The Dream of Life (Alan Watts)

If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death or shall i say death implies life. you can feel yourself. Not as a stranger in the world.
Not as something here on probation. Not as something that has arrived here by fluke.
But you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. I'm not trying to sell you on this idea in the sense of converting you to it. I want you to play with it. I want you to think of its possibilities. I'm not trying to provide it. I'm just putting it forward as a possibility of life to think about So then...
Let's suppose that you were able every night, to dream any dream you wanted to dream. And that you could for example have the power within one night to dream seventy five years of time. Or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would naturally, as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfil all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure. And after several nights of seventy five years of total pleasure each, you would say "Well that was pretty great!"
"But now let's - let's have a surprise". "Let's have a dream which isn't under control". "Where something is going to happen to me but I don't know what it's going to be." And you would dig that And come out of that you'd say "Wow that was a close shave wasn't it?" Then you would get more and more adventurous and you would make further and further gambles to what you would dream. Finally you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today. That would be within the infinite multiplicity of choices that you would have. Of playing that you weren't God.
Because the whole nature of the God in you according to this idea, is to play that he's not. So in this idea then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality, not God in a politically kingly sense, but God in the sense of being the self. The deep down basics, whatever there is. And you're all that. Only you are pretending your not.

The Mind (Alan Watts)

So then let's consider first of all what is a mind in the grip a vicious circles.
Well one of the most obvious instances that we all know is the phenomenon of worry.
The doctor tells you that you have to have an operation.
And that has been set up so that automatically everybody worries about it.
But since worrying takes away your appetite an your sleep it's not good for you.
But you can't stop worrying and therefor you get additionally worried that you are worrying.
And then furthermore because that is quite absurd and your mad at yourself because you do it,
you are worried because you worry because you worry.
That is a vicious circle. So now, can you allow your mind to be quite?
Isn't it difficult?
Because the mind seems to be like a monkey, jumping up and down and jabbering all the time. Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence. When you're alone
nobody's saying anything, there's nothing to do just this worrying, this lack of distraction.
I'm left alone with myself and I wanna get away from myself I always want to get away myself.
That's why I go to the movies, that's why I go to the biscuit stores,
that's why I go after girls or anything or get drunk or whatever.
I don't want to be with myself. I feel queer.
So well why do you wanna run away from yourself?
What's so bad about it?
Why do you want to forget this?
Why do you want to become yourself?
Because you are addicted to thoughts. This is a drug, too dangerous one.

Compulsive thinking, on an on and on and on all the time. It's a habit.
So there's a difficulty about stopping that activity.
And you really have to stop it if you want to be sane.
Because if I talk all the time I don't hear what anyone else has to say.
And I'll end up in the situation of having nothing to talk about but my own talking.
And so exactly the same way if I think all the time
I won't have anything to think about except thoughts.
So in order to have something to think about, there are times when you simply must stop thinking.
We;;, how do you do that?
The first tule is don't try to. Because if you do, you will be like someone trying to make a rough water smooth with flatiron. and all that will do will stir it up. So in the same way as muddy turbulent pool quiets itself when left alone, you have to know how to leave your mind alone. It will quiet itself.

Secret of Life (Jim Carrey)

My soul is not contained within the limits of my body, my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul

I've often said that I wish people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame and
so that they could see that it's not where you're going to find your sense of completion
I can tell you from experience that effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is
Because everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart
and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart
we're not the avatars we create we're not the pictures on the film stock
we are the light that shines through. All else is just smoke and mirrors
Distracting but not truly compelling our eyes are not viewers they're also projectors
that are running a second story over the picture
that we see in front of us all the time fear is writing that script
now fear is going to be a player in your life you get to decide how much
you could spend you whole life imagining ghosts
worrying about the pathway to the future but all there will ever be
is what's happening here in the decisions we make in this moment which
are based in either love or fear
so many of us choose our path our of fear disguised as practicality
what we really want seems impossibly out of reach
and ridiculous to expect so we never dared to ask the universe for it
Life doesn't happen to you, it happens for you.
ad far as i can tell it's just about
letting the universe know what you want and working towards it
while letting go of how it comes to pass
why not take a chance on faith not religion but faith,not hope but faith.
I don't believe in hope. hope is the beggar. Hope walks through the fire
and faith leaps over it. you are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world.
and after you walk through those doors today you'll only ever have two choices
Love or Fear, Choose love
and don't ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.

