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Random Nuggets!

possessing…

You never really possess things.
You merely hold them for a while.
If you are unable to give them away, you are held by
them.

Whatever you treasure
must be held in the hollow of your hand
as water is held.

Clutch at it
and it is gone.

Appropriate it to yourself
and you soil it.
Set it free
and it is forever yours.
—

When millionaires die and people ask, "How much 
did they leave?" the answer is of course,
"Everything."

And sometimes, "They didn’t leave it. They were
taken away from it." Hands%20Holding%20Water%20Ring[1]
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When the sparrow builds its nest
in the forest
it occupies but a single branch.
When the deer slakes its thirst
at the river
it drinks no more than its belly can hold.

We collect things
because our hearts are empty!

 

quest for greatness!

It seems only fearless achieve greatness. Everyone else is always looking forward to being great. Stopped only by the fear of failure or something unknown! Quest for greatness is never ending. But…

You achieve greatness
when you are oblivious of the dignity
of those above you,
and make those below you
oblivious of yours.
When you are neither haughty with the humble
nor humble with the haughty!

Being fearless and purely duty-bound behavior will make anyone great, like our guard out here:

A recruit was assigned to guard the entrance to the army camp and was given instructions to let no car pass if it did not have a special pennant.

He had an occasion to stop a car bearing a General who promptly told his driver to ignore the sentry and drive on. Whereupon the recruit stepped forward, rifle at the ready, and calmly said, "Pardon me, sir, but I’m new to this. Whom do I shoot? You, sir, or the driver?

It is time to be a sentry of self set principles of life – to be truly passionate = self imposed discipline to achieve something!

Good to stop the quest and start the journey!

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Man is mind!

However persevering and persistent you are, sometimes it is difficult to stick to the job until it is fully done! You mostly work steadily along until of a sudden the feeling of weariness sets-in, shouting "enough!” for the time being, and then yield to the impulse to stop!

You can not be immune from the feeling on certain days – leading to not being at your best! It is usual in such days to miss a few appointments! Lagging interest in almost everything – failing to notice or react to issues at work though they are just routine for the capability you have!

Beauty of the fact is that you realize – at heart that if you continue to exert the will and persistently hold yourself to the business on hand, sooner or later you will warm-up, enthusiasm comes back, shadows of clouds disappear and wings start spreading to fly high, as usual! Is this the rest that mattered or power of the mind – inherent drive of persistence?

If you carefully observe, more often, it was not the rest that triggered the action. It is the impulse of some strong desire that carried you over the threshold of inertia!

Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes, 
And Man is Mind, and evermore he One_Mind_calligraphy[1]takes
The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills,
Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills:—
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass:
Environment is but his looking-glass.

(~ James Allen)

It is truly the power of mind – desire to perform and be counted!

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