Quotes by Rumi - Answers to my Questions

I am very fond of Persian language and the reason to be associated with this language is my favourite writer/poet/author Rumi (Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī).

I collected his Persian writings and then the English translations long time back. I have saved most of his quotes in my personal diary as an answer to lot of my questions. There are many questions that nobody can answer for us. But these quotes from people who inspire us leave an answer for us. I never thought to type and save his writings that I photocopied during my college days. The reason being, I appreciate the paper touch more than the new inventions – ereader.

His quotes have always given me a direction when I am lost or puzzled with my own questions.

I am sharing some of my favourite quotes written by great Rumi. Some are love quotes, some are soul quotes but each one of them is an answer to one of my question.

·         “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

·         “The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”

·         “When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.

·         Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.”

·         “This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”

·         “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”

·         “Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own beauty.
You have seen your golden wings.
Of anything less,
why do you worry?
You are in truth
the soul, of the soul, of the soul.”

·          “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

·         “Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

·         “You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?”

·         “Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”

·         “All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”

·         “I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”

·         “Why do you stay in prison
when the door is so wide open?

·         Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.”

·         “Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”

Maybe someone somewhere who is looking for the answers for his or her questions can relate to this post. I have many more from my library to be shared. Coming soon.......

Good Night!

‘Why This Kolaveri Di’ ??

 As I sip my night drink – milk with turmeric....no hard drinks for me...I thought to post something.............

BTW milk with a pinch of turmeric (as per my body weight, it should be 2 pinch only) is good source of pain reliever. But yes I must agree it does not taste that great(:

I had a good day after a long time. I have resumed my all normal day to day activities. I am back to my workouts and swimming. It is little harder but I am trying to cope up.

My friend is in town till Friday and then he is moving to Bangalore. He was going for shopping and I tagged along with him. We really had fun after so many months. Ajitabh and I share a very strange chemistry. People have a notion that he does not talk much but if they see him with me they will say is he the same guy?  He is reserved for the world but for me, he shares everything about his life. I felt no knee pain while shopping with him. I got myself a nice denim dress. He made me laugh so much. After a long time, I felt as if I am the same Archana from Deloitte who used to pat Ajitabh and tell ‘Kya yaar hi nahi bol sakta tu’. I always admired his simplicity. I think friends make our problems appear so trivial:)

OMG! He made me read all his silly mails to his flings. But I was not bored. I was trying to understand life is so much fun for peopleJ

I want to spend my quality time with all my friends (real/virtual). They all have been so special to me. So are my readers!

I watched the video of ‘Why This Kolaveri Di’ while working out. I found it very interesting and the video really made me laugh....So I felt to post the link for all of you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR12Z8f1Dh8&feature=aso

The way the video expresses the problem of an average Indian boy who failed in love or has problems with his girl is a good learning. He is expressing everything through fun and it looks so creative. Problems should be embraced.....

I am tired and I will sleep nowJ

Buona NotteJ

Contd....Why??

http://doyouthinkyouareliving.blogspot.com/2011/11/to-youth-after-pain-thought-of-hope.html?spref=fb

If you read the above link then I answer my question????

Why?

For last two weeks, I am in immense pains. The climate is worsening and I felt for the first time in all these 9 years, what is the feeling to be immobilised. I realised why does the arthritis patient restricts his/her social obligations as he is not able to invest physically into them. This is what I am doing. I know lot of complaints since morning on my FB, cell phone and emails after my last night’s post. But I am being honest. I am apologetic, if I have demoralised all those who read my blog as a source of inspiration but I just vent out, what I am going through. I am thankful to all those who are encouraging me and at the same time, I respect your complaints that I am not answering emails or revert to calls. I am not indulging into message exchanges and whatever.....lot of complaints for me to handle. I was never like that but I need some time to cope to new intensity of my medical condition.

Scared and curious you walk up to your doctor who is treating you for last 6 years. There is a respect and faith that you share towards him. I feel he can do miracles for me, I feel so!

