Sunday, October 29, 2006
mOtivatiOn
Live as if countless number of lives depended on it.
Think as if countless number of lives depended on it.
Speak as if countless number of lives depended on it.
Work as if countless number of lives depended on it.
Laugh as if countless number of lives depended on it.
Love as if countless number of lives depended on it.
Meditate as if countless number of lives depended on it.
Practise yoga as if countless number of lives depended on it.
Because countless number of lives do depend on what you choose to do,
What you choose to do must be chosen wisely, responsibly
and done without hesitation, with reverence, in joy.
No one lives in isolation. You condition the lives of countless beings.
Be a cause for good
For kindness, generosity, wisdom, patience, peace.
Nothing arises and has no effect. So what you do will become.
Mahatma Gandhi said: "You must be the change you want to see in the world."
Countless numbers of lives depend on your doing this.
No one lives in isolation. You are conditioned by the lives of countless beings.
So you will suffer the effects of evil. Recognise the hate in your own heart.
You are not this hate since you can stand apart and see it arise and fail.
Do not let this become a further cause for evil.
Extinguish this hate within you because only you can do it.
What you destroy in your self perishes in the world.
Countless numbers of lives depend on your doing this.
Not a single moment of ours is free
until we spend it as if countless number of lives depended on it.
Not a single free moment is ours
until we realise how
Meeting our own needs alone will never satisfy us
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Think as if countless number of lives depended on it.
Speak as if countless number of lives depended on it.
Work as if countless number of lives depended on it.
Laugh as if countless number of lives depended on it.
Love as if countless number of lives depended on it.
Meditate as if countless number of lives depended on it.
Practise yoga as if countless number of lives depended on it.
Because countless number of lives do depend on what you choose to do,
What you choose to do must be chosen wisely, responsibly
and done without hesitation, with reverence, in joy.
No one lives in isolation. You condition the lives of countless beings.
Be a cause for good
For kindness, generosity, wisdom, patience, peace.
Nothing arises and has no effect. So what you do will become.
Mahatma Gandhi said: "You must be the change you want to see in the world."
Countless numbers of lives depend on your doing this.
No one lives in isolation. You are conditioned by the lives of countless beings.
So you will suffer the effects of evil. Recognise the hate in your own heart.
You are not this hate since you can stand apart and see it arise and fail.
Do not let this become a further cause for evil.
Extinguish this hate within you because only you can do it.
What you destroy in your self perishes in the world.
Countless numbers of lives depend on your doing this.
Not a single moment of ours is free
until we spend it as if countless number of lives depended on it.
Not a single free moment is ours
until we realise how
Meeting our own needs alone will never satisfy us
Happiness is incomplete when it excludes others
If our purpose is to be happy
how can we be when we see others unhappy?
Let us take our place in the world seriously
Recognise the nobility of our motivation
and the urgency of our action
Let not another moment be wasted
because countless number of lives depend on us.