Ten Rules for a Happy and Fulfilling Community Experience
1. Keep skid chains on your tongue. Speak less. Listen more and think more. When you say something, remember that how you say it may be more significant than what you say.
2. Never forget your spiritual ideal and be mindful of your attitude toward others. What the community gives you will depend on what you contribute it.
3. Never let an opportunity pass by to say a kind and encouraging word. Praise good work, regardless of who did it.
4. Watch how you relate with others. Respect other members of the community even when you don't agree with them. Whatever we send out comes back to us.
5. Be cheerful. Don't depress those around you by dwelling on your own aches, pains and disappointments. Remember, everyone is carrying their own aches, pains and burden.
6. Keep an open mind. Discuss, but never argue. It is a quality of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.
7. Let your noble qualities show through your life. Refuse to talk about the faults of others Never participate in gossip: it is a waste of time and energy, and is destructive and harmful.
8. Take into consideration the feelings of others. Hurting others through our thoughts, words, or actions stores up bad karma and inevitably brings pain and sorrow.
9. Pay no attention to ill-natured remarks about you. Remember, the person who carried the message may not be the most accurate reporter in the world. Simply live by your principles and be true to yourself. Truth shall eventually triumph.
10. Don't be anxious whether your goodness is being recognized. Do your best and be patient. Even if nobody notices how good and hardworking you are, God always does. As a spiritual seeker, you are working to please God, not other human beings.
The above rules need to be practiced. Merely reading, knowing and understanding them will not produce any result.
2009年12月22日 星期二
2009年5月21日 星期四
Swami Vivekanada Quotes
Swami Vivekanada Quotes
---Religion: Oneness: God
“Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.”
“You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.”
“The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful”
“The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!”
“BY the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one.”
“To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion”
“The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.”
“All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.”
“Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man”
“To worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto to God, but do not ask anything in return even from Him through pray.”
“The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful”
"You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”
“Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.”
---Power of thought
“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.”
“When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.”
“We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.”
“Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin ? to say that you are weak, or others are weak.”
“It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. First, believe in this world, that”
“The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.”
“If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.”
---Love the world and Be mercy
“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”
“The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.”
“All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.”
“Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.”
“The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.”
“Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, "here, my poor man", but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.”
---Religion: Oneness: God
“Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.”
“You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.”
“The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful”
“The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!”
“BY the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one.”
“To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion”
“The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.”
“All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.”
“Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man”
“To worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto to God, but do not ask anything in return even from Him through pray.”
“The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful”
"You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”
“Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.”
---Power of thought
“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.”
“When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.”
“We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.”
“Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin ? to say that you are weak, or others are weak.”
“It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. First, believe in this world, that”
“The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.”
“If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.”
---Love the world and Be mercy
“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”
“The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.”
“All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.”
“Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.”
“The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.”
“Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, "here, my poor man", but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.”
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