Priorities of life

Stand out from the crowd

Stop competing start excelling

No one has to lose for you to win

Be grateful for every act of kindness

-a new breath

-a new meal

Loosen up, lighten up

Keep showing up

Know when to come up for air

Challenge the boundaries

Don’t settle for being what you used to be or have been

Keep reaching for what you can yet become

Don’t gossip, don’t nag, and don’t tailgate

Take good health for granted

Don’t postpone joy

Honor the greatness and uniqueness in others

Each day you have exactly the same number of minutes as

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Aristotal

Mozart

Mother Taresa

da vinic

Galilio

Wave back at children on the school bus

Laugh at least a hundred times a day

Don’t wait for things to be funny, Laugh anyway

Remember you will never get new results from repeating old habits

Don’t let cobwebs form around your big dreams

Call home

Go the extra mile

Stop to smell flowers

Avoid ruts, once you r in on its hard to get out

Encourage children to look up at the stars, to play in rain,

run through puddles, every once in a while join them

Each evening talk about the funniest thing that happened today

Don’t confuse time with money

Money with success

Success with happiness

Happiness with contribution to the world

Never forget that your attitude and feeling always attract

Exactly what they convey

Take charge of your energy

Sip ice water, eat snacks

Turn up the lights, ask questions

Stretch, laugh

Keep exploring

Never give up on anyone

Never give up on life's possibilities

Never take away another person's hope,

it may be all they have

talk to children at eye level

you will both learn more

Fall forward

Never be ashamed of bold ideas, honest tears, a loving heart

Complain less live more

At home sing out loud

talk to your pets

dance in the hall

put your feet up on the coffee table

Be original

Be 100% alive

Keep your promises

Keep in touch

Keep growing

Never miss a chance to show someone how much you care

Never refuse homemade food

Live so that when children think of kindness courage ingenuity and care they think of you

Be the change you wish to see in the world

Lead by example

Love as if you will live forever

Work as if you have no need for money

Dream as if no one can say no

Have fun as if you never have to grow up

Sing as if no one else is listening

Care as if everything depends on your caring

and

Raise a banner, where a banner never flew

If not now, when?

Sources of Enthusiasm

This one came to me while just coming to school this morning. In life there are different things which fill us with the spark of energy, make us enthusiastic & blow life in us. These are different situations, different dimensions which somehow touches the core of our being and take away all the dullness & make us like lump of energy TOTALLY ALERT & ACTIVE. I am calling them "sources of enthusiasm" Here I could stretch my consciousness to recollect the possible sources:

1. Inspirations Reading/Books: Have you noticed sometime when you are feeling dull and no hope in life and you stuck with inspirational reading may be a book, news article, interview and as we are going through the lines something start changing inside and by the time we are finish the reading we feel like taking some action, we want to do something constructive whether at gross level or at subtle level. SO KEEP READING INSPIRING STUFF (BEST FROM GURUDEV MOUTH)

2. Challenges: Have you noticed, sometime when life seems monotonous and boring ever and some challenge is posed to us suddenly adrenaline is pumped in our blood and we stood up straight upright ready to face anything. SO CHALLENGE YOURSELF EVERYDAY.

3. Presence of Loved one: This I am sure the experience this one. In presence of our loved one we simply feel uplifted and enthusiastic. SO BE IN THE COMPANY OF LOVED ONE.

4. Our creativity INPUT: You must have noticed whenever we do something creative (Like I am writing this post :) hahaha...). Our whole consciousness is so lively and joyful and every aspect look the expression of life filled with enthusiasm, no dullness :). SO DO SOMETHING CREATIVE EVERYDAY, SOMETHING NOT ROUTINE :)

5. Physical Activity (Yoga): This help best when due to physical toxin we feel dull and lazy and our whole system is like a log. Take out time and do some stretches and yoga. It will flush your whole system a liveliness. DO YOGA :)

6. Helping somebody: This one I have experienced many time. sometime for no reason we feel dull, lack of life though everything is fine working perfectly fine. Still some heaviness downs in our heart. Just go out and help somebody might be helping somebody to cross a road or lift a weight however insgnificant it might seems but it give a sense to contributing something and you again filled with Enthusiasm :) SO GO OUT AND BE A HELPING HAND :)

