These were so cute I had to steal them from a friend's profile.
"Compassion is most important for happiness. We must treat fellow human beings as equal, that is very important, but also all beings who have capacity for feeling. So the innate desire for happiness that is the basis of human rights extends to all sentient beings, including animals and insects. There are now some individuals and organizations who care about animal rights and are showing concern about the suffering or torture of animals. I have noticed among ordinary people, out of their love and compassion, growing efforts for promotion of vegetarianism. These are the right kinds of expression of compassion, very positive and encouraging signs." —His Holiness the Dalai Lama
"A master teaches us to accept everything,to be thankful for good and bad, right and wrong,friend and enemy, helper and abuser, liberator and oppressor. A master helps us to forget the dark pastand the future bright with a thousand promises,and live in the fullness of the present moment. A master shows us how all of Nature,every being, every thing - even our enemy -helps us evolve and attain perfection."
~Amma~
True Love
We are all born into this world to learn to love one another again. This is why we are here, to fall in love over and over again until we get it right. The goal is to love everyone, not just those closest to you. Everything in this life needs our love, everything, everybody. Otherwise we risk losing ourselves, each other & everything. So reach out to those closest to you right now and listen to them, be their for them, and share with one another. Give them your love unconditionally, with no judgements, and the results are boundless, infinite. When we have found one another again, and our hearts and minds are full of love n light. Then we are one. Always together, never apart. I love you. True love according to Buddha was friendship, a love that does not take or give away, but remains with us always. Constant, neverending. metta
Rev.Yao Feng Shakya
Today I am Nothing.
Today I give up everything.
Today I Surrender to the greater forces of my Soul.
Today I am Reborn.
Today I start with a Clean slate.
Today I have no Judgement of Myself or Anyone.
Today I am One with the Universe.
Today I love Myself and Others Equally.
Today I am Awake with Love and Awareness.
Today I Love.
Today I Am.
written by BrookeNew day new me.
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It is my belief that we all knew each other in soul form before coming to this great earth. If you are in my life right now it is to teach me a valuable lesson. Whether it be considered good or bad by human terms, it is still a Divine teaching that I came to Earth to learn. And for that I am eternally grateful to You.I don't consider myself any "greater" or more spiritually advanced for anything that I have done. I do nothing more than write down my experience as I understood it and put a few pictures or sayings up on my profile that happen to resonate with my BEING. I am JUST LIKE YOU. The way I see it is we are ONE. Everything that I experience or that you experience is one and the same. YOU experience great pain, therefore I am saved from having to experience that same pain. I suffer a great loss, therefore you are spared from suffering that same great loss. And for that I am eternally grateful to all.I love my friends very much. It is a deep unconditional love that does not stop because you disagree with my viewpoint or I yours. Even if I have not met you in the flesh does not mean that there was not a connection established at some point with the exchange of words. Even though they may be viewed as just words does not mean that there is no TRUTH to those words that YOU or I have written and therefore should be HONORED as spoken truth. It is after all, ONE and the same when one really looks at it. All paths eventually lead to God/dess/Universe. We are all Children of God and we are not separate from one another. I bow to the Divine in YOU. YOU are Beautiful inside and out. The beauty is always there. I see it in you. I'm free to be who I AM and free to LOVE. Love is not a choice to me. It just is."Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we're so deeply interconnected with one another. Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is the supreme creative act." ~ Ram Dass~Life is wonderful for me. Sometimes I try to be funny. Like now. Sit ego sit! Gooooooood!People say I have my head in the clouds. So, if you ever come to visit, lemme give you directions. It's the third cloud on the left from the one shaped like an elephant. I love elephants. And I'm still a fruit!! F:P But that's a camel, don't be thinking I don't know my animals!
Spirituality isn't just for the privileged or idealistic. It's not just a trend for One to put All into and abandon at a moments notice. It's for All to embrace, as if it's the last thing we have on this Earth that is sure to not fail us. It's for the poorest of poor, for it does not cost a cent. For every moment you give your attention to Spirit/God/Universe, it gives back for an eternity.
My sister saw this picture and with a serious look on her face asked me, "Where is this? I'd sure like to go there!" I replied, "Brasil, of course." She laughed, "No wonder you wanted to go to Brasil so badly!"
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