DREAM

I don't know that the dream is that you have,
I don't care how disappointing it may have been as you have been working towards that dream.
But that dream that you're holding in your mind. That is possible
Some of you already know that it is hard it's not easy
It's hard changing your life then in the process of working on your dreams
you are going to incur and incur a lot of disappointment a lot of failure, a lot of pain
The moment when you're going to doubt yourself
I say God why, why does this happening to me ?
I'm just trying to take care of my children and my mother
I'm not trying to steal or rob from anybody
How is this had to happen to me. for those of you who had experience some hardships
Don't give up on your dream
There are rough times are going to come, but they have not come to stay!. they have come to pass
Greatness, is not this, wonderful, esoteric, illusive god like featuring them
Only the special among us are, will ever take Ya know, it's something that truly exist in all of us
It's very important for you to believe, that you are the ONE
Most people, they raise a family, they earn a living and then they die
They stop growing, they stop working on themselves, they stop stretching, they stop pushing themselves
That are lot of people like to complain, but they don't wanna do anything about their situation
And most people don't work on their dream. Why ??
One is because of FEAR. The fear of failure. What if things don't workout
And the fear of success. "What if they do and i can't handle it" These are not risk takers
You spent so much time with other people, you spent so much time trying to get people to like you.
You know other people more then you know yourself
You study them, you know about them, you wanna hangout like them, you wanna be just like them
And you know what ? You invested so much time on them. You don't know who you are!
I challenge you to spent time by yourselves
It's necessary, that you get losers out of your life if you want to live your DREAM
But people who running toward their dream, life has a special kind of meaning.
"When you become the 'right person' what you do is start to separating yourselves from others people"
You began to have a certain uniqueness
As long as you following another others, as long as you being a "copycat"
You will never ever be the best "copycat" in the world
But you will be the best you could be I'm challenging you to find your value
That everybody won't see it, that everybody won't join you, that everybody won't have the vision
It's necessary to know that you are uncommon breed
It's necessary that you aligned yourself with people and attract people into your business
Who are hungry!
People who are unstoppable and unreasonable
People who are refusing to live life just as it is, and who want more!!
The people that are living their dream are partying WINNERS!! to attach them self too
The people that are living their dream, are the people that know that
If it is gonna happen its up to them!
If you wanna be more successful
If you wanna have and do something you never done before
Number 2 i;m asking to invest in you
Someone opinion of you!
Does not have to become your reality
That you don't have to go through life being a victim
And even though you face disappointment, you have to know within yourself
That I can do this! Even if no one else see's it for me, I must see's it for myself
"This is what I believe and, I'm willing to die for it, period"
No matter how bad it is, or how bad it gets I'm going to make it!
I wanna represent an Idea. I wanna represent Possibility

As some of you right now, you wanna be, you know i'm saying, you wanna go to next level
I wanna council, I wanna be engineer, I wanna be a doctor. Listen to me you can't go to that level
You can't get to that level economically where you wanna be until you start investing in your mind

You're not reading books
I'm challenging you all to go conference(library)
I dare you invest high! I dare you to be alone!
I dare you spent hours to getting know yourself!
When you become who you are, when you become the person that you created to be
Designed to be who you were designed to be
When you become individual
What you do is, you take yourself and you start separating yourself from others
I challenge you to get a place where people don't like you or even don't bother you no more.
Why? coz you not concerned what make them happy
Because you're trying to blow up, you're trying to get to the next level
I need you to invest in your mind.
If you still talk about your dream, if you still talk about your goal
Which of you not done anything
Just take the first step!
That you can make your parents proud, you can make your school proud
You can touch millions of people life's and the world would never be the same again!
Because you came this way
Don't let nobody steal your dream!
HAve we face a rejections and a "NO" and we have a meeting and no one shows up
Or somebody say "You can count on me" and they don't come through
What if we have that kind of attitudes that cause reposes. Nobody believes in you.
You lose again and again and again!. The light are cut off​

But you're still looking at your dream, reviewing it everyday! say it yourself, it's not over!
Until I WIN!!
YOU CAN LIVE YOUR DREAM!!!

