Motivational speech by Gary Raser (LIMU founder and CEO)

Life is tough!
That’s a given.

When you stand up, you’re gonna be shoved back down.
When your down, you’re gonna be stepped on.

My advise to you doesn’t come with a lot of bells and whistles.
It’s no secret you’ll fall down… you’ll stumble… you’ll get pushed… you’ll land square on your face.
But every time that happens,
You get back on your feet.
You get up just as fast as you can.
No matter how many times you need to do it.

Remember this.
Success has been and continues to be defined as getting up one more time, then you’ve been knocked down.

If experience has taught me anything, it’s that nothing is free, and living ain’t easy!

Life is hard.
Real hard.
Incredibly hard.

You fail more often than you win.
Nobody’s handing you anything.

It’s up to you to puff up your chest, stretch your neck, and overcome all the difficult… the nasty… the mean… the unfair.

You want more than you have now?
Prove it!
You want to be the very best there is?
Get out there and earn it!
Once you decide that, you will know where it is you want to be.
And you won’t stop pushing forward until your get there!
That’s how winners are made.

At the end of the day, success is what we all want.
We all wanna win.
And, the race will be won.
There is no question about that.

So come on…
Get out on top.
Run faster.
Dream bigger.
Live better than you have ever before.

This is in you.
You can do this.

Do it for yourself.
Prove it to yourself.

एक फ़साना तुम लिखो, एक  कहानी मैं लिखुँ,

अपना अंदाज़े बयां तुम लिखो, अपनी ज़ुबानी मैं लिखुँ,

तमाम उम्र चलना है थामे तेरा हाथ,

सहारे वाले लम्हे तुम लिखो, एक उम्र मस्तानी मैं लिखुँ,

ज़िन्दगी आग का दरिया ही सहि,

किनारे का सुकून तुम लिखो, लहर की नादानी मैं लिखुँ,

हर पल जीना है हमें हर पल की हद तक,

खिली सुबह तुम लिखो, एक शाम सुहानी मैं लिखुँ,

चलो बना दे शब्दों से ज़िन्दगी की तस्वीर,

नए रंग सारे तुम लिखो, एक ग़ज़ल पुरानी मैं लिखुँ। 

defeat

Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold?

The tree says to the leaf:
‘That’s the cycle of life. You may think you’re going to die, but you live on in me. It’s thanks to you that I’m alive, because I can breathe. It’s also thanks to you that I have felt loved, because I was able to give shade to the weary traveller. Your sap is in my sap, we are one thing.’

Does a man who spent years preparing to climb the highest mountain in the world feel defeated on reaching that mountain and discovering that nature has cloaked the summit in storm clouds?
The man says to the mountain: ‘You don’t want me this time, but the weather will change and, one day, I will make it to the top. Meanwhile, you’ll still be here waiting for me.’

Does a young man, rejected by his first love, declare that love does not exist?
The young man says to himself: ‘I’ll find someone better able to understand what I feel. And then I will be happy for the rest of my days.’

Losing a battle or losing everything we thought we possessed will bring us moments of sadness, but when those moments pass, we will discover the hidden strength that exists in each of us, a strength that will surprise us and increase our self-respect.

Wait patiently for the right moment to act.
Do not let the next opportunity slip.

Take pride in your scars.
Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle. Often this will lead them to seek dialogue and avoid conflict.

Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.


taken from MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN ACCRA

There may be days when you get up in the morning and things aren’t the way you had hoped they would be.

That’s when you have to tell yourself that things will get better. There are times when people disappoint you and let you down.

But those are the times when you must remind yourself to trust your own judgments and opinions, to keep your life focused on believing in yourself.

There will be challenges to face and changes to make in your life, and it is up to you to accept them.

Constantly keep yourself headed in the right direction for you. It may not be easy at times, but in those times of struggle you will find a stronger sense of who you are.

So when the days come that are filled with frustration and unexpected responsibilities, remember to believe in yourself and all you want your life to be.

Because the challenges and changes will only help you to find the goals that you know are meant to come true for you.

Keep Believing in Yourself!

Anthem

“I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.” | Ayn Rand, Anthem 

Wanderer, your footsteps are
the road, and nothing more;
Wanderer, there's no road,
the road is made by walking.
By walking one makes the road,
and seeing behind the vista,
one sees the path that will
never be traveled again.
Wanderer, there's no road,
only waves in the sea.

from Paulo Coelho

Give us this day, Lord, our daily miracle.

Even if we are incapable of noticing it because our mind is focussed on great deeds and conquests. Even if we are too preoccupied with day-to-day life to know that our path was changed by it.

And when we are sad, help us to keep our eyes open to the life around us: a flower opening, the stars in the sky, the distant singing of a bird or a child’s voice nearby.

Help us to understand that there are certain things so important that we have to discover them without anyone’s help. And that we should not feel alone and helpless, because You are there with us, ready to intervene if our feet go perilously close to the abyss.

Help us to continue onward despite the fear and to accept the inexplicable despite our need to explain and know everything.

Help us to understand that Love’s strength lies in its contradictions and that Love lasts because it changes and not because it stays the same and never faces any challenges.

And to understand, too, that each time we see the humble exalted and the arrogant humbled, we are witnessing a miracle.

