Thank you

Thank you for a reader who nominated my blog for "The Best Blog Of The Day".  

Gratitude

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like

wrapping a present and not giving it.

  

~William Arthur Ward 

"Every man of courage is a man of his word." -Pierre Corneille

Whatever you look for, you are!

Take a break from you busy moments and listen to this music by Loreena McKennitt, accompanied by Rumi's word on the screen. It's mesmerizing!

Here is the part I love, only if I can remember it on daily basis:

Look for the Soul, you become Soul
Hunt for the bread, you become bread,
Whatever you look for, you are

Words Are Like Seeds....

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.  "Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles" (Mathew 7:16).   Farmers and gardeners choose their seed with the greatest care. They reject every defective seed they find and in this way make sure of the coming crop.  To have prosperity in you home you will have to exercise the same intelligent discrimination in the choice of your seed words.

Excerpts from Property written by Charles Fillmore

Next time I open my mouth I will think twice if that is the seed which I want to plant!  

The Painting by Peter Szumowski

Persian Soul

Here is a Persian song by Googoosh, She is the most well-known persian artist. Can you enjoy this song without understanding the words? It's persian version of TO BE or NOT TO BE ! Well, kind of.

Her music has inspired, moved and touched many people throughout Farsi speaking nations.  

Always look on the bright side of life

Just finished watching Monty Phyton where Eric Idle proclaimed from his perch on cross:

If life seems jolly rotten

There's something you've forgotten

And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing.

When you're feeling in the dumps

Don't be silly chumps

Just pursue your lips and whistle - that's the thing.

And...always look on the bright side of life

I hope it will bring a smile to you too!

Great Spirits

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds

~Albert Einstein

It's all about Attitude

Many are suffering now becuse of the economy.  If you are one,  then read the following quote;  Remember it, memorize it, until you get it, it will make all the difference.  I am doing the exact thing:

"What's true in sports is also true in our business and personal lives. There is only a fractional difference between winners in life and those who merely exist. The difference is attitude under pressure. It's the winner's edge. The Edge is not a gifted birth. The world is full of wasted talent. The Edge is not academic degrees. Education is important, but the world is full of educated misfits. The Edge is not luck. If it were, Las Vegas would be a ghost town. The Edge is not capital. Many of today's self-made, multi-millionaires started building their fortunes with under $5,000. The Edge is all attitude. Attitude, not aptitude, is the criterion for success."

- Denis Waitley

H/T: Attitude trader

Ego & Bliss

If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up.

Deepak Chopra

Painting

Experiance

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

Bernard Mannes Baruch

LOVE

Love will give you light;

Love will give you faith and hope,

Love will bring you bliss'

Love will lead you,

Love will shield you - 

Let Love dwell in your Soul.

`Swami Paramanada

Cheer up! You do have the power to create!

Lately, most people I meet, are in a gloomy state of mind and who can blame them with the current global economical state.  I suggest everyone to read Charles Fillmor's book on Prosperity.  Here is an excerpt:

You can conjure up in your mind a thousand imaginary things that will seem real to you. This shows that the mind creates by forming things according to its ideas. The world is awakening in a wonderful way to the truth about the creative power of the mind.  Everywhere people are studying psychology or soul culture. The imagination builds things out of the one substance. If you will associate with in its creative work, the things you make will be just as real that God makes.  Whatever you make in mind and really put faith in will become substantial. Then you must be constantly on your guard as to what you believe, in order that you may bring what is for your good into manifestation.

All is well

While the earth remains, 

seedtime and harvest,

cold and heat,

winter and summer,

and day and night shall not cease.

Genesis 8:22

It's seem that the world is crumbling down with all the global financial and economical news.  Keep reading the verse, and be assured that somethings will never change, and all is well.  Not all changes are good.

The Soul

Even though Freud and Jung disagreed on many points, one thing that emerges from twentieth century psychoanalysis is the fact that dreams go beyond their individual dreamers and often show patterns that are common to all cultures. Indeed, dreams are only partially rooted in consciousness and tend to reveal deeper parts of the human psyche.

One of the eldest books on dreams - the Oneirocritica «The Interpretation of dreams” - was written by the Greek thinker Artemidorus in the second century AD. In it he distinguishes between dreams that forecast the future and “allegorical dreams” that need interpretation.

Unlike Freud that reduced dreams to repression of infantile sexual experiences, Jung stated that besides these personal dreams, there was an unconscious collective dream, the very backbone of imagination. He saw then in dreams the manifestation of a certain truth that went beyond the dreamer, as if planted by a higher consciousness that he calls “the soul”.

Borrowed from Paulo Coelho's Blog