Come to Light From Darkness

There are two ways of passing from this world — one in light, and one in darkness. When one passes in light he does not come back but when one passes in darkness he returns.

Bhagwad Gita 8.26

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When the force of the desire for Truth blossoms, selfish desires wither away, just like darkness vanishes before the radiance of the light of dawn.

Adi Shankara

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Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error.

Kahlil Gibran

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

Meister Eckhart

Quotes on Family Love Your Family

Behold the man who shields his family from all suffering. Has not his body become a willing vessel for affliction? Without good men to hold it up, the family house will fall when misfortune descends. 

Tirukkural 103: 1029-1030

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A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden. 

Gautama Buddha

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In the Kingdom of Heaven, true love is fulfilled centred on parental love...The family is the original base of true love... 

Sun Myung Moon

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Your family is your first frame of reference...You should avail of every kind of lesson that you receive from your family. 

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Happy Holi quotes Festival of Colors

Life should be full of colours! And each colour is meant to be seen and enjoyed separately, for if seen all mixed together, they will appear all black. Similarly, in life, different roles played by the same person should exist peacefully and distinctly inside him. Lift your spirit with the joy of colour.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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Holi is a love-filled sport between lovers — getting drenched in one another's colour of love. Holi is the special day to dissolve your personal identity and gel completely with Krishna for He is the very embodiment of love.

Anandmurti Gurumaa

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Look at Nature: there is existence enjoying Holi every day. In Nature, colours flow afresh every day, new flowers open each morning. Even before the old leaves fall, new buds are bursting out and new shoots are springing up. The festival is non-stop.

Osho

Life lessons

1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short not to enjoy it.

4. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and family will.

5. Don’t buy stuff you don’t need.

6. You don’t have to win every argument. Stay true to yourself.

7. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone.

8. It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

9. Save for things that matter.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present.

12. It’s OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye… But don’t worry; God never blinks.

16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

17. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful.  Clutter weighs you down in many ways.

18. Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.

19. It’s never too late to be happy.  But it’s all up to you and no one else.

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take no for an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

22. Overprepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.

25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words, ‘In five years, will this matter?’

27. Always choose Life.

28. Forgive but don’t forget.

29. What other people think of you is none of your business.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give Time time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

32. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn’t do.

35. Don’t audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.

36. Growing old beats the alternative — dying young.

37. Your children get only one childhood.

38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d
grab ours back.

41. Envy is a waste of time. Accept what you already have, not what you think you need.

42. The best is yet to come…

43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

44. Yield.

45. Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift

Few Reasons To Be Thankful

BE ALWAYS THANKFUL.........

EACH DAY..........

EACH HOUR.......

EACH SECOND........

HAVE A LOVELY THANKFUL DAY

THANK YOU GOD................................................

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Love and Fear..............

The path to love and happiness, is really not outside,
it's born from truth & honesty, and not within a lie.
It grows within the feelings, that centers in your heart,
it feeds on trust & loyalty, and does not tear apart.

It lifts you when you're burdened, and holds you when you're sad,
it secures you when you're jealous, and laughs when you are mad.
And through the joys and sorrows, of love and hate and fear,
the memories created, should last throughout your years.

Loving is the answer, it grows from what you learn,
your thoughts create the future, the Point of no Return.

When you go off center, and lose your sense of pride,
the negative surrounds you, with bitter words and lies.
Sometimes indecision, and sometimes in regret,
sometimes insecurity, and sometimes as a threat.

Because of constant pressure, because of fear of why,
because of all the questions, and because of all the lies.
You need to touch your center, is what I can suggest,
get hold of faith & confidence, this is the last request.

You need to start things over, starting with the truth,
you need to start to change the past, began within your youth.
You're just a fish in water, swimming for your life,
a thinking feeling person, looking for what's right.
You need to touch the child, held deep within us all,
escape through truth & honesty, not up against the wall.
Our pets show us this secret, they give love without concern,
the message here is giving, with no thought of your return.

Written as an omen, about the quest for life,
a thought provoking commentary, about searching for what's right.
You can be a martyr and destroy what you have learned;
or you could be in ecstasy, a place that you must earn.

Your thoughts become the future

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There is no religion greater than truth and a truthful person knows no fear.

There is no religion greater than truth and a truthful person knows no fear.

Rig Veda
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Every noble work is bound to face problems and obstacles. It is important to check your goal and motivation thoroughly. One should be very truthful, honest and reasonable. One's actions should be good for others and for oneself as well. Once a positive goal is chosen, you should decide to pursue it all the way to the end. Even if it is not realised, at least there will be no regret.

The XIV Dalai Lama
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What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.

M K Gandhi
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The first thing is to be honest with you. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself. Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty and humility.

Nelson Mandela
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There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.

French Proverb

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Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. ~Henry Louis Mencken, A Little Book in C Major, 1916

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. ~Mark Twain

Who lies for you will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. ~Abraham Lincoln

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. ~Thomas Carlyle

A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. ~Charles Edward Montague, Disenchantment

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind. ~Austin O’Malley

A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. ~William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence,” Poems from the Pickering Manuscript

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. ~Aristotle

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. ~George Herbert

With lies you may get ahead in the world – but you can never go back. ~Russian proverb

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread. ~Josh Billings

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. ~Ambrose Bierce

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. ~Edgar J. Mohn

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback. ~Bill Copeland

Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. ~Mark Twain

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911

A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. ~Author Unknown

We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. ~Tad Williams

Truth fears no questions. ~Unknown

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously. ~Thomas Sowell

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ~Thomas Jefferson

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50 Most Amazing Things One Should Know

• The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
• Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
• Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!
• What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
• "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
• "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
• In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
• A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
• There is a city called Rome on every continent.
• It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!
• Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
• Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.
• The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London
• Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
• Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
• The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
• One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
• The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man
• Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
• Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
• The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
• Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
• Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
• Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
• Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
• On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.
• More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
• The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
• More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.
• Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
• The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
• The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
• Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
• It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
• You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
• Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!
• Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
• It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
• The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
• Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not.
• Slugs have 4 noses.
• Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.
• A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
• The average person laughs 10 times a day!
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain

And a Mistake There are 51 Most Amazing Things One Should Know....

The Last One is You Are The Most Amazing Person in the Entire Universe....

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