Be yourself

To be yourself,

in a world that is

constantly trying to

make you something else

is the greatest

accomplishment.

 

 

~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Children

If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn.

If children live with hostility, they learn to fight.

If children live with ridicule, they learn to be shy.

If children live with shame, they learn to feel guilty.

If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence.

If children live with praise, they learn to appreciate.

If children live with fairness, they learn justice.

If children live with security, they learn to have faith.

If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.

If children live with acceptance, they learn to find love in the world.

 

 

– Unknown

Your echo

This world is like a mountain.

Your echo depends on you.

 

~~Shams Tabrizi

 

 

Image- Rekha Sahay.

Your own thoughts

There is nothing

in this world

that can trouble you

more than your own thoughts.

~~Buddha

Joy and  Sorrow

​I will find new meaning in every joy and sorrow.

In that silence, I will hear the voice of spirit,

And freed from this world,

I will see another

where the end is another beginning.

 

 

~  Rumi.

Sea of love

“I am your lover, come to my side, I will open the gate to your love.

Come settle with me, let us be neighbors to the stars.

You have been hiding so long, endlessly drifting in the sea of my love.

Even so, you have always been connected to me.

Concealed, revealed, in the unknown, in the un-manifest.

I am life itself.

You have been a prisoner of a little pond,

I am the ocean and its turbulent flood. Come merge with me,

leave this world of ignorance. Be with me, I will open the gate to your love.”

 

 

Rumi

 

 

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