Why Do We Fall

Let me tell you something you already know The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows
It's a very mean and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are,
it will beat you to your knees and keep you there if you let it.
You, me or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit.
It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or even a year,
but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place.
If i quit, however, it lasts forever. The margin for error is so small...
one-half a step too late or early, and you don't quite make it.
one half second too slow, too fast, you don't quite catch it.
The inches we need are everywhere around us.
They're in every break of the game, every minute, every second.
You got a dream, you gotta protect it.People can't do something themselves they wanna tell you you can't do it.
If you want something, go get it. Period. Don't be afraid to fail.
You can't always win, but don't afraid of making decisions.
You have to believe that something different can happen.
He who says he can and he who says he can't are both usually right
Most of you said that you want to be successful, but you don't want it bad.
You just kinda want it. You don't want it bad than you want to party.
You don't want it as much as you want to be cool.
Most of you don't want success as much as you want to sleep!
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light our darkness that most frightens us.
You have to dig deep down, dig deep down and ask yourselves,
Who do you want to be? Figuring our for yourselves what makes you happy,
no matter how crazy it may sound to other people. Make a choice.
Just decide, what it's gonna be, who you're gonna be, how you are going to do it.
Just decide.
What is it you said to the kid? It ain't about how hard you hit.
It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
How much you can take and keep moving forward.
Get up and don't ever give up
Most of you won't be successful because when you're studying, and you get tired, you quit.
'I'm not good in math. 'That's right, because you never study!
'I'm not good in rhyme. because you never write before!
Talent you have naturally.
Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.
If  you are not making someone else's life better, then you are wasting time.
Don't cry to quit, cry to keep going. Don't cry to quits.
You already in pain, you already hurt. Get a reward from it.
If you know what you're worth, go and get what you're worth!
But you gotta be willing to take the hits,
and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him or her or anybody!
Cowards do that, and that ain't you! You're better than that!
Everyday is a new day. Every moment is a new moment.
So now you've got to go out and show them that you're a new creature.
I'ma show you how great I am!
In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it's written "the kingdom of God is within man"
not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! in you! You, the people, have the power,
the power to create machines, the power to create happiness
You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful,
to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Now what are you gonna do ?

Believe

The first step before anybody else in the world believes it is you have to believe it
There's no reason to have a Plan B because it distracts your Plan A
Confucius said - "He who says he can and he who says he can't are both usually right".
Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity.
Why would you be realistic ?
What's the point of being realistic ?
You've to believe that something different than what has happened.
You've to believe that something different can happen.
Rather than feeling like you're at affect to all the things that are happening.
make a choice, you just decide
what is gonna be, who you're gonna be, how you're gonna do it. Just decide.
And then from that point, the universe is gonna get out of your way.
Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, illusive god-like feature that
only the special among us will ever taste. it's something that truly exists in all of us.
I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic.
While with other guy is sleeping. I am working. While the other guys eating, I am working.
There's no easy way around it. No matter how talented you are,
Your talent is gonna fail you if you're not skilled.
Talents you have naturally, skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.
I wanna be an idea, I wanna represent possibilities.
I wanna represent the idea that you really can make what you want.
I believe that we're who we choose to be. The road to success is through commitment
and through the strength to drive through that commitment when it gets hard
It is gonna get hard and you're gonna wanna quite sometimes
But it will be coloured by who you are and more who you want to be.
When you wake up in the morning  and Your life means something to somebody other than you
that you have a purpose, if you don't go do the things that you're gonna do,
people's lives will suffer.
To live in service, not to you but to live in service to humanity
to live in service to your family, to your church, to your city, to your country, to the world
that is the purest form of joy.
If you're not making someone else's life better then you are wasting your time.
You can't be scared to die for the truth.
The truth is the only thing that's ever gonna be constant. It's very simple
This is what I believe and I am willing to die for it.
Period.

IS REALITY REAL

Whenever your mind feels calm by doing anything then that is good Karma
Whatever makes your mind restless or makes other's mind restless, that is bad Karma
Desire is the root cause of existence. Desire itself is Karma
as desires arise, Karma happens. As long as you have the question 
Who am I, from where have i come and where do i go ? 
there is no better Karma than this in the world, hold it steadfast 
because this takes you within. 
The day this question leaves you, you will start walking on the evil path.
Spirituality is nothing but understanding of the truth
As your understanding grows, you will know that Spirituality is also called Consciousness and Knowledge
From where does knowledge come ? By rise in the level of consciousness 
The more your awareness and understanding of the world grows
you will voluntarily set aside the small things
Whenever we attain something big, we willingly keep aside the small things
There is no dividing line between spirituality and materialism 
It is just our misconception
It is possible that a worldly person is a lot more spiritual than
a spiritual person sitting on the top of a mountain
and on the other hand a person who calls himself spiritual is totally unspiritual and materialistic 
What we think and perceive is different and the reality is different
Whenever we put our attention on a particular thing
be it sound, light or anything. It begins to expand.
You are (your presence) is not the reason why I am watching you
I am watching therefore you are otherwise you are not.
You are watching therefore I am
Once you stop watching, there will be no me
When there is an observer, there is matter
When there is no observer, there are only waves. Energy which is flowing.
Observation is causing all of it to materialise and come into existence 
So, how is it that i am watching you and who is really watching ?
Are you really there ? Or are you merely my imagination ?

