A beautiful poem by Emily Dickinson as below. Thanks to Emily and www.poetseers.org
I hide myself within my flower,
That wearing on your breast,
You, unsuspecting, wear me too --
And angels know the rest.
I hide myself within my flower,
That, fading from your vase,
You, unsuspecting, feel for me
Almost a loneliness.
Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.
- Arthur Gordon
Thanks to Arthur Gordon and to www.thinkexist.com for the quote
“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.”
- Leonardo da Vinci
Thanks to Leonardo and to www.thinkexist.com for the quote
Doha is a two line verse. I browsed for Kabir's dohas and came across a wonderful site - http://www.boloji.com/kabir/dohas/
Not only an English translation is given in the site, but also a possible explanation with an interesting perspective is, for every doha.
Here goes a translated doha. For explanation, please visit the site. Thanks to Kabir and to www.boloji.com
Tomorrows work do today, today's work now
if the moment is lost, the work be done how
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
Thanks to George Bernard Shaw for the quote and to www.wisdomquotes.com for the online version.
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” - Dale Carnegie
Thanks to Dale Carnegie and to www.thinkexist.com for the online version of the quote.
Beauty is truth's smile
when she beholds her own face in
a perfect mirror.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Tribute to Tagore for the simple and thoughtful expression. Thanks to www.poetseers.org for the online version of the poetry. Thanks to www.calcuttaweb.com for the image.
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
Thanks to Gandhi, www.thinkexist.com ( for the online version of the quote ) and to http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu ( for the image ).
Written in 19th century, but still afresh. You may enjoy this work of Shelley.
" I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursling of the Sky;
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
I change, but I cannot die. "
For more, please refer to www.poetseers.org. Thanks to Shelley and to poetseers for this work.
Thomas Alva Edison:
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thanks to Edison and to www.wisdomquotes.com for the online version of his quote.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Thanks to the unknown author and to http://quotations.about.com
Vivekananda's poem titled "Blessing" is simple and soothing to me. You might enjoy this as well. Tribute to Vivekananda . Thanks to www.poetseers.org for the online version of his work.
The Mother's heart, the hero's will,
The softest flowers' sweetest feel;
The charm and force that ever sway
The altar-fire's flaming play;
The strength that leads, in love obeys;
Far-reaching dreams, and patient ways,
Eternal faith in Self, in all,
The light Divine in great, in small;
All these and more than I could see,
Today may "Mother" grant to thee!
I was browsing wisdomquotes.com and came across three interesting perspectives on communication. Thanks to authors and to the website. Enjoy!
The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choices words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech.
The problem with communication ... is the illusion that it has been accomplished.
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days;if an hour, I am ready now.
Life is given to us,
we earn it by giving it.
Tribute to Tagore for such a simplistic and powerful expression, www.poetseers.org for the online version of the poem and www.calcuttaweb.com for the image.
Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to recognize the ethics that knows no bounds. But on the other hand, those who believe in love for all creation must realize clearly the difficulties involved in the problem of a boundless ethic and must be resolved not to veil from [humankind] the conflicts which this ethic will involve [us], but allow [us] really to experience them. To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation -- this is the difficult task which confronts our age.
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