Statutory Warning!

You Mustn't Quit

It is When You mustn't Quit... 

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
It is when You mustn't quit....

When care is pressing you down a bit,
"Rest! If you must-but never quit.
" Life is queer, with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about
When he might of won if he'd stuck it out;
Stick to your task, though the pace seems slow
You may succeed with one more blow.
It is when You mustn't quit....

Success is failure turned inside out
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt
And you may never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit
It's when things seem worse that YOU MUSTN'T QUIT. 


It is when You mustn't quit...

जीवन क्या है.........

जीवन क्या है.........

जन्म मरण के बीच का अंतराल,

या हर पल मे बीता काल ।

जो क्षणभगुर था तो क्या जिया, वो  लम्हा तो बस बिखर गया।

वो बीते पल उनकी कहानी, उनकी वेदना, उनकी रवानी,

उनका बीतना, उनका ठ्हरना,

उनका मुस्कुराना, उनका रुलाना ...

ये जीवन क्या है...

इठ्लाते पलों में बीते दिन – बचपन,

कौतूहल भरे, अवचेतन

नानी, दादी की कहानियों के दिन,

उनींदीं आखों से तारे गिनते, सपने देखने के दिन ।

कब बीत गये ज्ञात नही।

चेतन मन का एह्सास कापी किताबों में

भाग कर बसों में लट्कते, लम्बी कतारों में, इंतज़ार में,

स्नातक की परिक्षाओ मे प‍रिणामों में,

यौवन के एह्सास में, फिर नौकरी की तलाश में…

जीवन क्या है....|

नवचेतना जगी मन में

एक बार फिर नयी तरंगें नयी उमंगें  

संचरित हो उठी प्रेम के एह्सास में

एकल मन भाव विह्रल हो गुनगुनाने

लगा नये सपने सजाने परिणय के पाश में

जीवन क्या है....

ज़िन्दगी की सच्चाइयों में,

वयस्क मन की परिकल्पनओं में

कुछ बनते कुछ बिगड्ते रिश्तों में

कुछ खोने कुछ पाने में,

ज़िंदगी के पन्नों को धारावाहिक की तरह

विश्रंख्लाओं में समझने में

जीवन क्या है..   

                                  

संरचना- मीना संघी

Who Are You? A question often crossing your mind in today's world............

Living According to False Beliefs

We all live according to false beliefs. Bringing such beliefs to light is an important step in our deconditioning process. A few random false beliefs:

"Because my father abandoned me when I was a child, I must go through life abandoning the people close to me."

"If I make a mistake, I will die."

"I don't have time to feel what I am feeling, because I have to figure it all out."

"I have to get where I go by suffering."

"When I start to feel good, I must remember to feel bad, because I didn't feel good before."

"Because my mother withheld intimacy from me when I was small, I cannot offer intimacy for the rest of my life."

"If I leave him, I'll die."

"I can't be happy, because if I allow myself to be happy, I might be humiliated."

"I must earn and deserve every good thing I get." etc.etc..etc..

"I shouldn't laugh so often, because I am sad."

"I should seek love, because I cannot live alone.".......

Comes the Dawn

After awhile,
You learn the subtle difference Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,
And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning,
And company doesn't mean security.


After awhile, you begin to understand that kisses aren't contracts
And presents aren't promises......
And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head held high and your eyes wide open,
With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child.


After awhile, You learn to build your roads on today, 
because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans, 
and futures have a way of falling down in midflight.


After awhile, You learn that even sunshine Burns,
if you get too much.
So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, 
Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
You learn that you really can endure,
That you really are strong, 
And you really do have worth.

After awhile, you learn and learn...
and you learn With every passing day 
And a goodbye, you learn.....
(Inspired by Veronica A. Shoffstall)

God's Jobs

An eight year old wrote this for his third-grade Sunday school teacher, who asked her students to explain God:

One of God's main jobs is making people. He makes these to put in the place of the ones who die so there will be enough people to take care of things here on earth. He doesn't make grownups, he just makes babies. I think because they are smaller and easier to make. That way he doesn't have to take up his valuable time teaching them to walk and talk. He can just leave that up to the mothers and fathers. I think it works out pretty good.

God's second most important job is listening to prayers. An awful lot of this goes on, 'cause some people, like preachers and things, pray other times besides bedtimes, and Grandpa and Grandma pray every time they eat, except for snacks. God doesn't have time to listen to the radio and watch TV on account of this. 'Cause God hears everything, there must be a terrible lot of noise in his ears unless he has thought of a way to turn it down.

God sees and hears everything and is everywhere, which keeps him pretty busy. So you shouldn't go wasting his time asking for things that aren't important, or go over parents' heads and ask for something they said you couldn't have. It doesn't work anyway.

(From A Third Serving of Chicken Soup for the Soul, by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen.)

On Right Action

"Codes of ethics are most often associated with prohibitions: Don't do this, don't do that. All the spiritual traditions I know, have more or less the same lists of don'ts. This makes sense, since all the don'ts elaborate on the awareness that if we are not alert, our naturally arising impulses of greed and anger might lead us to do something exploitive or abusive. The fundamental rule is, 'Don't cause pain.'

Traditional Buddhist texts, when they talk about Right Action, use the terms hiri and ottappa, usually translated as 'moral shame' and 'moral dread.' Shame and dread have ominous overtones in English, but I rather like these terms. I appreciate the sense of awesome responsibility they are meant to convey. Collectively, what they mean is that every single act we do has the potential of causing pain, and every single thing we do has consequences that echo way beyond what we can imagine. It doesn't mean we shouldn't act. It means we should act carefully. Everything matters."

(from It's Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness, by Sylvia Boorstein, page 41. Published by Harper San Francisco)