Everything is Possible

The Body has no existence of it's own, everything is controlled by the mind
But, since the mind isn't in our control, we don't get it.
What is the nature of mind ?
To run in 10 different directions at a time
You are trying to control the mind, which is the most powerful.
There's nothing more powerful than it in the world.
People keep talking about winning the race in work, education, job, business etc.
If a person can focus the mind at will, at one place, by some means for however long
Then what is it in the world that can not be done
The mind which was troubling you and taking you into darkness
Will take you to the light.
What is it that distinguishes all of us ?
In one word, it is 'Awareness'
Some have a slightly lower awareness, some have slightly more and some have very high level of awareness.
More the awareness, more are the possibilities in life.
Such a person will succeed not just in one activity but in any activity that he does.
He can learn anything and progress in it very quickly
A stage comes when you are in control
At will you can focus your mind on anything, at any time, for as long as you want.
whenever, wherever, however
and at any point, at will, you can shift your focus onto something else of your choice
Now. it's upto you, how long do you want to focus ? 1 minute, 1 hour or 1 day
You'll reach a level, when you'll have complete control over your body, mind and thoughts
Then you'll be able to do anything
You will be able to hold a thought, choose a thought or discard a thought
Then you'll do what is good for you as well as for others
You would not be able to do anything bad
An aware mind will not only benefit you but everyone else. The entire world.
It won't just stay with you, it will spread. Awareness spreads. Be aware. Awareness is Light
If  you want to cross all the worldly limits and go beyond
If you want to go to a place where there are no limits
where there are no limits, no boundaries, no boundations
Then there is only one way to it. That is to work at the level of the soul.
You have to go Within. There you will find the power to control your mind
And once you merge with this Awareness Then there will be no limits, no fear, no worries
There will be nothing impossible. Everything is possible

Never Give Up

We all have that aspect of being a hero, that potential inside us.
But in the face of adversity, in the face of an impossibility what we all go through
We all, you and me. We all feel lost, we feel confused, we feel scared.
We don't know how and it's at that time, that we tend to lose belief in that core strength.
We tend to forget what we have the ability to overcome.
We have the ability to rise. We have the ability to defeat defeat.

And at those times is when we all need to remind us that we are and we can be strong.
that we can overcome. that dreams as impossible as they might be can come true.
You can never find time.
For anything in your life if you are looking for time, it's never going to be found.
You have to create time. True success in your life will be when you can manage your time.
When you have the time to do everything that you want to do in your life,
That's the day that you will be successful. But the one thing, that will make you great in your life
Beyond money, beyond strength, beyond anything else is your character.
Know who you are walk your path, know your truths.
Character, that is what will make you great in whatever you do in your life.
And remember that status in the world is not defined by that work you but by how well you do it.
It doesn't matter what you do whatever you do, you do it great
and that will show your character to the people around you.
Be givers in life. Don't wait for people to show you love. Give love first.
Be contributors and whatever you want in your life will come to you automatically.
Give first.
How much more do we really need to see, to understand that life is more than what meets the eyes
Life is a gift, never to give up. Never give up
If you just hang in there, if you just consistently keep moving forward
with a positive attitude, magic happens. Miracles do happen.
Impossible is nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Make your story the greatest story ever told.
We have this one life and we can make it great no matter what.

Finding Your Meaning of Life

If you don't know why you are here
I encourage you to find out what your purpose is here
what will be different? Have you ever asked yourself that question?
And most people they go on their graves with their greatness still in them
what if you live your whole life only to discover that it was wrong?
we've all taken time just to stop and reflect
many times when we hear whats happening in the news or read the newspapers
where's all this leading to? whats going on here?
and so i think that now more than ever'we must begin
to look at what are things that we can do that would put us on some firm footing in life
that would enable us to do some things and use some powers that we have
that many of us go through life never ever discovering that we have those things going for us
and part of that i believe is knowing what it is your life work
what is it that gives your life a sense of meaning and purpose?
see if you know what your life work is
I encourage you to start working on it
if you can't do it all at one time do just a little bit of it
and if you don't know what it is that you showed up to do
if you don't know why you are here
I encourage you to find out what your purpose is here
what is the meaning of your life?
because once you find that
it puts you in your power place
85% of the American public according to recent studies are going to jobs that they hate
working on jobs that do not challenge them they get sick thinking about going
because see when you go to a job and you already know how far you can go
you can already see that proverbial glass ceiling
see when you're going some place and you already know
how much you are going to make
you already know how far you can go
you're in a dead end position. it erodes your self esteem
it lowers your sense of yourself, it creates an inner turmoil
it creates an emptiness in you
so I say that your life is worth finding
what it is that you're supposed to do
Imagine if you will being on your death bed
and standing around your bed, the ghost of the dreams
the ideas, the abilities, the talent
given to by life but you for whatever reason you never pursued those dreams
you never acted on those ideas you never used those gifts
you never used those talents and there they are staring at you as you are lying on your bed
with large angry eyes saying: we came to you!
only you could have given us life and now we must die with you forever
and the question is if you died today...
What dreams?
What talents?

