Ego has a voracious appetite, the more you feed it, the hungrier it gets

"Ego has a voracious appetite, the more you feed it, the hungrier it gets."
~ Nathaniel Bronner Jr.

We do not receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey through the wilderness...

"We do not receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey through the wilderness, which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world."

~ Marcel Proust(1871 – 1922) French novelist, critic and essayist

I saturate all the cells in my body with love, and they become vibrantly healthy.

"The one person I am with forever is me. My relationship with myself is eternal, so I choose to be my own best friend. I choose to love and accept myself and talk to myself as I would to a beloved person in my life. I saturate all the cells in my body with love, and they become vibrantly healthy. I re...late with love to all of life."
- Louise L. Hay

When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender that is strength.

"When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender that is strength."
~Arnold Schwarzenegger 1975

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who couldn't hear the music

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who couldn't hear the music."
- Nietzsche

Follow your wildest dreams, wherever they may take you...

"Follow your wildest dreams,
wherever they may take you...

Celebrate each moment you're given,
for your time on earth is precious...

Remember to believe in magick,
look and see it all around you...

Let your spirit be a beacon,
lighting the way through darkness...

In the end it's love that matters,
and how your life is truly measured"

-- Jessica Galbreth

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want

“You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”
~ Zig Ziglar

A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

"A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key."
~ Paul Valéry

Create from the inside. Don't worry about the outside. It will happen by itself.

"You have to have a blueprint. Meditation is about the inside. You have to meditate. Create from the inside. Don't worry about the outside. It will happen by itself."
- Dattatreya Siva Baba

Never react emotionally to criticism.

"Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business."
~Norman Vincent Peale

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.

"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him."
~ David Brink

Criticism

"Criticism is easily avoided by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."
- Aristotle

Our interpretation of time influences our biology

Many experiments have shown that our interpretation of time influences our biology. An astonishing fact is that more people die in our culture on Monday mornings at nine o'clock than at any other time of the week. - Deepak Chopra

Laughing at our mistakes ...

"Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it."
- Cullen Hightower

Hindu New Year

Hindu New Year is celebrated according to the Hindu Lunar Calendar- Panchanga. The popular name of the Hindu New Year is Vikram Samvat. In the Indian Calendar, seasons follow the sun, months follow the moon and days both sun and moon. This era of Vikram Samvat began in 57 BC. To correspond with the solar calendar, 57 years are subtracted from the Hindu Year. Thus, the New Year begin with the first day of Kartik Maas following Deepawali Amaavasya.

History of Vikram Samvat
The origin of Hindu New Year relates to the legendary Hindu King Vikramaditya in 57 BC. According to the legend, King Gardabhilla (in 12th century CE) abducted a nun by the name of Saraswati. She was the sister of the famous Jain monk Kalakacharya. The helpless monk sought help of the Saka ruler in Sakasthana to defeat Gardabhilla. He was defeated and captivated by the Saka King. Though later released but Gardabhilla retired to the the forest where he was killed by a tiger. His son, Vikramaditya (brought up in the forest) later invaded Ujjain and pushed out the Sakas. Thus, to celebrate this event, he commemorated a new era called Vikram Samvat.

Hindu New Year Celebrations
Multifarious religions are practiced in India and so are the celebrations of various festivals. Hindu New Year is celebrated with gaiety and pomp all over India. Verve of the festival can be seen mostly among the people of North India and Gujarat. New Year in Southern India also emphasize the Hindu New Year but the date and New Year traditions vary.

* Punjab : New year starts on 13th April.
* Assam : New year starts on 14th or 15th of April.
* Bengal : New year starts on 14th or 15th April.
* Gujarat : New Year starts on Karthik Shukla Pratipada.
* Kerala : New year starts in the month of Medam (on the day when the Sun enters in the constellation Leo).
* Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka : New Year falls on Chaitra Shuddha Prathipade.
* Sikkim : New Year starts on 18th day of the 10th month of the Tibetan Lunar Calendar.
* Maharashtra : New Year starts in the month of Chaitra
* Tamil Nadu : New year starts on 13th or 14th of April.


People light oil lamps and decorate the house with auspicious flowers those with the color like pink, red, purple or yellow. Rangoli design is also an attractive part of New Year decorations. Indians get up early in the morning, take bath and wear new clothes. They bring home deities of Goddess Laxmi (Goddess of wealth) and Lord Ganesha. Prayers are offered and prasad is distributed among the family members. At the time of New Year, gifts and sweets are exchangd with each other. People consider this festival to be an auspicious time to begin New Year

Source: http://www.newyearfestival.com/hindu-new-year.html

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains, and is, immortal.

"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains, and is, immortal."
-- Albert Pine

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
~ Cyril Connolly

Never, never, never, never give up.

“Never, never, never, never give up.”
~Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) British Statesman, Prime Minister, Author

What we think we become

"What we think we become."
-- Buddha

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
-- George Orwell

You don’t just grab a ruler and tell everyone to whip their dicks out...

“Calm down. You don’t just grab a ruler and tell everyone to whip their dicks out. You stuff your crotch and keep your pants on.”
-- ShitMyDadSays

Monsters are real.

