Spirituality
I promise to do all I can to kick the shit out of option B
Sheryl Sandberg’s life-affirming tribute to late husband Dave Goldberg: ‘I want to choose life’

This marks her most extensive and candid public comments since Goldberg, the beloved chief executive of SurveyMonkey, died suddenly from a severe head trauma while on vacation last month.
“These past thirty days, I have spent many of my moments lost in that void. And I know that many future moments will be consumed by the vast emptiness as well,” she continued. “But when I can, I want to choose life and meaning.”
Gandhi Sugar Story
There is a story of a woman in India who was upset that her son was eating too much sugar. No matter how much she chided him, he continued to satisfy his sweet tooth. Totally frustrated, she decided to take her son to see his great hero Mahatma Gandhi. Continue reading
What we call strength in the language of this world is weakness in the language of spirituality
Lao Tzu used to say that in a storm big trees stand rigidly and so they are uprooted. Small plants bend with the wide; the storm blows over them. The roots of big trees are overturned, they are laid flat on the ground; but small plants stand as straight as they did before. The storm gives new life to the plants, but it destroys the trees which are stubborn and proud. It is the same storm! the weak are saved and the mighty are destroyed……… Continue reading
Book Recommendation – The Voice of Silence by Osho

Brilliant Book that was presented to me by a fellow spiritual aspirant. It is not a well known book but well worth a read.
– One Tusk
How do we break the habit of excessive thinking? by Eckhart Tolle
Love and Respect
Every man should so lead his life that no pain is caused by him to any living being. You must carefully consider the consequences of your speech and action. Continue reading
Three Stages in the Awakening of Intuition by Paramhansa Yogananda
Intuition is developed through meditation. The more you meditate and reason in a calm state, the more intuition you will have. Calm reason and calm feeling lead to true intuition. Spiritually advanced souls use their intuition in everything they do, and thus accomplish the seemingly impossible.
I was once at the hermitage of my Guru, Swami Sri Yukteswar, when he was away for a few days. He wrote me a letter saying that he was arriving by train at nine o’clock, and that I should meet him. A friend of mine, a new devotee, was also waiting with me. As nine o’clock approached, he said, “Let us go and meet your Master now.”
When I said, “Not yet,” he was astonished. I said that because I had intuitively received Master’s message that he wasn’t coming on the nine o’clock train. My friend, however, went to the station and waited and waited, but Master did not come. Finally he came back.
Shortly afterwards I said, “Let us both go now.”
My friend replied, “Your Master writes you to meet him at nine o’clock and you would not go, but now you want to take me to meet him?”
I said, “Never mind. You will see. The train will be arriving just as we get there. It will be filled with light and my Master will be on that train. When he approaches us, a little boy with a silver jug will be walking in front of him. Master’s first words to me will be, ‘Did you get my message?’”
I went to the station with my friend and sure enough, just as we got there, the train pulled in and Master appeared. There was a little boy with a silver jug just ahead of him.
As soon as Master saw me, he said, “Did you get my message?”
Then he turned and said to the new disciple, “Your mind is too restless and that is why you didn’t get my message.”…
http://www.anandaclaritymagazine.com/2015/04/3-stages-awakening-intuition/
How Long Has It Been?
How long has it been since you kissed your mother?
How long since you held her hand?
How long since you took the time and the trouble
To show her how straight you stand?
How long has it been since you’ve kissed her cheeks?
How long since you made her proud?
Love
1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
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