What abilities?
What gifts?
What ideas?
will die with you.

The Secret of Life (Alan Watts)

And what is it all about ?
Well we say, one must live It's necessary to survive
You know , you really must go on It's your duty
We think, in other words, part of our western philosophy
that we think we have a drive to survive that we must go on living
because some big daddy said to us : you gotta go on living
and you better make it or else...
There really is no necessity to go on living
The fear of death is completely absurd
because if you're death you got nothing to worry about, so you'll be alright
So in the same way, this thing here, this plant

I'm quite sure it doesn't say to itself : You ought to go on living
You've got an instinct to survive which is something other than yourself in which you have to obey
Now you see, living, like this plant is something spontaneous
In Chinese, the word for nature is ziran
which means that which happens of itself not under any control of an outside boss
and so you stop this spontaneous flowering of nature cold if you tell it
you must do it
It's like saying to someone you must love me
Well it's ridiculous
If I were to ask my wife darling do you really love me
and she says I'm trying my best to do so, its not the answer i want
I want her to say: I can't help loving you, I love you so much I could eat you
and that's what the plant feels in growing, it doesn't feel that it must grow
its not under orders, it's not a military chain of commands
It does this spontaneously, so that when you try to command this spontaneous process
you stop it. What you are basically
deep deep down, far far in
is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself
Reality itself is gorgeous, it is the plenum, the fullness of total joy
and all those stars, if you look out in the skies, is a firework display
like you see on the 4th of july, which is a great occasion for celebration
the universe is a celebration
it is a firework show to celebrate that existence is
See this is the real secret of life
to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now
and instead of calling it work realise that this is play.

my soul is from elsewhere (RUMI)

All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?
I have no idea.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that,
and I intend to end up there.

This drunkenness began in some other tavern.
When I get back around to that place,
I'll be completely sober. Meanwhile,
I'm like a bird from another continent, sitting in this aviary.
They day is coming when I fly off,
but who is it now in my ear who hears my voice?
Who says words with my mouth?

Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?
I cannot stop asking.
If I could taste one sip of an answer,
I could break out of this prison for drunks.
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?
I have no idea.Name of God repeated to infinity
in Kufic script,spiritual films
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that,
and I intend to end up there.

This drunkenness began in some other tavern.
When I get back around to that place,
I'll be completely sober. Meanwhile,
I'm like a bird from another continent, sitting in this aviary.
They day is coming when I fly off,
but who is it now in my ear who hears my voice?
Who says words with my mouth?

Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?
I cannot stop asking.
If I could taste one sip of an answer,
I could break out of this prison for drunks.
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

Truth Within

There is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives
It is not a blind law for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings
there is an indefinable mysterious power that pervades everything
I feel it though i do not see it
It is this unseen power which makes itself felt and yet defies all proof
It is so unlike all that I perceive through my senses 
It transcends the senses whilst everything around me is ever changing , ever dying 
there is underlying all that change a living power that is changeless 
that holds all together that creates, dissolves and recreates 
God to be God must rule the heart and transform it
he must express himself in every smallest act of his votary
this can only be done through a definite realization more real than the 5 senses can ever produce 
sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive 
however real they may appear to us
where there is realization outside the senses it is infallible 
it is proved in the transformed conduct and character of those
who have felt the real presence of god within in the experiences 
of an unbroken line of prophets and sages in all countries and climes 
to reject this evidence is to deny oneself
humble and mute acceptance of divine authority 
makes life journey easier this realization is preceded by an immovable faith
i have no argument to convince through reason faith transcends reason 
it the midst of untruth, truth persists in the midst of darkness, light persists 
hence i gather that god is life Truth, Light
he is love, he is the supreme good.

