Everything in your life is affected by your own inner experience. It matters very little what is outside you, for everything outside is a reflection of your state of consciousness. It matters very much what is within you, for everything in the world is colored by this accordingly. Continue reading
Personal Development
Listening Without Thought
I do not know whether you have listened to a bird. To listen to something demands that your mind be quiet -not a mystical quietness, but just quietness. Continue reading
What is life asking of me? What is this situation asking of me?
I have found in my teaching that the single most exhilarating, thrilling, and motivating idea that people have ever really seriously contemplated is the idea of the power of choice — the idea that the best way to predict their future is to create it. Continue reading
Failing to Notice
The light house is not responsible for the ship’s decisions….
In order to get off the emotional roller coaster, you will have to give up the fantasy that you can or should change somebody else. When you let go of this belief, you will be able to claim the power that is truly yours : the power to change your self. Continue reading
The “new” river offers water that is filled with possibilities and untapped potential
The ancient Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, who was a contemporary of Confucius, Lao Tsu, and the Buddha, is reported to have said that “you can never walk though the same river twice.” Continue reading
war is not outside, the war is within
……..once you conquer yourself your fight with others ceases immediately – because this fight with others is just a trick to avoid the inner war. Continue reading
Give love and seek no reward
I asked myself at an early age, why does everybody live as though they were on an enormous skating rink? Continue reading
When you thought I wasn’t looking
by Mary Rita Schilke Korzan
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Why Should We Care about Contributing?
1. To be part of something greater than ourselves. Here’s how others have explained it.
“To be a man is to feel that one’s own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.” (Antoine de Saint Erupery, 1900~1944)
“We are not here to merely make a living. We are here to enrich the world, and we impoverish ourselves if we forget this errand.”
(Woodrow T. Wilson, 1856~1924)
“The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.” (Leo Rosten, 1908~1997)
“There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.” (Walter Reuther,1907~1970)
2. We do it for ourselves. Mohandas Gandhi (1869~1948) was laboriously serving the people of a remote village when he was asked why he was doing it.
“Are you doing it for humanitarian reasons?” he was asked.
“Not at all,” Gandhi answered, “I am here to serve no one else than myself, to find my own self-realization through the service of these village folk.”
Every time we help another, we help ourselves, for when we dig another out of their troubles, we find a place to bury our own. Continue reading
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