Showing posts with label gift: life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gift: life. Show all posts

Thursday, April 22, 2010

To Live The Life - By Abdu'l-Baha




TO LIVE THE LIFE

Be no cause of grief to any one.

Be kind to all people and love them with a pure spirit.

Should opposition or injury happen to us bear it; be as kind as ever we can be, and through all, love the people.

Should calamity exist in the greatest degree, rejoice, for these things are the gifts and favors of God.

Be silent concerning the faults of others; pray for them, and help them, through kindness, to correct their faults.

Look always at the good and not at the bad.

If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, look at the ten and forget the one.

And if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, look at the one and forget the ten.

Never allow ourselves to speak one unkind word about another, even though that other be our enemy.

Do all our deeds in kindness.

Cut our hearts from ourselves and from the world.

Be humble.

Be servants of each other, and know that we are less than any one else.

Be as one soul in many bodies; for the more we love each other, the nearer we shall be to God; but know that our love, our unity, our obedience must not be by confession, but of reality.

Act with cautiousness and wisdom.

Be truthful.

Be hospitable.

Be reverent.

Be a cause of healing for every sick one, a comforter for every sorrowful one, a pleasant water for every thirsty one, a heavenly table for every hungry one, a star to every horizon, a light for every lamp, a herald to every one who yearns for the kingdom of God. – Abdul Baha


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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

LIFE IS A GIFT - POEM BY LALLA



Life is given.
Nothing is earned,
so learn to serve others,
not your own desire and greed
and ego. They steal your energies,
whereas devotion builds your strength
and protects the intelligent flame
that leads to the truth within.

- Lalla
14th Century North Indian mystic


From Naked Song
Versions by Coleman Barks


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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Motivational Poem -
Life Is....
by Mother Teresa

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

Life is beauty, admire it.

Life is a dream, realize it.

Life is a challenge, meet it.

Life is a duty, complete it.

Life is a game, play it.

Life is a promise, fulfill it.

Life is sorrow, overcome it.

Life is a song, sing it.

Life is a struggle, accept it.

Life is a tragedy, confront it.

Life is an adventure, dare it.

Life is luck, make it.

Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

Life is life, fight for it.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

"Have you ever noticed
a tree standing naked against the sky,
How beautiful it is?
All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness
There is a poem, there is a song.
Every leaf is gone and it is waiting for the spring.
When the spring comes,
it again fills the tree with
The music of many leaves,
Which in due season fall and are blown away.
And this is the way of life."

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

“When the flow of life becomes spontaneous, it is always surcharged with the glory of pure love and service. What a splendid gift is human life!”


~Swami Ramdas,

The Essential Swami Ramdas (Library of Perennial Philosophy)


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