ESSENCE OF LIFE (ft.Sandeep Maheshwari)

Imagine, i have a machine which if i plug into your mind and your memory is gone completely blank.
Everything is forgotten. then at this moment, is there any problem in your life ?
E.G.O
'I' is nothing but your past experience
From childhood to this day, whatever you've gathered in your mind
an entire story you've created to which you associate yourself
All of that is the 'I' (ego)
This 'I' (ego) isn't letting you live freely
Everything is made up by the mind
Our mind keeps labelling everything as good and bad and that's the reason for all our problems
problems of good things not happening and problems due to the fear of bad things happening.
and we're getting crushed between the conflict of good and bad.
So, you only have to learn to live in the present moment which isn't being taught in any school and college
Till the time you don't learn this, doesn't  matter what you create in the world,
it is bound to perish someday
someday, it would be too late to realise, when you see yourself in the mirror and your hair have begun to turn grey.
Someone in your childhood  told you - "this is you."
if that be removed from your memory, then you won't even know if it's your body or someone else's
It's true that the reflection you see in the mirror is yours
but if you say that the reflection is me, then that's a problem
So, if you're not the body, then what are you ?
then who are you ? you are the presence.
Presence which never fades from existence
What remains in the present beyond the body and mind
The one who is watching, listening, feeling and experiencing through your body
That is the real you.
There is a misconception because of the egoic past that we're seperate from one another. No one is seperate.
Neither scientifically we're seperate nor spiritually w're seperate
only in our mind and imagination, we are seperate and we ourselves are suffering because of it.
The day you realize that we're all one
There is nothing seperate from us
You'll realize that the one who is seeing through me is the same one seeing through you
The one who is listening through me is the same one is listening through you
It is the one thread that binds us all together
So what you'll experience is what is known as God, Soul and the Supreme Self
Those who realize it through devotion will known it as God
Those who realize it through knowledge will know it as the Self
When you complete comprehend and realize this
then it is called Self-realisation. It is called Enlightenment
Buddha described enlightenment as "the end of suffering"
Neither will there be a greedy desire to get something nor will there be any fear of losing something.
But still, you'll have everything
This is real spirituality and it is the ultimate goal of meditation.
"There is no reality except the one contained within us..."   

Károly Takács (The man with only hand)

Károly was the top pistol shooter of the country back in 1938 (age – 28 yrs). He won most of the major national and international championships. He seemed closest to winning the 1940 Tokyo Olympic Games gold medal. All the dreams turned to dust one day. A hand grenade exploded in Károly’s right hand, his shooting hand at an Army training session. That hand grenade ended up destroying his shooting hand and his Olympic dream.
“Of all the people in the world, why me?” Like most of us Károly could have asked this question “why me?”. But he didn’t. Now I am not very sure what happened during the time he was hospitalized. But chances are people were discussing about the tragedy that has fallen on him, about how cruel can the creator be?, about what will he do in future. I am pretty sure people would have discussed these things. But not Károly, he had nerves of steel, stainless steel. He could have looked for sympathy. Instead he looked for ways to convert his dream into beautiful reality.
After spending a month in hospital, he decided not to feel pity for himself for the rest of his life. He held on to his Olympic dream. He had the will, he had the attitude, he had the determination to succeed, and he figured he had a healthy, fully functional hand. He decided to practice shooting from his left hand. Despite the pain he had to undergo, despite the fact that he was not left handed, he focused on his goal and practiced. To achieve anything worthy in life one needs attitude and will. Skills and techniques can learned, can be taught, but not will. He chose not dwell in the world of facts, he chose to explore the world of possibilities. He was determined to make his left hand the best shooting hand in the world.
One year later Károly resurfaced at a National shooting championship in Hungary. His colleagues were delighted to see him and complimented him on his courage to come up at the championship to cheer for them. But Károly surprised them by saying he was there to compete with them. And he won. One year after losing his right hand and he trained himself and won. Who in the world except Károly himself would have thought this was even possible. People who believe in facts will never be able to explain this. Facts leave no room for possibilities.
Károly’s Olympic dream could not be fulfilled for quite some time as two Olympic Games were cancelled due to world war. In 1948 Olympic Games were held in London. Károly was chosen to represent Hungary in pistol shooting event. Károly never felt he was beneath any individual. He practiced, he participated, he WON. Shooting with his left hand. Imagine being a gold medal favorite, losing your shooting hand in an accident, yet picking yourself up from a shattered mess, training your left hand to shoot as well (or better), and going on to win the Olympic gold medal.

Four years later, in Helsinki Olympics. Károly won another gold medal in shooting event. Shooting with his left hand. This is the stuff champions are made of. We all have faced failures in life, we feel defeated, crushed, beaten. The next time you feel that think of Károly. Don’t cry and say why me? Don’t worry about what you’ve lost, focus on what you still have. No hand grenade can blast your will, mental strength and determination.
Don’t lose yourself to self pity. get up quickly and do it now. Many great speakers of the world have confirmed this fact. In words of Confucius “ Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall “. Károly was out practicing in a month after the accident. He never let self-pity to take control.