He starts –

“You may be psychosomatic. You are thinking too much and maybe you should meet a counsellor who counsels you to tackle your pain. You need to engage your mind. If you are not able to sleep due to pains, then I cannot help you or do anything for you. See me after 6 months and have a pain killer that can help you for some time. Your mom-in-law called and she was really worried for you. I think and I feel you are perfect like anyone and you just need to not to think. I agree your X-rays are showing changes that are expected at this level of problem’.

What I feel or felt after listening to above –

‘Someone else mother-in-law called and he was confused so took that on me. I clarified my MIL does not know that who is handling my case. I could read that he has no solution for my medical condition and so he is asking me to engage my mind. I am already engaged with so many activities but my question was not this. My pains will be with me. They are the most committed relation of my life. He wants me to wait and see when I land up to next level. I need a counsellor if my pains are new to me but I am suffering for last 9 years. All I wanted to find a solution so that I can sleep. I am going through sleepless nights. In short, he also has no cure for me’.

I have understood one thing that slowly my condition is changing and I know what I am heading too. I have learned that year by year I will perish(:. What he said my x-rays are showing, I could already feel before meeting him. I have cried so much for last one week that even it does not help. So I just collect my moments from now.

Maybe I deserve this but I am also able to understand that I might have long life (quantity of life) but the quality of life left with me is very, very less. I have learned but I have to accept. Last year, I accepted went through the same cycle of depression and then started again. I am back to the same cycle again. I am coping and I am sure have to be out of it. But I am not visiting any doctor now. I will just concentrate on one thing – few moments of ‘quality’ of life left with me. I will just write for those moments now!

My friend Ajitabh came to meet me and he got me flowers. Ajitabh – I never said, I do not like roses. I love them as just flowers but I do not like the thought of quoting them as flowers for love. But I appreciate your roses for me and your time. I know I was not a great host but give me time. Thanks to all my Fb friends and everyone.

Thanks to my husband for listening to me throughout these 15 daysJ

I just pray and wish if God can listen to me – spare everyone who has these joint pains. Mercy God!

I am sorry if I disappointed my readers. I expect empathy not sympathy from all those who read me.

To Youth After Pain - Thought of Hope!

I had a very disturbed week. Why?

Well, I would post the answer to this why in my next post. For now I just want to end this week with this poem of hope. It has given me ‘hope’ and some courage to blog again. I have not slept for last two weeks but now I am little better to write and shareJ

I am posting this poem for myself and my lovely readers. 'To Youth After Pain' by 'Margaret Widdemer'

What if this year has given
Grief that some year must bring,
What if it hurt your joyous youth,
Crippled your laughter's wing?
You always knew it was coming,
Coming to all, to you,
They always said there was suffering--
Now it is done, come through.

Even if you have blundered,
Even if you have sinned,
Still is the steadfast arch of the sky
And the healing veil of the wind....
And after only a little,
A little of hurt and pain,
You shall have the web of your own old dreams
Wrapping your heart again.
Only your heart can pity
Now, where it laughed and passed,
Now you can bend to comfort men,
One with them all at last,
You shall have back your laughter,
You shall have back your song,
Only the world is your brother now,
Only your soul is strong!


I am scared to sleep but I am very sleepyJ...So let us end this week around a thought of hope.

Buona Notte!

A Song of Thanksgiving by Angela Morgan

For my readers on Thanksgiving Day!

I read it and liked it. Felt to post on Thanksgiving Day:)

'A Song of Thanksgiving' by Angela Morgan

Thank God I can rejoice
In human things--the multitude's glad voice,
The street's warm surge beneath the city light,
The rush of hurrying faces on my sight,
The million-celled emotion in the press
That would their human fellowship confess.
Thank Thee because I may my brother feed,
That Thou hast opened me unto his need,
Kept me from being callous, cold and blind,
Taught me the melody of being kind.
Thus, for my own and for my brother's sake--
Thank Thee I am awake!

Thank Thee that I can trust!
That though a thousand times I feel the thrust
Of faith betrayed, I still have faith in man,
Believe him pure and good since time began--
Thy child forever, though he may forget
The perfect mould in which his soul was set.
Thank Thee that when love dies, fresh love springs up.
New wonders pour from Heaven's cup.
Young to my soul the ancient need returns,
Immortal in my heart the ardor burns;
My altar fires replenished from above--
Thank Thee that I can love!

