One day the Buddha was sitting in the forest with a number of monks when a peasant came by. He had just lost his cows; they had run away. He asked the monks whether they had seen his cows passing by. The Buddha said, “No, we haven’t seen your cows passing through here; you may want to look for them in another direction.” Continue reading
Author: onetusk
Don’t become their Prisoner
The day that Mandela was released from prison on Robben Island, Bill Clinton, then governor of Arkansas, was watching the news. He quickly called his wife and daughter and said, “You must see this, it is historic.” As Mandela stepped out, Clinton saw a flush of anger on his face as he looked at the people watching; then it disappeared. Later, when Clinton was president of the United States and Mandela was president of South Africa, the two leaders met, and Clinton relayed his observation during Mandela’s release from prison. Continue reading
Alzheimer’s – an understandable and manageable condition
When dementia among the elderly was labeled “senility” and “hardening of the arteries” and was considered an attribute of natural aging, few people paid much attention to this condition because they considered it chronic, hopeless, and untreatable. Continue reading
You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. . . .
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Continue reading
Honest Caring
“It was so simple, yet I had never seen it. Continue reading
Difference between Heaven and Hell
And the Lord said to the Rabbi, “Come, I will show you Hell.” They entered a room where a group of people sat around a huge pot of stew. Continue reading
I want to live my next life backwards..
I want to live my next life backwards:
You start out dead and get that out of the way. Continue reading
Thank you for being a part of my life!
“When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally, or spiritually. They may seem like a Godsend, and they are! Continue reading
When I participate in the fullness around me, I become a greater me…
“How often we forget that the very task we are doing may have more effect upon us than we have upon it. In our self-centeredness, we see ourselves acting upon our world and we lose the awareness that we are participating in a universe that is acting in partnership with us. What a burden we put on ourselves when we see ourselves as the only or the primary actor. Continue reading
Sharpen The Saw….
“This is the habit of self-renewal, which has four elements. Continue reading
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