In The Search For Truth

You can only seek that which you know and when you really understand , you already have it, so it need not be sought. You cannot seek something you do not know.Whatever you seek and whenever you seek it, it is always only One and the One is what you are already.So you cannot seek something you do not know and when you know you are seeking, you already have it. When you seek the world, you get misery and when you want to find your way out of misery, you will find the Divine.A man lost a penny and was looking for it in a bush when he found a huge treasure. He was not seeking for treasure but only for his lost penny. In the same way, when you seek one thing you may get something else and it may be much greater than what you lost.The truth, or Self, cannot be sought directly.

~ Ragavendra Swami

Another Word for Love

I knew a woman who always found an excuse to love.I met her working at the most difficult job of my life - as a helper in an after-school daycare center. I was completely unprepared for the work; I had no training and my temperament seemed to be particularly unsuited to the position.I reminded myself that I was hired to watch the children, play with them and lead arts and crafts - not fix all of their problems, of which there were many. And my only help was Mrs. Tucker, a 73-year-old retired social worker who worked with me. All that stood between the kids and disaster was me and a 73-year-old woman. And I wasn't that sturdy a defense! But I soon learned that Mrs. Tucker was a master with these children."Some children just need more love," she always said. A case in point was Timmy. Timmy received special help at school because of his emotional problems. He was developmentally delayed. He often fought with other children and was a compulsive hair-puller. I could never get close to Timmy - he did not trust anyone. Anyone, that is, except Mrs. Tucker. He responded her. He genuinely loved her because, I came to believe, she loved him.One day a fight broke out between Timmy and one of the other children. After separating them, Mrs. Tucker directed Timmy to sit in a chair. He screamed, "I HATE YOU, Mrs. Tucker! You're a mean, old lady! I hate you!""I know you hate me right now, Timmy," she said firmly, "but I'm sure not going to let you pull the other children's hair."After a while Timmy had calmed down and Mrs. Tucker called him over. His cheeks were still dirty and bore dried tear streaks. I could not hear their conversation, but I saw Timmy put his arms around her neck. When I walked by I heard him say, "I'm sorry I called you a mean old lady, Mrs. Tucker." I knew he meant it.A little later Mrs. Tucker said to me, "Timmy just needs more love than other children."On another occasion I heard Timmy's mother say, "You work magic with him, Mrs. Tucker. He doesn't respond to anybody like he does to you."Maybe so, but sometimes "magic" is just another word for "love."

-- Steve Goodier

Thought of The Day

Encourage one another. Many times a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept people on their feet.

-- Charles Swindoll

Love

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it need to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or tis flame burns low.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Thought Of The Day

Do not place the words of gurus, ministers, priests, scientists, psychologists, friends -- or my words -- higher than the feelings of your own being. You can learn much from others, but the deepest knowledge must come from within yourself. Your own consciousness is embarked upon a reality that basically can be experienced by no other, that is unique and untranslatable, with its own meaning, following its own paths of becoming.

-- Seth/Jane Roberts

Thought of The Day

When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

~Halpern, Steven

Thought Of The Day

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

-- Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)