earth's bravest and best will have to sacrifice themselves for the good of many, for the welfare of all.
• Truth, purity, and unselfishness - whenever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole universe in opposition.
• Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.
• The highest ideal is eternal and entire self-abnegation, where there is no 'I', but is Thou'.
• By work alone, men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnani, Christ was a Bhakta, but the same goal was reached by both of them.
• All expansion is life, all contraction is death.
• All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is law of life, just as you breathe to live.
• The national ideals of India are Renunciation and Service. Intensity her in those channels, and the rest will take care of itself.
• Good motives, sincerity, and infinite love can conquer the world. One single soul possessed of these virtues can destroy the dark designs of millions of hypocrites and brutes.
• Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
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Swami Vivekananda on Women

"The soul has neither sex, nor caste nor imperfection."

"The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women."

" There is no chance for the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved."

"Woman has suffered for aeons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite preserverance."

"The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence."

buddha words of wisdom

he teachings of Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC) have been passed down from century to century. Buddha was an Indian leader, who taught those who chose to listen.

The wisdom of his teachings are reflected in the quotes below. Many of his words still hold true today!

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become
Buddha

To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck.
Buddha

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth - not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.
Buddha

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
Buddha

We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?
Buddha

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Buddha

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Buddha

All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
Buddha

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha

We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?
Buddha

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past,
not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles,
but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Buddha

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Buddha

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Buddha

RAMAKRISHNA

You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God. — Ramakrishna

As the snake is seperate from its slough, even so is the Spirit seperate from the body. — Ramakrishna

Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within. So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy , and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all. — Ramakrishna

Rain-water never stands on high ground, but runs down to the lowest level. So also the mercy of God remains in the hearts of the lowly, but drains off from those of the vain and the proud. — Ramakrishna

That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true knowledge, all else is only a negation of knowledge. — Ramakrishna

If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent. — Ramakrishna

As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal. — Ramakrishna

God comes not where reign timidity, hatred and fear. — Ramakrishna

One does not care for the cage when the bird has flown away from it. and when the bird of life flies away, no one cares for the body left behind. — Ramakrishna

In a potter’s shop there are vessels of different shapes and forms — pots, jars, dishes, plates, etc., — but all are made of the same clay. So God is one, but He is worshipped in different ages and climes under different names and aspects. — Ramakrishna

One can ascend the top of a house by means of a ladder or a bamboo or a staircase or a rope; so too, diverse are the ways of approaching God, and each religion in the world shows one of the ways. — Ramakrishna

He who has faith has all, and he who lacks faith lacks all. — Ramakrishna

As one thinks, so does one become. — Ramakrishna

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth. — Ramakrishna

Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully. So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well. — Ramakrishna

A jar kept in water is full of water inside and outside. Thus the soul immersed in God sees the all-prevading Spirit within and without. — Ramakrishna

Do yourself what you wish others to do. — Ramakrishna

As long as I live, so long do I learn. — Ramakrishna

Gautama Buddha

Hate is not overcome by hate; by love alone is hate appeased. This is an eternal law. — Gautama Buddha

Though one should conquer a thousand times a thousand men in battle, he who conquers his own self, is the greatest of all conquerers. — Gautama Buddha

Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day’s life of one who is wise and meditative. — Gautama Buddha

Oneself, indeed, is one’s saviour, for what other saviour would there be? With oneself well controlled one obtains a saviour difficult to find. — Gautama Buddha

To cease from all evil, to cultivate good, to purify one’s mind: This is the advice of all Buddhas. — Gautama Buddha

Victory breeds hatred. The defeated live in pain. Happily the peaceful live, giving up victory and defeat. — Gautama Buddha

There is no fire like lust, no crime like hate. There is no ill like the body, no bliss higher than Peace. — Gautama Buddha

Let go the past. Let go the future. Let go the present. Crossing to the farther shore of existence, with mind released from everything, do not again undergo birth and decay. — Gautama Buddha

It is man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. — Gautama Buddha

Words of Wisdom

You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God. — Ramakrishna

As long as I live, so long do I learn. — Ramakrishna

He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself. — Swami Vivekananda

This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death. — Swami Vivekananda

Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these - and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details. — Swami Vivekananda

Though one should conquer a thousand times a thousand men in battle, he who conquers his own self, is the greatest of all conquerers. — Gautama Buddha

Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day’s life of one who is wise and meditative. — Gautama Buddha

The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be. — Conversations with God

The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling which you call love. — Conversations with God

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail. I try to increase the power God has given me to see the best in everything and every one, and make that Best a part of my life. — Helen Keller

A man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think. — Christian Larson

The fact that you have failed to get the lesser proves conclusively that you deserve the greater. — Christian Larson

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. — Mohandas Gandhi

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not any man’s greed. — Mohandas Gandhi

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. — Mohandas Gandhi

You should be the change that you want to see in the world. — Mohandas Gandhi

A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. — Mohandas Gandhi

Even as a tree has a single trunk but many branches and leaves, there is one religion “human religion” but any number of faiths. — Mohandas Gandhi

If you want peace, my child, do not look into anyone’s faults. Look into your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger. The whole world is your own. — Sarada Devi

Simple living helps in high thinking and getting mastery over mind and body. — Swami Sivananda

Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But I do not doubt that the lion belongs to it even though he cannot at once reveal himself because of his enormous size. — Albert Einstein

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. — Albert Einstein

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter — it’s the difference between a lightning bug and the lightning. — Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear. — Mark Twain

In a monarchy, the king and his family are the country; in a republic it is the common voice of the people. Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak. And it is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly to be flung aside at the bullying of pulpit, press, government, or the empty catch-phrases of politicians. Each must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide it against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may. If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way, and that way be the right way according to your convictions of the right, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country–hold up your head. You have nothing to be ashamed of. — Mark Twain

Never let school interfere with your education. — Mark Twain

The citizen who sees his society’s democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry out is not a patriot but a traitor. — Mark Twain

The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school. — George Bernard Shaw

You see things; and you say “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say “Why not?” — George Bernard Shaw

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. — George Bernard Shaw

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. — George Bernard Shaw

An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth. — Chanakya

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions — Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead. — Chanakya

One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge. — Chanakya

I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Goodness is Virtue. Cultivate Virtue in yourself, in the family, in the village, in the nation and in the universe. — Tao Te Ching

Whether you think you can or think you can’t — you are right. — Henry Ford

Power of love is God. Love for power is Ego. — Swami Sukhabodhananda

It takes a wise man to learn from his mistakes, but an even wiser man to learn from others. — Anonymous

The wise should learn to accept wisdom from anybody, even from a child. Doesn’t the small nightlamp brighten things which the sun cannot? — Anonymous

Watch your thougts, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your habits, they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your desitny. — Anonymous

Usually our ciriticism of others is not because they have faults, but because their faults are different from ours. — Anonymous