Help us to know that when our legs are tired, we can keep walking thanks to the strength in our hearts, and that when our hearts are tired, we can still carry on thanks to the strength of our Faith.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

- John Keats

Meditation Is Mastery

The society gives language; the society cannot exist without language. Human society is an outgrowth of language; there are no animal societies because they have no language. Language creates the society. Society needs language; existence doesn’t need it. Existence can be without language; society cannot be. So I am not saying that you must be without language – you will have to be with language. But this mechanism must be a mechanism which can be put on and off.

When you are a social being the mechanism must be on: the mechanism of language. Without this you cannot exist within society. But when you are with existence, the mechanism must be turned off – and you must be able to put it off, otherwise the mechanism is mad. If you cannot turn it off – and it goes on and on, and you are not capable of putting it off, then the mechanism has taken hold over you – then you have become just a slave to the mechanism, to the instrument. Mind must be used as an instrument, and not as a master. It has become the master.

Mind as master is the non-meditative state. You, the consciousness as the master, is the meditative state. So meditation is mastering the mechanism, the mind.

website link:http://meditation.blog.osho.com/meditation-is-mastery/#more-281

Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.

If it comes too close, say: “I’m not worried about tomorrow, because God is there already, waiting for me.

”If it tries to persuade you that taking on lots of jobs means having a productive life, say: “I need time to look at the stars in order to feel inspired and to be able to do my job well.”

If it threatens you with the ghost of hunger, say: “Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.”

from Manuscript found in Accra - Paulo Coelho

‎"You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. You, who have lost the concept of the difference, you who claim that fear and joy are incentives of equal power—and secretly add that fear is the more “practical”—you do not wish to live, and only fear of death still holds you to the existence you have damned." | Atlas Srugged

When without money, eats wild vegetables at home; When has money, eats same wild vegetables in fine restaurant. When without money, rides bicycle; When has money, rides the same exercise machine. When without money, walks to earn food; When has money, walks to burn the fat. Man O Man ! never fails to deceive thyself ! When without money, wishes to get married; When has money, wishes to get divorced. When without money, wife becomes secretary; When has money, secretary becomes wife. When without money, acts like rich man; When has money, acts like poor man.

We love because

Nature is a manifestation of the Love of God.
Regardless of what we do, Nature continues to love us.
Let us, therefore, respect and understand what Nature teaches us.

We love because Love sets us free, and we say things that we once never even had the courage to whisper to ourselves.
We make a decision that we kept putting off.
We learn to say ‘No’ without thinking of that word as somehow cursed.
We learn to say ‘Yes’ without fearing the consequences.

We forget everything we were taught about Love, because each encounter is different and brings its own agonies and ecstasies.

We sing more loudly when the person we love is far away and whisper poems when he is near, even if he doesn’t listen and pays no attention to either our shouts or our whispers.

We don’t close our eyes to the Universe and then complain: ‘It’s dark.’
We keep our eyes wide open, knowing that the light could lead us to do undreamed-of things.
That is all part of love.

Our heart is open to love and we surrender to it without fear, because we have nothing more to lose.
Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired.

taken from MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN ACCRA by Paulo Coelho

On Solitude

For those who are not frightened by the solitude that reveals all mysteries, everything will have a different taste.

In solitude, they will discover the love that might otherwise arrive unnoticed. In solitude, they will understand and respect the love that left them.

In solitude, they will be able to decide whether it is worth asking that lost love to come back or if they should simply let it go and set off along a new path.

In solitude, they will learn that saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue.

And those who are alone at this moment, need never be frightened by the words of the devil: ‘You’re wasting your time.’
Or by the chief demon’s even more potent words: ‘No one cares about you.’

The Divine Energy is listening to us when we speak to other people, but also when we are still and silent and able to accept solitude as a blessing.

And in that moment, Its light illumines everything around us and helps us to see that we are necessary, and that our presence on Earth makes a huge difference to Its work.

The divine order arranges our future more wisely than any insurance company!

I have left a few paltry rupees, a few petty pleasures, for a cosmic empire of endless bliss. How then have i denied myself anything? I know the joy of sharing the treasure. Is that a sacrifice? The shortsighted worldly folks are verily the real renunciates! They relinquish an unparalleled divine possession for a poor handful of earthly toys.

Imagine.



Imagine you walked into your room to find your twin sitting where you were sitting. Working on what you were working on.

Except.. He’s not working like you were working, nowhere near. He is NOTHING like you. Infact, the STRENGTH you feel just by being in his presence, makes you whisper to yourself, “woah”.

He has a look in his eye, an uprightness to his posture and a spiritual energy that tells you, without any words spoken that he is getting what he wants. Whatever it is. Full stop.

Your hairs stand on end like you just came across a Lion, and he’s staring right at you about to pounce. But you’re twin is not even looking at you. He has no awareness of your presence. He is focused.

You know at this point that you’re looking at something very strange. The likes of which, you have never seen live, in the flesh, before.

He is not even an alpha male. He is something much bigger, much stronger than that.

He is greatness.

You get a sense standing next to him, that this is what it must have been like to stand next to Alexander The Great, Winston Churchill or Napoleon Bonaparte in their prime.

But he is not them. He is you, down to the bone. There is nothing in him that is not in you.

You know this.

I know you do, deep down, we all do.

Despite this, the question always seems to remain.

Why aren’t you that guy?

The answer is FEAR.

The only thing separating you from that guy is this four letter word. That’s it.

So now decide.

Go and be that guy.



Written By Leo Pantero