Transcending Thought

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

— William Osler
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Be of Good Cheer

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.

— Helen Keller

Life is Good

Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all of its trials and troubles, and perhaps more interesting because of them.

— Robert R. Updegraff

Finding The Miracle

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We all want life to be miraculous, and it is. We pray for miracles, seek miracles, listen to stories about miracles, and think miracles will happen someday in the future, or happened thousands of years ago. So few realize that the great miracle is happening in our lives, right now. It is necessary to simply wake up, so we can see the miracle in front of our eyes, give thanks and live with it wholeheartedly.

Centuries ago, a physician, faced daily with death and suffering, sought out the guidance of a famous Zen Master, living quietly, inaccessible, in a mountain hut. The physician climbed the mountain, searched for the hut, and after many days, found him raking leaves at the side of his tiny house. The teacher did not look up when the student arrived, but kept raking slowly.

"I have come to understand the essence of life," the physician proclaimed.

The Zen Master looked up for a moment, his eyes piercing the student.

"Go home and be kind to your patients," the Master replied. "That is it."

 

Living Life to its Fullest Potential

Submitted by ctmattice on Sat, 04/25/2009 - 1:43pm.

In my journey through this life, I've learned much. Life has been good to me.

 

Yes, life is good. In the five decades I've lived so far, I've come to realize how we determine our perception of life. As a kid it's great, we play with our friends and are typically happy. I look back at those times and think would I want to do it again? To most of my school mates I was the oddball, I wasn't good at sports, shy, and usually the one the bullies picked on. I resented my parents for forcing me to go to church on Sunday Morning and Evening then again for Wednesday night service. I wanted to do what I pleased and that was to have fun, or what I thought was fun, with my friends. In my teens, this led me down a path of pleasing others instead of listening to myself. I wanted friends and would do just about anything, kinda sickening looking back at it. There was a time period of three years which could have ended my life at it's desire

WE ARE ALL THE MESSIAH NOW

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There is an idea that I love. It suggests that people emerge out of planet Earth in the same way that leaves emerge from trees.

I like to view the great spiritual teachers in this way. They were not transported in from some other star system or dimension, but also emerged from Earth. Christ and Buddha, Mary and Kuan Yin, emerged as examples of humanity's fulfilled potential for compassion and consciousness.

One of the most common and recurring religious themes is that humanity will be saved and brought to its next stage of evolution through the appearance of a yet another great prophet or world teacher. In Christianity, Christ will come again. In Buddhism, the Maitreya Buddha will incarnate. In Judaism, the Messiah. In Islam, the Imam Mahdi. And across the new age movement, there are all kinds of prophesies about new gurus, avatars and interventions.

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