7. Deep Rest: This one is also true. If you are really tired and none of the above one is working for you and you find yourself totally confused then take a pillow and sleep. Have deep rest, take some vacation go, give yourself nice treatment, go for spa take a ayurvedic massage. Now this one you can get as a deal if you go for advanced course provided by Art of living Foundation in Bangalore Ashram :) This will also recharge you rejuvenate you with new life :)

Now you find out which one of these is going to work for you at a particular moment when you need a kick to jump high again and apply those. Also, I am sure there might be other moments also where you have felt that upliftment in yourself and you might have feel that spark of energy. Do share those tricks which has helped you to come out of dullness and filled you with life and what you call SOURCE OF ENTHUSIASM :)

PS: PLEASE WRITE YOUR COMMENTS AND LET ME KNOW HOW YOU LIFE THIS POSTING, YOUR INPUT INSPIRE ME TO LEARN MORE AND WRITE MORE :)

Poison on the platter-Another reason for change

This is a cruelty guys. If we don't become accountable now these politicians will serve poison on our platter. Please Vote for change

Seven things Indian should take pride in

Gurudev Message for Election 2009

Time, Space & Mind

This one is really interesting: we have gone through different situation of life there are some moments which just take over us whether pleasant or unpleasant and then we loose our balance and roll down starts :) And then at some other time and space same events/similar events looses their importance and seams insignificant and do not touch us why is that...! it's a wonder ahoo...!!! :) At some time at some place same event become so big and take over us and at some other place and time it is just doesn't matter to us what a phenomenon what a wonder...! :) For instance for a kid playing with a toy, his toy is everything to him like if the toy is broken life is broke but as the same kid grow up that toy looses its relevance (TOY IS THE SAME). How does it work..... what is mechanism... here is what I think...........

Its simple that when we are too attached and focused of something (object, event or people) then the consciousness is focused and sharp on the subject so much that it looses the contact with rest infinite (whatever you call it Divine, Bhraman, God consciousness or Big Mind). Then, things take over the mind for example when some teens are in love and if they have a heart break the mind is so much focused on that person that it can't see anything else & that personality take over the mind (personality became bigger than mind). That time mind is not aware of the whole universe and insignificant existence of its own and the person who gave the heart break ... :) Now as soon as mind realizes that this body as well as that body & this relationship is going to vanish in another 40-50 years what happens.... its much more easier to detach mind from that person similarly we can be dispassionate to any object, events and people. Actually becoming aware of the whole creation relaxes the mind expand the mind and in the process mind become bigger than object, events and people and nothing take over Mind. Rather in relaxed and expanded state mind can take over anything :)

Now its a trendous knowledge that whenever something take over you and bog you down its simply means mind is not expanded and things has grown bigger than mind thats why mind is troubled. So to get out of it simply YOU NEED TO EXPAND YOUR MIND.

Now question is how to expand our mind...? And While writing the above paragraph I realised this is a trick to expand the mind... As long as you stay aware of the whole creation mind automatically relax and expands isnt it...? And THAT IS MEDITATION. So just stay atunned with the infinite Bhraman and mind will be ever expanded and objects, events and people will not be able to bog you down as they all stay smaller. Thats the reason I think a devotee never get bug down by anything because devotee's mind is always stay in aware of infinite divine so his own mind stay in infinite expandes state and nothing can grow beyond his mind to bug his mind down.... ahoooooooo..... wah... what a beauty what a wonder how simple it is............. :) This is amazing isnt it...? :)

Now its very simple any situation you looses your temper your center simple sit and meditate let your mind expand and as soon as mind is expanded things will become smaller... :) And If you want to grow you mind so big that nothing take over you than expand your mind infinitely that it desolve in that infinitely we call Bhraman or big mind :) keep meditating keep expanding your mind till it dissolve and merge into infinity :)

All glory to my beloved gurudev :)

PS: please do write what you do you feel about Time, space & Mind

Guru Poornima with Sri Sri

Pals.... this is one of the life time opportunity one can have to celebrate the Guru Poornima with Masters itself. This is one of grandest opportunity one get in life-times and it has the power to change your whole life so don't miss it. Save your dates and plan ahead :)


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