"Monsters are real. And ghosts are real too. They live inside us. And sometimes they win." - Stephen King

=STOP PLAYING THE GAME=

TAO TE CHING

Learning consists of daily accumulating.
The practice of the Tao consists of daily diminishing;
decreasing and decreasing, until doing nothing.
When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

True mastery can be gained
by letting things go their own way.
It can not be gained by interfering.

=STOP PLAYING THE GAME=

You are playing a game with the entire world. Sometimes it can be enjoyable and fun, but most of the times it's hard and complicated. Sometimes it can just be sadistic and cruel.

Your ego loves playing the game. It loves comparing itself to others to see who is winning. To see who has the most money. To see who has the most power. To see who is the best. To see who is happier. To see who is making the most out of their life.

Every person you meet your ego is sizing them up. Deciding who is ahead in the game.

But here is the catch. We may make the comparisons but we constantly feel we are losing. We know there is something out there we don’t have. We may not even know what it is. We just have that empty feeling that tells us it is missing.

Guess what? That empty feeling isn't going to go away. If we look out into the world to fill the void, the empty space may actually get bigger and bigger. We are chasing something we can never catch.

We are playing a game in which there can be no winner. Yet we keep playing the game and sometimes the game flies completely out of our control.

Your mind has over 50,000 thoughts a day. Are you going to tell me you are in control of all those thoughts? Do you even know what those thoughts are? Most are repetitive and useless. The same thoughts that you have over and over every day, but accomplish nothing. Most just bring worry and misery.

Even though you aren't consciously aware of all the thoughts you know they are there. You can feel them. There is that underlying current of unease that is in all of us. Sometimes we feel it more intensely. Sometimes in moments of intense anger or grief it can overwhelm us. But even in moments of relative peace we can still feel it lurking in the background.

The game keeps us searching, comparing and fighting for relief but there is none. Perhaps brief flashes of liberation, but they are always fleeting.

So is there anything we can do?

Yes!

Quit playing the game.

Surrender. Just give up. Decide you are not going to play the game anymore.

Don't get me wrong. I am not saying give up on life. I am saying end the game. Now watch what happens in your life.

Turn your life over to your higher self. Trust in the part of you that is infinite. A part of you that, believe it or not, is omnipotent & all knowing. Why in the word would you want to limit yourself to your finite mind? A mind so cluttered and full of lies and deceit that it really can't even see the world for what it truly is.

Accept that you are more than this jumbled mess of thoughts and emotions, walking sometimes aimlessly in a trap of flesh and bone. Realize that you have the ability to access infinite possibilities. Understand there is no need for competition, because everyone has this ability. Everyone is pure unlimited potential. You can coordinate the universe so precise that anything you desire is possible.

How?

Embrace the unknown and uncertainty. Know that everything you could ever want is yours for the taking. Just don't get caught up in the "how" and "why" anymore. Find the joy in yourself. What makes you feel good? Let that feeling guide you. If you are having fun in what you are doing, everything else will take care of itself.

But most won't believe it. Most are just going to continue playing the game. For them the struggle is never going to end. Sad.

Stop playing the game.

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

"Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings."
-- Arthur Rubinstein

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
-- Albert Einstein

You must do that which you think you cannot do.

“Believe in yourself. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. You must do that which you think you cannot do.”
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

"Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
~Thomas Edison

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
- Ghandi

We create our universe as we go along

"We create our universe as we go along"
~Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) British Statesman, Prime Minister, Author

Life should not be...

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'Wow What a Ride'"
-- Hunter S. Thompson

Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it

"Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it; for action has magic and grace in it." -- Goethe

Expose yourself to your deepest fear...

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free."
~~ Jim Morrison (1943 – 1971) American singer, songwriter, poet, writer and filmmaker.

A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude

"When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude."
- Elie Wiesel

For all our insight, obstinate habits do not disappear until replaced by other habits.

For all our insight, obstinate habits do not disappear until replaced by other habits. - Carl Jung

You have to want to conquer.

“We all have great inner power. The power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.” ~Arnold Schwarzenegger 1981

If someone breaks your heart, cry a river, build a bridge and get over it

"If someone breaks your heart, cry a river, build a bridge and get over it!"
~ Josée Côté

There are people who say "I'm runing out of time." ...

There are people who say "I'm runing out of time." They have deadlines to meet. For them the clock is moving faster as a result of their internal perception of time. Their heart rates are faster, their blood pressure is higher. And when they suddenly drop dead of a heart attack, time has indeed run out for them. They have converted their internal experience of time running out into a physical experience.
- Deepak Chopra

When you are inspired...

When you are inspired... dormant forces, faculties, and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. - Patanjali

we in california have never been afraid of "getting in trouble"...

"we in california have never been afraid of "getting in trouble" we're just like the girl on jerry springer screaming "i do what i want!" the point is there's money to be made people."

-- Nancy Giovannoni, in regards to California legalizing and taxing marijuana (link)

You have to trust in something

"You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny,
life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let
me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
-— Steve Jobs: Co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc.

Your destiny is not tied to people who walk away from you.

"Your destiny is not tied to people who walk away from you."
~Joel Osteen, famous christian preacher.

There are some that only implore words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts

"There are some that only implore words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts."
-- Voltaire

Love Yourself

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."
- Lucille Ball

The best job goes to the person who can get it done...

"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."
~ Napoleon Hill

The healthy man does not torture others.

"The healthy man does not torture others. Generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."

-- Carl Jung