Be Unique Be Remembering DR. APJ ABDUL KALAM

Remembering Dr. APJ ABDUL KALAM
What is the one action which will make you Great ?
Everyone of you has a page in the history of the world
What is that page?
How do you make that page which is going to be referred by the prosperity
There is a need to give a vision to your ambition
What i will be remembered for ?
Each one of us will ask the question What i will be remembered for
If you find an answer for this question of few lines
that out-of-the-box Idea will drive you for the rest of your life
You will be definitely thinking something different on our out-of-the-box vision
What are they (Visions)?
I learnt every youth wants to be Unique but the world around you is doing it's best, day and night
to make you just everybody else
Whether you want to be you or everybody else?
Everybody else is convenient at the first glance but not satisfying in the long vision
The Challenge therefore my young friends is that...
you have to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can ever imagine to fight
and never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place
that is, the Unique you. To get the Unique you is a Big Battle
The Battle means you don't need to take a gun
The Battle means you have to have 4 Unique things
4 Unique tools you must have in that battle
One is you have to 'Set the Goal'
The Second one is 'Acquire the Knowledge Continuously'
Third one is 'Hard Work with devotion'
And fourth is 'Perseverance'
Where there is righteousness in the Heart
There is beauty in the Character
When there is beauty in the Character There is harmony in the home
When there is harmony in the home There is an order in the Nation
When there is order in the Nation There is peace in the World
BECOME THE LEADERS
A Leader must have a vision without a vision you'll not be a Leader
So, Leader must have a Vision
A Leader must be able to travel into an unexplored path
Normally tendency is to travel the well laid out path
But the Leader takes the Untraveled path
A Leader must know how to manage success
But mostly importantly, the failure
(POEM)
I climbed and climbed, where is the peak my LORD.
I climbed and climbed, where is the peak my LORD
I ploughed and ploughed, where is the knowledge treasure, my LORD
I ploughed and ploughed, where is the knowledge treasure, my LORD
I sailed and sailed, Where is the island of Peace, my LORD
I sailed and sailed, Where is the island of Peace, my LORD
Almighty
Bless my Nation with Vision and Sweat
Resulting into Happiness

THANK YOU, DR. KALAM "TEACHER"

The Great Dictator's Speech

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost....

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.

To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. .....

Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!

In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: “the Kingdom of God is within man” - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will!

Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

Take a Backpack

Take a backpack
grab a few friends
look after your safety
Tell your parents "Drop me in Kashmir and After one year pick me up in Kanyakumari"
You look after yourself Travel across the country
go from village to village,
town to town, Meet people
Learn how to deal with people
Learn how to deal with situations
That will teach you
Everything you need to know
You don't have to go to college after that
You don't have to learn anything
It will teach you marketing,
it will teach you everything
In our country often
one thing i always feel irritated with is
that when i hear a person saying
'In India nothing will change'
It's a very cynical thought,
a very negative thought
that in India nothing ever changes
What will you do?
What will happen because of you or me doing something?
It's a very negative thought
Yes, change is possible
We've to just realize
And yes it is possible,
and it is infact possible
When we help someone
It's a great Feeling to
do something for somebody
You guys are really young
and i think that if
There is anyway that you can
Move towards work which helps
Our society, our nation in nation building
So much to do, you know.
so much to do.
Huge amount of satisfaction
And Happiness you feel inside you
So, the day we realize that we all are Human beings
We're all equal and let's hold hands and move together
And let's give strength to each other
Let me make you more powerful
Because if you're more powerful
i'm helping in the long run
Some of us have it naturally
And some of us need to build it once
That is the ability to focus on what you're doing
So that nothing else distracts you
And not waver from that
That not only makes you work in the right direction, work hard
and do the right things but also it helps you make the right decisions a lot of people say I don't like to compromise
Even I say don't compromise
What I meant is don't compromise with your dream
That does not mean that don't compromise
Because compromise is an important aspect of life
Knowing when to compromise, Knowing when to say
'This is a battle I have to let go off'
I've got five bags on my shoulder and i have to jump over a wall
I'm not able to do that I have to leave one of the bags
Or I'll try with all the five bags and I'll fall down
I don't want to fall down. I want to go over the wall
I've to leave one of the bags I've to decide which bag to drop
What is least important to me so the ability that you have as a person to decide that this is the least important right now i can let go off this one
The ability to know that this my limitation so if you are focused on your goal all of this will fall into place so that is something that will help you.
You ability to focus with distractions around you.

