‎"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

Whenever you are totally into something, you are ecstatic. When you are partially into something, you will remain miserable, because a part of you will be moving separately from the whole. There will be a division - A split. A tension. Anxiety.

In fact, my soul and yours are the same,
You appear in me, I in you,
We hide in each other. 

God's grace is like a candle in a dark cave. It doesn't show you everything at once, but gives enough light for the next step to be safe!!!

The most expensive liquid in the world is "TEARS"
It is made up of 1% water & 99% feelings!!!

"Let me tell you a story. It is actually an experiment that was conducted at the University of Chicago.

A young, healthy and intelligent man wakes up and gets ready to go to work. His wife looks at him and tells, 'You are looking tired, are you feeling okah?'

He feels irritated by her comment and tells her to stop imagining things and leaves to work. As he takes his car out of the garage, his neighbor is watching him and shouts out, 'Are you feeling well? You look out of sorts!'

The man is surprised this time, but tells him that he is alright and drives out. He reaches his office, and as he walks in, the receptionist looks at him with concern and says, 'Sir, you look ill! Why did you come to work?' The man replies, 'Well, I think I'm fine. Let's see...' And he goes into his office.

He starts working and a colleague enters and exclaims, 'Hey! You look awful. What's the matter? Do you have a fever or something?'

Now, this is too much for the man. He begins to feel uneasy and sick. Just then his boss calls him and he goes in. The boss takes one look at him and says, 'You look realy unwell. Are you sure you can carry on today? Why don't you go and see a doctor?'

The young man has had enough. He feels he is actually ill now, and decides to go home.

As he drives home, he feels his temperature rising. When he reaches home, his wife is surprised to see him back. She reaches out and touches his forehead and finds that he has a temperature!

He developed a high temperature!

This experiment was conducted on 11 people and all the 11 people fell sick at the end of it!

Understand, this is what happens when you are not centered in your own inner energy. You will move from a high to a low because of outer influences.

Once you have found your center, that is your being, you are able to go back to it consciously to get rejuvenated. All of your inner strengths start unfolding and you begin to develop courage, energy, stamina, confidence and leadership qualities. Your work ability takes a quantum leap. You become your own source of energy and popular as well, because you are an energizing personality!"

Darwin's Perspective - When we recognize that we are truly collections of energy and that our every interaction with another person or object is an exchange of energy, we can begin to understand the symbiotic relationship we have with one another.

All of the customs, rules and norms that our society has established are convenient methods for control but the simple truth remains that our Bodies, Spirits and Minds are rarely able to be confined into such restrictive boundaries. Thus we have frustrations, anxiety, ailments and struggles as our energetic beings attempt to exist within these confines. Every so often we break free and connect regardless of such bounds only to return on Monday morning in an attempt to conform and fit in.

But we can live happy, responsible lives within society and still be true to our energetic nature. We must first recognize that our every interaction establishes a string-like connection to that person that we will retain forever. Our connections to others will either drain us or fuel us. And so too we will either drain or energize the people we are connected to. Our symbiotic relationships with one another span the boundaries of time and space despite our logical minds telling us that we have no connection to our past actions.

From your childhood playground interactions to today's morning commute, you are connected to every person with which you've interacted. And when you maintain your center in this cosmic array of connections, energy ebbs and flows in between like waves rolling onto the beach. The key is to find your balance, your center and maintain that position within this active connection you have to everything

Warriors of light are never predictable.

They might dance down the street on their way to work, gaze into the eyes of a complete stranger and speak of love at first sight, or else defend an apparently absurd idea.

Warriors of light allow themselves days like these. They are not afraid to weep over ancient sorrows or to feel joy at new discoveries.

When they believe that the moment has arrived, they drop everything and go off on some long-dreamed-of adventure.

When they realize that they can do no more, they never blame themselves for having committed a few unexpected acts of folly. Warriors do not spend a single day trying to play the role that others have chosen for them.

They talk out loud to themselves. Someone told them that this is the best way of communicating with the angels, and so they take a chance and try to make contact.

They say things which they do not agree, they talk utter nonsense.
One day, they notice a change in their voice.
They are acting as a channel for some higher wisdom.

The warriors may look mad, but this is just a disguise.

‎"The problem with modern man is that we have forgotten the language of silence, we have forgotten the way of the heart. We have completely forgotten that there is a life which can be lived through the heart. We are too much hung up in the head, and because we are too much in the head we cannot make any sense out of love.
It becomes more and more problematic." Osho 

‎"An old Sufi tradition advises us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through four gates. At the first gate, we ask ourselves, "Are these words true?" If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask; "Are they necessary?" At the third gate we ask; "Are they beneficial?" and at the fourth gate, we ask, "Are they kind?" If the answer to any of these is no, then what you are about to say should be left unsaid".