Thank Thee that I can hear,
Finely and keenly with the inner ear,
Below the rush and clamor of a throng
The mighty music of the under-song.
And when the day has journeyed to its rest,
Lo, as I listen, from the amber west,
Where the great organ lifts its glowing spires,
There sounds the chanting of the unseen choirs.
Thank Thee for sight that shows the hidden flame
Beneath all breathing, throbbing things the same,
Thy Pulse the pattern of the thing to be....
Thank Thee that I can see!

Thank Thee that I can feel!
That though life's blade be terrible as steel,
My soul is stript and naked to the fang,
I crave the stab of beauty and the pang.
To be alive,
To think, to yearn, to strive,
To suffer torture when the goal is wrong,
To be sent back and fashioned strong
Rejoicing in the lesson that was taught
By all the good the grim experience wrought;
At last, exulting, to arrive ....
Thank God I am alive!

Be Ready: SBH Hyderabad 10K Run - 27th Nov 2011

For all those who love to run and run and just run!

Please click the link below in case you missed to register for the SBH Hyderabad 10K run on 27^th November 2011.

http://www.hyd10k.com/

Every time I blog any link around such events, I really feel bad for myself. I was telling my husband – ‘I do not remember how one feels when they are part of any such 10K run?’ Just to keep my heart, my husband has promised me that he will take me to the venue but looking at the present condition of my knees and cold climate, I would prefer to avoid. I am already in immense pain and my daily routine is completely upside down (:

Running for me is like committing suicide and watching might make me feel more disturbed for a while (:

But I am happy for all those who would be part of this 10K run. I wish all the participants – ‘All the very best’.

Make the fullest use of this post by visiting the link to register. Enjoy your 10K run!

CheerioJ

Still I Rise - Maya Angelou

I went for shopping and while sitting at Crosswords and looking for Chetan Bhagat’s new book – Revolution 2020, I came across this poem. I had nothing to copy so I clicked it through my mobile and googled for the same. A very inspiring poem by Maya Angelou. Sometimes people write for themselves but they leave an impression of inspiration on other’s lives. This is one such poem right from someone’s pen to touch many hearts. Still I Rise

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops. Weakened by my soulful cries. Does my haughtiness offend you? Don't you take it awful hard 'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines Diggin' in my own back yard. You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise. Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise. No matter how life treats you. No matter how others treat you. The real success of a human mind and heart is the way you treat yourself. I read something very nice – “When we look at others weaknesses, they very soon become a part of us.” Equally true is “when you only look at your weaknesses ignoring your strengths, you become weak no matter how strong you were born” Just Rise in your Life for the one you see into the mirror!

I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You

A poem written by Pablo Neruda. Maybe for those who love and just loved for some reason or maybe no reason. For all such lovers who could meet and for those who could not meet. There is one underlying truth love never dies..............I read it and thought let me blog it for people who are in love or missed getting their loved ones!

I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From waiting to not waiting for you
My heart moves from cold to fire.

I love you only because it's you the one I love;
I hate you deeply, and hating you
Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you
Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.

Maybe January light will consume
My heart with its cruel
Ray, stealing my key to true calm.

In this part of the story I am the one who
Dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood. 

Getting or Giving?

I always tell my loved ones that I am born to give. For me life has been around giving only. From parents to in-laws, from real to virtual, from love to commitment, I have been always made to give. 
 

There are times when you sit and think ‘what did I got from life or from those for whom I did so much’?

 The answer is ‘Silence’.

 I have deliberately walked out of many lives so that they can be happy. I ruined my happiness and joy to make them happy. Sometimes people knew but many times they are not even aware. They will remember me with hatred. And that is what I wanted to do so that they stay happy.

Why I did that?

I read somewhere –

Giving is difficult than getting. It is fun that you left someone with peace and happiness as it add score to your score card. Someone has to give for others to get!

Honestly, sometimes you do not want to give but grab but then the above line makes me do it. I agree, I am left alone somewhere or maybe this what I deserved but still I am happy for many othersJ. I am thankful to God whatever he made me do as if someone will give then only others will get.

