Quotes - 2011

How To Keep Growing

January 20, 2011 Manu Leave a comment

Be open-minded and teachable like an unspoiled child. – The Urantia Papers

being teachable

The biggest malady we all suffer with is not being teachable because we’re so married to our respective perspectives! Our ego comes into play with the pretext that it’s saving our face, but does it really do that? Sometimes my son will point out an error I’ve made and I naturally tend to defend and explain myself. Often for a few moments at least I’ll stay that way before I realize that I’m holding my ground against my own child and that too when he’s right!

like a child

How can we be like a child? The scriptures exhort us to be ‘childlike’ not childish. Have the faith, the expectation, the outlook, the ‘now-focus’ and the joie de vivre that’s so natural to a child. We can do it if we remind ourselves to do it and practice it as much as possible! May you be the child you once were!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM childlike.

Recommendation: The Urantia Papers

Quotes - 2011

The Gift

January 19, 2011 Manu Leave a comment

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. – Eckhart Tolle

it’s now

As you read this you do so in what is the current moment. Let’s pay attention to the breath, to where we’re sitting, to what else is on our mind, to our surroundings, to our hopes, our desires and most of all to the observer that observes all this. When we identify directly with this observer we enter the present moment more fully. We can now experience life as it is, in all of its beauty and glory.

the future has arrived

Chances are that the moment we live right now is one we had feverishly anticipated a while ago. Even if that’s not the case we can find amazing positives about our life and situation today. Let’s whip out our journal or utter a prayer of deep thanksgiving for what we are and what we have. This moment is a miracle if we only see it as such. Let’s embrace this gift!

Daily Affirmation: Today I breathe in the Now moment.

Recommendation: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

Quotes - 2011

Thou Shalt Believe!

January 18, 2011 Manu Leave a comment

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution. – Dr. David Schwartz

ask and it shall be given

When we believe in something, we just accept its reality. We take it as a given, we don’t question it. It becomes a reality in our mind. When we believe like this we’re really asking the Universe to make that belief an objective reality. Mind is the creator. Universal Mind (God) is the master creator, from her mind come all that we experience outside and inside us. From God’s mind comes our mind. Which is another reason why we are God’s children. Our minds, under the right conditions will cause the object of our belief to appear!

expect it

The Universe is like a giant, infinite, organic and thinking computer. It’s more than a machine of course, much more. This giant computer is knit together by the most sophisticated, evolving, solving, serving, illuminating, gathering and inspiring cosmic glue which is consciousness. So when one sub-unit (a human) ‘thinks’, all such activity is registered locally and globally. When the same human ‘creates’ within the mind which is part of the larger mind, such an expression seeks an outlet into objective reality. This is because now a universe potential, otherwise dormant, has suddenly taken birth and needs to be expressed. Such an expression will find an outlet if the conditions are right. One such condition is fulfilled when we simply expect our belief to become reality.

Daily Affirmation: Today I co-create with God.

Recommendation: The Law of Attraction by Esther Hicks

Gita, Quotes - 2011

How Surrender Leads To Peace…

January 16, 2011 Manu Leave a comment

5.12 This man of harmony surrenders the reward of his work and thus attains final peace: the man of disharmony, urged by desire, is attached to his reward and remains in bondage. – The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 5)

surrender

What happens if we do our best in any given situation and have no expectation regarding the outcome? In relationships we love, we give and we care; at work we focus, we work towards goals and deliver excellence, and we expect not a certain result. In other words we surrender to life while living life to the fullest.

peace

Surrendering is surely not an easy practice. We think thoughts constantly and many of them have to do with what we expect will happen next or later. So it’ll have to be a new mental muscle that we slowly develop. Because when we do, peace drops into our midst quenching the thirst produced by our constant striving.

Daily Affirmation: Today I give my best and expect not.

Recommendation: The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics) by Juan Mascaro

Quotes - 2011

The Secret ‘Formula’ To Being Happy

January 13, 2011 Manu 1 Comment

You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not. – Epictetus

what we can’t control

Even things under our control can be cause for dissatisfaction and unhappiness. For example we might want to make breakfast and end up spilling egg on the floor. That could be cause for frustration, especially if we’re running out of time in the morning. Even things under our apparent control sometimes spin out of control.

what we can control

What we can control is our perspective, our attitude and our reaction to an event. I learnt from Jack Canfield many moons ago the following equation:

O (outcome) = E (event) * R (reaction)

The outcome (happiness) is the result of an event that occurs and our reaction to it. We control our reaction to any life event, situation or relationship. When things appear out of control, we ought to slow down, collect our full being, ask for input from Universal Intelligence and then decide on our reaction to the event.

Daily Affirmation: Today I control my reactions to events.

Recommendation: The Center Within by Fred Harris

Quotes - 2011

On Thinking And Thoughts

January 12, 2011 Manu Leave a comment

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. – Shakespeare

our interpretation

In my opinion Shakespeare is not talking about absolute goodness or evil here. His comment is about how we interpret life, how we react to events and what value or meaning we might attach to situations. We experience the fruit of our interpretation. For example if someone lives according to the assumption that ‘life is not fair’, all other things being equal life will not appear fair to that individual.

choosing our thoughts

As hard is it is we can choose our own thoughts. We can do so by being intentional and deliberate about it. Importantly we must design our inclinations, attitudes, assumptions and standard ways of thinking about life, money and relationships. As we think, so we are and so we become.

Daily Affirmation: Today I design my life by choosing my thoughts.

Recommendation: Awakening of Intelligence by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Quotes - 2011

In Our Favor!

January 11, 2011 Manu Leave a comment

Whenever something doesn’t work out the way you thought it would, instead of thinking that something went wrong, see it as something that went unexpectedly well, but for reasons that are not yet apparent. Everything plays to your favor. – The Universe

expect goodness

I subscribe to the notion that a creator created this stupendous universe. S/he also designed it, to a large extent, to create creatures who could grow and know the creator. Under this theory, we’re all children of the Universe. We are safe, we’re guided and only good can prevail ultimately. No ifs, ands or buts….

it all works out

In other words the entire creation conspires to make individuals succeed based on larger design goals. Part of our ‘purpose’ is to create new things, new ideas, new ways to cooperate, serve others and generally add value to the whole enterprise. When we do that, we simply cannot fail!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM confident that it all works out!

Recommendation: Notes from the Universe by Mike Dooley

Namaste Now!

Monthly Archives: January 2011

How To Keep Growing

being teachable

like a child

The Gift

it’s now

the future has arrived

Thou Shalt Believe!

ask and it shall be given

expect it

How Surrender Leads To Peace…

surrender

peace

The Secret ‘Formula’ To Being Happy

what we can’t control

what we can control

What we can control is our perspective, our attitude and our reaction to an event. I learnt from Jack Canfield many moons ago the following equation:

On Thinking And Thoughts

our interpretation

choosing our thoughts

In Our Favor!

expect goodness

it all works out

In other words the entire creation conspires to make individuals succeed based on larger design goals. Part of our ‘purpose’ is to create new things, new ideas, new ways to cooperate, serve others and generally add value to the whole enterprise. When we do that, we simply cannot fail!

Be, Here, Now…