Did you hear about the Zen Master who goes
up to the hot dog vendor and says,
"Make me
one with everything"?
There have
got to be some great comments in response made by anyone in the same queue.
My
suggestion is: Say to the vendor, `... and don`t forget the onions so he can peal through the layers of his life ...`
If you have a retort please email me :)
EMAIL RETORT
The Journey
People are unreasonable,
illogical and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The
good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be
honest and frank anyway.
The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be
shot down by the smallest person with
the smallest mind.
Think big anyway.
What you spend years building may
be destroyed overnight.
Build
anyway.
People really need help but may attack if you help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the
best you have
and you might get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." Albert Einstein
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* “A human being is part of
the whole, called by
us
‘Universe’; a part limited
in time and space.
He experiences himself,
his thoughts
and feelings
as something separated
from the rest:
a kind of optical
delusion of his
consciousness.
This delusion is a kind
of prison for us …
our task must be to free
ourselves from this
prison
by widening our circle
of compassion to embrace
all living creatures and
the whole nature in
its
beauty...
...striving for such
achievement is, in itself,
a part of the liberation
and
a foundation for inner
security.
Albert Einstein | * I respect myself
…. My needs come first.
I care about myself.
I find peace and contentment in nurturing myself.
I
LOVE myself
I laugh with simple abandon.
I seek fun.
I play as the child I am.
I am pure.
My
intentions are innocent and pure and joyful.
I relish and run to gay abandon.
My emotions are valuable.
All
my needs are important :
my desires, my emotions,
my wants, my hopes, my dreams …
I nurture and support
and hug
my child within me ….
I laugh and run with her …
I hold her hand.I help her BE...
she is me ….
I am free,
the child is free and runs to me
…. Safe … loved ...
She
gives me her old worn out
tear stained maps and
I tear them up … gone!
her tears are soft rain
Understood ….
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* The Man Who Cried
I stood and watched the man who cried,
His face awash, his mouth
wide,
His head beating against the tree,
His shoulders heaving like hills set free
From the body of the earth;
AndI felt his anquish take birth in my being,
And And there I knew it would abide
And eat into my days
And
guide my ways
And be the judge of my mortal sins.
My father`s tears were a key
Which opened the world to me,
Its ecstasy, and its misery.
C.C.
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