I read these few lines written by John Kendrick Bangs and they touched me so much that I include them as a part of this postJ

I’ve squandered smiles to-day,
And, strange to say,
Altho' my frowns with care I've stowed away,
To-night I'm poorer far in frowns than at the start;
While in my heart,
Wherein my treasures best I store,
I find my smiles increased by several score

I am unwell and really need to sleep nowJ

Buona NotteJ

Beautiful.....

No more words to be added!

Happy Children’s Day and World Diabetes Day!

I would like to start this post with my wishes for all the children in India – A Very Happy Children’s Day!

It is Children’s Day in India and I wish that every child shines like a diamond and make India proud as a nation.

For my global readers, I would like to wish – A Happy World Diabetes Day and a message through this post. Get your sugar levels checked on regular basis. Diabetes is a medical condition that can affect many other organs as well, if not diagnosed at the right time.

World Diabetes Day raises global awareness of diabetes – it is escalating rates around the world and how to prevent the illness in most cases. Started by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and WHO, the Day is celebrated on 14 November to mark the birthday of Frederick Banting who, along with Charles Best, was instrumental in the discovery of insulin in 1922, a life-saving treatment for diabetes patients. WHO estimates that more than 346 million people worldwide have diabetes. This number is likely to more than double by 2030 without intervention. Almost 80% of diabetes deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries.

I just got my tests done a week before and I am glad that my reports are perfect. Good sleep, nutritional diet and regular cardio for 45 minutes are much more than enough to control and maintain your sugar levels. And much above that a stress-free life. Walk out of confrontations and tensions to relieve stress. Do whatever gives you happiness as that matters the most to you and your sugar levelsJ.  Happy body is a healthy body.

Stay Happy, Stay Healthy and Stay Fit!

CheerioJ

Do Not Miss Reading This!

I am happy while putting this link here. Please click the link below to know more about this post.

http://livelifearthritisstyle.blogspot.com/2011/11/treatment-to-relieve-knee-pain.html

Before I end this week on my blog, I am dedicating a song to all of those who are like and have learned that we will not give up. The moment I saw the video, I felt it is made for meJ (sorry but the lyrics are in ‘Hindi’).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5KHAdGvYB0

Cheerio:)

RIP Chelsea! I Will Miss You....Thanks for Making Me a Vegan!

Please click the video link to know the relevance of this post!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAhxOKNZ8ME&feature=youtu.be

I am very sad as one of my baby (my bird, the blue one as you see in the video link above) named as Chelsea, passed away last night.

Chelsea has been ill indeed very sick for last 6 days. We took him to Vet clinic and he was on antibiotics and vitamins since then. He showed some improvement in last 2 days but somehow he could not sustain more and took his last few seconds in my husband’s hands last night before taking his final departure to heaven. You can see Chelsea (blue budgerigar) in the above video. He was the most beautiful and naughty among all my four babies (budgerigar). My all friends used to appreciate him for his beauty and colours.

Rest three of my babies – Gracia, Rossa and Bianca are very sad too. They are not eating and chirping since morning. Indeed, they have kept his place till now as they feel that Chelsea is in the separate basket (we kept him in a separate basket to prevent him from noise and infection, also to monitor his food intake) and he might join them. They call him but no response from Chelsea’s end is a hint to my other three babies. WE WILL MISS YOU CHELSEA. RIP!

I have already decided to get my Chelsea back and I am going to add one blue budgerigar to my family soon. I will add a new video with my new Chelsea soon....

But somewhere my last 6 days with Chelsea were so painful. I could not see him going through pain. Indeed, my husband was so upset with his condition. Both of us could not sleep last night as Chelsea was like our baby whom we have lost (:

My birds are my reason to be a vegan. Chelsea was in pain and we could only see. He could not express and there I realised that when we kill and feast on living beings, we hurt and give pain to someone who can only shout but cannot speak. CHELSEA TURNED ME A LIFELONG VEGAN.

That is the reason Chelsea came into my life and left me with a gift to remember him today and alwaysJ.

Thanks Chelsea. Mommy will miss you though(:

In memory of Chelsea..............

