Empty is Full – Anonymous

Your bank balance can be full

Let your mind be empty.

Maintain accounts in balance sheets,

Not ever in your mind.

Record nationality in your Passport,

Erase it from your thoughts.

Mother & Father in your genes is Ok,

Don’t carry them in your mind.

Nations might have enemies

Mind should have none.

Plan meticulously on paper

Don’t clutter your mind.

Jewellery & Title deeds are ok in the locker

Don’t let your mind be burdened with them.

Put down names & surnames on forms,

Obliterate them from the mind.

Let dictionaries get filled with your words

& Meanings while your mind exalts in emptiness.

“Once you have lived with the mountains

for any length of time , you belong to them,

& must return again & again.” - Ruskin Bond

And the last puff of the day wind brought from the unseen villages. The scent of the damp wood smoke, hot cakes, dripping undergrowth & rotting pinecones.

That is the true smell of the Himalayas & if once it creeps into the blood Of a Man, that Man will at last, forgetting all else, return to the mountains To Die.”- Ruskin Bond

All you Need to Know - Robert Fulghum

Most of what I really need to know about how to live & what to do & how to be,

I learned in Kindergarten.

v These are the things I learned.

v Share everything.

v Play fair.

v Don’t hit people.

v Put things back where you found them.

v Clean up your own mess.

v Don’t take things that aren’t yours.

v Say sorry when you hurt somebody.

v Wash your hands before you eat.

v Flush.

v Warm Cookies and cold

milk are good for you.

v Live a balanced life-learn some & think some, and draw, and paint and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

v Take a nap every afternoon.

v When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.

v Be aware of wonder.

Stupid Thoughts

It’s impossible to know thoughts before they come. You know them as they come.

And, if they are stupid, simply smile at them they will move away. –Sri Sri

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.

Hope is the ting with feathers – Emily Dickinson

“It’s in the nature of all things that take form to dissolve again.” – Buddha

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship – Buddha

From Primal truth emanated air

From Air emanated water

From water emanated three

Worlds and himself

He merged with the creation

- Sikh Thought

What’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff. – Paul McCartney

Joy is the only emotions you can’t contrive – Bono in USA Today

True friends are those come and share our happiness when we call them and our misfortune without being called. - Demetrio De Falera

People want to know why I write such gross stuff. I tell them I have the heart of a small boy–and I keep it in a jar on my desk – Stephen King

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever we are doing and devote out attention to eating. – Luciano Pavarotti My Own Story (Doubleday)

There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything. – Goldie Hawn in Good Housekeeping

No Going Back

Sign at the entrance to a cemetery in Yorkshire, England: “One-way system in operation.”

See a mistake as a mistake, not as ‘My’ or ‘His’ mistake.

‘My’ means guilt ‘His’ means anger– Sri Sri Ravi Shanker

Heaven Only Knows

It was his first year of religious studies, and already my six-year-old son was debating the teacher. When told, “God made everything.” Michael quickly stood up. “God does not make everything,” he insisted. “Most things are made in China.” – Marylu Kelly

Eating, working, and making money are meaningless in themselves. However eve a small act of compassion grants meaning & purpose to our lives.

-H.H. Dalai Lama

The Frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives - Native North American Proverb

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem wonderful at all.

- Michelangelo

Whatever you want to do, just do it. Don’t worry about making a fool of yourself. Making a fool of yourself is absolutely essential. - Gloria Steinem

Comedy is acting out of optimism – Robin Williams

There’s a rebel deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go in the opposite direction. – Clint Eastwood in Newsweek

Summer is not over until the school bell rings.

– Nora Roberts

Question is a sign of growing intellect… Questions stop once when stops wondering. Sign of Mature Intellect is when one questions why I am here?

What is the purpose of Life. …… The Truth of Life?

- Sri Sri Ravi Shanker

Difference between Wonder! & Question? …………When the bent in a question is straightened it becomes Wonder! ……Turn your Questions?

Into Wonder!

- Sri Sri Ravi Shanker

There’s nothing better than contagious laughter.

–Jennifer Aniston

If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on – Lance Armstrong

Every Second Counts (Doubleday)

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.– Salvador Dali

What I’ve learnt is that life is too short and movies are too long. – Denis Leary in GQ

Getting married is an incredible act of hopefulness. – Ashely Judd

Behind every successful man is a good woman- Old saying

Behind every successful man is a woman,
behind her is his wife – Groucho Marx

To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things everyday. –Lao Tzu

Whether it’s the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot, it’s the pot that will break every time. – Miguel De Cervantes. “Don Quiote de la Mancha”

It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. – Mahatma Gandhi

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.– Benjamin Disraeli

Let there be spaces I your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

– Khalil Gibran

Truth is the highest virtue but higher still is truthful living.
- Guru Nanak

It is absolutely safe to love the enemy. - Vindoba Bhave

Do not underestimate a child, or overestimate a grown-up. – Akbarali Jetha Reflections

(Combined Edition)

Two things only a man cannot hide: that he is drunk and that he is in love. – Antiphanes

What we wish, that we readily believe.- Demosthenes

Strength does not come from physical capacity.
It comes from an indomitable will – Mahtama Gandhi

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce. -American Proverb

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing!
- George Bernard Shaw

All things pass.. Patience attains all it strives for.–Mother Teresa

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want. – Dan Stanford

Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do.
This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.-Mark Twain

The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.–Khalil Gibran

Worries Washed Away

You can do this as an experiment: when you are very worried or tense,

just sit by a flowing river or gushing water and just keep looking at

the water. You know, within few moments you feel as though like a

magnetic pull, that your mind is being pulled in the direction of the flow of

water...and in a short while all that anguish, delusion, whatever you

had, [with] the flowing water it all flows away. You become fresh.

Sri Sri Ravi Shanker