One day the king and his friend were out on a hunting expedition. The friend would load and prepare the guns for the king. The friend had apparently done something wrong in preparing one of the guns, for after taking the gun from his friend, the king fired it and his thumb was blown off. Examining the situation the friend remarked as usual, “This is good!” To which the king replied, “No, this is NOT good!” and proceeded to send his friend to jail.

About a year later, the king was hunting in an area that he should have known to stay clear of. Cannibals captured him and took him to their village. They tied his hands, stacked some wood, set up a stake and bound him to the stake. As they came near to set fire to the wood, they noticed that the king was missing a thumb. Being superstitious, they never ate anyone that was less than whole. So untying the king, they sent him on his way.

As he returned home, he was reminded of the event that had taken his thumb and felt remorse for his treatment of his friend. He went immediately to the jail to speak with his friend. “You were right,” he said, “it was good that my thumb was blown off.” And he proceeded to tell the friend all that had just happened. “And so I am very sorry for sending you to jail for so long. It was bad for me to do this.”

“No,” his friend replied, “This is good!” “What do you mean,’This is good’? How could it be good that I sent my friend to jail for a year?”

“If I had NOT been in jail, I would have been with you.”

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Buddha

The Sufi story has to be listened to just like a story. And the story only gives glimpses, hints, but very potent, very penetrating. All that is needed on the part of the disciple is to listen, with an open heart, not with any tension. Sufis say: We and existence are one. Existence is waiting for you… to fall in love with it. If you are deeply in love, it starts revealing its secrets.
Osho.

Be calm, be strong, be grateful, and become a lamp full of light, that the darkness of sorrows be annihilated, and that the sun of everlasting joy arise from the dawning-place of heart and soul, shining brightly.
Abdu’l-Bahá

Love demands all and has a right to it…
Beethoven

“Love is the Song of the soul, sing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets, sun and moon.
Paramahansa Yogananda

Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.
Geothe

Be wise and insightful and emotionally intelligent; Be clever and bright and refreshingly stimulating; Be forgiving and accepting and consistently patient; Be exciting and inspiring and terrifically creative; Be easy going and adaptive and remarkably adjustable;Be loving and embracing and caringly present. Be uplifting to people! give people back to themselves!
Neale donald walsh

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Buddha

The Sufi story has to be listened to just like a story. And the story only gives glimpses, hints, but very potent, very penetrating. All that is needed on the part of the disciple is to listen, with an open heart, not with any tension. Sufis say: We and existence are one. Existence is waiting for you… to fall in love with it. If you are deeply in love, it starts revealing its secrets.
Osho.

Be calm, be strong, be grateful, and become a lamp full of light, that the darkness of sorrows be annihilated, and that the sun of everlasting joy arise from the dawning-place of heart and soul, shining brightly.
Abdu’l-Bahá

“Love is the Song of the soul, sing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets, sun and moon.
Paramahansa Yogananda

Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.
Geothe

Be wise and insightful and emotionally intelligent; Be clever and bright and refreshingly stimulating; Be forgiving and accepting and consistently patient; Be exciting and inspiring and terrifically creative; Be easy going and adaptive and remarkably adjustable; Be loving and embracing and caringly present. Be uplifting to people! Give people back to themselves!
Neale Donald Walsh

“…To the man, to the woman
who utilized their
energies,goodness, strength,
anger, love, tenderness,
to those who truly
alive
flowered,
and in their sensuality matured,
let us not apply
the measure
of a time
that may be
something else, a mineral
mantle, a solar
bird, a flower
something, maybe,
but not a measure.
Time, metal
or bird, long
petiolate flower,
stretch
through
man’s life,
shower him
with blossoms
and with
bright
water
or with hidden sun.
I proclaim you
road,
not shroud,
a pristine
ladder
with treads
of air,
a suit lovingly
renewed
through springtimes
around the world…”

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It’s not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” ~Marianne Williamson

“We are not here to copy another person…It’s not about that. It’s truly about finding who you are & what is that expression…Once you express yourself in such a passionate way, you inspire everybody else to be that flame & to bring that big bonfire together.” ~Prema Mayi

“Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.” ~ Joseph Campbell

“Bliss is not a feeling, but a state of Being.”
~ Deepak Chopra

“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Ole time is still aflying,
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow may be dying.”~Robert Herrick

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” ~Thoreau

“Do you know how adored you are?” ~Abraham

“What you want also wants you. If you seek the celestial, the celestial also seeks you. There are no unanswered requests in the Universe.” ~Vernon Howard

“On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined.” ~Lord Byron

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All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran

Knowledge is learning something every day.
Wisdom is letting go of something every day.
Zen Proverb

A well begun is half ended
Plato

Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal
you can, as long as ever you can