Motivation words by Aamir Khan

Right through my life
every important decision of mine
all the people who are important to me and who are close to me
have always told me
You are making a mistake don't do this.
Everyone who i knew and who even cared for me
always told me that i think you are making a mistake
You know all through my career, I've been told that
He is not going to last for more than a year
Because of the kind of - he has picked very unusual films
i'd worked in a very unusual way
and everyone through that this guy is nuts.
If I am clear about what i want to do and i am honest about it
and i am sincere about it
and the reasons why i am doing it is clear to me
Then I must follow my instinct
I've always believed in following my dreams
I don't want to compromise with what i want to do
what is my dream
I don't mind compromising to achieve my dream
But I don't want to compromise the dream itself.
See today I am successful, I may not have been successful but
I am happy that I lived on my terms
And i am happy that i never compromised whenever i was offered something i was not happy with I didn't do it even if I have to go wrong tomorrow I would rather go wrong on my instincts
I don't want to go wrong on somebody else's advice
If i have taken a wrong step, I can deal with it.
It will be a learning experience for me.
I've learnt the maximum from my failures
My failures have taught me the most and so i really value my failures
Whatever i am today is not only because of my success but also because of my failures
I went through a period which was professionally my toughest period
Where my films had started flopping one after other
I knew that my coming next 3-4 films are also not going to do very well
and at that time i would face similar challenges
That i want to do something and i was unable to because people wouldn't listen to me or they didn't have faith in me, they didn't trust me
I used to cry at night because i was so unhappy with the work i was doing I swore to myself, I said
My career is going down, my films are not doing well The coming films are also not going to do well
But i swear, I will never take on a film ever in my life Until i am happy with it
Until i am happy from inside I will not say yes to a film.
It was like I was in quicksand and i was sinking
at that time, if i had compromised
For the rest of my life I would have been compromising
You get tested when you are at your worst
When i am successful, I am not tested yet
it is when you are not successful, when you are up against the wall
When the stakes are against you
That is when you tested. At that time do you break?
Do you say - No I have to be safe
A lot of us think that atleast some money will come
We think of these compromises
Never compromise with what you believe in and what makes you happy. Never !
At my worse if i did not compromise, then i will never compromise and i think each one of us, finds our own path
what drive me ? In my heart, I am so excited about what i am doing
So happy about what i am doing, that's what drives me but, I am also doing stuff that excites me and makes me happy If i am doing stuff that i am not happy doing
Then, when i wake up in the morning, I will be like "Ohh no! I have to go to work" and not be excited
So, if you are doing what you enjoy and what makes you happy
You will be driven, you will be passionate, you will give it your all.

WELCOME TO THE RAT RACE

Life had become some kind of profound competition, where your emotional loss was substituted by your professional success. you became a part of what they call the rat race...
What if you lived your whole life only to realise that it was wrong?
Our greatest fear is not of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter we seek purpose in life but do we seek the rat race. Living life just for the weekend or living life just on the weekend because the other 6 days belong to your manager. the only way to get people to like working hard is by motivating them
today people mist understand why they're working hard often times people make the mistake of getting stuck. your life is certainly some sort of journey and sometimes we might not be aware that we are taking the wrong path
WELCOME TO THE RAT RACE
YOU HAVE A NEW LIFE, NEW JOB AND NEW GOALS
in pursuit of your goals, you are woken up at 6.30am by an alarm
You then drag yourself out of bed. Shower and brush your teeth quickly so you can get to work in time and don't forget to force feed yourself too.
your goal
It's to get a promotion to get a better pay you'll need that better pay to pay off that car you're driving and the rent you owe because you choose to live closer to your work. soon the time will come when you can pay it off then once that's done. you'd want better clothes a better house, a better car and a bigger tv as your income increases, so does your credit card debts. you must work harder the harder you work you are drawn into this busy mechanical world. time seems to go by faster, months come by sooner and you've been part of a machine. A machine that profits for someone else's success. The system has got you thinking that this LIFE is NORMAL you're told to be grateful for your job they have lured you with retirement benefits and told you when and how many weeks each year you are free for a holiday. you have become their slave. It has become a life of fear, you must race in order to pay your debts, in order to sustain what you think is life
The trouble is most people do not live they just RACE
they are trying to reach some goal far away in the horizon that they are focused so hard in getting there that they forget all the beautiful things life presents along the way and when they finally awaken from this race they find that they are too old and worn out
realising there is no difference whether the goal was reached or not unless one is able to live fully in the present the future is a hoax there is no point whatsoever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. you'll never be able to sit back with full contentment and say
"now I've finally arrived!"