PS: ‘This post has no reason to criticize anyone who is ‘Non-Vegan’. No offences meant. I respect everyone’s freedom to live their life the way one wants. It is just my memory of my bird that has made be a lifelong vegan that is being shared in this post.’

Happy Gurupurab!

A very happy gurupurab to my all readers. There is one thing about every religion – one coin of love is much more appreciated than 1000 pieces of paper...dollars..rupeesJ

Every religion works around only one aspect spread love and respect people. Few lines on this gurupurab. May babaji bestow his love and affection on all of youJ

ek onkar satnam kartapurakh
nirmoh nirvair akaal murat
ajuni sabham
guru parsad jap aad sach jugaad sach
hai bhi sach Guru Nanak hose bhi sach
soche soch na ho wai
jo sochi lakh waar
chhupe chhup na howai
je laai har lakhtaar
ukhiya pukh na utari
je banna puriya paar

sahasyanpa lakh woh hai
ta ek na chale naal
ke ve sach yaara hoi ae
ke ve kude tutte paal
hukum rajai chalna

Guru Nanak likheya naal.......

Happy Gurupurab!

A Baby Writes To Mommy....(:

I read this through a link and could not stop sharing this!

If you’re against abortion then please read this and share this with others. I am too overwhelmed to write anything more as my tears are not stopping. Sorry!

I am short of words and somewhere I am touched and hurt!

 Hi Mommy,

 I'm your baby. You don't know me yet, I'm only a few  weeks old. You're going to find out about me soon, though, I promise.  Let me tell you some things about me. My name is John, and I've got beautiful brown eyes and black hair. Well, I don't have it yet, but I will when I'm born. I'm going to be your only child, and you'll call me  your one and only. I'm going to grow up without a daddy mostly, but we  have each other. We'll help each other, and love each other. I want to be a doctor when I grow up.

You found out about me today, Mommy! You were so excited, you couldn't  wait to tell everyone. All you could do all day was smile, and life was perfect. You have a beautiful smile, Mommy. It will be the first face I will see in my life, and it will be the best thing I see in my life. I know it already.

Today was the day you told Daddy. You were so excited to tell him about  me! ...He wasn't happy, Mommy. He kind of got angry. I don't think that you noticed, but he did. He started to talk about something called wedlock, and money, and bills, and stuff I don't think I understand  yet. You were still happy, though, so it was okay. Then he did something scary, Mommy. He hit you. I could feel you fall backward, and your hands flying up to protect me. I was okay... but I was very sad  for you. You were crying then, Mommy. That's a sound I don't like. It  doesn't make me feel good. It made me cry, too. He said sorry after, and he hugged you again. You forgave him, Mommy, but I'm not sure if I do. It wasn't right. You say he loves you... why would he hurt you? I don't like it, Mommy.

 Finally, you can see me! Your stomach is a little bit bigger, and you're so proud of me! You went out with your mommy to buy new clothes, and you were so so so happy. You sing to me, too. You have the most beautiful voice in the whole wide world. When you sing is when I'm happiest. And you talk to me, and I feel safe. So safe. You just wait and see, Mommy. When I am born I will be perfect just for you. I will make you proud, and I will love you with all of my heart.

 I can move my hands and feet now, Mommy. I do it because you put your hands on your belly to feel me, and I giggle. You giggle, too. I love you, Mommy.

Daddy came to see you today, Mommy. I got really scared. He was acting funny and he wasn't talking right. He said he didn't want you. I don't know why, but that's what he said. And he hit you again. I got angry, Mommy. When I grow up I promise I won't let you get hurt! I promise to protect you. Daddy is bad. I don't care if you think that he is a good person, I think he's bad. But he hit you, and he said he didn't want us. He doesn't like me. Why doesn't he like me, Mommy?

 You didn't talk to me tonight, Mommy. Is everything okay?

It's been three days since you saw Daddy. You haven't talked to me or touched me or anything since that. Don't you still love me, Mommy? I still love you. I think you feel sad. The only time I feel you is when you sleep. You sleep funny, kind of curled up on your side. And you hug me with your arms, and I feel safe and warm again. Why don't you do that when you're awake, any more?

