The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists

Birthless and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit forever.

Bhagavad Gita 2:12

The word of thy Lord doth find its fulfilment in truth and in justice: none can change His words: for He is the one who heareth and knoweth all.

Quran

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Confucius

Existence knows only one thing which is unchanging, and that is change.

Osho

The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.

Japanese proverb

That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom.

Stephen Levine

Everything is the same as always.

Peter Weiss
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Flexible Are You

Nothing in the world is more flexible and
yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the
firm and the strong, none can withstand it,
because they have no way to change it. So the
flexible overcomes the adamant, the yielding
overcomes the forceful. Everyone knows this,
but no one can do it.”
~Lao Tzu

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So We Might As well Dance

It is childish and ignorant to talk of duality and non-duality; the enlightened ones laugh at all this. However, without such a discussion based on duality and non-duality, it is not possible to clean one's consciousness of ignorance.

Yoga Vasishta


A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Bible


We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.

Japanese Proverb


Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer. Laughter must be heard in the outer courts of religion, and the echoes of it should resound in the sanctuary.

Reinhold Niebuhr


Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

Surrender To ME

Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender
unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful
reaction. Do not fear.

Bhagavad Gita 18: 66

God has put you in the world. What can you
do about it?

Resign everything to Him.
Surrender yourself at His feet.

Then there will be no more confusion.

Then you will realise that it is God
who does everything.
Ramakrishna Paramhansa

Complete surrender does require that you have no
desire of your own. You must be satisfied with
whatever God gives you and that means having
no desires of your own.

Ramana Maharshi

Linguistically, surrender means to surrender to
somebody, but religiously,
surrender simply means trust, relaxing. It is an
attitude rather than an act: you live through trust.
Osho

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always
been premature, and it remains premature today.
Isaac Asimov

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Donate Eyes To Give Someone Sight

The most wonderful thing you can do is give the gift of sight. Talk with your family about becoming an organ donor.

Benjamin Harris

Of all the things that it is possible to donate, to donate your own body is infinitely more worthwhile.

Manusmruti

We all should give what we have decided in our hearts to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Bible

Whosoever saves the life of one person it would be as if he saved the life of all humankind.

Quran 5.32

Behead yourself! Dissolve your whole body into vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing.

Jalaluddin Rumi

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

Helen Keller

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Live Each Day To Its Fullest

Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow
a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life.
Kalidasa, Ushavandanam
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Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the
mind on the present moment.
Gautama Buddha

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So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
Each day has enough troubles of its own.
Matthew 6:34

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You are either in the past or in the future - both are non-existent. You can`t do anything with the past, nor with the future. All that you can do is with the present, and if you are engaged somewhere else, it simply slips by and you have missed the train.
Osho

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Think Before You Speak

The disaster-destined
let themselves be
ruled by ego-driven
thoughts, violence,
arrogance, lust and
extreme anger.
Bhagavad Gita 16.18

Those who are clever
in arguments about
Brahmn, but are
without the action
pertaining to Brahmn
(infinite consciousness)
and who are greatly
attached to the world -
those certainly are born
again and again (in this
world) through their
ajnana (ignorance). Tejobindu Upanishad

Calvin : Sometimes
when I'm talking, my
words can't keep up with
my thoughts. I wonder
why we think faster
than we speak.
Hobbes: Probably so we
can think twice.
Bill Watterson,
Calvin & Hobbes

The trouble with
talking too fast
is you may say some-
thing you haven't
thought of yet.
Ann Landers Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

Do You Know Who You Are ?

The Universe is a multilayered existence; there are many levels: there are the molecular, the atomic and the subatomic levels. So also the human consciousness: though one, yet, it is many.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

He who knows others is learned;

He who knows himself is wise.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Unlike a drop of water that loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of society alone, but for the development of the Self.

B R Ambedkar

Your identity changes with how you perceive reality.

Vithu Jeyaloganathan

All men should strive

to learn before they die

what they are running from, and to, and why.

James Thurber Lovely Thoughts for Lovely People Just Like You

One day At A Time

Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow
a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life.
Kalidasa, Ushavandanam
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Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the
mind on the present moment.
Gautama Buddha

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So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
Each day has enough troubles of its own.
Matthew 6:34

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You are either in the past or in the future - both are non-existent. You can`t do anything with the past, nor with the future. All that you can do is with the present, and if you are engaged somewhere else, it simply slips by and you have missed the train.
Osho

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Keep Your Cool

One who has control over the mind is tranquil in heat and cold, in pleasure and pain, and in honour and dishonour; and is ever steadfast with the Supreme Self.
Bhagavad Gita, 6:7
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The strong is not the one who overcomes people by his strength, but the strong is the one who controls himself while in anger.
Hadith , Sahih Al-Bukhari
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Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret - it leads only to evil.
Psalm 37:8
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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Gautama Buddha
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Before you give someone a piece of your mind, make sure you can get by with what is left.
Author unknown
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