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ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ

About Me


Everything and everyone has it's purpose and meaning, both discovering and experiencing such has been the beauty of my life.
I'm basically striving to learn how to live a life truthful to oneself. Learning how to live in the moment by positively affecting my immediate surroundings while always looking at the bigger picture and doing my part to color in the details.
"I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying." - Nelson Mandela
"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best." - Walt Whitman
"It is not a sign of good health to be well adjusted to a sick society." - Krishnamurti
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. -Mark Twain
A fool finds pleasure in evil conduct, but a man of understanding delights in wisdom" Proverbs 10:23
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. - Goethe
There are two distinct orders of greatness. One of them exepends itself in the region of contemporary life, while the other belongs to that order which leaves behind it "foot-prints on the sands of Time." It is this second order that I'm striving to live my life through.

"" I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through -- Listen to this music." -- Hafiz


"For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he" - Proverbs 23:7
"water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man." - Proverbs 27:19
"He who think he knows doesn't know He who knows he doesn't know knows" - Joseph Campbell
"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion." - Jack Kerouac
In life, we are born, we love, we lose, we laugh, and we die.
Some we do not have a choice about. The losing, and the dying.
Though we do have the choice, to love, and keep on laughing.
“So learn to experience life. Life has to be experienced, be it pain or pleasure.” - Sri Kalki Bhagavan
"Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid." - NIV Proverbs 12:1
'Faith is that which resides firmly in the heart and which is proved by deeds.' (Hadith)
"Grace, Love, Mercy -all the three - Stand for one same reality- Life's Star He who loves is who really lives. " - Sree Narayana Guru
"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the “atomic age” – as in being able to remake ourselves." – Mahatma Gandhi
"When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky". - Buddha
"Don't give yourself away. Your commitment is between you and creator." - Tom Cross

My Interests

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Om Hraum Mitraya Namaha: May the light of friendship shine through me, drawing noble companionship.

""BEHOLD, HOW good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!" - Psalm 133: 1

Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth." - Mitsuki Sautome

"Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live. "-Marcus Aurelius

"There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success." --George Matthew Adams

God, Einstein said it best, "I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details."

"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with friendship." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The dream we dream alone is just a dream, but the dream we dream together is reality." - Yoko Ono

"Let no one come into your life without leaving happier and better" - Mother Teresa

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ~ Mother Teresa

"what draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it" - C.S. Lewis

"Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other." ~ Euripides

"You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!" - Eckhart Tolle

"Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being." -Ludwig Von Mises

"Love is seeing the unity under the imaginary diversity." - Sri Nisargadatta

"And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed." - Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

My Blog

Love, understanding, and unity

On the Nature of LoveThe night is black and the forest has no end; a million people thread it in a million ways. We have trysts to keep in the darkness, but where or with whom -- of that we are unawar...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:52:00 GMT

Volunteer or Donate

"For where your treasure is, there will be your heart also" - Matthew 6:12 "Never let anyone come into your life without leaving happier and better" -  Mother Teresa   I know everyone is no...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:48:00 GMT

We are all interconnected, perspective, and understanding

We are all interconnectedas living life forms of energy.Out of balance,and out of harmonywith nature, ourselves,and the basic reasonswe are put on this planet.Mislead and misguidedby the ego,and it's ...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:00:00 GMT

Relationships, Marriage, and Sexuality

 "I still believe in the fairytale type of love... I have no expectation upon meeting someone, yet hope lingers in the balance... I will never settle when it comes to love, nor pass my time with meani...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:18:00 GMT

Time, Life, and the Truth

"Past and future veil God from our sight; burn up both of them with fire." - Rumi"Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than Time." - Meister Eckhart"Time ...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:15:00 GMT