May the true essence of Christmas live in everyone’s heart!

“When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?” ~ G. K. Chesterton

"When I hear men killing men all around our world it becomes abundantly clear to me that many of us do not feel that we are one, don’t know the spark of the Divine that animates in each of us which indeed is the same. My heart is so heavy and depressed that

Plans are useless, but planning is priceless

“You can choose what you do; you can’t choose what you LIKE to do.” ~ Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project.

“Plans are useless, but planning is priceless.” ~ Anonymous.

We’ve all had the experience of having something or someone look perfect on paper and not work out in reality. Or look like a disaster on paper and be absolutely fabulous in reality. When we say something looks good on paper, what we’re really pointing to is that is makes sense within the cultural narratives that apply. Good benefits, good alignment with our degree, a good job, a good family. A lot of our lives get left out

The power of gratitude in finding happiness is phenomenal.

“Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day

How many times did people who barley knows you judge you?

“There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly become any of us to talk about the rest of us.” ~ Anonymous

“Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Everyday people judge others by what they do, how they act, how they dress, and the list goes on and on. Judging others doesn’t only happen

Most virtues are means between extremes that are actually creative choices.

"The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty." ~Albert Einstein

THE Truth, the Beautiful, and the Good — through all the ages of man's conscious evolution these words have expressed three great ideals: ideals which have instinctively been recognized as representing the sublime nature and lofty goal of all human endeavour. In epochs earlier than our own there was a deeper knowledge of man's being and his connection with the universe, when Truth, Beauty and Goodness had more concrete reality than they have in our age of abstraction. Let us try

Remember it is the difference between the impossible and the possible that lies in a person's determination.

"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Isn't it true that many of us want easy and half-baked mantras for success. Isn't it true that we always look for the magic wand that give us success in a jiffy. If we believe success can be achieved with Lady Luck on our side, again we are wrong. There is no easy way or the magic wand to achieve success. No man can fight his way to the top and stay

Love is a great knowledge in human intimacies, but it is a terrible knowledge...

“Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.” ~ Wayne Dyer

"Love is a great knowledge in human intimacies, but it is a terrible knowledge, greatly misunderstood and misused. True love moves us beyond the usual insult of morality, but it takes place in the context of morality. When love relieves us, in some respects it also relieves us of the insult of morality, it also makes the suffering of morality profound. So, to love any one is a terrible "problem" - friend, intimate, child, mother, father. To love at all, is to be confronted with the terrible nature of morality one faces in life. But to attach

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

"Time is more valuable than money, you can get more money, but you can not get more time." ~ Jim Rohn

"Never let yesterday use up today." ~ Richard H. Nelson

“Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.” ~ Anthony Sunny Kunneth

Though you all know how limited your lives are in the time-space continuum, you sometimes act like you don’t know the value of time. You use words like spend, kill or waste when you speak of how you while away the finite number of hours in each day. Yes, I am talking of Time. It is arguably our most valuable

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive." ~ H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama

One has to try to develop one's inner feelings for love and compassion, which can be done simply by training one's mind and thought. This is a priceless human asset and one, for which we don't have to pay income tax! If the love and compassion within our mind is lost and we see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort we have, only suffering and confusion will ensue. As we grow older we have to discover love and compassion within us. This discovery enables

Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

“Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.” ~ Wayne Dyer

"Love is a great knowledge in human intimacies, but it is a terrible knowledge, greatly misunderstood and misused. True love moves us beyond the usual insult of morality, but it takes place in the context of morality. When love relieves us, in some respects it also relieves us of the insult of morality, it also makes the suffering of morality profound. So, to love any one is a terrible "problem" - friend, intimate, child, mother, father. To love at all, is to be confronted with the terrible nature of morality one faces

Smile is a gift you can give freely!

“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.” ― Mother Teresa

Smile is a very easy thing we can do and that's free of charge can be done anytime, anywhere and by anyone. But in fact, most people are hard to give their smile to each other for they don't know all the good that the simple smile can do in our lives. It can heal the unhealed diseases; make the sad ones happy, and many, many other wonderful healing of the ills

Pain and Sufferings

“Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it; there is no way of life.” ~ Angelina Jolie

“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes

Trusting yourself to choose the right Choices

“To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal. Individuals like myself are often called ‘workaholics’. I question this term because that implies a pathological condition or an illness. If I do what I desire more than anything else in the world and which makes me happy, such work can never be an aberration. Words from the twenty-sixth Psalm come to my mind while

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change." ~ Confucius

People don't resist change. They resist being changed! Even those who fancy themselves the most progressive will fight against any kinds of progress or change, for each of us is convinced that our way of life is the best way. To change is a challenge; change is

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom

"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life." ~ -Sandra Carey

'Knowledge is knowing the tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting in your fruit salad."

Wisdom is acquired by time and experiences in life. Common sense is a form of wisdom. You learn as you live kind of thing. Though knowledge and Wisdom are not same, still they both

Be the change you wish to see in the world!

“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, and the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.” ― Katharine Hepburn,

“Be the change you wish to see in the world"

Focus on changing yourself and being the change you wish – and soon we can begin to look at the bigger picture

Only through self-sacrifice, can one attain self-realization.

First of all, one should have faith in one's own Divine-Self. Developing self-confidence, will lead to self-satisfaction. When you have self-satisfaction, you will be prepared for self-sacrifice. Only through self-sacrifice, can one attain self-realization. Self-realization means to realize that you are everything.

Self-confidence is the foundation, self-satisfaction is the wall, self-sacrifice is the roof and self-realization is life. No one can live in a building without roof. Roof cannot be laid without walls and walls cannot be raised

Thank God, that to be Alive is actually a Blessing!

“Express your aliveness by giving - of yourself, of your resources, of your heart.” ~ Patti Digh

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. I know that sometimes

Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

“Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose. Find your purpose and pursue it tenaciously." ~ Emerson. 

Tenacious people commit to three things. First, they take personal responsibility for their success. They know that they are responsible for their own life and career success. They are willing to do the things necessary to succeed. Second, tenacious people set

Discovering self-worth by becoming Still and Meditating

Rediscover your actual self-worth by becoming Still and Meditating!

There's no disputing the fact that we live in a fast paced, highly stressful and “seemingly" chaotic world. Rapidly evolving technologies, careers to attend to, family’s to raise, deadlines to meet, children's baseball, football and soccer games, dentist appointments, not to mention