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