Comparison brings inferiority, superiority. When you don't compare, all inferiority, all superiority, disappear. Then you are, you are simply there. A small bush or a big high tree--it doesn't matter; you are yourself. You are needed. A grass leaf is needed as much as the biggest star. Without the grass leaf God will be less than he is. The sound of the cuckoo is needed as much as any Buddha; the world will be less, will be less rich if the cuckoo disappears. 

Just look around. All is needed, and everything fits together. It is an organic unity: nobody is higher and nobody is lower, nobody superior, nobody inferior. Everybody is incomparably unique.

Three things cannot be long hidden- The Sun, The Moon and The Truth

‎"You see the people-they are miserable because they have compromised on every point, and they cannot forgive themselves because they have compromised.They know that they could have dared, but they proved cowards. In their own eyes they have fallen, they have lost self-respect. 

That´s what compromise does." Osho

“My heart is afraid to suffer”

“Why do we have to listen to our hearts?” the boy asked, when they had made camp that day.

“Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you’ll find your treasure.”

“But my heart is agitated,” the boy said. “It has its dreams, it gets emotional, and it’s become passionate over a woman of the desert. It asks things of me, and it keeps me from sleeping many nights, when I’m thinking about her.”

“Well, that’s good. Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say.”

“My heart is a traitor,” the boy said to the alchemist, when they had paused to rest the horses. “It doesn’t want me to go on.”

“That makes sense. Naturally it’s afraid that, in pursuing your dream, you might lose everything you’ve won.”

“Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?”

“Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet. ”

“You mean I should listen, even if it’s treasonous?”

“Treason is a blow that comes unexpectedly. If you know your heart well, it will never be able to do that to you. Because you’ll know its dreams and wishes, and will know how to deal with them.

“My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer,” the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.”

- From 'The Alchemist' by Paulo Coelho

"In The Empire Strikes Back, Luke Skywalker visits the Degobas system to be mentored by Yoda in the ways of the Force. Luke has a rough landing in a misty swamp. He meets a little gerbil-like being who talks in a very odd cadence. This odd little hamster turns out to be the famed Jedi warrior Yoda. Yoda reluctantly agrees to mentor Luke. He takes Luke through a series of exercises to teach him how to use the force.

During one exercise, Luke and Yoda are at the site of Luke's sinking starship. The ship slips beneath the surface of the swamp and disappears. Yoda tries to get Luke to raise the ship using the Force. Yoda tells Luke about the force: "Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings we are, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you. Here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere. Even between the land, the ship." Yoda goes on to raise the ship.

Luke responds, "I can't believe it."

Yoda replies, "That is why you fail."

Yoda teaches Luke that the Force is the consciousness of the universe, the force that ties everyone and everything together." - Rick Richardson

Darwin's Perspective - Because we primarily experience life via the consciousness of our Mind, we tend to see everything as separate. Right now, as you look around, your Mind can identify several distinct and seemingly separate objects in your surroundings. So too, we see and feel ourselves as separate "objects" from our environment. Thus it is natural for us to separate matter into these distinct chunks and understand everything that is between these objects as space.

But we know from our schooling that between us and these objects is much more than space. The air we breath can be broken down to be identified as molecules just like the building blocks of our Body and all of these objects. Thus, in reality, there is not so much a true separateness but rather an objective point in which we classify something as being big and cohesive enough to be an object. Like parts that become an automobile, the Mind identifies and classifies objects based on the largest distinguishable chunk.

So too physicists help us understand that the energy we experience everyday as light and sound has a structure to it as well. The light that is entering your eye right now and the sound hitting your ears is traveling to you. Thus the very environment in which you take for granted and divide up into these distinct chunks (e.g. you, computer, chair, radio, sound, light) is actually comprised of very small elements.

When we live our lives and experience life via the singularity of the Mind, we see ourselves as separate and distinct objects. In this perspective, things happen to us and we try our best to survive, persevere and triumph. When things go well, we feel confidant in our abilities. But when things go poorly, we feel lost and vulnerable.

The mystical Yoda character represents the embodiment of living both a physical existence and a Spiritual existence. By understanding the relationship between the two, Yoda exemplifies how one can find harmony between the two and have one's life enriched. And while our ability to raise starships from a swamp may be lacking, the very world we live in is existing within this dynamic environment. When we bridge the gap between the physical and the Spiritual, we gain insight and wisdom for living a Spiritual existence.

That is the work we're doing here. Like Jedi students learning about life like newborns, we are re-discovering the beautiful relationship with God that has been available to us all along.