 I'm 21 weeks old today, Mommy. Aren't you proud of me? We're going somewhere today, and it's somewhere new. I'm excited. It looks like a hospital, too. I want to be a doctor when I grow up, Mommy. Did I tell you that? I hope you're as excited as I am. I can't wait....Mommy, I'm getting scared. Your heart is still beating, but I don't know what you are thinking. The doctor is talking to you. I think something's going to happen soon. I'm really, really, really scared,Mommy. Please tell me you love me. Then I will feel safe again. I love you!

Mommy, what are they doing to me!? It hurts! Please make them stop! It feels bad! Please, mommy, please please help me! Make them stop!

 Don't worry Mommy, I'm safe. I'm in heaven with the angels now. They told me what you did, and they said it's called an abortion.

 Why, Mommy? Why did you do it? Don't you love me any more? Why did you get rid of me? I'm really, really, really sorry if I did something wrong, Mommy. I love you, Mommy! I love you with all of my heart. Why don't you love me? What did I do to deserve what they did to me? I want to live, Mommy! Please! It really, really hurts to see you not care about me, and not talk to me. Didn't I love you enough? Please say you'll keep me, Mommy! I want to live smile and watch the clouds and see your face and grow up and be a doctor. I don't want to be here, I want you to love me again! I'm really really really sorry if I did something wrong. I love you!

 I love you, Mommy.

 Every abortion is just…

 One more heart that was stopped.

 Two more eyes that will never see.

 Two more hands that will never touch.

 Two more legs that will never run.

 One more mouth that will never speak.

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I Pray For YOU!

Prayers can do wonders. We have time for everything but have we ever thought to sit at a corner and just pray for someone. I am sure the answer would be ‘Yes’. And then you will have consecutive encounters with your inner self – I prayed for my father, son, mother, daughter and so on ...

When I asked ‘someone’, it was definitely not for your loved ones. Someone you never heard or someone who is unseen or someone you met and lost in the race of life. Pray for them. It will give you peace and as I said ‘prayers can do wonders’.

God will see and send your prayers to them and you never know you get what you want in lifeJ. No matter what they did, no matter how they treated you or treat you. The fact is you loved them or love them and that is what should matter to you. Your love should be selfless and that is a true prayerJ

I am posting a very nice poem for my readers written by Edgar Guest. It is actually a ‘Prayer’J. Ask God to grant you and your loved ones with the poet is praying in this poem.

God grant me kindly thought
And patience through the day,
And in the things I've wrought
Let no man living say
That hate's grim mark has stained
What little joy I've gained.

God keep my nature sweet,
Teach me to bear a blow,
Disaster and defeat,
And no resentment show.
If failure must be mine
Sustain this soul of mine.

God grant me strength to face
Undaunted day or night;
To stoop to no disgrace
To win my little fight;
Let me be, when it is o'er,
As manly as before.

Ego and hatred are your biggest enemies. They will harm you more than anybody else.

Spread love and pray for your loved ones before you close this window of my post....

Video of Robin Sharma - Little things are Big Things

I watched this video on my Fb as I am following pages of 'Robin Sharma'. Though I have the opportunity to watch a number of his videos but this one is something that I could really connect to.

Link to Video

Paying attention to the minute details is one of the major step towards success.

It is very much true and can be applied to both personal and professional lives. I have shared this video with my Fb friends and I am very happy to share with my readers on my blog.

I have always looked up to robin Sharma as a 'success guru' and enjoyed reading his books as well.

Hope my readers enjoy this video!

Good Day!

Mirthful or Risible - I am a Vegan Now!

I tried this experiment and I failed!

I tried to experiment that how life would be if there is no Facebook, youtube or any virtual entity. I deactivated my account and no access to any blogs of mine.

Honestly, it was very difficult. I felt as if I have no air to breathe. Our lives have become so much accustomed to virtual world that it has become an integral part of real ones.

The best part was once you are away (virtually), your friends and readers are judgemental....Calls and mails with just one question – are you fine?

I think, I have become so much committed to writing that there is a sense of responsibility towards your readers. Whether how you feel, you have to write for people. Somewhere I was upset with myself but no excuses to commitment....I am thankful to last 4 days somewhere they made me much more stronger!

I end this post with something good – I am a vegan now!

Good Night!